Steven L. Piott is emeritus professor of history at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

This is a useful introductory resource for those researching 1920s America. Recommended for high school, academic, and public libraries.

• PrefaceIntroductionTimeline1. Domestic LifeTransformative Social Forces and the Pace of Societal ChangeHome and Family LifeThe African American ExperienceThe Mexican American ExperienceDocument: Anne Martin, "Women and 'Their' Magazines" (1922)Document: Leta S. Hollingworth, "For and against Birth Control" (1922)2. Economic LifeProsperity Decade?Agricultural WorkersMexican Laborers: Migrant WorkersNon-farmworkersAfrican American Workers: Sleeping Car PortersSocial Tensions and Cultural Conflicts during the 1920sDocument: Samuel Hopkins Adams, "On Sale Everywhere" (1921) and Excerpts from Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922)Document: T. Arnold Hill, "The Dilemma of Negro Workers" (1926)3. Intellectual LifeEducationIntellectual InfluencesElite CultureThe Emerging Mass Consumer CultureThe Harlem RenaissanceDocument: John F. Carter Jr., "'These Wild Young People': By One of Them" (1920)Document: H. L. Mencken, "On Living in the United States" (1921)4. Material LifeHousingThe Impact of the Automobile on the Material LandscapeFoodClothingDocument: Elizabeth Robins Pennell, "Eats" (1922)Document: G. Stanley Hall, "Flapper Americana Novissima" (1922)5. Political Life"Beyond Suffrage"Politics in the 1920s: A Conservative AgendaPolitics and ProhibitionThe Apathetic VoterThe Harding ScandalsHoover's Response to the DepressionDocument: "'Much-Surprised' City Officials Ousted by Women" (1920)Document: "Shall Women Be Equal before the Law?" (1922)6. Recreational Life"Ain't We Got Fun?"RadioMotion PicturesMusicDanceMass Spectator SportsFads and CrazesDocument: John R. McMahon, "Unspeakable Jazz Must Go!" (1921)Document: "Medical Derision of Coué" (1922)7. Religious LifeThe State of Religion in the 1920sThe Rise of Religious UncertaintyReligion in the African American CommunityReligion in the Hispanic CommunityDocument: G. Bromley Oxnam, "The Mexican in Los Angeles from the Standpoint of the Religious Forces of the City" (1921)GlossaryBibliographyIndex

Steven L. Piott is emeritus professor of history at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

This is a useful introductory resource for those researching 1920s America. Recommended for high school, academic, and public libraries.

• PrefaceIntroductionTimeline1. Domestic LifeTransformative Social Forces and the Pace of Societal ChangeHome and Family LifeThe African American ExperienceThe Mexican American ExperienceDocument: Anne Martin, "Women and 'Their' Magazines" (1922)Document: Leta S. Hollingworth, "For and against Birth Control" (1922)2. Economic LifeProsperity Decade?Agricultural WorkersMexican Laborers: Migrant WorkersNon-farmworkersAfrican American Workers: Sleeping Car PortersSocial Tensions and Cultural Conflicts during the 1920sDocument: Samuel Hopkins Adams, "On Sale Everywhere" (1921) and Excerpts from Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922)Document: T. Arnold Hill, "The Dilemma of Negro Workers" (1926)3. Intellectual LifeEducationIntellectual InfluencesElite CultureThe Emerging Mass Consumer CultureThe Harlem RenaissanceDocument: John F. Carter Jr., "'These Wild Young People': By One of Them" (1920)Document: H. L. Mencken, "On Living in the United States" (1921)4. Material LifeHousingThe Impact of the Automobile on the Material LandscapeFoodClothingDocument: Elizabeth Robins Pennell, "Eats" (1922)Document: G. Stanley Hall, "Flapper Americana Novissima" (1922)5. Political Life"Beyond Suffrage"Politics in the 1920s: A Conservative AgendaPolitics and ProhibitionThe Apathetic VoterThe Harding ScandalsHoover's Response to the DepressionDocument: "'Much-Surprised' City Officials Ousted by Women" (1920)Document: "Shall Women Be Equal before the Law?" (1922)6. Recreational Life"Ain't We Got Fun?"RadioMotion PicturesMusicDanceMass Spectator SportsFads and CrazesDocument: John R. McMahon, "Unspeakable Jazz Must Go!" (1921)Document: "Medical Derision of Coué" (1922)7. Religious LifeThe State of Religion in the 1920sThe Rise of Religious UncertaintyReligion in the African American CommunityReligion in the Hispanic CommunityDocument: G. Bromley Oxnam, "The Mexican in Los Angeles from the Standpoint of the Religious Forces of the City" (1921)GlossaryBibliographyIndex

Steven L. Piott is emeritus professor of history at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

This is a useful introductory resource for those researching 1920s America. Recommended for high school, academic, and public libraries.

• PrefaceIntroductionTimeline1. Domestic LifeTransformative Social Forces and the Pace of Societal ChangeHome and Family LifeThe African American ExperienceThe Mexican American ExperienceDocument: Anne Martin, "Women and 'Their' Magazines" (1922)Document: Leta S. Hollingworth, "For and against Birth Control" (1922)2. Economic LifeProsperity Decade?Agricultural WorkersMexican Laborers: Migrant WorkersNon-farmworkersAfrican American Workers: Sleeping Car PortersSocial Tensions and Cultural Conflicts during the 1920sDocument: Samuel Hopkins Adams, "On Sale Everywhere" (1921) and Excerpts from Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922)Document: T. Arnold Hill, "The Dilemma of Negro Workers" (1926)3. Intellectual LifeEducationIntellectual InfluencesElite CultureThe Emerging Mass Consumer CultureThe Harlem RenaissanceDocument: John F. Carter Jr., "'These Wild Young People': By One of Them" (1920)Document: H. L. Mencken, "On Living in the United States" (1921)4. Material LifeHousingThe Impact of the Automobile on the Material LandscapeFoodClothingDocument: Elizabeth Robins Pennell, "Eats" (1922)Document: G. Stanley Hall, "Flapper Americana Novissima" (1922)5. Political Life"Beyond Suffrage"Politics in the 1920s: A Conservative AgendaPolitics and ProhibitionThe Apathetic VoterThe Harding ScandalsHoover's Response to the DepressionDocument: "'Much-Surprised' City Officials Ousted by Women" (1920)Document: "Shall Women Be Equal before the Law?" (1922)6. Recreational Life"Ain't We Got Fun?"RadioMotion PicturesMusicDanceMass Spectator SportsFads and CrazesDocument: John R. McMahon, "Unspeakable Jazz Must Go!" (1921)Document: "Medical Derision of Coué" (1922)7. Religious LifeThe State of Religion in the 1920sThe Rise of Religious UncertaintyReligion in the African American CommunityReligion in the Hispanic CommunityDocument: G. Bromley Oxnam, "The Mexican in Los Angeles from the Standpoint of the Religious Forces of the City" (1921)GlossaryBibliographyIndex