1920s Summary

7surging Creativity: the Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts of the 1920s For the people of the United States as well as much of the rest of the world, the 1920s were in many ways a decade of change... Read more

A Climactic Decade. The 1920s were a decade of culmination in technology and science. Ideas and inventions on which scientists and engineers had been working for years came out of the developmental s... Read more

Increase in the Rate of Progress. Change from the Art of the Physician to the Science of Medicine. The Secret of Patient Care. Conditions at the Turn of the Century. Scientific Medicine. The Flex... Read more

The Advent of Normalcy. For the two decades that preceded the 1920s, the American people had witnessed progressive domestic reform legislation. Millions of them, in varying capacities, had participat... Read more

Force of Fashion. In his 1928 study Economics of Fashion Columbia University marketing professor Paul H. Nystrom declared, "Fashion is one of the greatest forces in present-day life. It pervade... Read more

America and the War. World War I had ended in November 1918, and the impact of the war on the economic and business scene had been substantial. The war had passed through two phases: the first phase ... Read more

The U.S. Census shows that in a total U.S. population of more than 100,000,000 there are 21,578,000 students enrolled in public schools. College enrollment is 597,000 students. The Dalton Plan of ins... Read more