1920s slang

From The Atlantic magazine--this article is really the "bees' knees" because it includes a thorough explanation of each word. :)

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/how-sound-bees-knees-dictionary-1920s-slang/322320/

1920s slang

From the website of an award-winning English teacher in Georgia.

http://www.huffenglish.com/gatsby/slang.html

1920s slang

This site is not from a hugely academic source (it's a group of historic automobile enthusiasts) but it has a really nice list of 1920s slang.

http://local.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm

Chronicling America: Primary source newspapers from 1836-1922

The Library of Congress is digitizing newspapers from 1836 onward. Currently they are up to 1922. Great way to find primary sources! Try looking for a topic like "Black Sox scandal" in the search box.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Roaring 20s (History.com)

http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties

Jazz in 1920s (PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm

A. Mitchell Palmer and the Red Scare

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4993/

Best of History: Roaring 20s page

http://besthistorysites.net/american-history/the-roaring-20s/

Calvin Coolidge

from Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html

Digital History

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=13&smtid=1

Eugenics: Buck v. Bell Supreme Court Case

This University of Virginia site gives a more detailed description of what eugenics was, what happened with it in the 1920s in Virginia, and why Carrie Buck was declared "feeble minded." Click on the links to the left.

http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/eugenics/

Eugenics: Buck v. Bell Supreme Court case

This Cornell University law school site gives the original text of the Supreme Court opinion in Buck v. Bell, a forced sterilization case of the 1920s

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/274/200

Eugenics: Buck v. Bell

A very brief description of the facts of the case

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/274us200

Eugenics: Buck v. Bell

http://embryo.asu.edu/pages/buck-v-bell-1927

Al Capone

From the Chicago Historical Society

http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html

Al Capone

Interestingly, this one is from the FBI website!

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/al-capone

John Scopes (Scopes Trial--PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/p_scopes.html

Margaret Sanger

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/

Margaret Sanger

From PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/p_sanger.html

Mary Pickford

http://www.biography.com/people/mary-pickford-9440298#creation-of-united-artists

Mary Pickford

http://marypickford.org/home/about-mary/

Presidential Election of 1920

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfexpe.html

Scopes Trial

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm

The Jazz Age (PBS)

This site talks about the historical period of the Scopes Trial

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/e_jazzage.html

U.S. Presidents

From the White House site

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/