1920's

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/

 Charles Lindbergh
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/

Advertising - Ad*Access: Beauty and Hygiene: Cosmetics: 1920s
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/adaccess/beauty/cosmetics1920s/@Generic__BookView

 
 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