ART:

• 1925 - The Year in Review:
  http://www.artchive.com/1925/1925.html

 

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AUTOMOBILES:

• Henry Ford Invents the Automobile:
  http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/car.html

• Automobiles in the 1920's:
  http://yourpage.blazenet.net/keimpjad/autosindex.htm

• Classic Cars in History
  http://www.classiccars.net/history.htm

AUTHORS:
The Great Gatsby is a classic novel written in the 1920s by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Other authors of that time were John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, and Agatha Christie.

F. Scott Fizgerald

• EducETH: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
  http://www.educeth.ch/english/readinglist/fitzgeralds/
• Links to Great Gatsby Websites
  http://home.earthlink.net/~dallas49r/gatsbywebpage/gatsbylinks.html

John Steinbeck

• John Steinbeck
  http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~wsimkins/steinb.html

Robert Frost

• Robert Frost: The Academy of American Poets
  http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=196

Ernest Hemingway

• Timeless Hemingway
  http://www.timelesshemingway.com/

Agatha Christie

• Agatha Christie: The Official Online Home
  http://www.agathachristie.com/

AVIATION:

• Naval Aviation Chronology: 1920-1929
  http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/avchr3.htm
  

• Coolidge and Lindbergh:
  http://mypage.direct.ca/r/rsavill/Coollind.html
  

• Lindbergh:
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/timeline/index.html
  

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FADS AND FASHIONS:

• The Jazz Age - Flapper, Culture and Style:
  http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture

• Costumes
  http://www.costumes.org/pages/1920links.htm

• Clothing of 1920's
  http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/herzj/websites/fashion/gallerypages/1920.html

• Fashions of the 1920's
  www.reminiscing.com/twenty/twenty.htm

• 20th Century Fashion History: 1920
  http://www.costumegallery.com/1920.htm

• The Costume Gallery: A Year in Fashion - 1920:
  http://www.onlinecostumeball.com/Delineator/Nov_1920/Magazine.htm

• Fashions of the 1920s
  http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/fashionhistory.html

• Flapper Fashion
  http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html

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GANGSTERS:
Gang and gangsters controlled the big cities in the 1920s. Chicago was the home of the notorious gangster Al Capone.

• Al Capone
  http://angelfire.com/ca2/Wiseguys/Page5.html

• Alphonse Capone
  http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/capone/capone.htm

• Al Capone
  http://www.crimelibrary.com/capone/caponemain.htm

• History Files - Al Capone
  http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html

• George "Bug" Moran
  http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters2/moran/index.htm

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HARLEM RENAISSANCE:

• The Harlem Renaissance
  http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/harlem_intro.html

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KLU KLUX KLAN:

• Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/blues/klan1.html

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MOVIES/FILMS:
In the 1920s, silent movies were all the rage and many great actors and actresses were beginning their careers. People like Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, Marion Davis, Marie Dressler, Greta Garbo, Mary Pickford, Wallace Reid, and Gloria Swanson were just making it big. Fatty Arbuckle along with Laurel and Hardy were making the country laugh. Cartoon characters like Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse were born and Rin Tin Tin was making a name for himself in the animal world.

• The Greatest Films of the 1920s:
  http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html or http://www.filmsite.org/silentfilms.html

• Movies in the 1920's - Movie Posters:
  www.moviecritic.ca/movies/1920s_01.shtml

• Films of the 1920's:
  http://home.earthlink.net/%7Etimsamuel/movie.htm#silent%20movies

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MUSIC:
In the 1920s, Jazz and Blues became very popular. Singers and musicians like Fat Waller, "Jelly Roll' Morton, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Lucille Bogan could be heard world wide. Bing Crosby, Annette Hanshaw, Al Jolson, Maria Anderson and George Gershwin were also making in big in the music world.

• Roaring 1920's Concert Extravaganza   - Sound Bits
  http://bestwebs.com/roaring1920/

• 1920's music
  http://www.southernmusic.net/1920.htm

• The Jazz Age Page:
  http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/threetwo/Jazzhome.htm

• Jazz in Time- Roaring Twenties:
  http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm

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PRESIDENTS:
During this decade the United States had three presidents--Warren Harding, Calvin Collidge, Hurbert Hoover.

• Presidents of the 1920s - Harding, Coolidge, Hoover:
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

• PresBios:
  http://www.americanpresident.org/presbios/presbios.htm

• Calvin Coolidge Chronology:
  http://www.calvin-coolidge.org/pages/history/chronology/chrnfrm.html

• Grolier Presents the American Presidency:
  http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/aae/prescont.html

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PROHIBITION:

• American Prohibitions in the 1920s:
  http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/proh1920.htm

• Prohibition in the 1920s:
  http://www.geocities.com/athens/troy/4399/

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PUBLIC COMMUNICATION:

• Radio: The Beginning
  http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/radio.html

• Radio in the 1920s:
  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/3on1/radioshow/1920radio.htm

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:

• 1920's Nobel Prizes for Medicine:
  http://www.pirweb.org/1920s.htm

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SPORTS:
Baseball players like Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Babe Ruth were making a name for themselves. Jack Dempsey was the Mahammed Al of the 1920s and Harold Red" Grange was one of the great football players. Ladies like Edith Cummins and Helen Wills Moody were also in the limelight. Man-O-War was also running with all his might.

• Baseball in the 1920s:
  www.geocities.com/RainForest/5830/johnspage.html

• Babe Ruth:
  http://www.baberuthmuseum.com/html/client_frames.asp
  http://baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/ruth_babe.htm

• The Golden Age of Sports - A Roaring Replay of the 1920s:
  http://www.sportplanet.com/sbb/apfas/20R.htm

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STOCK MARKET:

• The Stock Market Crash or 1929:
  http://mypage.direct.ca/r/rsavill/Thecrash.html

• 1929 Stock Market Crash:
  http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/amu/ucr/student/1997/Yee/1929.htm

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TRIALS/SCANDALS:

• St. Valentine's Day Massacre: A True Crime Story of Guns and Gangsters
  http://www.MysteryNet.com/vdaymassacre

• Scopes Monkey Trail:
  http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Scopes/

• Famous Trials:
  http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

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WOMEN'S RIGHTS:
In the 1920s, the 19th amendment to the constitution was passed. It gave women the right to vote.

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OTHERS:

• Nobel Peace Prizes of the 1920s:
  Search for 1920s
  http://www.nobel.se/

• 1920s Olympics:
  http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0114439.html

• Historical Census Data for 1920:
  http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/censusbin/census/cen.pl?year=920

• The Flapper - Architecture, Decor, Music:
  http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/

• Victoria:
  http://alephnull.net/20s/victrola.html

• American Storytellers: The Sensible Thing
  http://www.pbs.org/kteh/amstorytellers/

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