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Find out more about the history of The Roaring Twenties, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com
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History.com's page on the Roaring Twenties with some useful internal links.
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Plenty of dancing from the 1920s. It's great, if you like that sort of thing.
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A revision film from Holgate School.
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An excerpt which focuses on the reasons that prohibition came about.
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Some thoughts about Al Capone ....
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Controversial scenes taken from D.W Griffith's Birth of a Nation(1915)
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Scenes from the movies that sparked a revival in the fortunes of the KKK during the 1920s.
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September 23, 2014 3:09 PM
Selected scenes from Birth of a Nation depicting events in the South during Reconstruction.
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A short dramatised documentary about the early years of the KKK.
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A short dramatised documentary about the early years of the KKK.
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Some useful points on Christian fundamentalism in 1920s America.
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Sources on the Great Depression
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A short film on the Bonus March of 1932
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October 14, 2014 6:13 PM
A very short film on the Bonus Marchers of 1932. Some good details.
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Moments from FDR's inauguration, March 1933.
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Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney's classic song of the Depression; Bing Crosby is a bit smooth but it's still good.
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An energetic postwar mentality emerges and old traditions are challenged during the Roaring '20s. Women take bold steps towards equality, threatening to upse...
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The USA in the 1920s: sections on the KKK, spectator sport, flying, expeditions, optimism, Herbert Hoover, stock boom, Wall Street Crash
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"Bix" Beiderbecke (1903 - 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer.
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Clips of popular 1920s dances for AP Lang 11.
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Clips of popular 1920s dances.
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A short film about the Model T Ford. Includes a few technical details, for those who like that sort of thing.
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'The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors–ushered in a period in American history known as Prohibition.'
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A vid from BBC's Documentary racism this seen tells the story of a boy who was lynched and burned alive in Texas in 1916 it is very shocking! (I do not own t...
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James Allen's photographic record of lynchings in the southern states of America.
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The Birth of a Nation was released on 8 February 1915. A century later it’s regarded as a landmark in cinema history – and terribly bigoted. Tom Brook reports.
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'The Birth of a Nation still has the power to both enthral and appall. The film is as confounding as ever, both brilliant and repugnant. Groundbreaking in its use of innovative cinematic techniques, it remains tainted by its brazen racism.'
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Documentary on the Scopes Monkey Trial. Learning object created for CCU EDU580 course.
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14 minutes on the Monkey Trial of 1925.
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A useful page on the rise of Christian fundamentalism in the USA.
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10 minutes on the origins of the Wall Street Crash.
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'The U.S. in the 1930s was a very different place, as the photos show. In terms of per capita income, the U.S. then was poorer than Mexico is today. The Civil Rights movement had not yet occurred, and Jim Crow laws still ruled the South. Women had been voting in national elections for fewer than two decades.'
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Roosevelt's polio and his ability to conceal his disability.
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