Ch. 32 - American Life in the Roaring Twenties
"To me the Jazz Age signifies an age of freedom in thought and action. The average young person of today is not bound by the strict conventions which governed the actions of previous generations."
- Unidentified Denver Co-ed, Sunset Magazine, 1926
Resources
Reading
Reading
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Excerpts from Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Allen Lewis (1931; chapters TBD)
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Excerpts from Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture by Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd (1929) -
- Chapter III: The Historical Setting (.PDF)
- Chapter XVII-XVIII: Traditional Ways of Spending Leisure and Inventions Re-Making Leisure (.PDF)
- Chapter XIX: The Organization of Leisure (.PDF)
- School "Life" - includes an analysis question (.PDF)
Seeing Red (p. 728)
- Read "Instructions Regarding Conduct on Raids" and answer question(s). (1920)
- Listen to "The Ballads of Sacco and Vanzetti" by Woody Guthrie
- Watch "Sacco and Vanzetti" (YouTube)
Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK (p. 731)
Stemming the Foreign Flood (p. 731)
- Read "A Letter Regarding Immigration Restrictions" and answer question(s). (1924)
The Prohibition "Experiment" (p. 732)
- Read "On Prohibition and Liberty" and answer question(s). (1914)
- Read "My Bootlegger" and answer question(s). (1921)
The Mass Consumption Economy (p. 738)
- Read "The Sultan of Swat Steals a World Series Show" and answer question(s). (1923)
Putting America on Rubber Tires (p. 739)
- Read "The Taylor System" and answer question(s). (1912)
The Advent of the Gasoline Age (p. 740)
- Read "Inventions Re-Making Leisure," an excerpt from Middletown (see above)
Humans Develop Wings (p. 742)
- Listen to Lindbergh's Arrival [radio broadcast] and Calvin Coolidge's speech on "Lindbergh's Return to the U.S." (1927)
The Dynamic Decade (p. 745)
- Read "Flapper Jane" and answer question(s). (1925)
Other:
- See Entering King Tut's Toom and listen to Dr. Howard Carter - Opening of King Tut's Toom (1924) - The discovery kicked off the Egyptian revival craze of the 1920s (fieldtrip to King Tut: The Exhibition, in Seattle through January 6)
Links
- Temperance and Prohibition from Ohio State University
- Jazz Age Culture - Many, many links to explore, from Pittsburgh State University
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