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Chapter 22: From New Deal to Great Depression, 1914-1920

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    Flappers and the Jazz Age, http://www.pandorasbox.com/flapper.html
"An exploration of the culture of flappers, urban women of the 1920s who flouted traditional female behavior. Maintained by the Louise Brooks Society, the site provides a concise overview of flapper culture, giving special attention to fashion and literature. Highlights include color photographs of women's apparel, articles on the flapper phenomenon from Outlook and The New Republic, and links to major Web sites on F. Scott Fitzgerald."*

    Greatest Films of the 1920s, http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html
"An excellent survey of film in the 1920s. The site includes films produced in America and imported from Europe in the 1920s. For each year of the decade, films are listed by title with a brief summary following each listing. An overall picture of the developments in film during the decade can be gleaned from the introductory essay on the site, which include hypertext links to individual film summaries."*

    Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election,
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml
"A collection of fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders at the turn of the century on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the presidential election of 1920. The recordings are from the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress, and include speeches by Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John J. Pershing."*

    Scopes Monkey Trial,
"Materials on and analysis of Tennessee v. John Scopes (1925), from the Famous Trials Page by University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School professor Doug Linder. The Scopes trial, also known as the Scopes "Monkey Trial" pitted religious fundamentalists against defenders of modern science. The two men at the center of the affair, lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, framed the debate in terms of the larger moral and political issues facing American society. This page offers biographies of the trial participants, accounts and a transcript of the trial, and background information on the case."*

    The 1920s, http://louisville.edu/~kprayb01/1920s.html
"A general survey of the 1920s. Created by journalist and editor Kevin Rayburn, the site contains timelines for each year of the decade, as well as a People and Trends section broken down into six categories: The Arts, News and Politics, Science and Humanities, Business and Industry, Society and Fads, and Sports. Each category contains a mixture of biographies, historical narratives, and images, and includes links to related sites."*

    The Coolidge Era, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
"Resources on Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929, from the collections of the Library of Congress. The documents focus on the evolution of the U.S. economy into a mass consumer market. These dramatic changes can be seen in the audio files, advertisements, and images in this collection. The artifacts also include a look at marginalized groups from this period, such as African Americans, White farmers, and immigrants."*

    The Survey Graphic, Harlem Number, March 1925
http://etext.virginia.edu/harlem/index.html
"An online reproduction of the March 1925 "Harlem Number" of the Survey Graphic magazine, which gave national exposure to the Harlem Renaissance and featured work by W.E.B. Du Bois, Countee Cullen, Angelina Grimké, and others. Produced by the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center, the site also includes a brief introduction to the text and an array of contemporary reviews."*