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 Prohibition Era

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

Fashion of the 1920s

Women and Gender:  Flappers

The Women's Rights Movement

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

The Moving Assembly Line

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

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

Theater, Film & Radio of the 1920's

American Decades: 1920's Arts Overview

Roaring Twenties Resource Guide:  Surging Creativity: The Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts of the 1920s

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

ABC-CLIO American History

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

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Facts on File Bloom's Literature

Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature

Gale Biography in Context

Multidisciplinary collection of more than 600,000 biographical entries — on more than 528,000 individuals — spanning world history and geography