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 pervades every field and reaches every class. . . . It has always been a...

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 during which the United States functioned as a supplier of goods and...

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 doubtless never existed. The reluctance of the Senate to ratify the Treaty...

For the two decades that preceded the 1920s, the American people had witnessed progressive domestic reform legislation. Millions of them, in varying capacities, had participated in a foreign war to "make the world safe for democracy." By...

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 stage and into people's lives for the first time. Henry Ford opened...

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 teachers. Social and economic factors produced such...

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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), listening to jazz in Harlem nightclubs, or piling into...

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. Technological advances brought both conveniences...

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Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introducing Hercule Poirot, is published. Le Cote de Guermantes I (The Guermantes Way, part 1), a section of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past), is published in...

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 the Allied European participants with food, equipment, money, and,...

The public relations counsel supervises and directs the contacts of business and other organizations with the public. He ascertains the state of public opinion toward a given company, product, or idea, and directs his efforts to...

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 instruction is first used by educators Ernest Jackman...

The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or the "Roaring Twenties," usually applied to the U.S. In Europe the decade is sometimes referred to as the Golden Twenties (see 1920s Berlin). Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has...