Jericho Middle School Library Social Studies Web Site

Team 8A Interdisciplinary Project
Ms. Cantwell & Mr. Lawlor Present:
Researching the Roaring Twenties!

Essential Questions:

How did social change and social conflict mark the 1920s?
How did the nation react to change in the 1920s?

Clash of Cultures 1910s and 1920s

Pilots -Aviation

• Amelia Earhart - The Official Website
• Amelia Earhart - Kansas Historical Society
• Charles Lindbergh - An American Aviator
• Lindbergh: The Spirit of St. Lewis - American Experience

Flappers (Women)

• Flapper Fashion 1920s C20th Fashion History
• Fashion Silhouettes Timeline Drawings 1920 to 1921
• Hats and Hair 1920-1930 Flapper Cloche Hats & Hair Fashion History
• 1920s Fashion Icons - McCall's August 1925 Fashion History McCall's Magazine Images
• Flappers - images
• Flappers in the Roaring Twenties (by Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide)
• Carrie Chapman Catt - League of Women Voters
• Women of the Century 1920s (from Discovery Education)

Prohibition and Temperance

• Carry A. Nation (from the Kansas Historical Society)
• Carry Nation (from Who2 Profile)
• The Temperance Movement (from U.S. History.com)
• Temperance & Prohibition (from Ohio State University Department of History & the Goldberg Program)
• WCTU - homepage of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Eighteenth Amendment (from Ohio History Central)
• 18th Amendment - Liquor Abolished (1919)
  • Notes on the 18th Amendment
• Prohibition - from Ohio History Central
• Prohibition in the Progressive Era - from the Library of Congress' American Memory
• Prohibition (from NebraskaStudies.org, click on 1900 Turn of the Century Progressive Movement and select topic on left)
• 21st Amendment - Amendment 18 Repealed
• Twenty-First Amendment - from Ohio History Central
• "Izzy and Moe" - Prohibition
• Bootlegging - definition from Merrium-Webster's Online Dictionary
• Bootlegging (from Ohio History Central)
• Speakeasies (from PBS)

Economic Changes

• The Stock Market Crash of 1929 (from About.com - includes buying on the Margin)
• The Stock Market Crash of 1929 (from Ohio Central)
• The 1929 Stock Market Crash : Economic History Services (by Harold Bierman, Jr., Cornell University)

Darker Side of the 1920s

• Immigration Act of 1924 (from United States History)
• A Summary of the Immigration Laws of the United States from 1882
• The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti - 1921
• Sacco and Vanzetti Case (from US History)
• The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti - Electric Chair
• John T. Scopes - "Monkey Trial"
• Ku Klux Klan (from Digital History)
• The KKK and Racial Problems
• A. Mitchell Palmer - The Red Scare
• The First Red Scare (from Ohio History Central)

Hollywood and Entertainment

• Charlie Chaplin -silent film
• Mary Pickford - silent film
• Clara Bow - silent film
• Clara Bow (from MSN Movies)
• Al Jolson - Talkies
• Harry Houdini -Magician
• George Gershwin - Music
• The Marx Brothers (movies)
• Steamboat Willie (from The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts)
• Steamboat Willie (from MoMA)
• The Jazz Singer 1927
• The Jazz Singer (from AMC)
• Rudolf Valentino (from IMDb)
• Wright Brothers (from Biography.Com)

Fads

• 1920-1930 Fashion History of the 1920s by Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com including :
• Flagpole Sitting (from the Bad Fads Museum)
• Camel Cigarettes Advertising Methodologies Through The 20th Century : 1920s
• Tobacco/ Cigarette Ads of the 1920s
• The Bob Hair Cut Is Here To Stay
• The Bob (by Michael Warner Music Courtesy of Bill Edwards)
• 1923 - Charleston Dance Becomes Popular (by Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide)
• The Roaring Twenties - Dance Craze (YouTube)
• 1920's Dancing
• Decade by Decade: Women of the Century :1920s (from DiscoverySchool)
• 1920s Women's Fashions (from 1920-30.com)
• Ladies Fashions of the 1920s (from About.com : written by Carol Nolan - edited by Julie Williams)
• Those Odd Flagpole-Sitters of the Twenties from The Literary Digest, 1929
• Decades Project : Fads of the 1920s
  
  

Sports Celebrities

• George Herman Ruth - Yankees
• Lou Gehrig Official Website
• Gehrig Legacy One of Irony By Larry Schwartz Special to ESPN.com
• Ty Cobb - Official Website
• Gertrude Ederle - English Channel
• Jack Dempsey - Heavyweight History
• Yankee Stadium History
• Negro Baseball League
• The Official Site of Knute Kenneth Rockne ( highly regarded as college football's greatest head coach).
• The Integration, Segregation, and Reintegration of Pro-Football - (from the Washington Redskins Examiner)
• Helen Wills Moody - Tennis Player (from Biography.com)
• Bill Tilden: A Tennis Star Defeated Only by Himself
• Tilden Brought Theatrics to Tennis (by Ron Borges Special to ESPN.com)
• Helen Wills - tennis player (NY Times Obituary)
• Theresa Weld Blanchard - Olympic skater
  

Harlem Renaissance

• Langston Hughes - Poet
• Louis Armstrong - (from the Red Hot Jazz Archive)
• A Passion for Jazz!
• The Apollo Theater (from BlackPast.org)
• Duke Ellington (from Biography.com)
• Duke Ellington (from PBS)
• Zora Neale Hurston ( her official website)
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960) (from the Schomburg Exhibition, Harlem 1900-1940)
• Bessie Smith (from Biography.com)
• Bessie Smith (from PBS)
• Exotic Fashions and Style: Art Deco in the 1920s (from The 1920s Fashion and Music.com)
• Art Deco (from 1920-30.com)
• Art Deco Fashion (from 1920s Fashions)
• History of American Art Deco (from Bryn Mawr University)
• Art Deco Metalwork (featuring great photos from New York buildings)

Innovations & Inventors

• Ernest Hemingway - Literature
• The Life of Henry Ford -
• The Model T Ford
• Henry Ford and Mass Production
• The History of General Motors
• General Motors 100th Year Anniversary (History from Motor Trend)
• Alexander Fleming (discovered penicillin - from PBS)
• United States Early Radio History
• Southern Music in the 20th Century
• Old:Time Radio: The Golden Years
• The 1920s (about electricity from Electrical Construction & Maintenance (EC&M) magazine
• Home Appliances in the 1920s (from ClassZone)
• Imagine you could go shopping for electrical goods and appliances in the 1920's (from The People History)
• Advertising in the 1920s (from Eyewitness)
• Robert H.Goddard (from Have Fun History)
• Robert Goddard (from NASA)

Politics

• Warren G. Harding - "Return to Normalcy"
• Frank B. Kellogg - Kellogg-Briand Pact
• The Nobel Peace Prize 1929 Frank B. Kellogg
• Albert Fall - Teapot Dome Scandal
• What Was Teapot Dome? (by Phillip Payne from HNN)

African American Rights

• William Joseph Simmons - Ku Klux Klan
• Marcus Garvey - UNIA
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS)
• W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1963 (from America's Story from the Library of Congress)
• W.E.B. Du Bois Cartoon

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