Background Resources:
Allen, Frederick, Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's. New York, NY: Perennial Classics, 2000.
Originally published in 1931, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s is useful and insightful primary source. Frederick Lewis Allen paints a colorful portrait of life in the 1920s.
Streissguth, Thomas. The Roaring Twenties. New York, NY: Facts On File, 2007.
This book covers a variety of themes covering social, political, and economic history throughout the decade. Scientific discoveries and developments, sports, artists, writers, filmmakers are also looked at with more depth.
Gregory, Ross, and Richard Balkin. Modern America: 1914 to 1945. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1995.
This Almanac includes essays, statistical data, photographs, maps, advertisements, and other
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This film explains the how efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys, and the Percys against themselves. This is a dramatic story of greed, power and race during one of America's greatest natural disasters.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/
This film reenacts the 1925 Scopes Trial. The case was an all out duel between science and religion. The web link also includes a variety of supplemental primary, secondary sources.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/rushmore/
The creation of Mount Rushmore is a puzzling and interesting story. The story of this massive public works project is analyzed in this film created by PBS.
Websites:
http://besthistorysites.net/american-history/the-roaring-20s/
This website is a list of hyperlinks to recommended history websites. Students or teachers could use this resource.