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CONTENTS:
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Jazz Age
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- Flapper
Culture and Style
Jazz Age society, music, and
literature.
- Gatsby's
Jazz Age Echoes - music,
fashion, and culture of the Roaring Twenties.
- American
Cultural History 1920
-1929 from the Kingwood
College Library
- The
Roaring Twenties - Art,
Music, & Culture
- The
1920's and Its Excesses: A Web
Quest - designed for high
school students. Great set of links to other sites,
too.
- The
Jazz Age Page. Listen to
sound clips from the past or read about people and
historical events in the Jazz Age!
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Prohibition
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- American
Temperance and Prohibition
- comprehensive study of the Prohibition era in the U.S.
from Ohio State University
- Prohibition
in the 1920s: Thirteen Years That Damaged
America - a college level
term paper about Prohibition.
- Eighteenth
Amendment--Prohibition of Intoxicating
Liquors
- Twenty-First
Amendment--Repeal of Eighteenth
Amendment
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Gangsters & G-Men
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- Eliot
Ness - Original FBI
documents
- Eliot
Ness Biograhy from the
Police Stress Line
- St.
Valentine's Day Massacre
- St.
Valentine's Day Massacre
from the Crime Library
- St.
Valentine's Day Massacre
from Mystery.Net
- Alphonse
'Scarface' Capone - short
biography
- Al
Capone from the Crime
Library
- Al
Capone - a short biography
from the FBI
- Capone
Investigation - original
documents from the FBI's Al Capone
investigation.
- Al
Capone from the Chicago
Historical Society
- Bootlegger's
Paradise - Detroit's
Purple Gang from the Crime Library
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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- 70th
Anniversary of Sacco and Vanzetti
Execution - on August
23rd, 1927, immigrant anarchists, Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were executed. This page is a
tribute to their memory.
- Sacco
and Vanzetti: The Ballistic
Evidence - proposing that
"evidence about the bullets" turned out to be intentional
deception and scientific malarky.
- Greatest
Trials of All Time: Trial of Sacco and
Vanzetti - includes
interviews, letters, and video clips.
- Prejudice
at Work: The 1920s Case of Sacco and
Vanzetti from Michigan
State.
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Stock Market Crash
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- New
York Times: The Crash of
1929 - special report
featuring coverage from the Times archives.
- Crash
of 1929 - how the city of
London created the Great Depression.
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Depression
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- Between
the Wars Many interesting
links from a college course on the
Depression.
- Walker
Evans Image Project
Depression era photos of the hard life by this FSA
photographer.
- The
Depression from the Modern
History Soucebook at Fordham University
- Main
Causes of the Great
Depression by a Harvard
student.
- America's
Great Depression - with an
overview, timeline, causes, and cures.
- Great
Myths of the Great
Depression - by Lawrence
W. Reed from the Foundation for Economic
Education.
- Stock
Market Crash and World Depression
- The
Great Crash and the Great
Slump - from the
Berkeley Economics Department
- Webquest:
The Great Depression -
designed for high school students
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The Dust Bowl
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- The
American Experience: Surviving the Dust
Bowl A companion site for
the PBS series. Lesson plans available
- The
Dust Bowl - a single page
from the University of South Dakota. Includes a link to a
movie of an actual duststorm.
- Voices
from the Dustbowl - a
collection of audio, text, and photographs from the
Library of Congress.
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New Deal Agencies
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- New Deal
Network - The New Deal Network is
an educational guide to the Great Depression of the
1930s. The New Deal Network is sponsored by the
Franklin
and Eleanor Roosevelt
Institute and the
Institute
for Learning Technologies at
Teachers College/Columbia University. NDN is funded in
part through a grant from the National
Endowment for the
Humanities.
- CCC
Museum The Civilian
Conservation Corps Online Museum. Links to articles and
original documents dealing with the CCC.
- A
New Deal for the Arts -
never before or since has our government so extensively
sponsored the arts. Created and maintained by the
National Archives and Records Administration
- Every
Picture Tells A Story -
demonstrates some of the ways FSA documentary
photographers created dramatic and accessible images of
the Great Depression.
- American
Life Histories - Manuscripts from the Federal Writers'
Project - These life
histories were written by the staff of the Folklore
Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940.
Library of Congress site.
- By
the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA,
1936-1943 collection
consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse
original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Library of Congress
site.
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The Bonus March
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- American
Experience: The Bonus
March - discusses the
Bonus March and the role Douglas MacArthur played in the
event.
- The
Bonus Army of 1932 -
includes a brief history of the 1932 march on Washington
by World War I veterans.
- Department
of Justice: Bonus March
Documents - includes
copies of many original Freedom of Information Act
documents from the FBI related to the 1932 Bonus March.
- Doughboy
Center: The Sad Tale of the Bonus
Marchers - includes
photographs and a brief history of the event.
- Hoover
on the Bonus Army -
excerpts from the memoirs of Herbert Hoover.
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1920s Links
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- The
1920s -Includes many
sections including a Timeline, The Arts, News &
Politics, Science & Humanities, Business &
Industry, Society & Fads, and Sports.
- The
Lawless Decade - a
Pictorial history from Armistice Day to the Crash of '29.
Prohibition, flappers, Murders Row, Lucky Lindy,
Valentino, and more.
- The
1920's Experience - arts,
entertainment, personailties, music, events, inventions,
and fads.
- Teapot
Dome Scandal
- 1920s
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1930's Links
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- 1930's
WebQuest
Links for a course on the 30's.
Includes links to Lindbergh's Kidnapping Story, Dustbowl,
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck, Franklin Roosevelt, J.
Edgar Hoover (FBI), Stock Market Crash (1929), New Deal,
Wizard of Oz, Mickey Mouse, Comedy in the 1930's and many
more topics.
- 1930s
Project - examines the
years between Black Tuesday and the bombing of Pearl
Harbor, through the film, print, radio, and design of the
era. America in the 1930s was created in June 1998 for
the American Studies Program at the University of
Virginia
- American
Cultural History:
1930-1939 - examines the
decade which was marked by the Great Depression. Includes
art, events, literature, music and fashion.
- Using
Oral History This lesson
aimed at 7-12 graders was put together by the US Library
of Congess. It references a lot of primary resource
material from the 30's. The 3 primary areas in the
lessons are working women, recreational dancing, and the
automobile.
- Photographs
- 1935-1945 at the Library
of Congress. Thousands of photos are
available.
- 1930s
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