The roaring twenties / Tom Streissguth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Streissguth, Thomas, 1958-

Series:

Eyewitness history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--1919-1933.

United States.

United States--History--1919-1933--Sources.

United States--History--1919-1933--Chronology.

Nineteen twenties.

Genre:

Chronologies.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xii, 500 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Facts On File, [2007]

Summary:

The 1920s constituted a decade of change and contrast that saw the emergence of modern America from the shadow of World War I. The nation-wide prohibition of alcohol at the onset of the decade sparked immediate protest in the form of bootleggers and flappers. Political scandals, espionage, and the debate over evolution fueled courtroom dramas throughout the decade. The population of the country was in flux-immigration spiked, and, in what is known as the Great Migration, large populations of African Americans moved from the rural South to such northern cities as Chicago. An era of artistic experimentation, the twenties was embodied in the Harlem Renaissance, the emerging popularity of jazz music, and the writings of members of the Lost Generation. The suffragist movement finally succeeded in gaining women the right to vote, with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. As the decade drew to a close, the Black Tuesday stock market crash of October 29, 1929, marked the end of a period of profound transformation.

The Roaring Twenties, Revised Edition, a volume in Facts On Files acclaimed Eyewitness History series, provides hundreds of firsthand accounts of the period-diary entries, letters, speeches, and newspaper accounts-that illustrate how historical events appeared to those who lived through them. In addition to firsthand accounts, each chapter provides an introductory essay and a chronology of events. The book also includes such critical documents as President Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Points, the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments, the National Prohibition Act, the Immigration Act of 1924, and the American Civil Liberties Union creed, as well as capsule biographies of 110 key figures, 10 maps, nine graphs, 14 tables, more than 90 black-and-white photographs, notes, a bibliography, and an index.

Contents:

Postwar treaties and turmoil : November 1918-December 1919

Newfound freedoms, old-fashioned temperance : 1920

Depression : 1921

A scandalous administration : January 1922-August 1923

New homes and a new sound : September 1923-February 1924

Reading, writing, and radio : March 1924-December 1924

A trial of science : 1925

Troubles in the hemisphere : January 1926-May 1926

Air and space explorations : June 1926-May 1927

National pastimes : movies, sports, cars : June 1927-January 1928

Prosperity : 1928

The end of the roaring twenties : 1929.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-480) and index.

ISBN:

0816064237

9780816064236

OCLC:

70291965