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| Online documents of Zimmerman Note (both coded and decoded), a significant reason for the U.S. entry into WWI (National Archives) |
| President Woodrow Wilson's "14 Points" which laid out the goals for the U.S. in joining WWI |
| PBS site on Woodrow Wilson (president from 1913-1921) |
| Private website on WWI (compiled by a non-professional, but with a variety of links on primary documents, posters, photos, etc) |
| American propaganda posters to support the WWI effort |
| site on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Stanford Univ.) |
| PBS site on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic |
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| President Warren Harding (1921-1923):
-- April 1921 Harding speech on the need for "normalcy" in the country --official White House site on Harding -- C-SPAN site on Harding's presidency |
| President Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
-- official White House site on Coolidge -- C-SPAN site on Coolidge's presidency -- 1925 Coolidge Inaugural Address |
| President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
-- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum website -- Online papers from Hoover administration -- Herbert Hoover's 1929 Inaugural Address |
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| Henry Ford museum site on the life of Henry Ford |
| Time magazine profile on Henry Ford's importance |
| Frederick Winslow Taylor, business innovator of Scientific Management (PBS site) |
| 1920s fashion |
| Red Scare (1919-1920 public alarm about Communism in America):
-- Univ. of Washington site on Red Scare & Communists in Washington state in the 1920s -- Images and political cartoons from the Red Scare |
| 1924 Leopold & Loeb case
of two teenage killers in Chicago, seen to represent a shocking national
moral decay:
-- site on Leopold & Loeb trial, including confession, and court documents -- Northwestern Univ site on Leopold & Loeb featuring numerous documents, newspaper accounts, and pictures |
| Scopes "Monkey Trial":
-- H.L. Mencken column satrizing the South's stance on the issue of evolution: "Homo Neanderthalensis" |
| Consumer Age Advertising of the 1920s:
--Audio clips of 1920s & 1930s Radio Advertising (as advertising was entering an important heyday) --Advertising in 1920s Women’s magazines --Women’s Beauty & Hygiene Ads from the 1920s -- another Women's beauty & hygiene ad site -- Deodorant Ads from the 1920s-40s -- 1920s Soap Advertisements -- 1920s Dental Supplies Ads |
| Religion in the 1920s:
-- private site on Aimee Semple McPherson (may contain some innaccuracies)-- includes an audioclip of McPherson -- 1926 poem about Sister Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance (written by Upton Sinclair) -- website on popular evangelist Billy Sunday (including written sermons, audio clips, and images) -- Pro-prohibition sermon by evangelist Billy Sunday -- Billy Graham Center website on evangelist Billy Sunday (at Wheaton College) |
| Prohibition in the 1920s:
-- website on Prohibition and the Temperance Movement (Ohio State U.) -- Digital collection of documents on Prohibition and the Temperance Movement (Brown Univ.) -- Documents and overview of Prohibition (National Archives) |
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| Marcus Garvey:
PBS site on Marcus Garvey Marcus Garvey Papers Project (at UCLA) |
| W.E.B. DuBois
-- text of his famous book, The Souls of Black Folk -- "Returning Soldiers" editorial, May 1919 (NAACP magazine Crisis," addressed to returning black veterans |
| Booker T. Washington:
-- full text of his famous book, Up From Slavery |
| Sacco and Vanzetti trial
-- extensive site on the famous case -- Court TV site on the case |
| Site on famously racist film, Birth
of a Nation (1915)-- includes film clips
--site on the controversy and protests surrounding Birth of a Nation |
| The Ku Klux Klan (which reemerges in 1915 to hold tremendous power
in 1920s America):
-- KKK in Texas (from Texas Historical Association website) -- KKK 1924 poster for rally in Wisconsin -- report on the history of the KKK by the Southern Poverty Law Center -- 1920 KKK newspaper advertisement |
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| A Timeline of 1920s Culture and Art (including many links) (Gonzaga Univ. site) |
| Extensive Site on William Faulkner (at University of Mississippi) |
| Poet T.S. Eliot:
-- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917) -- "The Wasteland" (1922) -- "The Hollow Men" (1925) |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald:
-- Site on F. Scott Fitzgerald (at University of South Carolina) -- Full text online of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous 1920 novel This Side of Paradise |
| Full text of Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt online: |
| Full text of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919) |
| Ernest Hemingway:
-- Private site with links on Ernest Hemingway -- CNN site on Hemingway |
| Full text online of Willa Cather’s 1922 Pulitzer-prize winning One of Ours (novel of a Midwestern American’s journey to the front of World War I) |
| Harlem Renaissance (extraordinary period of African American literature):
-- Claude McKay Poems: "If We Must Die," and "TheWhite House" -- Langston Hughes Poems: "Let America Be America Again," "Mother to Son," and "America" |
| Full text online of famous playwright Eugene O’Neill’s three plays, “The Hairy Ape,” “Anna Christie,” and “The First Man.” |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay:
--Full text online of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Renascence and Other Poems (1917) -- Millay's poem "Conscientious Objector" |
| Gertrude Stein:
-- brief biography of Stein -- full text online of Stein's 1909 novel Three Lives -- full text online of Stein's 1914 poetry volume Tender Buttons |
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| FDR 1933 Inaugural Address |
| FDR Presidential Library site |
| Historical Overview of Social Security (Social Sec. Administration website) |
| First Typed Draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's War Address after Pearl Harbor Attack (and audio excerpts of speech: "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy") (National Archives) |
| Online documents related to FDR & British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (National Archives) |
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| "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde," a poem written by Bonnie Parker to memorialize their famous robbery spree |
| "Pretty Boy Floyd" song lyrics
by Woody Guthrie (Floyd was a famous
Depression era bank robber who earned some public sympathies for his modern day Robin Hood" reputation |
| PBS site on famous criminal John Dillinger, declared by the FBI during the 1930s as "Public Enemy Number One" |
| "History Place" website on Dorothea Lange, photographer particularly known for her photos of Depression era migrant farm workers |
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| Links on the painter Edward Hopper |
| works of Regionalist painter John Steuart Curry |
| influential “migration series” works of painter Jacob Lawrence (depicting the northward urban migrations of African Americans) |
| Noted Grapes of Wrath author John Steinbeck:
-- website for National Steinbeck Center -- Center for Steinbeck studies website (at San Jose State) with a number of links -- C-SPAN "Great Writers" site on John Steinbeck -- Pace University John Steinbeck Centennial Page (including photos and profile of his works |
| Text of Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel It Can't Happen Here, about the fictional rise of dictator in the United States |
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| Famous columns written by the beloved American
war correspondent Ernie Pyle
--Famous Pyle column on the shore remains from the D-Day landing |
| Message Drafted by General Eisenhower in Case the D-Day Invasion Failed and Photographs Taken on D-Day (National Archives) |
| Personal D-Day Memo from General Eisenhower to General Marshall on D-Day Landing |
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| National Museum of American History website on American posters promoting the WWII war effort |
| National Museum of American History website on Japanese internment during WWII |
| PBS website on the Zoot Suit riots (exposing racial unrest between whites and Latinos during WWII) |
| Documents and Photographs Related to Japanese Relocation During World War II (National Archives) |
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| US
War Department description of the first successful atomic bomb test,
July 1945 |
| White
House press release on the dropping of the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima |
| Copy of the leaflets dropped by U.S. Forces on cities in Japan warning civilians about the atomic bomb, dropped August 6, 1945 |
| US
government statement urging Japanese surrender after the dropping of
the atomic bomb |
| Documents related to the decision over dropping the atomic bomb (Truman Library) |
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