Research Organizer

Research Organizer
This is not required for this project but is highly recommended as a good way to keep track of your research and which sources you used to find the information.  It makes it easier to complete your Works Cited pages as well as create in-text citations.

Recommended Databases

ABC-CLIO American Government
American Government illuminates the foundations and structure of U.S. government and helps students explore the intersection of history, politics, and government with ongoing coverage of contemporary events.

ABC-CLIO American History
American History surveys American history from the colonial era and American Revolution through to the nation’s rise to eminence as a global superpower, analyzing American political conflict, economic development, and changing culture and thought as they tell one continuous and continuing story of America’s history. 

ABC-CLIO Daily Life through History
The database explores the daily lives of ordinary people through time and across the globe, providing details about family life, work, food, clothing, sports, language, literature, romance, education, gender roles, social customs, and more that cannot be found elsewhere and are an asset to student research

Infobase African American History and Culture
Features thousands of cross-referenced entries, covering the entire spectrum of African-American history over the past 500 years

Infobase American History Online
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history to cover the American experience.

Gale eBooks
Reference titles covering the most-studied subject areas

eBooks 

19th Amendment & Flapper Culture

Encyclopedia of Clothing & Fashion:  The Flapper

Fashion of the 1920s

Women and Gender:  Flappers

The Women's Rights Movement

Art, Theater, Film & Radio of the 1920's

American Decades: 1920's Arts Overview

Art Deco

Roaring Twenties Resource Guide:  Surging Creativity: The Literary, 

Silent Films

Surrealism

Surrealism

Visual, and Performing Arts of the 1920s

Domestic Life, Economic Life, & Fads and Trends

American Decades:  1920's Lifestyles & Social Trends

Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body 

Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages:  The Roaring 20's

Roaring Twenties Resource Guide:  The Economy of the 1920's

Ford, the Assembly Line, and the First Automobiles

American Decades: The Automobile

Gale Encyclopedia of Science:  Assembly Line

Industrial Revolution Reference Library: Henry Ford

The Moving Assembly Line

Gangsters & Organized Crime

Encyclopedia of the Great Depression:  Al Capone

Great Depression & New Deal Library:  Prohibition & Crime

Historic Events for Students:  Crime 1920-1940

Roaring Twenties Research Library:  The Dark Side of the 1920's

The Jazz Age

Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century 

America:  1920's Music

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture & History:  Jazz Overview

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

UXL Encyclopedia of U.S. History:  Jazz

Prohibition

American Social Reform Movements:  The Temperance Movement & Prohibition

Constitutional Amendments:  Eighteenth

Encyclopedia of Recreation & Leisure in America:  Alcohol

The National Prohibition Amendment

The Prohibition Era

The Scopes "Monkey Trial and Religion vs. Modernism

American Decades:  1920's Religion

American Decades:  The Scopes Monkey Trial and the Separation of Church & State

Science & its Times:  The Scopes Trial

UXL Encyclopedia of American History:  Scopes Trial

Sports & Sports Stars of the 1920's

Sports in America 1920 to 1939

American Decade:  Sports Overview

Updated: 10.8.25