English | 1920's Background
Recommended eBooks & Articles
Prohibition
American Social Reform Movements: The Temperance Movement & Prohibition
Constitutional Amendments: Eighteenth
Encyclopedia of Recreation & Leisure in America: Alcohol
The National Prohibition Amendment
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
19th Amendment & Flapper Culture
Encyclopedia of Clothing & Fashion: The Flapper
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
Ford, the Assembly Line, and the First Automobiles
American Decades: The Automobile
Gale Encyclopedia of Science: Assembly Line
Industrial Revolution Reference Library: Henry Ford
Sports & Sports Stars of the 1920's
Sports in America 1920 to 1939
American Decade: Sports Overview
The League of Nations & War and Military
Dictionary of American History: League of Nations
Roaring Twenties Resource Guide: Politics in the 1920's
Domestic Life, Economic Life, & Fads and Trends
American Decades: 1920's Lifestyles & Social Trends
Roaring Twenties Resource Guide: The Economy of the 1920's
Theater, Film & Radio of the 1920's
American Decades: 1920's Arts Overview
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
Recommended Databases
Investigates the people, events, and stories of our nation's evolution
ABC-CLIO Daily Life through History
Discover the everyday details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful.
Facts on File American History Online
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history to cover the American experience.
Facts on File Bloom's Literature
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature
Multidisciplinary collection of more than 600,000 biographical entries — on more than 528,000 individuals — spanning world history and geography
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