Research Essay on the Jazz Age
Possible Topics:
1. The impact of a famous author (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest
Hemingway) on popular culture in the 1920s.
2. Major trends in music, art or literature (choose one) in the 1920s.
3. The effects of a new technology (choose one, such as automobiles,
radio, movies, telephone, electricity, phonographs, etc.) on
American life in the 1920s.
4. The changing role of women in the 1920s.
5. Prohibition and its effect on society in the 1920s.
6. Economic and financial trends in the 1920s.
7. The impact of one historical figure (Warren Harding, Calvin
Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, Charlie Chaplin, Al
Capone, Rudolph Valentino, Isadora Duncan, Clara Bow, etc.) on
American culture in the 1920s.
8. The effect of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial on U.S. attitudes toward
foreigners.
9. The role of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
10. The impact of the Scopes Trial on U.S. intellectual life.
Choose a topic, then a controlling idea to craft a thesis
statement that is clear and arguable.