12 Pre-Code Movies That Prove Hollywood Was Always Obsessed With Crime, Violence, and Sex
The K.K.K. in Vermont, 1924 — Vermont Historical Society
Grab the picture from this site and ask students where they think it was most likely taken? This shows how the overarching general narrative we teach (The Klan rose to prominence in the 1920s) has within it many important and local details and implications
Immigration Act of 1924 Legacy | C-SPAN Classroom
Tulsa Race Riot, A Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921,
Official report on the 1921 Tulsa Riot
Edward Bernays, 'Father of Public Relations' And Leader in Opinion Making, Dies at 103
Several of the societal changes that Mr. Bernays espoused for clients have had long-lasting effects. For instance, he was instrumental in making it acceptable for women to smoke in public, sponsoring, on behalf of the American Tobacco Company's Lucky
Strike cigarettes, demonstrations in which debutantes gathered on street corners to light up. The cigarettes were even called "torches of freedom."
But in an interview in 1991, when he turned 100, he said: "Public relations today is horrible. Any dope, any nitwit, any idiot can call him or herself a public relations practitioner." He said he was still consulting with clients and regarded
public relations loftily as a "social sci
Edward Bernays, often called the 'father of public relations,' who orchestrated the commercialization of a culture, was Freud's
nephew and a self-conscious popularizer of his thought."
<p>Born on Nov. 22, 1891, Mr. Bernays was one of five children of Ely Bernays and Anna Freud Bernays. The family moved in 1892 to the United States, and in 1912 Mr. Bernays graduated from Cornell University. After doing United States Government war propaganda
work in World War I, Mr. Bernays realized that, as he put it in the 1991 interview, "if this could be used for war, it can be used for peace."</p>
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And so he opened his office with his wife-to-be and in a short time accumulated an impressive array of clients, among them the Hotel Association of New York City; the Waldorf-Astoria; Procter & Gamble Company; the Celanese Corporation; Continental
Baking Company; General Electric Company; General Motors Corporation; Philco; United Fruit Company; Westinghouse Electric Corporation; Time Inc.; CBS, and NBC. He also handled publicity for Clare Boothe Luce and Samuel Goldwyn.</p>
glamourdaze - Vintage US film from 20th century
Vintage Fashion Film Archive from Glamourdaze.com. For education and preservation of women's culture and fashion in the 20th century.
Glamourdaze - YouTube Channel - Vintage Fashion and Instructional Films
Fascinating collection of fashion films and dating instructional films from the 1930s, 40s and 50s
Old Time Radio (OTR) - Radio Days: A Soundbite History
Information and links regarding historical radio broadcasts and popular programs of the 1930s and 1940s. Many clips from World War II
Depression-Era Photographs: Worth a Thousand Words | EDSITEment
Throughout the Great Depression, the federal government employed photographers to document the need for New Deal programs and the extent of these programs' successes. Today, through the Internet, students can view this record of an era and see for themselves how Americans faced the challenge of those testing times.
Recent social trends in the United States; report of the President's research committee on social trends : United States. President's Research Committee on Social Trends : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
"Recent social trends in the United States; report of the President's research committee on social trends"
Master of Emergencies - Herbert Hoover Campaign Film
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
Vintage Motivational Posters From the 20s and 30s | The Art of Manliness
It's all to easy to assume that popular concepts of manhood haven't changed over time - haven't Americans always been a "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps people? This short article explores how concepts of manhood have changed and is replete with motivational posters of the 20s and 30s that show how self-improvement and hard work were being advertised
Visualizing the Great Migration - The Most Under-Reported Story of the 20th Century - Metrocosm
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
Welcome to the 1920s, Roaring Twenties, 20s, 20's, Jazz Age, American World History
One of the most comprehensive sites on the 1920s, published in the late 90s, when the internet was young. Although it can only be found now on the waybackmachine, it's worth it. Borth teachers and students can use this site
Calvin Coolidge - American President
Summary information and links to more resources from the Miller Center of Public Affairs from the University of Virginia
Flappers and Fashion
Description of the details of fashion and how they changed in the 1920s. Lots of photos
Roaring 1920's Concert Extravaganza - Music of the Roaring 1920s
Selected clips from our Vintage Catalog. All Sound Files are in the Real Audio 2
1920s Flapper Fashion History
ooks at women's costume and fashion history and analyses the mood of an era. Changes in technology, leisure, work, cultural and moral values. Homelife and politics also contribute to lifestyle trends, which in turn influence the clothes we wear. These are the changes that make any era of society special in relation to the study of the costume of a period
Billy Sunday
Student project from Georgetown College
JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns
Companion site for Burns documentary
ARTSEDGE: Drop Me Off in Harlem
What happens when great minds congregate in the same time and place? How do creative individuals both reflect and influence the places and time periods in which they live? Drop Me Off in Harlem explores these questions in the context of the vibrant, complex, and unique moment in time that was the Harlem Renaissance.
Alcohol Prohibition Was A Failure
Article from the Cato Institute
Temperance and Prohibition
Comprehensive article from Ohio State University
Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition
Extensive collection of pamphlets, tracts and posters for temperance from Brown University.
The digitized items in the Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition Collection are from the Alcoholism and Addiction Studies Collection, as well as from various collections in the Brown University Library — broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications
On the Sawdust Trail with Billy Sunday
Article with links to photographs and images of special tabernacles built for Sunday's sermons
Film History of the 1920s
Extended article explaining the history of film making in the 1920s, from filmsite
FBI File on Eliot Ness
Shows background of prohibition
The FBI information concerns the relationship between Mr. Ness and the FBI while he served as Director of Public Safety in Cleveland,
How Teachers can make the most of Prohibition | EDSITEment
Materials and lessons associated with the Ken Burns film.
Lesson 2: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1930s | EDSITEment
In this lesson students will participate in a role-play activity that has them become members of a newspaper or magazine editorial board preparing a retrospective report about the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign of the 1930s. As the students analyze and synthesize a variety of primary sources, they will gain a better understanding of the reasons for the failure of anti-lynching campaign of the 1930s, the limits of liberal reform during the New Deal, and the NAACP's decision to shift its focus to a legal campaign to end segregation.
Self Help in Hard Times
from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"