AS+II+Decades+1920-1929

= __DECADE 1920-1929__ = ** Ad*Access ** ** [] ** Images of 7,000 ads printed in the US and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955; subject areas are radio, TV, transportation, beauty & hygiene, World War II

** Anti-Saloon League: 1893-1933 ** ** [] ** In-depth history of group’s struggle to win approval of national prohibition

**__Library of Congress Exhibitions: American Memory 1900 - 1929__ ** ** [] **

** Babe Ruth ** Biography, photographs, statistics, links
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** Calvin Coolidge ** A few digital images from the personal collection of President Coolidge.
 * [|**http://www.forbeslibrary.org/coolidge/coolidge.shtml**] **

** Calvin Coolidge: Library of Congress's American Memory Project ** ** [|http://memory.loc.gov] ** // Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, // 1921-1929 assembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in this transition. The collection includes papers, books, pamphlets, legislative documents, consumer and trade journals, photographs, films and audio. The collection is particularly strong in advertising and mass-marketing materials and will be of special interest to those seeking to understand economic and political forces at work in the 1920s.

** Dismuke’s Virtual Talking Machine ** ** [] ** Streaming RealAudio recordings of the late 19th and early 20th century music

** EllisIslandRecords.com ** ** [|http://www.ellisislandrecords.org] ** Immigrant names, ages, nationalities, hometown, and other information

** Flapper ** ** [] ** Architecture, interior design, music of the 1920s

** Illinois **** v. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb (1924) ** ** [] ** Crime scene, evidence, confession, biographies, sentencing, and more

** Knute K. Rockne ** ** [] ** Web site on the most successful coach in college football

** Looking Back at the Crash of ‘29 ** ** [] ** Provides a you-are-there perspective using actual NY Times headlines

** Slouching Towards Utopia? The Great Crash and the Great Slump ** ** [] ** In-depth economic account of the 1929 Crash and resulting Depression; full of charts

** Historical Minutes from the U.S. Senate: The Teapot Dome Scandal ** ** [] ** Brief summary of the scandal

** Tennessee **** v. John Scopes (1925) (aka The “Monkey Trial”) ** ** [] ** Excerpts from the trial, biographies, text he used, pictures and cartoons, Appellate Court decisions

** The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti (1921) ** ** [] ** Chronology, maps, biographies, excerpts from trial transcripts

** United States Historical Census Data Browser ** ** [] ** The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1900 to 1960; searchable by several variables

** Women and Social Movements in the US, 1600-2000 ** ** [] ** Editorial projects by students at SUNY that pose an interpretative question and provide a collection of 550 documents and 100 images that address the question.