The media staff researched
this
topic for you and have found the following sites helpful. These
sources
are outside of the Plainfield
South
High School Media Center and District 202. Remember when you are
searching the internet, you need
to be aware of who authored the article you are using in your
presentation/paper.
Don't forget our databases!
Good
general sites to start with:
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade20.html
http://melvil.chicousd.org/decs2.html
Al Capone
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html
The politics of prosperity: The
1920s
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture15.html
Anti-Saloon League :1893-1933
http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/
Calvin Coolidge
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/cc30.html
Leopold and Loeb trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/leopold.htm
Scopes Monkey Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
Black Sox Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/blacksox/blacksox.html
Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm
Agricultural changes in the
1920s
http://riceinfo.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/Sharedpast/farm20.html
The Great Crash 1929
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html
Harlem Renaissance
http://www.fatherryan.org/harlemrenaissance/
Music
http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/index.html
http://bestwebs.com/roaring1920/
http://www.southernmusic.net/1920.htm
Sports
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/centennial/april/sports.html
http://www.baberuth.com/
http://www.blackbaseball.com/
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014213.html
Entertainment
http://magictricks.com/houdini/
http://www.willrogers.org/
Misc.
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade20.html
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/decadebydecade/1920s.html
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/1920s/
http://www.aclibrary.org/teenroom/1920s.asp