Playlist: HIST 3678: Week One, The Roaring 20s by Kathleen Saylor, Alexander Street Press
This playlist addresses the culture of the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, American Industry in the 1920s, and Calvin Coolidge's Presidency.
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America in the 20th Century, 5, The Roaring Twenties
produced by Media Rich Communications, in America in the 20th Century, 5 (Chesterton, IN: Media Rich Learning, 2004), 28 mins
The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. Women got the right to vote, cut their hair and their skirts; alcohol was outlawed; Babe Ruth was king of the ballpark while Charles Lindbergh ruled the air. The nation's wealth doubled and many American's bought into a new "mass culture." The Roaring Twenties was a decade of startling contrasts in America.
27:33
31 Oct 2014
Discussion of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1920-1928
directed by John Alan Kane; produced by Caleb B. Stratton; in FDR: Years of Crisis, Biography (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2005), 4 mins
Following World War I, Woodrow Wilson yoked the divided Europe into the League of Nations, only to have his own country reject his vision of peace. One of the greatest moral issues Americans wrestled within the 1920s was Prohibition, known as the "noble experiment."
04:18
31 Oct 2014
The Jazz Age Gives Way to the Great Depression
written by Ken Burns, 1953-; directed by Ken Burns, 1953-; produced by Ken Burns, 1953-, in Ken Burns's Jazz, 4 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service, 2000), 1 hour 59 mins
Keith David and F. Scott Fitzgerald reflect on the Jazz Age from the realizations of the Great Depression, which had a significant effect on all aspects of society, including art, literature, and music.
06:06
31 Oct 2014
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