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National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Machine: Radio

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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National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Radio. With the advent of commercial broadcasting in the 1920s, wireless became radio - the must-have device that millions purchased for their living rooms to hear news and entertainment broadcasts. Read 'Collected commentary on the value of radio' and listen to a broadcast from about 1925.

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1920s, 1920s history, history of radio, radio, wireless telegraphy, 1920s america, 1920s radio, national humanities center, commercial broadcasting, history of commercial broadcasting, postwar america, primary source
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