The Roaring 20’s

 

The Roaring 20’s:

http://www.riverwalk.org/proglist/showpromo/prohibition.htm - Speakeasies, Flappers & Red Hot Jazz: Music of the Prohibition

             Isolationism   

U.S. Isolationism In the Republican Era of "Normalcy" 1921-1933 - The Jazz Age  

Jazz:  The First Thirty Years 

Jazz Roots – this timeline gives outlines the evolution of the “Jazz Age” 

Library of Congress "American Memory" - This is the Library of Congress American Memory and shoes a number of photographs from 1938-1948.

             Ku Klux Klan 

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0828331.html  

“Monkey Trial”           

Famous Trials in American History 

State vs John Scopes ("The Monkey Trial") 

PBS's American Experience Monkey Trial 

Prohibition 

The Politics of Prohibition - this site is a lecture by Stanley K. Schulz who is a professor if history at the University of Wisconsin.  It gives a brief overview of the events of the 1920’s. 

The "Red Scare "

Red Scare – a database created by Leo Robert Klein who is the Web Coordinator and Digital Resources Developer at the William and Anita Newman Library, Baruch College, CUNY

            Entertainment

American Variety Stage – Library of Congress American Memory site