1920s America Pathfinder
General books on the 1920s are located in the Dewey numbers:
909.82
917.3
973.91
Check the card catalog for specific topics in the 1920s. The following are some of the subject headings you may find useful:
Harlem Renaissance
Ku Klux Klan
Nineteen Twenties
Prohibition
Scopes, John Thomas
United States--Civilization--1918-1945
United States--History--1919-1933
United States--Social conditions--1918-1932
United States--Social life and customs--1919-1933
Use a keyword search if you do not find what you are looking for in a subject search. Once you find a book that meets your criteria, click on the subject headings in the card catalog record for similar books.
| R 391.009 HI | A History of Fashion and Costume: The Twentieth Century |
| R 391.009 PE | Fashion, Costume and Culture |
| R 391.2 WA | Twentieth Century Fashion: 1900-1949 |
| R 781.65 YA | Jazz |
| R 791.43 HI | History of the American Cinema: The Talkies |
| R 809.933358 LI | Literature and Its Times |
| R 810.9 HA | The Harlem Renaissance |
| R 973.03 DI | Dictionary of American History |
| R 973.03 EN | Encyclopedia of American History |
| R 973.9 AM | American Decades Primary Sources: 1920-1929 |
| R 973.9 AM | American Decades: 1920-1929 |
| R 973.9 BO | Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America |
| R 973.9 GR | Modern America 1914 to 1945 |
| R 973.9 ST | St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture |
| R 973.903 EN | Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century |
| R 973.91 DR | The 1920s |
| R 973.91 HO | The Roaring Twenties |
| R 973.91 ST | The Roaring Twenties: An Eyewitness History |
| R 973.91 US | U.S.A Twenties |
American Heritage Index
| VC 973.9 CE | The Century: Volume 1 The Beginning Through The '20s: Seeds Of Change; Shell Shock, 1914-1919; Boom To Bust, 1920-1929. |
| VC 973.9 IM | Immigration & Cultural Change |
| VC 973.91 | Warring and Roaring |
To access the Media Center research databases and eBooks, go to nfuse.whrhs.org, or select the Technology link at the top of the WHRHS home page. Log in with your username and password, select the Media Center folder and click on the appropriate database icon.
Databases
ABC-CLIO
• American Government
• American History
Biography Resource Center
EBSCOhost
• Biography Collection Complete
• History Reference Center
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
• ProQuest Learning: Literature
• History Study Center
Facts on File
• American History Online
• American Women’s History Online
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Student Resource Center Gold
• Literature
• U.S. History
eBooks
ABC-CLIO History Reference Online
Gale Virtual Reference Library
• American Decades, 1920-1929 (Volume 3: )
• American Social Reform Movements Reference Library
• Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
• Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th Century America
• Crime and Punishment in America Reference Library
• Dictionary of American History
• Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
• Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
• Encyclopedia of World Biography
• Extremist Groups: Information for Students
• Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources
• Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear
through the Ages
• Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources
• Harlem Renaissance
• Roaring Twenties Reference Library
• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
• Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film
• Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources
• U*X*L American Decades
• General 1920s Sites
• Architecture and Decor
• Economics
• Fashion
• Flappers
• Jazz Age
• Ku Klux Klan
• Literature
• Movies and Theater
• Music
• Prohibition
• Radio
• Red Scare
• Roaring Twenties
• Technology
To access additional web sites on the 1920s, click on the links below:
• Crime & Punishment
• Famous Trials
General 1920s Sites
The 1920s
http://www.capitalcentury.com/1920sindex.html
Digital History: The Jazz Age: The American 1920s
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?TitleID=67
Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s Homepage
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/default.htm
The 1920s
http://www.nps.gov/elro/glossary/1920s.htm
The Authentic History Center: The 1920s
http://www.authentichistory.com/1920s.html
Architecture and Decor
Flapper Architecture
http://bassocantante.com/flapper/architecture.html
Flapper Decor
http://bassocantante.com/flapper/decor.html
Bricks & Brass: 1920s Architecture
http://www.bricksandbrass.co.uk/deshist/1920s/1920s.htm
Dance
Mixed Pickles Vintage Dance Time Line - Jazz Era
http://www.mixedpickles.org/jazzdance.html
Charleston
Charleston Dance - Streetswings Dance History Archives
http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3chrlst.htm
Lindy Hop
Dance History--The Lindy Hop
http://www.swingdancers.com/lindyhop.asp
The Lindy Circle - Lindy Hop History
http://www.lindycircle.com/history/lindy_hop
Lindy Hop Dance - Streetswings Dance History Archives
http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3lindy.htm
Dance Marathons
HistoryLink Essay: Dance Marathons of the 1920s and 1930s
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5534
Dance Marathons
http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Renee/DanceMarathons.html
Economics
Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_roaring13.html
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
America in the 1920's
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/America_economy_1920's.htm
Fashion
American Vintage Blues: History of Fashion 1920-1930
http://www.vintageblues.com/history2.htm
The Twenties and Thirties: 1919-1930
http://www.mschon.com/19302.html
Deco
Deco
http://www.mschon.com/1920307.html
Men's Fashion
Men’s Fashions of the 1920s
http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/fashionhistory_
1920mens.html
Women's Fashion
Ladies Fashions of the 1920s
http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/fashionhistory_1920ladies.html
The Authentic History Center: The Fashion of The Roaring Twenties
http://www.authentichistory.com/images/1920s/fashion/1920sfashion01.html
1920 to 1930: Flapper Fashion and Costume History
http://www.fashion-era.com/1920s/index.htm
Flappers and Fashion
http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html
Flappers
Flappers in the Roaring Twenties
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm
The Jazz Age: Flapper Culture & Style
http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture
Jazz Age
Jazz Culture: The 1920s
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/studproj/is3099/jazzcult/20sjazz
Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm
JazzAge Culture: Part I
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html
JazzAge Culture: Part II
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage2.html
Ku Klux Klan
The Klan Rides Again: The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/klan.html
Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/blues/sexs.html#More
Literature
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events:1920-1929 http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1920.htm
JazzAge Culture: Writers (Part III)
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage3.html
Movies and Theater
Theater
Broadway in the 1920's
http://www.mapsites.net/gotham01/webpages/alisonhannah/broad1920s.html
Movies
Talking Motion Pictures
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/3on1/movies/talkies.html
Film History of the 1920s
http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro4.html
Cartoons And Cinema Of The 20th Century
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0118600/index.phtml?menu=en%3B2%3Bci2001.html
The Jazz Singer (1927)
http://www.filmsite.org/jazz.html
The Jazz Singer
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212/brandi/jazz.html
Music
Flapper Music
http://bassocantante.com/flapper/music.html
PBS | JAZZ: Places Spaces & Changing Faces - The Cotton Club
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/places/spaces_cotton_club.htm
Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra
http://www.redhotjazz.com/dukecco.html
Harlem Gangs from the 1920s and 1930s - The Cotton Club
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/gang/harlem_gangs/2.html
Prohibition
Prohibition
http://prohibition.osu.edu
The Jazz Age: The American 1920s - Prohibition
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=441
Speakeasies
Speakeasies
http://mustech.mus.georgiasouthern.edu/html/rrepp/research/Exemplary%20Practices/
Hononegah/prohibition/speakeasies-s.htm
Speakeasies
http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00492/Speakeasies.htm
Speakeasies of the Prohibition Era
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/AH-ProhibitionSpeakeasy.html
Radio
Radio in the 1920s
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug00/3on1/radioshow/1920radio.htm
History of Broadcasting
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mbensman/history1.html
History of Radio
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/radio-history.html
Red Scare
The Palmer Raids
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/red.html
Red Scare (1918-1921)
http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare
Roaring Twenties
Roaring Twenties
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=546
Roaring Twenties
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1564.html
American Experience | Miss America | People and Events
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/missamerica/peopleevents/index.html
Gallery Three: The Roaring Twenties http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery03/gallery03.html
Miss America
Miss Americas History – 1920s Decade in Review
http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1920/review.asp
The History of Pageants of the New Millenium
http://www.pageantcenter.com/history-20s.html
Harry Houdini
Great Escapes: American Memory Web site Hosts the Houdini Collection
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/970224/houdini.html
Houdini: the American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/houdini
Houdini Historical Center
http://www.foxvalleyhistory.org/houdini/facts.html
Houdini: A Biographical Chronology
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshchrn.html
Technology
Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_roaring13.html