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Great Gatsby project

Databases to use for this project:

Gale Student Resource Center
(available to those with Brooklyn Public LIbrary cards)

History Resource Center: US
(available to those with NY Public Library cards)

Biography Resource Center
(available to those with NY Public Library cards)

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General Information
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Digital History  - The Jazz Age : The American 1920s
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=67

Politics of Prosperity - The 1920s
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture15.html

Roaring Twenties (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties

SnapShots - America in the 1920s
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpmech.htm

The 1920's - Roaring Twenties - The Nineteen Twenties in History
http://www.1920-30.com/


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Automobile

Henry Ford and  Mass Production
http://www.dhahranbritish.com/History/A9_HenryFord.htm

Henry Ford and Mass Production Slide Show
http://www.dhahranbritish.com/History/A9_3_HenryFord_SS/index.html


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Big Business


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Entertainment

Betwen the Wars: Radio
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/radio.html


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Prohibition

The Politics of Prohibition : The 1920s (H102 Lecture 17)
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture17.html

Prohibition (Digital History)
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=441

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Technology 

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Women

Jazz Age: Flapper Culture and Style
http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/

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