The Arts:  http://www.manteno.k12.il.us/cjudy/thearts.htm 

• Jazz Music  http://redhotjazz.com/index.htm
• Cotton Club
• Charlie Chaplin                                                                     
• Duke Ellington  http://www.acns.nwu.edu/jazz/artists/ellington.duke/
• Robert Frost (see info and poems in textbook)
• Mickey Mouse
• F. Scott Fitzgerald http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html
• Bessie Smith
• Harlem Renaissance Researching the Harlem Renaissance:
  • Langston Hughes  http://www.awl.com/englishpages/lit_wkbk_hughes_bio.htm
  • Countee Cullen  http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/cullen.html
• Alfred Stieglitz
• Louis Armstrong
• Thomas Benton
• Television
• Charles Sheeler
• Culture in the Jazz Age (class notes, etc.)  http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~nick/e309k/jazzage.html
• Music of the 1920s  http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/threetwo/Jazzhome.htm
• Article on Jazz music  controversy http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~nick/e309k/texts/faulkner/faulkner.html

Business, Industry, and Invention:  http://www.manteno.k12.il.us/cjudy/business.htm 

• J.C. Penny
• Charles Walgreen
• Model 'T' Ford
• Trojan Condoms
• Stock Market Crash  http://mypage.direct.ca/r/rsavill/Thecrash.html
• Charles Lindberg  http://www.worldbook.com/fun/aviator/html/av2.htm
• Radio

Government and Politics:  http://www.manteno.k12.il.us/cjudy/governme.htm

• Women’s Suffrage  http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/suffrage/home.htm
• Prohibition http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/whyprohibition.htm
• Ku Klux Klan
• Coolidge  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/cc30.html
• Hoover  http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/hh31.html

Society & Fads:  http://www.manteno.k12.il.us/cjudy/society&.htm

• Slang Language
• Dance Marathons
• Hairstyles & Fashion
• Dances
• Flapper Culture and Style  http://www.pandorasbox.com/flapper.html
  • “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents”  http://www.pandorasbox.com/appeal.html
  • “Flapper Jane”  http://www.pandorasbox.com/jane.html
• Newport Mansions  http://www.newportmansions.org/
• Vanderbilt Family  http://www.hvnet.com/houses/vanderbilt/
• Biltmore Hotel  http://www.biltmore.com/

 Crime & Criminals:  http://www.manteno.k12.il.us/cjudy/crime&.htm

• Al Capone
• Leopold and Loeb
• St. Valentine's Day Massacre
• Scopes Monkey Trial  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/inherit/1925home.html
• Sacco and Vanzetti Trial  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sacvan.html

General References: 

Lesson with many great resources on time period:
http://www.kiko.com/richey3/the-age-of-the-great-gatsby  

Site for a good overview/intro to the period (2-day webquest) http://php.ucs.indiana.edu/~mcsimons/wq/quest.html

PBS online:  The Great War  http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

World War 1—Trenches on the Web  http://www.worldwar1.com/

Trustworthy searchable sites for info: 

• http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/

• http://www.loc.gov/

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html

F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Home Page  http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html

1920s people and issues http://www.liberty.edu/resources/library/public/as/history/american/1920.htm

20th century in pictures http://search.corbis.com/20thcentury/default.asp?y=20&vID=3&rID=309

Greatest films of the 1920s  http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html

Hoover gallery  http://hoover.nara.gov/gallery/gallery03.html

Art, Music, & Culture of the 1920s  http://alephnull.net/20s/index.html

Black Thursday  http://sac.uky.edu/~msunde00/hon202/p4/nyt.html

The Roaring 20s  http://www.louisville.edu/~kprayb01/1920s.html

Resources at the School

• Internet in the Library
• Desktop publishing
• Scanner
• Color Printer