It’s a little known fact that the greatest output of featured films in the US occurred during the 1920s and 1930s. It was an unexpensive entertainment
Prohibition never prohibited the consumption of alcohol. It never even prohibited the purchase of alcohol… though it did prohibit the selling.
Drys and Wets (supporters and opposers of Prohibition) put a very heavy stamp on all the time Prohibiiton was enforced… and it wasn’t just about alcohol
Youth as a concept was born in the 1920s colleges, where young people lived an independent life uncontrolled by their elders
Black-and-tans were speakeasies where jazz was hot and races could mix in a still segregated America. But wher they really the integrated example we think?
It may as well be true that Prohibition might have never come about if the Anti-Saloon League hadn’t existed. But the 1920s the perfect time for it
THE ROARING 1920Ss An AtoZ Guide – There’s a modernity to the Twenties that doesn’t belong to any other decade of the 1900s. Everything was evolving in the 1920s. Potentials were high.
One morsel review: Well-informed dissertation about life of the new youth of the Roaring Twenties. Maybe a bit too wordy, but very interesting.
The Damned and the Beautiful
American Youth in the 1920s
Paula S. Fass
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Genre: social history
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The book presents a portrayal of family life, with special regard to the education of young people in Victorian/Edwardian Eras. It…
During Prohibition most of alcohol was undrinkable, because it was produces in quiestionable environments. That’s why cocktails became so popular
THE JAZZ REVOLUTION (Kathy J. Ogren) The history of very early jazz in the U.S., spanning from 1890s to 1920s, What these music meant on a social and artistic level. How it changed people
ANXIOUS DECADES (Michael E. Perrish) A comprehensive introduction to the 1920s and 1930s in the U.S. covering all aspects of life, if just shortly. Essential to get a first taste for these two eras of transformation in American history.