1920sresources

Research Requirements
You are expected to use both //primary// and //secondary// sources as you research your topic for this newspaper. If you are in //HONORS//, one of your secondary sources must be a scholarly article //or// excerpt from a historical work. You will find some articles linked below. Others you will receive as handouts in class. The links below will provide you with information on your topics. You MAY use wikipedia BUT only as a starting point. Your final works cited must indicate your effort to draw from a range of resources. Keep in mind: you may not simply cut and paste from a web site into your notes. This will result in an automatic zero for your notes. Please include links to the sources of your information in your notes.

General Resources

 * [|Time Magazine]---you can refine your search to a specific year in the 1920s.
 * [|New York Times Archives]---you can search the NY Times Archives for articles published in the 1920s.

**Front Page News**
>> [|Charles Lindbergh (PBS)] >> [|Lindbergh Articles from the New York Times]: Original articles about Lindbergh's flight.
 * **Charles Lindbergh**
 * **The KKK**
 * [|Immigration Restrictions and the KKK] (Ohio State University)
 * **The Scopes Trial**
 * [|Clash of Cultures: The Scope Trial] (Ohio State University)
 * [|Famous Court Cases]
 * [|PBS: The Monkey Trial]
 * [|NPR: The Scopes Trial--80 Years Later]

**Arts & Literature**
> >> Includes year by year accounts of the 1920s. > >> [|Louis Armstrong:] > >> Smithsonian site documents Armstrong's life and influence.[|>> Audio files of 1920s music] > >> From the Authentic History Center primary source document collection. > >> [|Brief Timeline of American Literature, Music, and Movies] > >> "This page provides a sample of the music and films available during the period 1920-1929." > >> [|Flapper Music:] > >> Description of music and audio files. > >> [|History of Jazz Timeline] > >> Includes Jazz and Blues history. > >> [|Roaring Twenties Jazz] > >> Audio excerpts and descriptiosn of the growth of Jazz during the 20s. From Ken Burns' PBS //Jazz// series. > >> [|The Roaring 1920's Concert Extravaganza] > >> Audio Samples of popular music from the 20s.
 * **Art**
 * [|1925: Year in Review--Art]
 * **Music**
 * [|All About Jazz: History of Jazz Timeline]
 * **Novels/Writers**
 * [|F. Scott Fitzgerald (PBS)]
 * [|Great Gatsby (full length video but you can also watch segments)]
 * [|Time Magazine reviews of Ernest Hemingway's books from the 1920s].

Business Section

 * **General Info**
 * [|Prosperity and Thrift: Calvin Coolidge (Library of Congress)]
 * **The Stock Market**
 * [|A Hot Stock: RCA] (from PBS: The Great Crash)
 * [|1929 Headlines] (from PBS: The Great Crash)
 * [|Brief Time line of Wall Street] (From PBS: The Great Crash)
 * [|NY Times: Looking Back at the Crash ---Articles from 1929] (New)
 * [|Wall Street Journal Classroom: Seeds of the Crash]
 * [|NPR: The Stock Market Crash]
 * **Innovators**
 * [|Henry Ford (The Henry Ford Museum)][|Henry Ford (Time Magazine Profile)]
 * **Scholarly Articles**
 * [|Frederick Lewis Allen, "The Big Bull Market" in //Only Yesterday//]
 * [|Frederick Lewis Allen, "Coolidge Prosperity" in Only Yesterday]

Crime Beat

 * **Prohibition**
 * [|Prohibition] (Ohio State University)
 * [|Speakeasies] (Ken Burns Jazz)
 * [|Bootleggers Paradise]
 * **Gangsters & Crime**
 * [|Organized Crime in Chicago]
 * [|Crime TV: Al Capone]
 * [|Homicides in Chicago]
 * [|George Remus (King of Bootlegging) Time Magazine 1928]
 * **Scholarly Articles**
 * [|Frederick Lewis Allen, "Alcohol and Al Capone" in Only Yesterday]

On the Hill

 * **President Harding**
 * **President Coolidge**
 * **Immigration Restrictions**
 * **Harding Scandals**

Sports
>> [|Babe Ruth]: From the Babe Ruth Museum >> [|Chicago Black Sox]:Overview by the Chicago Historical Society, including biography of Shoeless Joe Jackson. >> [|Chicago Black Sox: How the Series Was Fixed]: Analysis of the scandal, from how it was pulled off to its long-term effects. >> [|Chicago Black Sox:]: Summary of the 1919 World Series from Sporting News Archives. >> [|Jack Dempsey]: BIography, statistics, photos, audio clips and more from the official Jack Dempsey web site. >> [|Negro Leagues:]: "Learn about the origins of the Negro Baseball Leagues,what they were, why they were founded, and why they no longer exist.
 * **Baseball & Boxing**
 * **Scholarly Articles**
 * [|Frederick Lewis Allen, "The Ballyhoo Years" in Only Yesterday]

Society and Living

 * **Film and Movie Palaces**
 * [|Film History of the 1920s] NEW!
 * [|NBM: From Movie Palaces to Multiplexes]
 * [|Images of 1920s Movie Palaces]
 * [|Loewe's Movie Palaces]
 * [|The Roxy Theater]
 * [|Oregon Movie Palaces]
 * **Actresses & Actors**
 * [|Clara Bow: the It Girl]
 * **The New Woman (Flappers)**
 * [|The New Woman] (Ohio State University)
 * [|A Flapper's Appeal to Her Parents (Article from 1922)]
 * [|"Flapper Jane," Article from the New Republic (1925)]
 * **Scholarly Articles**
 * [|Frederick Lewis Allen, "A Revolution in Morals and Manners," in Only Yesterday]
 * Ruth Cowan, "The Industrial Revolution in the Home," //Technology and Culture// (Download)
 * [[file:RuthCowan.pdf]]

Advertising

 * **Databases**
 * [|Ad Access:Database of Advertising (Duke University)]
 * [|Model T Advertising] (The Henry Ford Museum)'
 * [|Philip Morris Database]
 * **Analyzing Ads**
 * [|Understanding Advertising: Decoding an Ads Appeal]
 * [|Analyzing Ads]---all of you need to read this and use it in your primary source analysis!
 * **Misc.**
 * [|The Attic: Advertising in the 1920s]
 * [|Radio Advertising in the 1920s]
 * **Scholarly Articles**
 * Pamela Laird, "The Car Without a Single Weakness: Early Automobile Advertising" //Technology and Culture// (downlad)
 * [[file:laird.pdf]]