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Print Resources

• Most print resources on 1920's will be located in 909.822, 973.91, and other areas.
• Print resources on specific topics may be found by searching the Online Catalog for books.
  Some example search terms:
  • 1920s
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Fashion
  • Black Sox
• ~ eBooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Databases: Scroll over an image for a complete description.

~ Biographies, magazine, and newspaper articles

~ Reference articles

~ Clipart, photos, fonts, and more

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~ Reference, magazine, newspaper, and primary sources

~ Magazine and newspaper articles in the arts and humanities

Click here for 1920s articles from Student Resource Center Gold ~ Includes articles on education, government, business, jazz, motion pictures, and much more from the 1920s.

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Internet Resources

1920s Topics

American Cultural History
1920-1929 ~ from Kingwood College Library

Art Deco
Art Deco Websites ~ from the Art Deco Society of Washington

"Black Sox" Scandal" ~ Scroll down to World Series 1919

Capone, Al
Al Capone Museum
Al Capone Exhibit ~ from the Chicago History Museum

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Chaplin, Charlie
Charlie Chaplin ~ from the American Masters series, PBS
Charlie Chaplin ~ Time 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century

Charleston and Dance Crazes
Charleston

Coolidge, Calvin
Biography from Biography Resource Center
Official Biography of Calvin Coolidge ~ the White House

Earhart, Amelia
Amelia Earhart: A Timeline
Amelia Earhart ~ U.S. Department of the Navy
The Official Site of Amelia Earhart ~ American Memory exhibit, Library of Congress

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Edison, Thomas
The Edison Papers ~ Extensive primary documents, images, and artifacts from Rutgers University
Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Co. ~ from American Memory exhibit, Library of Congress

Ford, Henry
Henry Ford ~ Time 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century
Henry Ford ~ Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin
People and Discoveries: Henry Ford ~ from A Science Odyssey, a PBS production.

Flappers
Flapper Fashion: Women’s Fashions and the 1920s

Gershwin, George
Biography from Biography Resource Center
George Gershwin ~ A biography and basic repertoire list from ClassicalNet.

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Harlem Renaissance -- see also Harlem Renaissance Pathfinder
Harlem 1900-1940: An African American Community ~ An exhibition from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
Harlem Renaissance and the Flowering of Creativity ~ from the exhibit: The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, American Memory, Library of Congress.

Hitler, Adolph and Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler ~ from the Jewish Virtual Library
Adolf Hitler ~ Time 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century
Mein Kampf (excerpts) ~ from the Jewish Virtual Library

Jazz
Jazz in the 1920s ~ Article from Discovering Collection
Jazz: A History of America's Music ~ Information based on the Ken Burns/PBS film and book.
Jazz Age Culture ~ from Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas
Jazz Roots ~ Early jazz history
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz ~ an exhibit from American Memory, Library of Congress.

Ku Klux Klan ~ Many sites about the Klan are blocked by District filters; We may be able to unblock some for research purposes on a case by case basis; See a librarian.
Infoplease Encyclopedia
History ~ A special report prepared by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama; presented by Indiana University.

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Labor Strikes of 1919
Seattle General Strike Project ~ Presented by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington.

Leopold and Loeb
Famous American Trials:  Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb 1924
Leopold and Loeb: Chicago’s Thrill Killers

Lindbergh, Charles
Charles Lindbergh.com
The Flyer

Lost Generation
Fitzgerald, F. Scott ~ Biography from Biography Resource Center
Hemingway, Ernest ~ Biography from Biography Resource Center
Stein, Gertrude ~ Biography from Biography Resource Center

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Motion Pictures
Motion Picture Sound 1910-1929

Prohibition
Eighteenth Amendment
Prohibition: The Noble Experiment

Radio
Early Broadcasting

Red Scare:  Anti-Communist Sentiments
Brainy Encyclopedia on the Red Scare
Red Scare Image Database

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Ruth, Babe
Baseball Hall of Fame
BabeRuth.com

Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Greatest Trials
Famous American Trials

Scopes Trial of 1925
Greatest Trials
Famous Trials in American History

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Chicago Police Department Homicide Report
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

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Stock Market Crash of 1929
Looking Back at the Crash of ’29

Women’s Suffrage
History of Women’s Suffrage
Votes for Women

World Series of 1919
History of the World Series 1919
Shoeless Joe Jackson’s story
Statistics from the Baseball Almanac
The Black Sox.  From the Chicago Historical Society

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N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Last Update: 5/12/08