DECADE 1920-1929
October 2007
Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Images of 7,000 ads printed in the US and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911
and 1955; subject areas are radio, TV, transportation, beauty & hygiene, World War II
Anti-Saloon League: 1893-1933
http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon
In-depth history of group’s struggle to win approval of national prohibition
Library of Congress Exhibitions: American Memory 1900 - 1929
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?timePeriod=1900-1929
Babe Ruth
http://www.baberuth.com/
Biography, photographs, statistics, links
Dismuke’s Virtual Talking Machine
http://www.dismuke.org/
Streaming RealAudio recordings of the late 19th and early 20th century music
Ellis Island
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/gateway/intro.html
All kinds of information on this site
EllisIslandRecords.com
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org
Immigrant names, ages, nationalities, hometown, and other information
Flapper
http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper
Architecture, interior design, music of the 1920s
Illinois v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb (1924)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/leopold.htm
Crime scene, evidence, confession, biographies, sentencing, and more
Knute K. Rockne
http://home.no.net/birgerro/
Article on the most successful coach in college football
Looking Back at the Crash of ‘29
http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html
Provides a you-are-there perspective using actual NY Times headlines
Slouching Towards Utopia? The Great Crash and the Great Slump
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
In-depth economic account of the 1929 Crash and resulting Depression; full of charts
Teapot Dome Scandal
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/side/teapot.html
Brief description and profiles of people involved
Tennessee v. John Scopes (1925)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
Excerpts from the trial, biographies, text he used, pictures and cartoons, Appellate Court
decisions
The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti (1921)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm
Chronology, maps, biographies, excerpts from trial transcripts
United States Historical Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and
county from 1900 to 1960; searchable by several variables
Women and Social Movements in the US, 1775-2000
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
Editorial projects by students at SUNY that pose an interpretative question and provide a
collection of 550 documents and 100 images that address the question.
General
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/roaring_twenties.htm
This site contains academic links that are divided by subject.
(http://cvip.fresno.com/~jsh33/roar.html)
A wonderful starting point
www.vivisimo.com
A metacrawler that clusters results to help you refine your search.