During the American Prohibition Era, speakeasies were everywhere and so diverse that attempting a definition is quite challenging.
Music had been recorded since the late 1800s, mostly on cylinders, but in the Twenties the new electronic process first allowed the making of records
A prominent piece of hair that is brushed up and back from the forehead, the quiff was very popular with men in the Twenties
The ancestor of lottery, policy was very popular inside African American communities in big cities, espeically from the 1920 and through the 1950s
It has been argued that the “crime wave” of the Twenties would have happened regardless of Prohibition. That argument has not been solved yet
The Model T Ford revolutionised Americans’ life. It was a car that everybody could afford, which made its impact on people’s life enourmous on many levels
When we think about the Twenties, we’ll most likely think parties, bootleg booze, the sound of jazz and the funny flappers’ lingo.
There is a substantial difference between the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and the movements with the same name of 1800s and 1960s. While the letter were more of ideological movements, the 1902s Klan was more of a big, powerful marketing operation. The Twenties was a time of massive, fast, often shocking change, and as it…
Jazz is very difficult to define because it brings together several different elements and styles. 1920s jazz, in particular, was about breaking the rules.
You wouldn’t think that Native Americans’ citizenship would be an issue. It was, for many decades, and it finally found solution only in the 1920s.
Hijacking was a very common means of business for bootleggers in the 1920s. It was easy, relatively safe and highly profitable
During Prohibition, gin was the paradise of bootleggers. It was cheap, easy and fast to make and anybody could produce it