The Great Gatsby & 1920's


 

The Roaring Twenties 

U.S. Economy - Prosperity & Consumerism   1920s

Roaring Twenties Portal - all aspects of life in the 1920's

American Memory Collection: 
(various historical items related to Roaring Twenties)

Economic History: The Roaring Twenties 

Automobiles in the 1920's

U.S. Politics - The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy

Economic History: The Roaring Twenties 

The Stock Market Crash of 1929


Trends of the Jazz Age

Fashions of the Twenties

Flapper Station

Speakeasies, Flappers and Red Hot Jazz: Music 

What Daisy Wore

1920s Flapper Fashion

Changing Image of Women - Fashions of the 1920's


Issues and Lifestyle 1920's:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Roaring Twenties

The Life of Fitzgerald and Zelda in the 1920's - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lost Generation of Post WWI

Women’s Suffrage

The Harlem Renaissance

Sport in the 1920's

Famous Scandals of the 1920's -   The Scopes Monkey Trial 


Crime, Prohibition and Gangsters: 

Temperance and Prohibition 

Reasons for Prohibition 

Al Capone  &  St Valentine's Day Massacre  - (www.crimelibrary.com)

Prohibition  &  Gangland


Movies

Silent Movies

Trailer for Metropolis - Re-release of 1927 Art Deco Film

Movies Audiences, Movie Myths

The Movie Industry of the 1920's

Period Films About the 1920's Era


Famous People:

Charlie Chaplin:  - http://wso.williams.edu/~dgerstei/chaplin/intro.html

Mary Pickford

Clara Bow

Al Capone

Dan Cody

Meyer Wolfsheim


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