Walter Lippmann on the Basic Problem of Democracy - The Atlantic
November 1919 essay that in some way sounds like it could have been written today
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the information by which to detect lies
Who’s Afraid of the Jazz Monsters? | History Today
Jazz references in US History II lessons should not only celebrate jazz, but complete the contextual landscape of ints reception in the general public
Moral panic in 1920s’ America was expressed in headlines such as one from the <em>Kansas City Kansan </em>of 16 January 1922 that trumpeted the perils of ‘Vampires, Jazz, Joyrides [and] Turkish Immorality’.
Other, more heavy-handed public rhetoric framed 1920s’ jazz not merely as a source of disquiet, but of terror.
Only Yesterday : Frederik Lewis Allen :
This chapter is easily cut into different sections, each describing the effect of one force of social change on manners and morals in the 1920s. This material is well-suited to a reading lesson in which students in groups each take one section and dissect it, then jigsaw to meet with other students to compare and contrast the forces they read about