The 1920s

Overview articles:

Roaring Twenties (ABC-Clio: American History)**

Roaring Twenties (Gilder-Lehrman) 

Consumerism & Advertising

Material Culture in the Roaring Twenties (Infobase: Modern World History) **

Fashion History (FIT)

Flappers in Fashion the 1920s (eLibrary) **

The History of Advertising: 1920s (Mascola Group)

1920s Consumption (Khan Academy) 

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance (National Museum of African American History and Culture)

Harlem Renaissance (ABC-CLIO: American History) **

Literature in the Harlem Renaissance (ABC-CLIO: American History) **

The Music of the Harlem Renaissance (InfoBase: American History) **

The Birth of the Harlem Renaissance (chapter from Gale ebook, The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance) **

Harlem Stomp (ebook via Sora) 

Transportation

American Automobile Industry in the 1920s (EBSCO)

Transportation Improvements in the 1920s (NCpedia)

–Overview of development in transportation during this era, but focused on North Carolina

Pioneers of Flight (Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum) 

The Pioneering Years: Commercial Aviation 1920-1930 (US Centennial of Flight Commission) 

The Automobile and the Environment in American History (Automobile in American Life and Society) 

Sports Mania

1920s Sports Overview (Gale: U.S. History) 

Baseball in the 1920s (Gale in Context: Middle School) **

Social Change and Popular Entertainment: Sports (Bite Size BBC)

Prohibition

Prohibition (ABC-CLIO: American History) **

Indomitable Spirits: Prohibition in the United States (DPLA)

Anti-Saloon League ( Westerville Public Library) 

Temperance & Prohibition (OSU)

Roots of Prohibition (Ken Burns/PBS)

Radio & Movie

Golden Age of Radio in the US (dp.la)

Old Time Radio (Internet Archive)

–clips of 1920s radio programs and commercials

Silent Films (Internet Archive)

–clips of silent movies

The Greatest Decade in Cinema History? (BBC)

Women in the 1920’s

Flappers (Library of Congress)

–with links to articles about flappers from the 1920s

The New Woman of the 1920s: Debating Bobbed Hair (History Matters/ George Mason University) 

–excerpts from 1920s articles, with women explaining why they did–or did not–bob their hair

Flapper Jane (The New Republic, article from 1925)

New Women (ABC-CLIO: American History) **

The Women's Suffrage Movement (Gale e-book) 

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