1920's Web Resources

    [Changes in Women's Values]   [Clothing]  [Crash of 1929]   [Crime]   [Economic Aspects of the Decade]   [Entertainment]   [Facts and statistics about the 1920’s]   [Fads]   {Famous People]    [Foreign Affairs]   [General 1920's Web Sites]   [Harlem Movement]   [Literature, Music, Movies]     [Negative Aspects of the Decade]   [New Consumer Products]     [New Trends]   [New Values]   [Popular Music]   [Popular Dances]    [Prohibition]  [Recklessness of the Decade]   [Technology]

General 1920's Web Sites

The 1920’s Experience

Some good information, but don’t waste time on the pop-up ads.

http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/

The 1920’s: The Roaring ‘20s researched by Ma’ayan and Barbara, from a 4^th & 5^th grade class project called A Century in Review

Short overview of the 1920’s; a good exemplar of a class project.

http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infoCentral/frameset/decade/1920.htm

Flapper Station 1920’s History

http://home.earthlink.net/~rbotti/

Other general links:

http://users.snowcrest.net/jmike/20sdep.html

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade20.html

http://home.earthlink.net/~rbotti/

Facts and statistics about the 1920’s

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Lane/6341/History/Roaring20s.html

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade20.html

Immigration Quotas

http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_roaring13.html

Most popular names of the 1920’s

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/1999/top1000of20s.html

Home and Décor

http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/decor.html

Everyday News

http://www.becker.k12.mn.us/ourtown/1920's/1920newspaper.html

http://advancement.uark.edu/info/srwalk/1920.html

Education

http://www.becker.k12.mn.us/ourtown/1920's/1920education.html

Technology

AT&T’s Technology Timeline – the 1920’s

http://www.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/1920.html

Radios in the 1920’s

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/3on1/radioshow/1920radio.htm

Radio in the 1920’s – The Day-Fan Radio

http://www.antiqueradio.com/Jan05_Schecter_DayFan.html

Advances in Technology

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/science/science.htm

Entertainment

Radio Shows

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/3on1/radioshow/1920radio.htm

http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/music.html

http://home.earthlink.net/~rbotti/

Movies

http://www.becker.k12.mn.us/ourtown/1920's/1920thingstodo.html

http://www.pandorasbox.com/louisebrooks/portraits.html

http://www.jolson.org/

Popular Dances

http://www.restech.wustl.edu/~wuss/dances.html

http://www.heritagedance.com/h_ford.html

http://www.mixedpickles.org/jazzdance.html

http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/pubs/modern.html

http://www.park-ridge.il.us/deines/gatsby97/mdance/

Fads

CrazyFads.com – The 1920’s

Flagpole sitting, Mahjongg, Flappers, Conk Hair, Freudianism, Dance Marathons

http://www.crazyfads.com/20s.htm

1920’s Slang

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Lane/6341/History/Roaring20s.html

Other sites:

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/gameroom/gameroom.htm

http://www.becker.k12.mn.us/ourtown/1920's/1920thingstodo.html

http://www.fashion-era.com/1920s_life_between_the_wars.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1920's_America.htm

http://www.becker.k12.mn.us/ourtown/1920's/1920slang.html

http://www.msad54.k12.me.us/MSAD54Pages/skow/CurrProjects/1920s/1920gr16/fads.html

http://www.badfads.com/pages/events/flagpole.html

http://www.badfads.com/pages/events/flappers.html

http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/#jazz

New Trends

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/science/science.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1920's_America.htm

http://www.fashion-era.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm

http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_roaring13.html

http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/#jazz

New Consumer Products

http://www.becker.k12.mn.us/ourtown/1920's/1920prices.html

http://www.becker.k12.mn.us/ourtown/1920's/1920pic.html

http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_roaring13.html

http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/modern%20woman/default.html

http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/#jazz

Changes in Women’s Values

http://www.edmondhistory.org/exhi_1920.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/worldnews/worldn.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/sports/sports.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1920's_America.htm

http://www.fashion-era.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm

http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/appeal.html

http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/jane.html

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2005/2_33/58675450/p1/article.jhtml?term=+Literature++Modern++20th++century

http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/modern%20woman/modernwomandefault.html

http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/modern%20woman/default.html

http://marchand.ucdavis.edu/lessons/newwoman/new_woman.html

http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/

Clothing

Fashion of the Golden Twenties

http://www.marquise.de/en/1900/pics/1920/index.shtml

Flapper Fashion

http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html

History of Fashion – 1920

http://www.vintageblues.com/history2.htm

20th Century Western Costume: 1920 -1930

http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/timelinepages/1920s1.htm

1920’s Vintage Clothing

http://www.vintagetextile.com/1920s.htm

Other clothing sites:

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/worldnews/worldn.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1920's_America.htm

http://www.costumes.org/classes/fashiondress/WW1toWW2.htm

http://www.fashion-era.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm

http://www.fashion-era.com/1920s_pictures.htm

http://www.becker.k12.mn.us/ourtown/1920's/1920fation.html

http://trinculo.educ.sfu.ca/pgm/depress/popcul/fashion.html

http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html

http://members.tripod.com/~kittymomca/flapper.html

http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/fashionhistory_1920mens.html

http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/#jazz

http://home.earthlink.net/~rbotti/

Prohibition

Temperance and prohibition in the 1920’s

http://prohibition.osu.edu/proh1920.htm

Other sites:

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/prohibition_and_the_gangsters.htm

http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/prohibition/whyprohibition.htm

http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/whyprohibition.htm

http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/Brewing/Default.htm

http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/

http://www.prohibitionists.org/

Crime

The Lawless Decade

http://www.lawlessdecade.net/24.htm

http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/threetwo/valentine.htm

New Values

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/worldnews/worldn.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1920's_America.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/kkk_and_racial_problems.htm

http://www.fashion-era.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm

http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/appeal.html

http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/modern%20woman/modernwomandefault.html

http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/modern%20woman/default.html

http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/modern%20woman/default.html

Foreign Affairs

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/worldnews/worldn.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/weimar.htm

http://www.fashion-era.com/1920s_life_between_the_wars.htm

Famous People

Al Capone Bio

http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/index_1.html?sect=15

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/life/life.htm#top

http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/Biograph.htm

http://www.jolson.org/

http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/coollind.htm

http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html

http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec45det.html

Harlem Movement

Harlem Timeline 1920’s – 40’s

http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/timex/timeline.html

Literature, Music, Movies

Brief Timeline of American Literature, Music, and Movies 1920-1929

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1920m.html

PopularMusic Sites

The Roaring 1920’s Concert Extravaganza

Will not play at CCS, but you may be able to get the music at home.

http://bestwebs.com/roaring1920/index.shtml

1920’s Music Clips

http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/threetwo/Soundone.htm

The Jazz Age

http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html

Flapper Music

http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/music.html

Other music sites:

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/artliter/artslit.htm

http://www.musicals101.com/1920bway.htm

http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/Biograph.htm

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/timeline.htm

http://www.jass.com/cotton.html

http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/music.html

Books of the Decade

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/artliter/artslit.htm

http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/

http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/facts/4/flapper.html

 http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec45det.html

The Crash of 1929

The Crash – with song and lyrics!

http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/threetwo/thecrash.htm

Negative Aspects of the Decade

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/finance/finance.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/wall_street_crash.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1920's_America.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/kkk_and_racial_problems.htm

Economic Aspects of the Decade

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/finance/finance.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/wall_street_crash.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/America_economy_1920's.htm

http://www.becker.k12.mn.us/ourtown/1920's/1920prices.html

http://www.becker.k12.mn.us/ourtown/1920's/1920pic.html

http://www.becker.k12.mn.us/ourtown/1920's/1920fation.html

http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_roaring13.html

http://www.murrayontravel.com/carolnolan/#jazz

Recklessness of the Decade

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1920's_America.htm

http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/