The 1920's –The Great Gatsby
Prepared for Ms. Snagusky
1/12/15
Possible Topics:
1920s Fashion Trends
Popular Sports/Baseball- Babe Ruth
Invention of the Automobile
Harlem Renaissance / Jazz Age/ The Cotton Club
Political Scandals
Prohibition / Temperance/Bootlegger
Women’s Suffrage Movements
Mass Culture
Dances/Flappers/Fads)*
Entertainment
Stock Market Crash*
Political Scandals
Racism/Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Flight
Food & Drink
Immigration
Print:
All Print Materials can be found by searching the MTHS’ Destiny Catalog (located
on the MTHS Media Center Website). Also a Resource List located in the
MTHS Catalog lists many of the print books available on the 1920s.
MLA Formatting Sites (located on the MTHS Media Center Website).
1) Online Writing Lab at Purdue University. Long Island University’s
2) C.W. Post Campus' B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library
ALL Online Materials: EDS, Individual Databases AND Reference
eBooks
Go to the MTHS Media Center Website where access to online resources is
provided from the Research page.
(All online resources require the use of special usenames and
passcodes: See the Remote Access Handout).
Databases: BEST First Choices include :
ABC-CLIO : Includes: World History (Modern), World History(Ancient &
Medieval), American History, The Latino American Experience: is a full-text
digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos, The African
American Experience: is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and
culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora, and Daily
Life Through History.
AP Images (Photographic Resource)
EBSCO: Provides more than 23 full-text periodical databases, for all subject
areas, as well as 10 other separate exclusive databases (i.e. Ebscohost Web
(periodicals); Points of View; Literature Reference Center; Student Research
Center; Novelist, History, Biographical, etc.). It also contains a History Reference
Center; a Literary Reference Center in the Select News Service; a Biographical
Database is also included throughout the
Gale's Literature Criticism Online : Provides scholarly and popular commentary
delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format. The net result is tens of
thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. The series currently covers
more than 3,000 authors and also includes numerous entries focusing on literary
topics and individual works. Approximately 95% of critical essays from the print
Contemporary Literary Criticism™ series are reproduced in full in this online
version, which combines multiple search and browse options with an engaging
format that matches the look and feel of the print originals.
Facts On File - InfoBase Publishing: Includes databases on: World HistoryModern, World History-Ancient and Medieval, American History, AfricanAmerican History, Curriculum Resource Center, American Women's History,
American Indian History, Literature, Career Guidance, World Geography and
Culture, Bloom's Literary Reference, Health Reference, Science, Today's
Science, Issues and Controversies).
JSTOR: A Digital Archive that provides full-text searches of digitized back issues
of over one thousand journals, dating back to 1665 for some. Can be searched
by discipline, title or publisher.
Proquest's SIRS Knowledge Source
Includes Renaissance, Researcher and WebSelect.
Reference Ebooks:
ABC-CLIO eBooks
Ebsco's eBook Subscription: Includes over 100,000 eBooks.
Gale Virtual Reference E-Library - Includes over 600 multi-volume specialized
reference sources for multidisciplinary research and 24/7 access.
InfoBase Learning eBooks
Marshall Cavendish eBooks
Salem Press eBooks: Salem History, Salem Health, Salem Science, Salem
Literature.
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Websites:
America’s Best History: U.S. Timeline 1920s
http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1920.html
1920-1929
Contains many links to great sites, including: chronologies, biographies, culture,
music, organizations, etc.
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/roaring_twenties.htm
American Memory from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
A Biography of America: The Twenties
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog20/index.html#
The History Project
Provides American History Links -Resources
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/resources.php
The Avalon Project
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
PBS – JAZZ The Roaring Twenties: History in the key of Jazz
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm
The Twenties Roar
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web11/segment6.html
American Jazz Culture in the 1920s
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/studproj/is3099/jazzcult/20sjazz/index.ht
ml
The Devil’s Music: 1920s Jazz
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/jazz.html
The Eighteenth Amendment
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/volstead-act/
Topics in Chronicling America – Prohibition
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/prohibition.html
Temperance and Prohibition
http://prohibition.osu.edu/why-prohibition
A Byte Out of History: Eliot Ness and the FBI
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007/january/ness010307
American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
http://prohibition.constitutioncenter.org/
Speakeasies: Modern American History
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/his1005fall2010/tag/speakeasies/
Prohibition, Padlocking Speakeasies, Detroit, 1920s
http://reuther.wayne.edu/node/8264
Organized Crime: How It Was Changed by Prohibition
http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/nkazmers/organizedcrime2.html
Prohibition in the Progressive Era
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/prese
ntations/timeline/progress/prohib/
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Website
This website, published by the University of South Carolina, provides a wealth of
biographical and critical information regarding F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great
Gatsby," and many of Fitzgerald other works as well.
http://library.sc.edu/spcoll/fitzgerald/bibindex.html
Centennial Photographs
The Roaring Twenties.
http://www.100.nist.gov/twenties.htm
Music, Art and Culture of the Roaring 20’s
http://www.alephnull.net/20s/
Clash of Culture
http://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/clash
Slang of the 1920’s
http://local.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm
Flappers and Fashion
http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html
Post, Emily. 1922. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
http://www.bartleby.com/95/index.html
The Roaring Twenties (websites)
http://www.westmount.ci.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/1920s.html
The Roaring 1920s pathfinder
http://www.west-jefferson.k12.oh.us/1920s.aspx
Life in the 1920s
http://www.classzone.com/net_explorations/U7/U7_main.cfm
The Roaring 20s: Best History Websites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/american-history/1900/roaring-20s
Film History of the 1920's
http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html
Gallery Three: The Roaring Twenties
Provides information about the decade from the Herbert Hoover Presidential
Museum and Library.
http://www.hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery03/index.html
1920’s
Includes political scandals, crime, economic upheaval and women’s issues.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/state/alhn1920.html
Americans on the Move: Americans Adopt the Auto
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/exhibition/exhibition_8_7.html
WWW-VL: HISTORY: USA: 1920-1929
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1920s.html
The Golden Age of Competition: 1920s Sports
http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/1920s-sports.html
Baseball History (1901-2006)
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/baseball-history.htm
The Babe Ruth Times: Constructing a Legend Since 1919
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/Baberuth/writers.html
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
http://americanhistory.si.edu/sports/
Bill Tilden
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Tilden__Bill.html
Bill Tilden Biography
http://sports.jrank.org/pages/4865/Tilden-Bill.html
The National Pasttime in the 1920’s: The Rise of the Baseball Fan
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5087/
Early Baseball Pictures
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jrgmabout.html
Jack Dempsey
http://www.cmgww.com/sports/dempsey/biography.htm
Article: Jack Dempsey, 87, is Dead
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0624.html
Gertrude Ederle
Biography
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Ederle_Gertrude.html
Manhattan Island Foundation, Inc.: Gertrude Ederle
http://www.nycswim.org/Event/Event.aspx?Event_ID=1911
Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim English Channel at 98
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/12/01/gertrude_ederle_first_wo
man_to_swim_english_channel_at_98/
When Gertrude Ederle Turned the Tide
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3672954/When-GertrudeEderle-turned-the-tide.html
The Official Site of Jim Thorpe
http://www.cmgww.com/sports/thorpe/
Famous Trials:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
Charles Lindbergh
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Hauptmann/Hauptmann.htm
Smithsonian Air and Space: CHARLES A. LINDBERGH CHAIR IN AEROSPACE
HISTORY
http://airandspace.si.edu/research/fellowships/lindbergh.cfm
http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/
The American Experience Lindberg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/
Lindberg Trial: The Crime of the Century
http://www.nj.com/lindbergh/index.ssf?/lindbergh/crime.html
Lindbergh Radio Broadcast: listen to Lindbergh's comments after his historic
flight
Lucky Lindy: Background info from PBS, with images Lindbergh: PBS site with
general info and links to primary sources
The Way We Worked
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/twww/
The Wonderful World of the Department Store
http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/charm/Docs/Department%20Store%20Bibliography.p
df
Promises, Promises: The Allure of the Household Appliances in the 1920s
http://www.brickhaus.com/amoore/magazine/house.html
1920’s Interior Decorating
http://www.1920-30.com/interior-decorating/
The Monkey Trial
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ monkeytrial/
State versus John Scopes
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/evolut.htm