13: Roaring Twenties

13: Roaring Twenties

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How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes - The Washington Post
How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes - The Washington Post
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
#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
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How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes - The Washington Post
Only Yesterday--Frederick Lewis Allen (Book)
Only Yesterday--Frederick Lewis Allen (Book)
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
#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·xroads.virginia.edu·
Only Yesterday--Frederick Lewis Allen (Book)
Origins of Eugenics: From Sir Francis Galton to Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 | Eugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. BellEugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. Bell
Origins of Eugenics: From Sir Francis Galton to Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 | Eugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. BellEugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. Bell
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
#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu·
Origins of Eugenics: From Sir Francis Galton to Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 | Eugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. BellEugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Virginia, Eugenics & Buck v. Bell
The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement
The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement
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.
#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·newyorker.com·
The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement
The Radio: Blessing or Curse? A 1929 Debate – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers
The Radio: Blessing or Curse? A 1929 Debate – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers
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.
#lesson plans#primary source#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·americainclass.org·
The Radio: Blessing or Curse? A 1929 Debate – America in Class – resources for history & literature teachers
Middletown A Study In Contemporary American Culture
Middletown A Study In Contemporary American Culture
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.
#primary source#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·archive.org·
Middletown A Study In Contemporary American Culture
The American Transportation System of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Louisiana Department of Education Assessment
The American Transportation System of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Louisiana Department of Education Assessment
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.
#dbq#Assessment Examples#primary source#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·louisianabelieves.com·
The American Transportation System of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Louisiana Department of Education Assessment
Publicity and Prejudice: The New York World's Expose' of 1921 and the History of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Publicity and Prejudice: The New York World's Expose' of 1921 and the History of the Second Ku Klux Klan
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.
#secondary sources#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·scholarscompass.vcu.edu·
Publicity and Prejudice: The New York World's Expose' of 1921 and the History of the Second Ku Klux Klan
KKK Newspapers
KKK Newspapers
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
the Klan re-emerged as a slick and successful recruiting and marketing engine that appealed to the fears and aspirations of middle-aged, middle-income, white protestant men in the middle of America. At its peak in 1924, Klan-paid membership exceeded 4,000,000 and its national newspaper, the <i>Imperial Night-Hawk</i>, had a circulation larger than the New York Times.
#primary source#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·kkknews.revealdigital.com·
KKK Newspapers
The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history. 4th rev. ed., with a documentary supplement, with prefaces by Henry Fairfield Osborn : Grant, Madison, 1865-1937 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history. 4th rev. ed., with a documentary supplement, with prefaces by Henry Fairfield Osborn : Grant, Madison, 1865-1937 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1922 book provides evidence of racial conceptions in the early 1920s
#primary source#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·archive.org·
The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history. 4th rev. ed., with a documentary supplement, with prefaces by Henry Fairfield Osborn : Grant, Madison, 1865-1937 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
American Inquisitors: A Commentary on Dayton and Chicago by Walter Lippmann
American Inquisitors: A Commentary on Dayton and Chicago by Walter Lippmann
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?
#primary source#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·artsone-test.sites.olt.ubc.ca·
American Inquisitors: A Commentary on Dayton and Chicago by Walter Lippmann
Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus, 1925
Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus, 1925
At 6 pages this is a lot for teachers to assign to students, but it would be difficult to stop a students from reading it if they were told it exists. Americans in the 1920s so enamoured of advertising, propaganda and public relations that Bruce Barton described Jesus as the best businessman ever.
#primary source#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·americainclass.org·
Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus, 1925
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920 (Book)
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920 (Book)
The media environment of the 21st century was predicted about 100 years earlier in this book by Walter Lippmann. Teachers can take the passage at page 54 (and perhaps others) to share with students as a way to seek to understand the role or propaganda and access to information and how both shape politics.
#8th Grade Unit 2: Civics Literacy#books online#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·archive.org·
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920 (Book)
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920, (Book)
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920, (Book)
. As our political discourse is increasingly dominated by sources who care nothing for truth or credibility, we come closer and closer to the situation that Walter Lippmann warned about a century ago, in his seminal “Liberty and the News.” “Men who have lost their grip upon the relevant facts of their environment are the inevitable victims of agitation and propaganda.
#books online#primary source#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·archive.org·
Liberty and the news by Walter Lippmann, 1920, (Book)
Who’s Afraid of the Jazz Monsters? | History Today
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.
#secondary sources#reading#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·historytoday.com·
Who’s Afraid of the Jazz Monsters? | History Today
National Film Preservation Foundation: Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat (ca. 1919)
National Film Preservation Foundation: Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat (ca. 1919)
30 second video can be shown to students as one of the first animated political cartoons they will come across in US History. It can be incorporated into a intolerance/Palmer raid 20s lesson - will students notice the producer's name at at the end - why would Ford produce this film? What does the IWW on the rat stand for?
#primary source#US II Unit 1: Roaring Twenties
·filmpreservation.org·
National Film Preservation Foundation: Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat (ca. 1919)