American
Cultural History - Decade 1920 - 29 -- An excellent web guide
to many aspects of the Twenties, including:
Art & Architecture; Books & Literature; Fashion &
Fads; Events & People; Music; and Theater, Film, & Radio
The 1920's
- Includes Timeline, People and Trends, and the Remarkable Decade, which
contains two essays by Kevin Rayburn:
First View: The
Roaring Twenties
Second View: The
Boring Twenties?
Timeline
of American Literature and Events
Has links to information on authors of the period and also to other
useful timelines.
Flapper Culture and
Style
The Lawless
Decade: A Pictorial History of the Twenties -- Year by year events
with photos. Also has links to pages on the movie stars of the era.
Temperance
and Prohibition -- Everything you wanted to know about Prohibition.
From here you can visit old time saloons
and the Anti-Saloon League.
Inherit
the Wind - Includes backgraound on the Scopes trial and information
about stage productions of Inherit the Wind from its opening in 1955 to
the present.
Scopes
Trial Home Page - A very rich site from the University of Missouri-Kansas
City Law School. It contains pictures and cartoons from the trial, biographies
of the participants, H.L. Mencken's reports, documents, transcripts and
more.
Trial
of Sacco and Vanzetti - Another site from the University of Missouri-Kansas
City Law School. It contains pictures and cartoons from the trial, a map,
biographies of the participants, statements made at sentencing, and letters
written by Sacco and Vanzetti from prison. The site is in progress and
will eventually contain excerpts from trial transcripts and other information.
USC's F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary
Home Page
The Great Gatsby
Web Assignment --A good starting place for basic information about
the 20's and FSF.
