In what might be the very first use of motion pictures in a political capmaign. This 40+ minute silent film focuses on Herbert Hoover's work with the food commission, as Commerce Secretary and helping with the Mississippi flood of 1927

Only for teachers and grad students who are interested in the roots of fundamentalism in the United States. Walter Lippmann wrote an imaginary dialog between Socrates, Thomas Jefferson and William Jennings Bryan shortly after the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee in 1927. Are democracy and religious liberty compatible? Is reason a religion of its own?

Yes, the town still profits from the trial

Students trying to argue that the 1920s represent more a more liberal spirit will have to account for books like this, which refute their argument.

1922 book provides evidence of racial conceptions in the early 1920s

Teachers and students of the 21st century might be surprised to see Anti-Islamic polemics like this one from 1921.

Teachers couldn't find an easier lesson plan or Do Now introduction. Just give students the image on this page by itself on a slide, then ask them to fact check it. Snopes is not the end of that fact-check, it is the beginning

The KKK Newspapers collection brings together for the first time local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers across the U.S. during this period. I

In 1921 the New York World published a Klan membership form as part of an expose series showcasing how awful their ideas were. People cut the form out of the paper & sent it in. The paper's effort to shame the KKK brought in thousands of new members, & they got a Pulitzer for it.

A book far ahead of it's time. Easy to find a selection for homework or lesson prompt - from the weaponization of public opinion to the marketing of cigarettes. Students could just flip through the book or you could assign specific readings. Bernays is Freud's nephew

"Recent social trends in the United States; report of the President's research committee on social trends"

Maps, charts and documents regarding the advent of railroads, automobiles and the commercial airline industry. The documents show great promise for interesting exploration, the questions associated with them are not effective. Much more can be done with this great material.

An annotated map of the hippest, hottest nightspots in uptown jazz-age New York - from the Economist's Cartopholia Project

Scans of the indictment, bench warrants, docket lists and guilty verdict itself

Robert and Helen Lynd's 1929 study of Muncie, Indiana looks at American culture in the twenties through the lens of a cultural anthropologist. Teachers can either take selections from this book or have students find selections that provide insight into life during the period. It is thoroughly readable and appropriate, students will find it immediately engaging, particularly the "child-rearing" sections.

Students read pro and con articles about radio written in 1920, using that analysis to understand Americans' views of technology generally. These are high quality materials with well-chosen documents, questions with answers for the teacher and background information to build context. Reading what Americans thought of radio at the advent of the medium is much like the internet today.

Amidst the flappers, jazz music and Naval Conference, hides the lives of people who were forgotten to history. US history teachers, in planning their lessons for their 1920s unit, can decide to include their lives in a lesson that illustrates a wider spectrum of the American experience.

This University of Virginia site can be used by teachers to make a Eugenics lesson personal - using a specific individual's forced sterilization in the course of a larger lesson. In this case, Carris Buck, whose was associated with the Supreme Court case upholding Virginia's Eugenic laws

This site provides a quick graphic that shows African-American Migration from the south into cities in the 20th century. It's a "must-include" for US History teachers explaining the race-riots of the 1920s and 1960s and/or the Civil Rights Movement

A treasure-trove for teachers looking for DBQ material and students arming themselves for the "roaring or boring" debate, this 1931 book provides an up-front and personal history of the 1920s. The Table of Contents shows the clear organization of the book which makes it easy for students to use. Take a quick look, choose a chapter and read a paragraph or two - you'll soon realize this can be used. Is this a primary or a secondary source

As much as the jazz music of Harlem and the celebrity of Babe Ruth are products of the 1920s, so is Eugenics and ethic purity. This Washington Post story explains how Virginia developed a racial classification system in the 1920s that had repercussions late into the century. Students engaged in one of the staple "Roaring or Boring" debate projects will find this good fodder for their argument. Teachers reading may revisit the "Roaring Twenties" label or at least highlight its dubious value

This six-minute podcast excerpt focuses on the work of Walter Plecker, a Virginian physician who played a prominent role in the development of Virginia's "Racial Purity Act" of 1924. The historian Helen Rountree and Brian discuss the use of slave records from the 19th Century to enforce racial purity laws in 20th Century Virginia.

Students will examine mass production and mass consumption through primary sources in class to define them and get a sense of how the economic changes of the 1920s also affected life in the U.S. This is a primary source lesson in which students "do history"

This book by Henry Ford is claimed by some to be an inspiration for Hitler's anti semitism. Teachers could find primary source quotes in here to infuse as an element in a lesson or simply use this existence of this book to illustrate the prevalence of anti-semitism.

Here's a different approach - this thoroughly "readable" description of Sacco and Vanzetti gives students enough background to consider the question - what is it about Sacco and Vanzetti's trial and execution that motivates textbook and standardizes test publishers, to include them in their account of US History? Do they belong in a US History course - why?

Examples of prescriptions for alcohol written in the 1920s. Teachers can start a lesson with a quick showing of these to students - does this defeat the purpose of prohibition? Did this create an easy way to evade the law? What other questions can students generate when look at these?

Teacher's Guide and Historical Background provides a glossary, timeline, and then includes political cartoons and primary and secondary sources. Each source is followed by a well-written series of questions to guide students to discover the main idea and pertinent details.