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The 1920s

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                        GREAT PLACE TO START FOR MANY                           
        
Biography Resource Center
       password is: van_rpa

Note:  if this is not bookmarked, from the Niskayuna Home Page, go to
Van Antwerp link, media center, Magazines, Encyclopedias & Databases,
and finally Biography Resource Center and enter the password. 
Note source citation at bottom of articles.


NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

New York Times Historical Newspapers
        School log in name:     11-31501
        School password:   bigchalk

*After typing in the log in name and password, just hit the enter button
and then okay and then click on ProQuest HIstorical Newspapers

Search Ebsco
  School log in name:   iroquoisms
       School password:  iroquoisms

FASHION

Flapper Era

 Fashion of the 1920s

 Fashions of the 1920s
(Same site as the one above, but indexed a little differently.)

Christy's Fashion Links

Advertising-Beauty and Hygiene
(Duke University Collection)


MOVIES

Film History of the 1920s

The Movies PBS The People's Century

Silent Movie links (some a lot better than others)

Walt Disney Family Museum

Disney Shorts

American Picture Palaces


MUSIC

Jazz American Studies

PBS-Jazz-Ken Burns

American Jazz in the 1920s

The Blues: PBS

 Jazz Age Culture (many links, some better than others)

The Red Hot Jazz Archive


DANCE

The LIndy Hop

Charleston and Other Dances
(check for links rather than use as source)

History of the Charleston

The Lindy Hop

Martha Graham PBS Site

Martha Graham

LINDBERGH

Lindbergh: PBS American Experience

LITERATURE

Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Stein

F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary

Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway Resource Center

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance

The Art of the Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance Writers

SPORTS

Early Baseball Pictures: Library of Congress

Baseball: Ken Burns PBS

Baseball Hall of Fame

Historic Baseball

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

Ty Cobb
(as Detroit Tigers Manager)

Lou Gehrig

Lou Gehrig

Negro Baseball League

Negro Baseball League Museum Player Profiles

 Negro Baseball League Player Profiles

The Chicago Black Sox Scandal

Red Grange Pro Football Hall of Fame

Red Grange-Chicago Bears

Red Grange-ESPN
 Bobby Jones

World Golf Hall of Fame

Bobby Jones

The Fight: Jack Dempsey-PBS

 Jack Dempsey

Jack Dempsey

Gertrude Ederle

Man o' War

Helen Mills Moody


Business

New York: PBS Series

Mass Production PBS The People's Century

Henry Ford

 Henry Ford

History of the Car

  Advertising-Radio

History of the Radio

History of the Radio PSU

Radio Advertising
(Duke University Collection)


Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin History

About Frank Lloyd Wright
Taliesin

FAQs about Frank Lloyd Wright
Taliesin

Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy

Frank Lloyd Wright PBS Site

Skyscraper Museum

Chrysler Building PBS Site

Chrysler Building


Crime

Prohibition-Ken Burns PBS

Prohibition

Prohibition

Chicago Historical Society (good site for Al Capone)

FBI:  Al Capone

FBI: How the Law Caught Up with Capone

Prohibition and Capone

Trials

Sacco and Vanzetti

The Scopes Trial

The Scopes Trial


General Links

The Lawless Decade

Jazz Age

 1920s WWW Virtual Library

Clash of Cultures (excellent site to explore)

The Twenties (Annenberg/CPB/PBS)

Digital History of the 1920s


GOOD LINKS FOR IMAGES

Life Magazine Google Images

Time Magazine Search

World of Primary Sources and Images

Pictures of the 1920s (Google)

Authentic History Center