The Roaring Twenties – Part II: Technology and Culture in the 1920s
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The Automobile
o Henry Ford
o Ransom E. Olds (Oldsmobile)
o Detroit
o Model T.
o Standardization
o Assembly-line production
o “Fordism”
o New Industry from Automobile
 Steel
 Rubber
 Glass
 Fabrics
 Construction
 Highways
 Service Stations
 Garages
o Other Effects
 Transportation of Food
 “Freedom of the Highway”
 Leisure
 Population
 Schools & Churches
 Commuters
Birth of Flight
o The Wright Brothers
o Aircraft in the Great War
o Aviation Industry
 Mail
 Passengers
o Transcontinental Airmail
 New York to San Francisco - 1920
o Charles A. Lindbergh
 Trans-Atlantic Flight
Entertainment – “Popular Culture”
o The Radio
 Nikola Tesla
 Guglielmo Marconi
o The Cinema
 The Great Train Robbery
 The Birth of a Nation
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 New York City to Hollywood
 Propaganda
 “Silent Films” to “Talking Films”
 The Jazz Singer
Changes in Lifestyle & Values
o Sex in Advertising
o “Flappers”
o Sigmund Freud
o Jazz & Blues Music
 New Orleans
 W. C. Handy
 “St. Louis Blues”
 “Jelly Roll” Morton
 “Joe” King Oliver
 Paul Whiteman
African American Culture
o Harlem, New York
o The Harlem Renaissance
o Writers
 Langston Hughes
 Zora Neale Hurston
 Claude McKay
o Music
 Louis Armstrong
 Eubie Blake
o Politics
 Marcus Garvey
o United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
o Black Star Line Steamship Company
Literature
o H. L. Mencken
 “The Bad Boy of Baltimore”
 American Mercury
o F. Scott Fitzgerald
 This Side of Paradise
 The Great Gatsby
o Theodore Dreiser
 An American Tragedy
o Ernest Hemingway
 The Sun Also Rises
 A Farewell to Arms
o Sherwood Anderson
 Winesburg, Ohio
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o Sinclair Lewis
 Main Street
 Babbitt
o William Faulkner
 Soldier’s Pay
 Sound and the Fury
 As I Lay Dying
o Ezra Pound
 “Make It New”
o T. S. Eliot
 “The Waste Land”
o Robert Frost
 Poems on New England
o E.E. Cummings
 Diction and Typesetting
o Eugene O’Neill
 Strange Interlude
Architecture
o Frank Lloyd Wright
o The Empire State Building
Sports
o Baseball
 Babe Ruth
o Boxing
 Jack Dempsey Vs. Georges Carpentier