SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

Use this Gale database to research people, events, and topics in U.S. history. It includes primary sources, images, and video. (Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners) FULL SUITE OF GALE DATABASES
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Use this Gale database to research people, events, and topics in world history. It includes primary sources, images, and video. (Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners) FULL SUITE OF GALE DATABASES
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Under Learning Centers, click on THE ROARING TWENTIES link.
Do you want to use American History Online at home?

Covers people, places, and events from mid-15th century to the present.
Do you want to use Modern World History Online at home?

For information about a person, use Biography in Context, one of the Gale databases.
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Search for your topic. When you view results, be sure to click MULTIMEDIA for photos, maps and video clips.
Do you want to use Britannica Online at home?

GAME

The Roaring Twenties Game
Do you have what it takes to survive the Roaring Twenties? Choose a character and play the game!

WEB SITES

Twenties Search Engine
This custom search engine looks in all the links on the WEB SITE portion of this page. It finds MOST information, but not EVERYTHING, so you may want to search individual web sites, too.

American Memory
"American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."

American Cultural History 1920-1929
An overview of the decade from the Kingwood (Texas) College Library.

Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
Images and text to elaborate on some of the key themes in the art exhibition of the same name.

Harlem 1900-1940
An exhibition portfolio from the Schomburg Center for Black Culture.

A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
Links to resources on "African-American expressions of writing, music, and art during the 1920s and 1930s" from the Library of Congress.

New York City: High Stepping to an Uptown Beat
Find out what was happening in the culture capital of the U.S.

The American Twenties
Explore this decade through literature and art (primary sources).

Fashions of the 1920s
Magazine illustrations and real photos (primary sources) from the twenties. Ignore the many ads on this site...

1920s: The Decade that Changed London
Explore politics, people, lifestyle, fashions, machines, and more.

Authentic History Center
Artifacts and sounds from American popular culture of the 1920s: music, election of 1920, women's rights, prohibition, fashion, and more.

Early Years of Air Transportation
Part of the AMERICA BY AIR exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum, this site includes good photographs (primary sources).

History of the Negro Major Leagues
Home of the Negro League [1920-1960] Baseball Players Association.

Prohibition
The Anti-Saloon League was a major force in the crusade to make alcoholic beverages illegal.

Temperance & Prohibition
Essays, information and images related to the history of prohibition in the U.S. from the Ohio State Univ. Dept. of History.

Music of the 1920s

• Jazz & Blues: 1920s & 1930's - LISTEN HERE!
• The Cotton Club - Listen to Duke Ellington
• Jazz in the Roaring Twenties

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updated 01/26/2011