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SOCIAL STUDIES: AMERICAN STUDIES: 1920-1929 - Accurate as of January 2005
Information on America from 1920-1929. Overlaps with information from 1900-1919. Temperance and prohibition, Teapot Dome Scandal, and “flapper” information also provided.
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Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Images of 7,000 ads printed in the US and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955; subject areas are radio, TV, transportation, beauty & hygiene, World War II
Anti-Saloon League: 1893-1933
http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon
In-depth history of group’s struggle to win approval of national prohibition
Babe Ruth
http://www.baberuth.com/
Biography, photographs, statistics, links
Dismuke’s Virtual Talking Machine
http://www.dismuke.org/
Streaming RealAudio recordings of the late 19 th and early 20 th century music
Ellis Island
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/gateway/intro.html
All kinds of information on this site
EllisIslandRecords.com
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org
Immigrant names, ages, nationalities, hometown, and other information
Flapper
http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper
Architecture, interior design, music of the 1920s
Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb (1924)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/leopold.htm
Crime scene, evidence, confession, biographies, sentencing, and more
Knute K. Rockne
http://home.no.net/birgerro/
Article on the most successful coach in college football
Looking Back at the Crash of ‘29
http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html
Provides a you-are-there perspective using actual NY Times headlines
Slouching Towards Utopia? The Great Crash and the Great Slump
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
In-depth economic account of the 1929 Crash and resulting Depression; full of charts
Teapot Dome Scandal
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/side/teapot.html
Brief description and profiles of people involved
Temperance & Prohibition
http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/
History, peoples, organizations, and other links
Tennessee v. John Scopes (1925)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
Excerpts from the trial, biographies, text he used, pictures and cartoons, Appellate Court decisions
The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti (1921)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm
Chronology, maps, biographies, excerpts from trial transcripts
United States Historical Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1900 to 1960; searchable by several variables
Woman Suffrage and the 19 th Amendment
http://www.archives.gov/
Primary documents, activities and links
Women and Social Movements in the US , 1775-2000
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
Editorial projects by students at SUNY that pose an interpretative question and provide a collection of 550 documents and 100 images that address the question.
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