1920s Magazine Project - Research Tips
Print Material: On-line catalog
library.southingtonschools.org - select SHS – catalog tab
Online:
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Search options:
Keyword search:
ICONN database (select resources- history/biography etc.)
Ebsco – Student Research Center
Ebsco - Literary Reference Center
Net trekker
basic or power search
Keyword - subject - author
use single words or phrases, quotes or wildcards
Frame search: ex: 1920s music, or 1920s jazz, or Gershwin
1920s film- Mary Pickford, or exact name Roscoe “Fatty”
Arbuckle (a comedian arrested in 1921 for the murder of
actress Virginia Rappe)
use your own topic list for ideas (make it yourself)
use the Chronology of the 1920s handout (library)
Reference Collection: specialized encyclopedias and reference section
Topic – Biographies – Decade
Brainstorm! For ex: Hemingway and Fitzgerald- known as “The Lost
Generation” of writers- see what you find
EVALUATE WEBSITES CAREFULLY: .COM are commercial- to SELL
.ORG are non-profits
.EDU are educational
CITATIONS: easybib.com OR MLA Citation reference books (near computers)
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A Chronology of the 1920’s
(use keywords for research)
Encyclopedia of the US in the 20th Century
The American People
19th Amendment- Women’s Suffrage (1920)
National Origins Act (1924)
Sacco and Vanzetti executed (1927)
(don’t forget Prohibition wasn’t repealed until 1933)
Science, Technology and Medicine
Insulin introduced (1922)
Bell Laboratories established (1925)
Robert Goddard launches first liquid-propellant rocket (1926)
Charles Lindbergh makes first solo flight across the Atlantic (1927)
E.O. Lawrence develops first cyclotron (1929)
Economy
Steelworkers’ Strike (1919)
First commercial radio station KDRA Pittsburgh (1919)
Radio Corporation of America (RCA) (1919)
Recession (1921-1922)
Kelly Act (Air Mail) (1925)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1926)
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1927)
Stock Market Crash (1929)
Politics
Warren G. Harding elected president (1920)
Budget and Accounting Act (1921)
William Howard Taft becomes chief justice US Supreme Court (1921)
Harding dies, Coolidge becomes president ((1923)
Teapot Dome scandal (1923)
First national convention Klu Klux Klan (1925)
Herbert Hoover elected president (1928)
Global America
Senate again rejects Versailles Treaty (end of WWI) (1920)
National Defense Act creates US Army and National Guard (1920)
Missouri v. Holland (1920)
Beginning of Washington Naval Conference (1921)
Fordney-McCumber Tariff; Treaty of Washington (1922)
Dawes Plan for reparations and war debt payments (1924)
Geneva Protocol bans chemical weapons (1925)
Beginning of Sandinista war in Nicaragua (1927)
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
Young Plan for war debt payment (1929)
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A Chronology of the 1920’s
(use keywords for research)
Encyclopedia of the US in the 20th Century
Culture
1920: John Dewey-Reconstruction in Philosophy
Sinclair Lewis- Main Street
Edith Wharton- The Age of Innocence
Babe Ruth joins NY Yankees
American Professional Football League formed (becomes NFL)
Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act (1921)
Reader’s Digest first issue (1922)
Sinclair Lewis – Babbitt (1922)
Henry Luce founds TIME (1923)
George Gershwin- Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
1925: Scopes Trial
Theodore Dreiser – An American Tragedy
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Sinclair Lewis – Arrowsmith
First issue of New Yorker
Chicago Tribune Tower completed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood
1926: Book-of-the Month Club founded
Dale Carnegie- How to Win Friends and Influence People
Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
Lewis Mumford – The Golden Day
1927: Willa Cather – Death Comes for the Archbishop
Sinclair Lewis – Elmer Gantry
The Jazz Singer – first sound movie
1929: William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
Walter Lippmann- A Preface to Morals
Museum of Modern Art (NY) opens
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