13: Roaring Twenties

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Origins of Eugenics: From Sir Francis Galton to Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 | Eugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. BellEugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. Bell
Origins of Eugenics: From Sir Francis Galton to Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 | Eugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. BellEugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. Bell
This University of Virginia site can be used by teachers to make a Eugenics lesson personal - using a specific individual's forced sterilization in the course of a larger lesson. In this case, Carris Buck, whose was associated with the Supreme Court case upholding Virginia's Eugenic laws
Origins of Eugenics: From Sir Francis Galton to Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 | Eugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. BellEugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. Bell
The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement
The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement
Amidst the flappers, jazz music and Naval Conference, hides the lives of people who were forgotten to history. US history teachers, in planning their lessons for their 1920s unit, can decide to include their lives in a lesson that illustrates a wider spectrum of the American experience.
The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement
The Radio: Blessing or Curse? A 1929 Debate – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers
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.
The Radio: Blessing or Curse? A 1929 Debate – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers
Middletown A Study In Contemporary American Culture
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.
Middletown A Study In Contemporary American Culture
Harlem nights | 1843
Harlem nights | 1843
An annotated map of the hippest, hottest nightspots in uptown jazz-age New York - from the Economist's Cartopholia Project
Harlem nights | 1843
The American Transportation System of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Louisiana Department of Education Assessment
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 American Transportation System of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Louisiana Department of Education Assessment
Edward L. Bernays Propaganda (1928) (Book)
Edward L. Bernays Propaganda (1928) (Book)
A book far ahead of it's time. Easy to find a selection for homework or lesson prompt - from the weaponization of public opinion to the marketing of cigarettes. Students could just flip through the book or you could assign specific readings. Bernays is Freud's nephew
Edward L. Bernays Propaganda (1928) (Book)
KKK Newspapers
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
KKK Newspapers
Dubois-Stoddard Debate 1929
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
Dubois-Stoddard Debate 1929
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
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 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
American Inquisitors: A Commentary on Dayton and Chicago by Walter Lippmann
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?
American Inquisitors: A Commentary on Dayton and Chicago by Walter Lippmann
Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus, 1925
Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus, 1925
At 6 pages this is a lot for teachers to assign to students, but it would be difficult to stop a students from reading it if they were told it exists. Americans in the 1920s so enamoured of advertising, propaganda and public relations that Bruce Barton described Jesus as the best businessman ever.
Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus, 1925
W-L High School Arlington Virginia : Yearbook 1927
W-L High School Arlington Virginia : Yearbook 1927
Do the descriptions of the 1920s hold true when we look through a Virginia high school yearbook from 1927? Why not have students check? Look at the descriptions of the students, their nicknames, the clubs, etc.
W-L High School Arlington Virginia : Yearbook 1927
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920 (Book)
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920 (Book)
The media environment of the 21st century was predicted about 100 years earlier in this book by Walter Lippmann. Teachers can take the passage at page 54 (and perhaps others) to share with students as a way to seek to understand the role or propaganda and access to information and how both shape politics.
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920 (Book)
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920, (Book)
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920, (Book)
. As our political discourse is increasingly dominated by sources who care nothing for truth or credibility, we come closer and closer to the situation that Walter Lippmann warned about a century ago, in his seminal “Liberty and the News.” “Men who have lost their grip upon the relevant facts of their environment are the inevitable victims of agitation and propaganda.
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920, (Book)
National Film Preservation Foundation: Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat (ca. 1919)
National Film Preservation Foundation: Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat (ca. 1919)
30 second video can be shown to students as one of the first animated political cartoons they will come across in US History. It can be incorporated into a intolerance/Palmer raid 20s lesson - will students notice the producer's name at at the end - why would Ford produce this film? What does the IWW on the rat stand for?
National Film Preservation Foundation: Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat (ca. 1919)
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties
A collaboration between Emily Thompson of Princeton University and Scott Mahoy of the University of Southern California collaboration between Emily Thompson of Princeton University and Scott Mahoy of the University of Southern California—compiles audio files and written noise complaints from 1920s New York City to capture the utter cacophony its residents experienced. Arranged by sound type, geography and timeline, this database is a new type of documentary and experiential history—recreating what the Roaring Twenties sounded like.
The Roaring Twenties