PROGRESSIVISM AND THE 1920S
General Reading
Alfred D. Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977)
Melvyn Dubosky, We Shall Be All: A History of the IWW (1969)
Ellen Dubois, ÎWorking Women, Class Relations and Suffrage Militance: Harriet Stanton Blatch and the
New York Womensâ Suffrage Movement 1894-1909â, Journal of American History, 74 (1987)
Arthur. A. Ekrich, Progressivism in America
Leon Fink, (ed.), Major Problems in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1992)
Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America (1976)
James R. Green, Grass-Roots Socialism (1978)
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (1955)
Arthur Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era (1963)
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)
Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs (1982)
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
John A. Thompson, Progressivism
Robert Wiebe, The Search for Order (1967)
Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday (1931)
John Braemen, Change and Continuity in Twentieth-Century America: the 1920s (1968)
Paul Allen Carter (ed.), The Uncertain World of Normalcy: the 1920s (1971)
Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987)
Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995)
David J. Goldberg, Discontented America: the U.S. in the 1920s (1999)
Colin Gordon, ed., Major Problems in American History, 1920-1945 (1999)
John D. Hicks, Republican Ascendancy, 1921-1933 (1960)
Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown (1929)
Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: the Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994)
Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940 (1985)
Nathan Miller, New World Coming: the 1920s and the Making of Modern America (2003)
James A Morone, Hellfire Nation: the Politics of Sin in American History (2003)
David E. Ruth, Inventing the Public Enemy: the Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934 (1996)
George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American (1993)
Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: a Cultural History of American Movies (1975/1994)
Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934 (1994)
Robert Zeidel, Immigrants, Progressives and Exclusion Politics: the Dillingham Commission, 19001927 (2004)
Further Reading
Kenneth Allsop, Bootleggers: the Story of Chicago's Prohibition Era (1968)
John Baiamonte, Spirit of Vengeance: Nativism and Louisiana Justice, 1921-1924 (1986)
Liz Conor, Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s (2004)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
Henry Ford, My Life and Work (1922)
Neil Gabler, Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity (1994)
Elinor Glyn, It (1927)
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest (1929)
Hanno Hardt, In the Company of Media: Cultural Constructions of Communication, 1920s-1930s
(2000)
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)
John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (1955)
Walter Benn Michaels, Our America: Nativism, Modernism, Pluralism (1995)
Fred D. Pasley, Al Capone: the Biography of a Self-Made Man (1930)
Louis Pizzitola, Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies (2002)
Jim Reisler, Babe Ruth: Launching the Legend (2004)
Articles
William Barlow, "Black Music on the Radio During the Jazz Age," African-American Review 2:2
(summer 1995): 325-8.
Kathleen M. Blee, "Women in the 1920s KKK Movement," Feminist Studies 17:1 (September, 1991):
57-77.
Lizabeth Cohen, "Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in
the 1920s," American Quarterly, 41, 1 (Mar., 1989): 6-33.
Estelle Freedman, "The New Woman: Changing Views of Women in the 1920s," JAH, 61,2 (September
1974): 372-93.
Paul W. Glad, "Progressives and the Business Culture of the 1920s," JAH 53:1 (June 1966), 75-89.
Chadwick Hansen, "Social Influences on Jazz Style: Chicago, 1920-1930," AQ 12:4 (winter 1960):
493-507.
Walter Benn Michaels, "The Vanishing American," American Literary History 2:2 (summer 1990): 22041.
Marsha Ogeron, "Making 'It' in Hollywood: Clara Bow, Fandom, and Consumer Culture," Cinema
Journal 42:4 (summer 2003): 76-97.
Jason Scott Smith, "The Strange History of the Decade: Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Perils of
Periodization," JSH 32:2 (winter, 1998): 263-85.
Frank Stricker, "Affluence for Whom? - Another look at Prosperity and the Working Classes in the
1920s," Labor History 24 (1983).
Susan Zieger, "Finding a Cure for War: Women's Politics and the Peace Movement in the 1920s," JSH
24:1 (autumn, 1990): 68-86.
Jonathan Zimmerman, "'Each "Race" Could Have Its Heroes Sung': Ethnicity and the History Wars of
the 1920s," JAH, 87:1 (June 2000): 92-111.