Leopold and Loeb Trial
Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
Houdini - The American Experience
Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
HOUDINI: A Biographical Chronology
Article from the Library of Congress
Sports in the 20s
Article describes the 20s as the Golden Age of Sports, and offers much evidence supporting the claim. Articles lists sports stars and accomplishments.
Music and milking time - Radio Picture
Picture that shows pervasive technology in the 1920s
The Golden Age of Sports: A Roaring Replay of the 1920's
Charles Lindbergh - An American Aviator
Personal site with links to materials, articles and active forum
Amelia Earhart
Article from PBS Voyage of the Oddyessy
The Chicago Black Sox Trial
Extensive collection of materials and articles from the University of Missouri - Kansas City' School of Law's Famous American Trials site
Lindbergh
PBS site to accompany the American Experience documentary
Images of the Jazz Age
Small collection of magazine and poster advertisements of the 1920s
Scopes Trial Home Page - UMKC School of Law
Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
The Branding of America- Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress
Inventive and entrepreneurial Americans have left their indelible mark on American history through the hundreds of brand name products available on today's market shelves. What are these products? How did they get their start? Why have they endured over the course of history? Did their success have to do with the quality of the product or its recognition factor?
Through primary source documents from the American Memory collections, this activity introduces students to a sampling of "famous" American brands originating in communities across the United States and offers insight into their origin and staying power
The Richard Hauptmann (Lindbergh Kidnapping) Trial
Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
Freak Show: The 1920s
Summary of cultural characteristics with many links
Dream Deferred Harlem Town Hall Simulation
W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey and Booker T. Washington try to persuade Ida Wells, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Bessie Smith to follow their particular path to equality. Roundtable simulation involves persuasion and questioning. Rubric Included
Call Me Maybe - Vintage 1927 Music Video - YouTube
Modern performer's interpretation of modern pop in a 1920s musical style. Perhaps serious historians of music can speak to the possible anachronistic time signature or detailing which makes this timewarp mash-up incongruous, but we can just enjoy the result. Great to have playing as students walk in the classroom, just to keep them guessing. Don't miss clicking around Scott Bradlee's channel either, you'll catch creative mashups of George Gershwin and Queen and other "gatsby-era" incarnations
BUCK V. BELL, 274 U. S. 200 (1927) -- US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
Eugenics upheld by the Supreme Court
We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
American Experience | Monkey Trial
Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
American Experience . Amelia Earhart | PBS
Companion site for American Experience documentary with articles, timeline and links to resources. The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Earhart disappeared in 1937 while she was attempting to circumnavigate the world by airplane.
Depression-Era Photographs: Worth a Thousand Words | EDSITEment
Throughout the Great Depression, the federal government employed photographers to document the need for New Deal programs and the extent of these programs' successes. Today, through the Internet, students can view this record of an era and see for themselves how Americans faced the challenge of those testing times.
Flappers and Fashion
Description of the details of fashion and how they changed in the 1920s. Lots of photos
Roaring 1920's Concert Extravaganza - Music of the Roaring 1920s
Selected clips from our Vintage Catalog. All Sound Files are in the Real Audio 2
1920s Flapper Fashion History
ooks at women's costume and fashion history and analyses the mood of an era. Changes in technology, leisure, work, cultural and moral values. Homelife and politics also contribute to lifestyle trends, which in turn influence the clothes we wear. These are the changes that make any era of society special in relation to the study of the costume of a period
Billy Sunday
Student project from Georgetown College
JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns
Companion site for Burns documentary
ARTSEDGE: Drop Me Off in Harlem
What happens when great minds congregate in the same time and place? How do creative individuals both reflect and influence the places and time periods in which they live? Drop Me Off in Harlem explores these questions in the context of the vibrant, complex, and unique moment in time that was the Harlem Renaissance.
Film History of the 1920s
Extended article explaining the history of film making in the 1920s, from filmsite
How Teachers can make the most of Prohibition | EDSITEment
Materials and lessons associated with the Ken Burns film.