1920's Research Links
Recommended Databases
When accessing these databases from home, use the password Wilmette
Browse the 1920's overview page and scroll to the bottom for specific topics
Biography In Context to research specific people
Source for all topics
The Roaring 20's (History.com)
The Harlem Renaissance
NewsELA: The Harlem Renaissance
ABC-CLIO: Music in the Harlem Renaissance
ABC-CLIO: Art in the Harlem Renaissance
ABC-CLIO: Literature in the Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstrong - Musician
Duke Ellington - Musician
Sidney Bechet - Musician
Dance
NewsELA: How Dance Helped Women's Liberation
History.com: How Flappers of the Roaring Twenties Redefined Womanhood
U.S. History in Context: Social Dance
Fashion
ABC-CLIO: Flappers (Discusses young women of the 1920s who challenged social conventions)
U.S. History in Context: Clothing, 1919–29
Video: History Brief: 1920s Flappers
Flapper Fashion and 1920's era
Coco Chanel - fashion designer
Fashion Clothing and Accessories
American Literature - Lost Generation
Encyclopedia Britannica: The Lost Generation
U.S. History in Context: The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Author
Flu Pandemic 1918
U.S. History in Context: Influenza epidemic of 1918
Racial Disparities Emerge During Epidemics - Like The 1918 Flu (4-minute podcast; take notes from the transcript)
In 1918 and 2020, race colors America’s response to epidemics (this is the full article by the author who is interviewed in the podcast above)
Sports
The 1920's: Sports Overview from U.S. History in Context
The National Pastime in the 1920s: The Rise of the Baseball Fan
Righting a Wrong, Baseball Elevates Negro Leagues to the Majors (New York Times article, accessed through U.S. History in Context)
Women's Suffrage Movement
U.S. History in Context: Women's Suffrage
NY Times: A Century of Suffrage - collection of articles about the past and the present
"Beyond 1920: The Legacies of Woman Suffrage"
Economy/Consumer Culture
U.S. History in Context: Consumerism
U.S. History in Context: The Economy in the 1920's
Library of Congress: Merchandising and Advertising
History.com: Stock Market Crash of 1929
Social Studies for Kids: What is the Stock Market?
Organized Crime
The FBI and the American Gangster
Prohibition Profits Transformed the Mob
Sacco and Vanzetti
Encyclopedia Britannica: Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Atlantic Magazine: The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Digital History: Sacco and Vanzetti
The Scopes Trial
U.S. History in Context: Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Famous Trials in American History
American Experience: Monkey Trial
NPR podcast: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial
Mass Entertainment/Golden Age of Radio
NewsELA: Radio Fever and the Start of a U.S. Consumer Economy in the 1920s
Mary Pickford - Actress/Movie Star
Clara Bow - Actress/Movie Star
NAACP
History.com: NAACP
Tulsa Massacre of 1921
World Book Encyclopedia: Tulsa race massacre of 1921
History Channel: Tulsa Race Massacre
Tulsa Historical Society and Museum
Teapot Dome Scandal
Aviation
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Pioneers of Flight Gallery
Disabled Veterans
Ford and the Impact of the Automobile
U.S. History in Context: Discontinuing the Model T Ford
Read the first few paragraphs to learn about the impact of the Model T Ford