1920s 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)

General Information
Look here first to see if these overviews have info on your topic!

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

Artists

Georgia O'Keefe -- About the Painter (American Masters PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/georgia-okeeffe/about-the-painter/55/

Georgia O'Keefe Museum
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/home.aspx

Edward Hopper - National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/hopperinfo.shtm
Click on Exhibition Resources on right side.

Edward Hopper
http://artchive.com/artchive/H/hopper.html
Click on  View Image List to see Hopper's art.

Civil Rights

Marcus Garvey (Harlem 1900-1940 Schomburg Exhibit)
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/garvey.html

Crime

History Files: Al Capone
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html

Al Capone: Chicago's Most Infamous Mob Boss
(Crime Library on truTV)
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/index_1.html

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

Economics

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

Farming in the 1920s
http://www.dhahranbritish.com/History/A9_Farming20s.htm

Postwar Labor Tensions
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=439

Entertainers

Heroes

Intolerance

Between the Wars: The Klan
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/klan.html

Postwar Red Scare
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=438

Tulsa Race Riots
http://www.mc.cc.md.us/Departments/hpolscrv/VdeLaOliva.html

Sacco and Vanzetti
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=445

The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
http://www.courttv.com/archive/greatesttrials/sacco.vanzetti/

Jazz

Literary Scene

Mass Media

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

Politics

Between the Wars: The Red Scare -- Palmer Raids
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/red.html

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

Religion and Values

Inherit/1925 (Scopes Monkey Trial)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/inherit/1925home.html

Scopes Trial Home Page
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm

Sports Figures

Technology

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

Women

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

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