1920s links
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1920s slang
From The Atlantic magazine--this article is really the "bees' knees" because it includes a thorough explanation of each word. :)
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1920s slang
From the website of an award-winning English teacher in Georgia.
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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.
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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.
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Roaring 20s (History.com)
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Jazz in 1920s (PBS)
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A. Mitchell Palmer and the Red Scare
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Best of History: Roaring 20s page
http://besthistorysites.net/american-history/the-roaring-20s/
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Calvin Coolidge
from Library of Congress
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Digital History
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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.
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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
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Eugenics: Buck v. Bell
A very brief description of the facts of the case
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Eugenics: Buck v. Bell
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Al Capone
From the Chicago Historical Society
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Al Capone
Interestingly, this one is from the FBI website!
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John Scopes (Scopes Trial--PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/p_scopes.html
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Margaret Sanger
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Margaret Sanger
From PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/p_sanger.html
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Mary Pickford
http://www.biography.com/people/mary-pickford-9440298#creation-of-united-artists
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Mary Pickford
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Presidential Election of 1920
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Scopes Trial
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
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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
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U.S. Presidents
From the White House site