Leopold and Loeb Trial
Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
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
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 Richard Hauptmann (Lindbergh Kidnapping) Trial
Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
glamourdaze - Vintage US film from 20th century
Vintage Fashion Film Archive from Glamourdaze.com. For education and preservation of women's culture and fashion in the 20th century.
Glamourdaze - YouTube Channel - Vintage Fashion and Instructional Films
Fascinating collection of fashion films and dating instructional films from the 1930s, 40s and 50s
Recent social trends in the United States; report of the President's research committee on social trends : United States. President's Research Committee on Social Trends : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
"Recent social trends in the United States; report of the President's research committee on social trends"
Master of Emergencies - Herbert Hoover Campaign Film
In what might be the very first use of motion pictures in a political capmaign. This 40+ minute silent film focuses on Herbert Hoover's work with the food commission, as Commerce Secretary and helping with the Mississippi flood of 1927
Vintage Motivational Posters From the 20s and 30s | The Art of Manliness
It's all to easy to assume that popular concepts of manhood haven't changed over time - haven't Americans always been a "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps people? This short article explores how concepts of manhood have changed and is replete with motivational posters of the 20s and 30s that show how self-improvement and hard work were being advertised
Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition
Extensive collection of pamphlets, tracts and posters for temperance from Brown University.
The digitized items in the Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition Collection are from the Alcoholism and Addiction Studies Collection, as well as from various collections in the Brown University Library — broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications
FBI File on Eliot Ness
Shows background of prohibition
The FBI information concerns the relationship between Mr. Ness and the FBI while he served as Director of Public Safety in Cleveland,
Videos: Spend An Hour In 1920s NYC: Gothamist
Surprising collection of videos taken in New York in the 1920s
The Daily News's front-page photo of Ruth Snyder's execution (New York Daily News) | Newseum
For all of the focus on the Scopes trial, the trial of the 20s that garnered the most press may have been the "window sash murder" that later inspired the movie Double Indemnity. When Ruth Snyder was executed for her murder of her husband, the Daily News splayed her picture over the front page under the one word headline "Dead". Those who dismay over the lack of decorum in today's press have a short memory.
Labor Strike, America in the 1920s, Primary Sources for Teachers, America in Class, National Humanities Center
Labor strike lesson from History Class
Divisions, America in the 1920s, Primary Sources for Teachers, America in Class, National Humanities Center
The "Roaring or Boring" debate is a staple of US History courses - this primary document set can support and inform that debate. Better yet, teachers can share the documents with students outside of this presentation and see if students will come to that binary interpretation themselves.
Medicinal alcohol Prescription
Examples of prescriptions for alcohol written in the 1920s. Teachers can start a lesson with a quick showing of these to students - does this defeat the purpose of prohibition? Did this create an easy way to evade the law? What other questions can students generate when look at these?
The International Jew - The World's Foremost Problem, by Henry Ford, 1920s (Book)
This book by Henry Ford is claimed by some to be an inspiration for Hitler's anti semitism. Teachers could find primary source quotes in here to infuse as an element in a lesson or simply use this existence of this book to illustrate the prevalence of anti-semitism.
The Cost of Prosperity: Mass Consumption and Mass Production in the 1920s
Students will examine mass production and mass consumption through primary sources in class to define them and get a sense of how the economic changes of the 1920s also affected life in the U.S. This is a primary source lesson in which students "do history"
The Radio: Blessing or Curse? A 1929 Debate – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers
Students read pro and con articles about radio written in 1920, using that analysis to understand Americans' views of technology generally. These are high quality materials with well-chosen documents, questions with answers for the teacher and background information to build context. Reading what Americans thought of radio at the advent of the medium is much like the internet today.
Middletown A Study In Contemporary American Culture
Robert and Helen Lynd's 1929 study of Muncie, Indiana looks at American culture in the twenties through the lens of a cultural anthropologist. Teachers can either take selections from this book or have students find selections that provide insight into life during the period. It is thoroughly readable and appropriate, students will find it immediately engaging, particularly the "child-rearing" sections.
Al Capone's Criminal Case Documents from The National Archives
Scans of the indictment, bench warrants, docket lists and guilty verdict itself
The American Transportation System of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Louisiana Department of Education Assessment
Maps, charts and documents regarding the advent of railroads, automobiles and the commercial airline industry. The documents show great promise for interesting exploration, the questions associated with them are not effective. Much more can be done with this great material.
The First Lady of the Silent Screen – 25 Stunning Black and White Portraits of Lillian Gish in the 1920s
KKK Newspapers
The KKK Newspapers collection brings together for the first time local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers across the U.S. during this period. I
the Klan
re-emerged as a slick and successful recruiting and marketing engine
that appealed to the fears and aspirations of middle-aged,
middle-income, white protestant men in the middle of America. At its
peak in 1924, Klan-paid membership exceeded 4,000,000 and its national
newspaper, the <i>Imperial Night-Hawk</i>, had a circulation larger than the
New York Times.
The New World of Islam : Lothrop Stoddard - 1921 (Book)
Teachers and students of the 21st century might be surprised to see Anti-Islamic polemics like this one from 1921.
Dubois-Stoddard Debate 1929
This is a transcript of a debate between Lothrop Stoddard, a white supremacist and W.E.B. Du Bois. Teachers and students can look to this to see the combination of eugenics and unabashed racism in the Stoddard's language . See more about the background of the debate here http://tinyurl.com/ybqqx6ee
The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history. 4th rev. ed., with a documentary supplement, with prefaces by Henry Fairfield Osborn : Grant, Madison, 1865-1937 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1922 book provides evidence of racial conceptions in the early 1920s
The menace of modernism - by William Bell Riley (Book)
Students trying to argue that the 1920s represent more a more liberal spirit will have to account for books like this, which refute their argument.
American Inquisitors: A Commentary on Dayton and Chicago by Walter Lippmann
Only for teachers and grad students who are interested in the roots of fundamentalism in the United States. Walter Lippmann wrote an imaginary dialog between Socrates, Thomas Jefferson and William Jennings Bryan shortly after the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee in 1927. Are democracy and religious liberty compatible? Is reason a religion of its own?