Tourists tend to think that Ireland is mostly her Celtic past. But for the Irish, the true heart of Ireland lies here, between the walls of Kilmainham Gaol
Jazz Age Jazz – 1920s Jazz as a Social Phenomenon – Jazz was the expression of a profound change in 1920s American society, but it was also part of the cause.
I’d like to offer something different today, and I’m afraid this is again my sister’s fault. As I mentioned in the Holochaust Mahnmal post, she has written a thesis about the Berliner Kabaret of the 1920s. She focused on Walter Mehring only because she couldn’t pursue her true love, Bertold Brecht. But she is always…
UNDERWORLD is considered one of the first gangster movie (though not the very first one). Exciting plot, relatable characters. A great movie
CW Hawes is one of the most faithful 8 Sentence Sunday on Dieselpunks partecipants. I may even have met him on the thread... though I really don't remember. I think to him as one of my dieselpunk friends, and that's what matters to me. He's written a series of dieselpunk novels set in the 1920s,…
You can’t be too surprised about the many expressions that meant ‘drunk’ in the Twenties. Zozzled is one of them, just like the more known ossified
When we think to the youth culture of the Twenties, we have the romantic idea that suddenly, Youth was born and young people took awareness of themselves
In spite of the increased quality of life in many parts of the country, the 1920s was a time of great fear and anxiety. Xenophobia was part of it
In 1929 The Wickersham Commission produced a document which was the first federal review of the law enforcement and exposed the basic fail of Prohibition
The 18th Amendment was very short and very vague. The Volstead Act was supposed to detail how Prohibition would actually work
The Brewers Association had a large network of saloons. Even if they marketed beer as ‘liquid food’, they soon came in collision with the Anti-Saloon League
One would think that, during Prohibition, ‘dry’ meant ‘teetotal’. Not really. Often dry leaders’ private view was different from their political one