1920s: Commerce
At the beginning of the decade, American business was adjusting to its new role in the world economy after the end of World War I (1914–18). During the war, America had supplied...
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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...
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6the Dark Side of the 1920s
The years between 1920 and 1929 are called the Roaring Twenties, a term that calls up images of happy people dancing the Charleston (a popular dance of the period), listeni...
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4technology Changes Daily Life
A wide range of exciting discoveries, developments, and advancements whose seeds had been planted in earlier years blossomed during the 1920s. What had once been the dre...
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3the Business of America: the Economy in the 1920s
The story of the 1920s is in large part a story about money. After a few slow years at the start of the decade, money began to flow through many, tho...
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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...
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Normalcy.
Religion and Culture.
Stasis and the Roots of Change.
Signs of Decline.
Protestants and Prohibition.
Catholics and Prohibition.
Protestants and Immigration.
The Decline of Protestant ...
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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...
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Book Clubs
THE 1926 BOMC Selections
Genre Magazines
Some Little and Literary Magazines Launched 1920-1929
Little Magazines
Newspapers
The World.
The Trib.
Newsreels
Phonograph Records
Publishing
Bon...
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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...
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Postwar Reaction.
When the decade of the 1920s began, Americans were anxious to forget the world war they had recently fought and eager to roll back the clock to an era of innocence, a time that doub...
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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...
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Changes.
The 1920s brought many changes in American education. The post-World War I baby boom led to dramatic increases in the numbers of students attending school and a marked rise in the demand for...
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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 ...
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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...
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1920s: Commerce
Surging Creativity: the Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts of the 1920s
Technology Changes Daily Life
America 1920-1929: Science and Technology