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American Heritage History of the 1920's & 1930's / Ralph K. Andrist (Editor)
New York: Crown Publishers, 1987
LOCATION: General Collection E784.A67 1987
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939: Decades of Promise and Pain / David E. Kyvig
Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, c2002
LOCATION: General Collection E169.K985 2002
Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties / Ronald Berman
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2001
LOCATION: General Collection PS3511.I9 Z55774 2001
The great trials of the twenties: the watershed decade
in America's courtrooms / by Robert Grant and Joseph Katz
Rockville Centre, NY: Sarpedon, 1998
LOCATION: General Collection KF220.G73 1998
The jazz age: the 20s / by the editors of Time-Life Books
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1998
LOCATION: General Collection E784.J39 1998
The Lawless Decade / Paul Sann
New York: Crown Publishers, 1961
LOCATION: General Collection E784.S3
New world coming : the 1920s and the making of modern America / Nathan Miller
New York : Scribner, c2003
LOCATION: General Collection E784.M555 2003
The Roaring Twenties
Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2004
LOCATION: General Collection E784.R63 2004
Sacco & Vanzetti: [Italian immigrants and anarchists, framed by
the State and executed for murder in Boston during the Red Scare of the 1920s] / edited by John Davis
New York: Ocean Press, 2004
LOCATION: General Collection HX843.7.S23 A97 2004
Saying it's so: a cultural history of the Black Sox scandal / Daniel A. Nathan
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003
LOCATION: General Collection GV875.C58 N38 2003
The Great Gatsby [videorecording] / produced by David Merrick ;
directed by Jack Clayton ; screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola
1 videocassette (146 min.)
Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story concerns a
mysterious American millionaire whose efforts to recapture the sweetheart
of his youth results in tragedy.
LOCATION: Rental Collection ZZT 2345
The Twenties [videorecording] / produced by Richard
Petrow ; written by Bill Moyers, Richard Petrow.
1 videocassette (58 min.)
Journalist Bill Moyers looks at the 1920's, usually seen as the age of speakeasies, flappers
and high living. The age also saw millions of workers struggling for better
wages. He explores the decade when old America was vanishing and a new
urban nation was being formed. Includes reminiscences of Americans who lived during
the period.
LOCATION: Circulation Desk E784 .T9 1988 (In Library Use)
American decades / edited by Richard Layman
Detroit : Gale Research, c1994-2001
LOCATION: Reference Collection E169.12 .A419 1920-29
American decades primary sources / edited by Cynthia Rose
Detroit : Gale, c2004
LOCATION: Reference Collection E169.1 .A471977 2004 v.3
Bowling, beatniks, and bell-bottoms : pop culture of 20th-century
America / Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, editors
Detroit : U X L, c2002
LOCATION: Reference Collection E169.1 .B7825 2002
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier contains indexing and some full text for 1,837 journals. This scholarly collection provides journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies.
American National Biography
Full text biographies on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. You'll find profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life, from the well-known to the infamous to the obscure.
Chicago Tribune Historical
Digital image of every issue of the Chicago Tribune from 1890-1956, cover-to-cover. Use this database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. By utilizing software enhancements, the original microfilm image can frequently be improved for a cleaner, more readable image. And the date range searching tool lets users search on, before, or between two dates. On completion, the Chicago Tribune Historical database will cover the years 1849-1984. It currently holds the years 1890-1946.
History Study Center
History Study Center provides access to primary and secondary American history sources,
full text articles, video, research guides, and reference materials.
New York Times Historical
Digital image of every issue of the New York Times from 1851-1999, cover-to-cover. Use this database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. By utilizing software enhancements, the original microfilm image can frequently be improved for a cleaner, more readable image. And the date range searching tool lets users search on, before, or between two dates.
American Cultural History (1920-1929)
Hosted by the Kingwood College Library, this site chronicles much of the ephemera of the "Roaring 1920's." Some great information
about fashion, fads, and cultural oddities of the era.
American Experience: Monkey Trial
Hosted by PBS, the American Experience series chronicles major events in US history. This site provides good
background information about the Scopes trial, including: timelines, speeches, and links to further reading.
An excellent background source to assist in developing a thesis topic.
Jazz Age Chicago
This is a remarkably well constructed website about Chicago during the Jazz Age. The site's author, a doctoral candidate in history,
provides a comprehensive view of the architecture, cultural history, and commercial activity of the era.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Website
This website, published by the University of South Carolina, provides a wealth of biographical and critical
information regarding F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby," and many of Fitzgerald other works as well.
Ameet Doshi,
Resident Librarian
Updated April 11, 2005
