1920's Megasites | Harlem Renaissance, Music, Movies, Radio | The Great Migration, Race Riots | Biography Sites | Prohibition | Immigration, Strikes | Palmer Raids | Scopes Trial/Sacco-Vanzetti Case | Feminism 1848-1920 |
Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy

1920s Megasites

• The Lawless Decade: A Pictorial History of the 20s <http://www.paulsann.org/thelawlessdecade/>
• Music, Art and Culture of the 1920's <http://alephnull.net/20s/index.html>
  Reviews the popular music of the period with access to purchase CDs and tapes. Provides essays about flapper culture and art deco.
• Yahoo!The 1920's <http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/1920s/>

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Harlem Renaissance, Music, Movies, Radio

• Broadcasting in Chicago <http://www.richsamuels.com/index1.html>
  1921-1989 Online museum highlighting the history of TV and radio broadcasting in Chicago; emphasis on the NBC studios at the Merchandise Mart.
• Jazz Age Culture <http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html>
  Flappers Era and Harlem Renaissance data
• Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html>

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The Great Migration, Race Riots

• History of Immigration <http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm>
• The Library of Congress - Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration <http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam011.html>

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Biography Sites

• American National Biography <http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html>
• Biographies <http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/>
  Historical people related to American History
  
• Biographical Dictionary <http://www.s9.com/biography/>
  Formerly named Notable Citizens of Planet Earth, this updated version is a biographical dictionary with over 19,000 people indexed.
• Multnomah Library Biographies <http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/biohc.html>
  Links to many different biography topics

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Prohibition

• Anti-Saloon League 1893-1933 <http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/>
  This league's crusade lead to constitutional ammendment for prohibition.

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Immigration, Strikes

• An essay about the 1919 Boston Police Strike <http://www.schrag.info/research/thesis.html>
• Immigration Restrictions in the 1920's <http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Immigration/>
  MSU students have assembled these essays related to the Immigration Act of 1924 and the effect of American culture on European immigrants.

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Palmer Raids

• Between the Wars: The Palmer Raids - discussing the background of the raids conducted by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer
  <http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/red.html>
• Palmer Raids - student project from James Madison College at Michigan State University
  <http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Palmer/>

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Scopes Trial/Sacco-Vanzetti Case

• Famous Trials <http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm>
  Contains information about both the Scopes and Sacco-Vanzetti trials
  
• Overview of The Sacco-Vanzetti Case - from the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
  <http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sacvan.html>
  
• Sacco-Vanzetti Case <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsacco.htm>

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Feminism 1848-1920

• One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html>
  A short timeline of the women's suffrage movement from 1776 to 1923.
  
• Votes for Women <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html>
  The Library of Congress presents history of and information on women's suffrage.

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Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy

• Disarmament Conference <http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0815617.html>
• Naval Historical Center <http://www.history.navy.mil/>
  
• The Avalon Project: The Kellogg-Briand Pact <http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/kbpact/kbmenu.htm>
• The Avalon Project: The League of Nations <http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/leagcov.htm>
  
• The Covenant of the League of Nations <http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/leagcov.htm>
  

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