Introduction The 1920s was a decade of deep cultural conflict. The decade witnessed a titanic struggle between an old and a new America. The conflicts

Woodrow Wilson with his Fourteen Points wanted to be the architect of the post-war peace process. Wilson was a Southerner. He grew up in the

The romanticism of prewar days had disappeared in the shock of aerial bombardment and mustard gas. Necessity and opportunity had combined to free women from

The Twenties was the decade when modern society was established, when more things changed more rapidly than in all the years prior and since, and

One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s characters in This Side of Paradise, “…the seminal novel of the early 1920s” (Moore, p. 239), says “Here was a

During the 1920s, Harlem became the capital of black America, attracting black intellectuals and artists from across the country and the Caribbean. The Harlem Renaissance

If one asked several people what image they had of the 1920s, an answer that might head the list of characteristics is something having to

Keeping with the tendency of the times to exaggerate most things, The Twenties featured numerous “causes celebres”, where events, fostered by sensationalist media, grabbed hold

The Scopes trial in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee in the summer of 1925 grabbed the attention of the entire nation. For days on