WEBSITES FOR MS. HIRSCH’S 1920’S
GROUP PROJECT
General
Jazz Age Culture: links for fashion, music and dance, automobiles, prohibition
gangsters and more
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/%7Eknichols/jazzage.html
Fashions
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Fashion by Decade
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=hiersearchimages;id=50
0520;type=801
Music & Dance
Popular Music of the 1920s
http://www.dismuke.org/Electric/index.html
The Roaring Twenties Concert Extravaganza
http://bestwebs.com/roaring1920/index.shtml
Aaron Copeland Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/copland/
The Red Hot Jazz Archive
http://www.redhotjazz.com/index.htm
Prohibition
http://prohibition.osu.edu/
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=441
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentation
s/timeline/progress/prohib/
Automobiles
National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/exhibition/exhibition_8_7.html
Library of Congress: Automobiles in the Progressive Era
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentation
s/timeline/progress/autos/
Gangsters
Al Capone – Chicago Gangster
http://www.chicagohistory.org/history/capone.html
“Lucky” Luciano
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/genovese1/1.html
“Bugs” Moran
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/bugs_11.html
Dion O’Banion
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/dion_10.html
Bugsy Siegel
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/siegel/prohibition_5.html
Dutch Schultz
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/schultz/index_1.html
Fads, movie idols, heart throbs
Time Capsule (Will list events for a given date, plus what was popular in
American culture.)
http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/
Xenophobia
Famous Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/redscare.html
American Studies at the University of Virginia
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/ALLEN/ch3.html
Red Scare Image Database
http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/default.htm
Red Scare is an image database about the period in the history of the United States immediately
following World War I. The dates are approximately from the Armistice in November of 1918 to
the collapse of hyper-inflation in mid-1920. Within these two dates the country witnessed--not so
much in rapid succession as concurrently--a deadly flu epidemic, a strike wave of unparalled
proportions, harsh suppression in some cases of those strikes, race riots, hyper-inflation, mass
round-ups and deportations of foreign born citizens, expulsion of duely-elected officials from
various offices in government, an incapacitated president, espionage laws, sedition laws and, of
course, the advent of Prohibition and women's suffrage.
Women’s Suffrage
Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership
http://www.rochester.edu/sba/suffragehistory.html