Why Study America in the 1920's?
The "Roaring Twenties" were an important decade for America. Having just come off participation in World War I, America was beginning to taste what it meant to be a player on the world stage. Domestically, America faced some of its most significant changes in decades. Social movements sprang up everywhere, from the early beginnings of the Civil Rights movement, to Women's Suffrage, to the passage of an Amendment that would define the entire era. America entered into one of the most prosperous decades in its history, with new technology and innovations springing up overnight. The radio and Hollywood film expanded American cultural influence to a global audience. Jazz was invented, and became the national anthem of a generation of American youth. The Twenties was much more than Thoroughly Modern Millie and Prohibition, it represented a fundamental shift in what it meant to be an American, and shaped our national identity as we know it today.
The "Roaring Twenties" were an important decade for America. Having just come off participation in World War I, America was beginning to taste what it meant to be a player on the world stage. Domestically, America faced some of its most significant changes in decades. Social movements sprang up everywhere, from the early beginnings of the Civil Rights movement, to Women's Suffrage, to the passage of an Amendment that would define the entire era. America entered into one of the most prosperous decades in its history, with new technology and innovations springing up overnight. The radio and Hollywood film expanded American cultural influence to a global audience. Jazz was invented, and became the national anthem of a generation of American youth. The Twenties was much more than Thoroughly Modern Millie and Prohibition, it represented a fundamental shift in what it meant to be an American, and shaped our national identity as we know it today.