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1920's
1920'sDatabases
- American History Online - American History, including biographies, subject entries, primary sources, timelines, images, maps, and web links. Based on Facts on File reference books.
- History Resource Center: US - Primary documents, reference articles, and full-text journals about U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
- Biography Resource Center - Database of biographies from Gale Group sources. Also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
- World History - The Modern Era* - Information and links on the "Jazz Age" and Roaring Twenties.
- Gale / InfoTrac* - Articles and Information on the Roaring Twenties.
Websites
- 20th Century History by the Decades from the Chico High School Library
- Environmental History Timeline
- 1920s - S. Dakota Ed. (includes fundamentalism and many other topics)
- Palmer Raids
- Red Scare
- USA 1920-1929 (Kansas Heritage Group)
- Time 100
- Ford Model T
- Jazz
- Sports in the 1920s
- Temperance and Prohibition
- Roaring Twenties (list of links to LOTS more 1920s sites)
- Lucky Lindy
- 1920-1929 World History
- Baseball - Black Sox Scandal
- The Roaring Twenties (thinkquest)
- Walt Disney Family Museum
- 1920s Slang
- The Roaring Twenties (Lots of information including slang)
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