2. Modern Times: the 1920s
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
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1. Why and to what extent was American society so divided during the 1920s?
2. How and why did the lives of American women change in this decade?
3. Was the 1920s a decade of intolerance or liberalisation (or both?)
Required Reading
*David J. Goldberg, "Anything but 'normal': Postwar American Politics ", chapter 3 of Discontented America
Levine, Lawrence W, "Progress and Nostalgia: The Self Image of the Nineteen Twenties" in The unpredictable past : explorations in American cultural history (Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 189-205
Further Reading
David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear, pp. 1-70
Estelle B. Freedman, "The New Woman: Changing Views of Women in the 1920s", Journal of American History, Vol. 61, No. 2. (Sep., 1974), pp. 372-393 (JSTOR)
Shawn Lay, "Hooded Populism: New Assessments of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s", Reviews in American History, Vol. 22, No. 4. (Dec., 1994), pp. 668-673. (JSTOR)
Stanley Coben, ‘A Study in Nativism: The American Red Scare of 1919-1920 Political Science Quarterly (1964)
Coben, Stanley, "Ordinary White Protestants: The KKK of the 1920s (Review Essay)," Journal of Social History 28 (1994) pp. 155-165.

Web Links
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (From the American Memory site at the Library of Congress

Primary sources:
Evangelical Preacher Billy Sunday's "Booze Sermon" (1920)
Ellen Welles Page, "A Flapper's Appeal to Parents" (1922)
H. L. Mencken, "The Monkey Trial": A reporters's account
Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race
THE PESTILENCE OF FANATICISM by James A. Reed (1925)
The Kan's Fight for Americanism", North American Review, 1926 [This is an extract -- to download the complete article as a PDF click here]