National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: New York City Subway Posters
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
Library of Congress
Loc: Jazz Singers: Online Exhibition
Library of Congress online exhibition of Jazz singers provides a short bio and photos of each of these influential artists offering perspectives of the art of vocal jazz from the 1920s to present.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modernity
Primary resources from 1920s period offers a sense of cultural, social, political and economic thought during that time period. Includes notes, questions for discussion, and links to supplemental material.
Read Works
Read Works: Passages:"new Orleans and the History of Jazz "By Loren Schoenberg
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article "New Orleans and the History of Jazz "by LorenSchoenberg focuses on the beginnings of New Orleans and its history of Jazz. A comprehension question set follows the passage. 11-12.3 Text...
Curated OER
History Matters: The National Pastime in the 1920s: The Rise of the Baseball Fan
Read this article from a 1923 issue of Literary Digest that discusses the rise in interest in baseball. The author contends that the attendance at baseball games is a chance for the upper class and working class to mix socially in a way...
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: The Black Sox Trial
A very good site on the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal, which ended in the banishing of eight major league players for life from the game of baseball. Also includes great information on the ensuing trial and a link to the manuscript of...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Edward Hopper
This Ibiblio.org Webmuseum site contains information regarding Edward Hopper's life, influences, and links to images of his work.
Digital History
Digital History: Avant Garde
Synopsis of the huge cultural shifts that occurred in America in the 1920s in art, music, literature, and among intelligentsia.
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Digital History
Digital History: The Roaring Twenties [Pdf]
Read this comprehensive look at the Roaring Twenties, or Jazz Age. Read about Prohibition and its ramifications, women's gains, entertainment, and literature. Also find out about the resurgence of racial unrest and violence. A very good...
Digital History
Digital History: Overview of the 1920s
Original documents, a timeline, biographies, pictures, and videos cover historical and cultural events of the 1920s.
ESPN Internet Ventures
Espn: Man O' War
Description of Man o' War's career including how he rescued horse racing and became a shining star in the roaring twenties.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Edward Hopper (1882 1967)
A brief biography of Edward Hopper and a description of his characteristics and style.
PBS
Public Broadcasting System: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
A double biography of both F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Other
Image Entertainment: Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy
This site from Image Entertainment talks about many of Laurel and Hardy's silent comedies.
Other
Bob Stepno: The Evening Graphic's Tabloid Reality
During the 1920s, newspapers and tabloids began printing graphic stories about murders, true love and true detective cases. This article by journalism student, Bob Stepno, investigates the truth behind the stories found in the "Evening...
Other
Nlbpa: Negro Leagues Baseball History
Find out about the history of early Negro baseball beginnings in the late 19th century before reading about the advent of the Negro National League in the 1920s. Baseball was the American pastime for everyone in the 1920s and 1930s.
Other
Jazz Age Culture: Part 1
Features numerous links to external sites that provide information pertaining to the flapper era, jazz and the Harlem Renaissance, prohibition, racial violence, and crime.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Twenties 1913 1929
How would you describe the 1920s? The decade was called the Roaring Twenties, the beginning of modern America. Take a look at the economic prosperity, prohibition, popular culture, and the invention of the automobile, then you decide, a...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Books and Movies
A look at the literature and movies written and produced in the Jazz Age. See how the writers of the age reflected the consumer society and the emptiness of middle class. Movies appealed to mass culture and millions went to the movies...
Other
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame: Hall of Fame Horses: Man O' War
A brief article on the accomplishments of Man o' War as the greatest thoroughbred of all time.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: American Culture in the 1920s
The First World War had a crippling effect on any notions of positivity in the artists, writers, and intellectuals of that time and they became known as the Lost Generation. This page discusses this group of people, the emergence of jazz...
Other
Voice of America: American History: 1920s Were a Big Time for the Arts
Voice of America offers an article about the arts in the Jazz Age including information about authors who wrote to protest what they saw happening in society. Read this article or listen to the narration of it.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Edna St. Vincent Millay
A brief look at American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, along with a portrait of her painted by Charles Ellis.
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Normalcy Under Attack: The Culture Wars of the 1920's
A comprehensive collection of slides presents the story of the United States in the 1920s. Examine the social changes as well as the cultural conflicts which occurred during the era.