header by Emerson Taymor, 2005
1. The Colonial Era: 1607-1763
2. The Revolutionary Era: 1763-1789
3. The Early National Period: 1789-1824
4. Jacksonian America: 1824-1848
5. Antebellum America: 1848-1860
6. The Civil War Era: 1861-1877
9. The Twenties
10. Depression and New Deal: 1929-1939
14. The Sixties
The Twenties
historians on the 20s, from Conflicting Historical Viewpoints: Were the 20s Roaring and Reactionary?; Lawrence Levine, "Progress and Nostalgia: The Self Image of the 1920s" (1993); E Pluribus Unum: understanding the 1920s culture wars
Becoming Modern: a range of 1920s primary sources, from the National Humanities Center
The Nation, articles from the 1920s
selected articles from the Oakland Tribune, Feb. 26, 1926
W.M. Black pleads for aid for Montana's farmers (1921)AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCES
excerpts from the New York Age, June 19, 1926
African-American urban population, 1910-1960; Marcus Garvey, Fundamentals of African Nationalism; Marcus Garvey, "Africa for the Africans" (1921); Alain Locke, "The New Negro" (1925); historian Steven Hahn on Garveyism, from The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom (2009); sayings of Marcus Garvey; poems from the Harlem Renaissance Carter Woodson and the beginnings of black history and black history month (1922); Kambiz GhaneaBassiri on African-American secret societies, from A History of Islam in America (2010)
The Nation on the Tulsa race riot, 1921; Brent Staples, "Unearthing": NY Times coverage (1999)
Harding: the first black president? Nope: but DNA tests show Harding did father a child out of wedlock
examples of Jim Crow laws from Florida and Georgia REBELS AND BOHEMIANSMargaret Sanger advocates "free motherhood" (1920); William Leuchtenberg, "The Revolution in Morals" (1958)
visual map of Greenwich Village culture
Jazz Age Culture: images and events from the 20s (particularly good on flappers, but really lots of pictures of everything)
Elsie Hill and Florence Kelley debate the ERA (1922); Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, "Feminist: New Style" (1927); historian Nancy Cott on the debate over the ERA
PROHIBITION AND CRIMEC.D. Smith mocks Americans looking for liquor in Canada (1925); historian Lisa McGirr on the KKK and Prohibition, from The War Against Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State (2016)
Tove Danovich, How Prohibition Led to the Creation of NASCAR, Gastro Obscura (2019)
MASS CULTURE
personal-insuffiency ads; viewers' movie diaries from the 20s
Grantland Rice on the "four horsemen of Notre Dame," 1924
movie ads: Paramount (1920); Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927); Chronicle movie-listing page from 1926
a current-day hobbyist drives a 1930 Model A Ford every day for a year; his blog
REACTION, IMMIGRATION, AND IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION
Elisa Silva describes Mexican immigrant life in the 1920s; Rose Hum Lee complains about stereotypes of Chinese-Americans (1927); Vivek Bald on Bengali sailors on strike in the 1920s, from Bengali Harlem (2013); Ernesto Galarza defends Mexican immigrants (1929); the SF Chronicle covers a beauty pageant in Chinatown, 1927, and Chinese telephone operators, 1929
contemporary commentary on immigration and political cartoons; Senator Ellison DuRant Smith calls for immigration restriction (1924); US Congressman John Box warns of the dangers of Mexican migration (1928); David Reed, "America of the Melting Pot Comes to [an] End," New York Times (1924); 1920s immigration restrictions in contemporary context
Hiram Wesley Evans, The Klan's Fight for Americanism
(1926); historian Linda Gordon, from The Second Coming of the KKK (2018): the KKK as a commercial organization; Klan feminism; the Klan and today's politics
Who Was Shut Out?: immigration quotas, 1925-1927
anti-Catholic images of Al Smith, from the 1928 campaign
David Atkinson, "Trump's Views on Immigration Aren't as Bad as Those in the 1920s. They're Worse," Washington Post (Jan. 14, 2018)