EDUCATION BEFORE THE 1920s

ENROLLMENTS
 APPROXIMATELY

TYPES OF COURSES
 HIGH

SCHOOLS CATERED TO COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS
IMMIGRANTS
 MANY

1 MILLION HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
IMMIGRANT STUDENTS WHO SPOKE SOME ENGLISH
FINANCING
 COSTS
DOUBLED FROM 1913 TO 1920
EDUCATION DURING THE 1920s

ENROLLMENTS
4

MILLION STUDENTS
TYPES OF COURSES
 THEY
CATERED TO BROAD RANGE OF STUDENTS,
INCLUDING THOSE INTERESTED IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING
AND HOME ECONOMICS

IMMIGRANTS
 MANY

WHO SPOKE NO ENGLISH
FINANCING
 COSTS
DOUBLED AGAIN, TOTALING $2.7 BILLION A YEAR
BY 1926
POPULAR CULTURE

MAGAZINE
 TIME,

READER’S DIGEST
RADIO
 KDKA,

MELODY MAKER
SPORTS
 BABE
RUTH, JACK DEMPSEY, GENE TUNNEY, HELEN WILLS,
GERTUDE EDERLE, ANDREW FOSTER

MOVIES
 THE
JAZZ SINGER, STEAMBOAT WILLIE
POPULAR CULTURE

THEATER, MUSIC, AND ART
 EUGENE
O’NEILL, GEORGE GERSHWIN, EDWARD HOPPER.
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, THE HAIRY APE

LITERATURE
 SINCLAIR
LEWIS, F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, DOROTHY PARKER,
EDITH WHARTON, WILLA CATHER, EDNA ST. VINCENT
MILLAY, ERNEST HEMINGWAY, JOHN DOS PASSOS, T.S.
ELIOT, EZRA POUND
 BABITT, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, THE GREAT GATSBY, THE
AGE OF INNOCENCE, BARREN GROUND, MY ANTONIA,
THE WASTE LAND, THREE SOLDIERS, THE SUN ALSO RISES,
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

LINDBERGH PILOTED THE FIRST NONSTOP SOLO
FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN