1920s slang

From The Atlantic magazine--this article is really the "bees' knees" because it includes a thorough explanation of each word. :)

1920s slang

From the website of an award-winning English teacher in Georgia.

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.

Roaring 20s (History.com)

History - Roaring Twenties

Jazz in 1920s (PBS)

Jazz in the Twenties

A. Mitchell Palmer and the Red Scare

A. Mitchell Palmer and the Red Scare

Best of History: Roaring 20s page

American History - The Roaring Twenties

Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge from the Library of Congress

Digital History

Digital History

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.

Eugenics

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

Supreme Court Case - Buck v. Bell

Eugenics: Buck v. Bell

A very brief description of the facts of the cas

Eugenics: Buck v. Bell

Eugenics - Buck v. Bell

Al Capone

From the Chicago Historical Society

Al Capone

Interestingly, this one is from the FBI website!

John Scopes (Scopes Trial--PBS)

John Scopes Trial - PBS

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger From PBS

Mary Pickford

Creation of United Artists

Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford

Presidential Election of 1920

Presidential Election of 1920

Scopes Trial

The Scopes Trial

The Jazz Age (PBS)

This site talks about the historical period of the Scopes Trial

U.S. Presidents

From the White House site