The economy buzzed along mightily, at least until the last three months of the decade. Young people danced the Charleston to the sounds of hot jazz. Speakeasies became popular as some people looked ...

Historians refer to the 1920s as the “Roarin’ Twenties,” and roar it did. It was a time when flappers reigned and America became the wealthiest country in the world. Despite Prohibition, it was a ...

1929 - The stock market crash ushered in the Great Depression. What made the stock market crash? Here's a brief summary. Capital is the tools needed to produce things of value out of raw materials.

COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 12, 1920 (UP) -- The Republican party in the South has got to poll more votes or be penalized through reduction of its representation in future national conventions, as a ...

Photograph shows men of Smith's Company of the Texas Rangers posed behind barrels of confiscated bootleg liquor. Nov. 9, 1922 near Tyler, Texas. (UTSA Libraries Special Digital Collections) ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The collection is arranged as 6 ...

Counterpoints publishes the most compelling and imaginative books being written in education today. Grounded on the theoretical advances in criticalism, feminism and postmodernism in the last two ...