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America in the 1920s

America in the 1920s. Dr. Michael Faubion UTPA. Historiography. Rural Versus Urban Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1920/sideby/entertain.htm Modern versus Nostalgic The Perils of Prosperity by William Leuchtenberg.

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America in the 1920s

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  1. America in the 1920s Dr. Michael Faubion UTPA

  2. Historiography • Rural Versus Urban • Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen • http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1920/sideby/entertain.htm • Modern versus Nostalgic • The Perils of Prosperity by William Leuchtenberg. • Discontented America by David Goldberg and Stanley Kutler. • The Modern Temper by Lynn Dumenil. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAGAeTC9fIo • Young Versus Old • The Damned and the Beautiful by Paula Fass. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg3QBwtOGSI

  3. Politics, Economics, and Society • Politics • Republican dominance • Coolidge and Tea Pot Dome • Movie Matewan • Harding and Mississippi Flood of 1927 • Book The Color Purple • Hoover and the Bonus March • Document, Hoover’s Speech on Rugged Individualism, http://www.pinzler.com/ushistory/ruggedsupp.html • Immigration and Red Scare • Sacco and Vanzetti Trial • Document, Speeches by Sacco and Vanzetti at sentencing, http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/courtspeech.html • Culture Wars • Scopes trial • Movie, Inherit the Wind • Prohibition and Flappers • Movie, The Great Gatsby

  4. Diplomacy • Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922) • Numerous Treaties (5 Power, 4 Power, 9 Power most famous) • Document, Treaty, http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pre-war/1922/nav_lim.html • 2nd Central American Conference (1923) • Created Established Central American Court • Dawes Plan (1924) • US loaned Germany $110 million and helped restructure banks and reparations payments. • International Opium Conference (1924) • One of over 40 League of Nation Conferences attended by the US. The US had five permanent representatives at the League. • Geneva Disarmament Conference (1927) • Kellogg-Briand Pact (1927) • “outlawed war” • Young Plan (1929) • Restructured German debt.

  5. Advances in Thought and Technology • Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) psychoanalysis of dreams, repression, sexuality • Albert Einstein (1879-1955) theory of relativity • Max Planck (1858-1947)quantum theory • Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) identified galaxies outside of our own and classified them. Found support for “Big bang” theory. • John Larson-Polygraph (1921) • Robert Watson-Watt and others-Radar (1922) • Lee DeForest-Sound Film (1923) • Philo Farnsworth and others-Television (1923) • Juan de la Cierva-Autogyro (1923) • Jacob Schick-Electric dry shaver (1928) • Alexander Fleming-Antibiotics (1928)

  6. Art and Culture • Visual Arts • Surrealism • Art Deco • Regionalism • Architecture • Gothic Revival • Art Deco • Prairie School • Literature • Harlem Renaissance • Lost Generation • Popular Literature • Music • Jazz

  7. Art Deco

  8. Surrealism

  9. Regionalism

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