Films
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The Jazz Singer (1927)
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Boys Town (Amazon Instant) (Learning Guide available) - Father Flanagan's home for boys, est. in 1921
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Warm Spings (Learning Guide available) - FDR's battle with polio, 1920-1928
Documentaries:
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Ken Burns: Prohibition - Episode 1: A Nation of Drunkards (Amazon Instant)
- Ken Burns: Prohibition - Episode 2: A Nation of Scofflaws (Amazon Instant)
- Ken Burns: Prohibition - Episode 3: A Nation of Hypocrites (Amazon Instant)
Books
UPPER ELEMENTARY - MIDDLE SCHOOL
Nonfiction:
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They Called Themselves the KKK: Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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The Story of Jazz by Langston Hughes (Audio version by Langston Hughes here)
- Sir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World by Sid Fleischman
Historical Fiction:
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Witness by Karen Hesse - KKK
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Jake's Orphan by Peggy Brook
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Dave at Night by Gail Carlson Levine - 1920s Harlem
Picture Books (suitable for older children):
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Silent Movie by Avi
HIGH SCHOOL - ADULT
Nonfiction:
- Our Times, Vol. 6: The Twenties by Mark Sullivan (1935)
- The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 by W.E. Leuchtenburg (1958)
- Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Allen Lewis - 1919-1929 (1931)
- Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture by Robert S. Lynd, Helen Merrell Lynd (1929)
- The Aspirin Age: The Essential Events of American Life Between the Two World Wars, 1919-1941 ed. by Isabel Leighton - Essays (1976)
- The Jazz Age by Marvin Barrett - A pictorial history of the decade (1959)
- The Dry and Lawless Years by Judge John H. Lyle (1960)
Historical Fiction:
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
- The Plastic Age by Percy Marks (1924)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- Boojum! by Charles Wertenbacker (1928)
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925)
- Between Two Worlds by Upton Sinclair (1941)
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