1920s Pathfinder Maine West High School Library Resource Center Prepared by librarians G. Haan and L. Ryan, West N. Mellendorf, South Updated December, 2006				Julius Engelhard, “Mode Ball”
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	Overview / General Website American Cultural History 1920-1929 18^th Amendment see “Prohibition” 19^th Amendment Woman Suffrage and the 19^th Amendment History of Women’s Suffrage Votes for Women The Arguments of the Anti-Suffragists Art Deco Art Deco History, Timeline, Architects, Examples and more links Art Deco from the Art Encyclopedia Art Deco History with Buffalo N.Y. as a focus Babe Ruth Baseball Hall of Fame BabeRuth.com Capone, Al Al Capone Museum Chicago Historical Society Chaplin, Charlie Charlie Chaplin Charleston Dance Charleston and Dance Crazes Top Coolidge, Calvin Biography from Biography Resource Center Official biography of Calvin Coolidge from the White House Earhart, Amelia Amelia Earhart: A Timeline Amelia Earhart (Department of the Navy) The Official Site of Amelia Earhart Flappers Definition Women’s Fashions and the 1920s Ford, Henry Driving Force: Henry Ford Henry Ford Hall of Fame Inventor Profile People and Discoveries Gershwin, George Biography from Biography Resource Center ClassicalNet Harlem Renaissance Harlem 1900-1940: An African American Community Harlem Renaissance and the Flowering of Creativity Perspectives in American Literature Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After Hitler, Adolf Adolph Hitler Hitler on Propaganda Museum of Tolerance Jazz History of Jazz Timeline Use Student Resource Center – keyword “Jazz” Top Ku Klux Klan Infoplease Encyclopedia History Labor Strikes of 1919 History Matters: Strikes of 1919 Labor Timeline 1916-1919 Seattle General Strike Project Leopold and Loeb Trials Leopold and Loeb: Chicago’s Thrill Killers Famous American Trials: Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb 1924 Lindberg, Charles CharlesLindbergh.com The Flyer Top Lost Generation Fitzgerald, F. Scott—Biography from Biography Resource Center Hemingway, Ernest—Biography from Biography Resource Center Stein, Gertrude—Biography from Biography Resource Center Lost Generation from Wikipedia.com Motion Picture Sound (Talkie) Motion Picture Sound 1910-1929 Film Sound History – scroll down to “The Jazz Singer” Film History Timeline Use Encarta - “Motion Pictures” Prohibition – 18^th Amendment Prohibition: The Noble Experiment Eighteenth Amendment Quotations Library Spot – A list of websites that have quotations Radio Early Radio History History of Broadcasting – click on radio homes / 20’s History of Radio CBN History Red Scare: Anti-Communist Sentiments Brainy Encyclopedia on the Red Scare Red Scare Image Database Top 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 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Chicago Police Department Homicide Report Stock Market Crash of 1929 Looking Back at the Crash of ’29 Top Women’s Suffrage see “19^th Amendment” 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 Top
	Books Use the Online Catalog. Suggested search terms: 1920s Harlem Renaissance Fashion Black Sox Most print resources on the 1920s are in 909.822, in General Collection & Reference Located in-between stack 4 & 5 Top
	Primary Sources in Jackdaws Facsimiles of documents and newspaper articles. Located on cart. 1920s : America Enters the Jazz Age		Top
	Databases
		Biography Resource Center “Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.”
		History Resource Center: US Primary documents, reference works, and full-text magazines.
		Opposing Viewpoints Information on social issues including pro/con viewpoints, “… statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
		Student Resource Center “…primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses,… magazines, newspapers, … photographs and illustrations, and … audio and video clips.”
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