Primary Source Documents
bullet 1920 Presidential Election Statistics
bullet 1924 Presidential Election Statistics
bullet 1928 Presidential Election Statistics
bullet The 1929 Stock Market Crash
bullet The 1920s
bullet 1920s Costumes
bullet The 1920s Economic Statistics
bullet The 1920s Experience
bullet 1920s Fashion
bullet The 1920s:  Images of Race
bullet 20c Chicago (Chicago Sun-Times)
bullet The African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
bullet Al Capone
bullet The Algonquin Round Table:  Celebrity Caricature in America
bullet America in the 1920s (E Pluribus Unum Project)
bullet America's Sweetheart - Mary Pickford
bullet American Art Deco
bullet American Cultural History:  1920-1929
bullet American Leaders Speak- Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, 1918-1920
bullet Anti-Imerialism in the United States:  1898-1935 (Boondocksnet.com)
bullet A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
bullet Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973)
bullet Art Deco
bullet Art Deco Collection.com
bullet The Battle of Wills--The Scopes Trial (Court TV)
bullet Billy Sunday
bullet A Biography of America: The Twenties (1913-1929) - Annenberg/CPB
bullet The Black Sox Scandal, 1920-21
bullet The Black Sox Trial, 1921
bullet Bonnie and Clyde
bullet Calvin Coolidge (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
bullet Calvin Coolidge (2) - POTUS site
bullet Charlie Chaplin (David Gerstein's Home Page)
bullet Charlie Chaplin
bullet The Chicago Black Sox Trial (1921)
bullet Chicago- Destination for the Great Migration
bullet Chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment:  1923-1996
bullet Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism:  1830-end
bullet Civil Rights Movement (Spartacus)
bullet Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s (Ohio State University)
bullet Countee Cullen
bullet "Divining America:  Religion & the National Culture" (20c)
bullet Edna St. Vincent Millay
bullet Eliot Ness--The Man Behind the Myth
bullet Eugene O'Neill (eOneill.com)
bullet Faces of Steel:  The People and History of the Acklin Stamping Company
bullet Fashion in the Roaring '20s
bullet The Fashion of The Roaring Twenties
bullet The "Fatty" Arbuckle Trials (1921-1922)
bullet Flapper Culture and Style
bullet Flapper Station
bullet Florence Mabel Kling (DeWolfe) Harding
bullet Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932
bullet From Swastika to Jim Crow
bullet F. Scott Fitzgerald (PBS-American Masters Series)
bullet F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary (U. of South Carolina)
bullet A Gateway to African-American History:  1900-1940
bullet General Images of The 1920s
bullet George Gershwin
bullet Georgia O'Keefe           (examples of her art)
bullet Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge
bullet Harlem:  1900-1940
bullet Harlem- An African-American Community
bullet Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
bullet The Harlem Renaissance (1)
bullet The Harlem Renaissance (2)
bullet The Harlem Renaissance (Stanford Univ.)
bullet Harlem Renaissance (Father Ryan High School, Nashville, TN)
bullet Herbert Hoover (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
bullet Herbert Hoover (2) - POTUS site
bullet H.L. Mencken Page
bullet "How Did the National Woman's Party Address the Issue of the Enfranchisement of Black Women, 1919-1924?" (24 documents)
bullet "How Did the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Respond to Right-Wing Attacks, 1923-1931?" (24 documents)
bullet "Immigration and the Labor Labor-Supply" - Atlantic Monthly (4/1919)
bullet International Financial System Under the Dawes Plan and Young Plan - chart
bullet James Weldon Johnson
bullet Jazz
bullet Jazz- A Film by Ken Burns (PBS)
bullet Jazz Age Chicago
bullet Jazz Age Culture
bullet Jazz Age Page
bullet Jazz in the 1920s (sound files)
bullet Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
bullet John Dillinger
bullet Ku Klux Klan Documents (Michigan State Univ.)
bullet Langston Hughes
bullet Langston Hughes (Yahoo links)
bullet The Lawless Decade--The 1920s
bullet "The League of Nations" - Karl J. Schmidt (essay)
bullet "The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti" - essay by Russell Aiuto
bullet Leopold and Loeb Trial, 1924
bullet Lindbergh (The American Experience PBS series)
bullet Lindbergh Flies the Atlantic, 1927
bullet Major Events of:  1920    1921    1922    1923    1924    1925    1926    1927    1928    1929
bullet Map-->"U. S. Hegemony in the Caribbean in the 1920s"   
bullet Map-->"Wars and Atrocities in the First Quarter of the 20c: 1900-1925"
bullet Marcus Garvey:  Life and Lessons - Sample Documents
bullet Marcus Garvey:  Look for Me in the Whirlwind (The American Experience PBS series)
bullet The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
bullet "Modernism and Abstraction" - art works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
bullet The Music of the Roaring '20s (audio files)
bullet The Myth of American Isolationism
bullet Nella Larsen
bullet No More Beer- Images of The Prohibition Era
bullet "Pacifism vs. Patriotism in Women's Organizations in the 1920s: How Was the Debate Shaped by the Expansion of the American Military?" (22 documents)
bullet PAL: Harlem Renaissance: A Brief Introduction
bullet The Peoples' Century:  The Lost Peace (1919-1935) - PBS
bullet The Peoples' Century:  On the Line (1908-1945) - PBS
bullet The Peoples' Century:  Red Flag (1917-1940) - PBS
bullet Political Speeches and Popular Culture of the 1920s (audio files)
bullet Popular Culture on the Radio (audio files)
bullet Prosperity and Thrift:  The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy (1921-1929) - LOC
bullet Red Scare
bullet Rhapsodies in Black - The Art of the Harlem Renaissance
bullet The Rise of Fundamentalism
bullet The Sacco/Vanzetti Case - FBI Freedom of Information Act original documents (2,189 pages)
bullet The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, 1921
bullet "Scenes of American Life" - art works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
bullet The Scopes "Monkey" Trial, 1925
bullet The Scopes Trial
bullet The Scopes Trial (National Humanities Center)
bullet Selected Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
bullet Shadowball--Recalling the Negroe Leagues
bullet Sinclair Lewis
bullet Skyscrapers of the Early 20c:  1900-1925
bullet Stars of the Silent Movies
bullet The Sweet Trials (1925 & 1926)
bullet T. S. Eliot
bullet The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
bullet The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
bullet The Twenties Reconstruction Society
bullet "U.S. Isolationism in the Republican Era of "Normalcy" 1921-1933" - outline notes
bullet The Wall Street Crash (BBC)
bullet William Faulkner
bullet William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Trial
bullet William P. Gottlieb Photographs of the Golden Age of Jazz (Music Division, Library of Congress)
bullet Woodrow Wilson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
bullet Woodrow Wilson (2) - POTUS site
bullet Warren G. Harding (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency
bullet Warren G. Harding (2) - POTUS site
bullet "What Conflicts Emerged after New York Suffragists Entered Electoral Politics, 1919-1926?" (21 documents)
bullet "Who Won the Debate over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s?" (34 documents)
bullet The World of Gertrude Stein
bullet "Why Did Mary Ware Dennett's Congressional Lobbying Efforts to Eliminate Contraception from the Obscenity Laws Fail?" (28 documents)
bullet Zora Neale Hurston

 
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bullet 1876-1920:  Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1876-1920 - chart
bullet 1890s-1920s:  Various Documents on the "New Woman"      (additional documents)
bullet 1914:  Excerpts from Hunter's Civic Biology - What the students in John Scopes' class read about evolution
bullet early 1920s:  “Speak, Garvey, Speak!” - a Follower Recalls a Marcus Garvey Rally (audio file)
bullet 1920s?:  Klu Klux Klan - photo
bullet 1920s:  An Assortment of Song Lyrics from the Era
bullet 1920s:  Photo of Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine underground brewery during the Prohibition era.
bullet 1920:  Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Makes “The Case against the Reds”
bullet 1920:  "As Gag Rulers Would Have It" - political cartoon about the Sedition Act from the Jersey City Journal (2/7)
bullet 1920:  “The Most Brainiest Man -” The Red Scare and Free Speech in Connecticut (in The Nation, 4/17)
bullet 1920:  "The Case Against the Reds" - J. Mitchell Palmer in Forum
bullet 1920:  "Cleaning the Nest" - political cartoon from the New York Evening World (1/17)
bullet 1920:  Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (sister of Theodore) - speech in which she supports the Republican ticket of Senator Harding and Governor Coolidge
bullet 1920:  The Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes
bullet 1920:  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Speaking of those who fell in battle
bullet 1920:  Governor Calvin Coolidge (R-MA) - campaign speech ("Law and Order")
bullet 1920:  Governor Coolidge (R-MA) - speech on equal rights
bullet 1920:  Governor Cox (D-OH) - speech on confidence in the government
bullet 1920:  Governor James M. Cox (D-OH) in a speech on World War I
bullet 1920:  "The Most Brainiest Man" - article in The Nation (4/17)
bullet 1920:  Senator Warren G. Harding (R-OH) - campaign speech ("Readjustment")
bullet 1920:  "The Last Few Buttons Are Always the Hardest" - political cartoon about women's suffrage from the St. Louis Star (3/27)
bullet 1920:  The 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
bullet 1920:  Pioneer Suffragist Casts G. O. P. Ballot - Elizabeth Daily Journal, November 3, 1920, p. 6
bullet 1920:  Rounding Up the "Reds" in a Nation-Wide Campaign Against Revolutionaries in the Outlook (1/20) originally from the International - photo
bullet 1920:  “Save Sacco and Vanzetti” - The Defense Committee’s Plea
bullet 1920:  Speech Given at the Women's Interracial Conference - Charlotte Hawkins Brown
bullet 1920:  Starving for Women’s Suffrage - “I Am Not Strong after These Weeks”
bullet 1920:  "Swat the Fly, But Use Common Sense!" - political cartoon about the Sedition Act from the Newark News (3/6)
bullet 1920:  Volstead Act
bullet 1920:  Warren G. Harding, Campaign Speech at Boston
bullet 1920:  Women Win the Right to Vote" - Historical Gazette (8/26)
bullet 1921:  “Another View of the Tulsa Riots” - Amy Comstock in Survey (7/2)
bullet 1921:  "Big Ideas from Big Business" - Edward Earle Purinton
bullet 1921:  Budget and Accounting Act
bullet 1921:  “Business . . . the Salvation of the World”- Celebrating Big Business - Edward E. Purinton, “Business as the Savior of the Community,” Independent (4/16)
bullet 1921:  Carrie Chapman Catt, "A Teapot in a Tempest," The Woman Citizen (2/5)
bullet 1921:  “Defending Greenwood”- A Survivor Recalls the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
bullet 1921:  Equal Rights Amendment
bullet 1921:  “The Eruption of Tulsa” - Walter White in Nation (6/29)
bullet 1921:  Four-Power Treaty (12/13)
bullet 1921:  “If You Believe the Negro Has a Soul” - “Back to Africa” with Marcus Garvey
bullet 1921:  Immigration Act
bullet 1921:  Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding
bullet 1921:  Letters from College
bullet 1921:  “The New Negro. When He’s Hit, He Hits Back!” - Rollin Lynde Hartt in Independent, (1/15)
bullet 1921:  Selections from [F]BI File on Endicott, Broome County, N.Y. Radicals
bullet 1921:  "The New Anti-Feminist Campaign" by Mary G. Kilbreth in The Woman Patriot 6/15)
bullet 1921:  Treaty Between the U. S., the British Empire, France, and Japan, Signed at Washington (12/13)
bullet 1921:  Woman and the New Race - Margaret Sanger
bullet 1921:  Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, "Manifesto on Disarmament"
bullet 1921, 1925:  "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "I Too" - poems by Langston Hughes
bullet 1921-1927:  “I Bobbed My Hair and Then—,” Ladies Home Journal - Irene Castle Treman,  October 1921, 124; Mary Garden “Why I Bobbed My Hair,” Pictorial Review, April 1927, 8; Mary Pickford, “Why I Have Not Bobbed Mine,” Pictorial Review, April 1927
bullet 1922:  American Indian Myth Poems - Hartley Alexander
bullet 1922:  Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company
bullet 1922:  “The Black Star Line” - W. E. B. Du Bois in Crisis (September)
bullet 1922:  Debunking Intelligence Experts - Walter Lippmann Speaks Out
bullet 1922:  “Do Insects Think? Some Data on the Reasoning Power of the Wasp” - Robert Benchley,  Life 80 (8/3)
bullet 1922:  “The Facts Must Be Faced” - Intelligence Is Destiny
bullet 1922:  "A Flapper's Appeal to Parents" - article in Outlook Magazine (12/6)
bullet 1922:  "If We Must Die" - poem by Claude McKay
bullet 1922:  In Defense of IQ Testing- Lewis M. Terman Replies to Critics
bullet 1922:  "Modernism in Architecture" - Lewis Mumford
bullet 1922:  Nine-Power Treaty (2/6)
bullet 1922:  Peace and Bread in Time of War - Jane Addams
bullet 1922:  “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” - Harry Emerson Fosdick, Christian Work 102 (6/10)
bullet 1922:  “The Problem” and “Family Histories” - Charles Johnson Analyzes the Causes of the Chicago Race Riot
bullet 1922:  "Threats to Christian Civilization" - political cartoon
bullet 1922:  Washington Treaty in Relation to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare (2/6)
bullet 1922:  "You and Your Laundry" - pamphlet by Christine Frederick
bullet 1923:  Automobile Advertisements - from Collier's Magazine
bullet 1923:  “The Benevolent Brotherhood of Baseball Bugs” - Edgar F. Wolfe, Literary Digest
bullet 1923:  “Cotton Belt Blues”- Lizzie Miles’s Blues Song
bullet 1923:  “The Crowd at the Ball Park” - William Carlos Williams in Dial
bullet 1923:  "Dirty Work at the Crossroads" - cover of Judge (1/26)
bullet 1923:  “I Am Only a Piece of Machinery” - Housewives Analyze Their Problems
bullet 1923:  “The Madness of Marcus Garvey” - Robert W. Bagnall in Messenger (March)
bullet 1923:  “New York’s World-Beating New Stadium,” Literary Digest (4/28)
bullet 1923:  "The Negro's Greatest Enemy" - Marcus Garvey in Current History (Sept.)
bullet 1923:  Rosewood Report
bullet 1923:  U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind
bullet 1924:  "Authority and Religious Liberty" Speech - Calvin Coolidge
bullet 1924:  “The Black Star Line”- Singing a Song of Garveyism
bullet 1924:  Carrie Chapman Catt, "Poison Propaganda," The Woman Citizen (5/31/1924), 14, 32-33
bullet 1924:  Comprehensive Immigration Act
bullet 1924:  Covenant of the League of Nations
bullet 1924:  Immigration Act of 1924