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The 1920s in America

Table of Contents

Academy Awards




A. C. Nielsen Company




Adams, Franklin P.




Adding Machine, The




Adkins v. Children’s Hospital




Advertising in Canada




Advertising in the United States




African Americans




Age of Innocence, The




Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929




Agriculture in Canada




Agriculture in the United States




Aiken, Conrad




Air Commerce Act of 1926




Airmail




Air Mail Act of 1925




Air pollution




Airships




Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act




Alexander, Grover Cleveland




Algonquin Round Table




Ali, Noble Drew




Alice Adams




All God’s Chillun Got Wings




American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)




American Federation of Labor (AFL)




American Mercury, The




Anderson, Marian




Anderson, Sherwood




Andrews, Roy Chapman




Anna Christie




Anti-Semitism




Appalachian Trail




Arbuckle, Fatty




Archaeology




Architecture




Armstrong, Louis




Art Deco




Art movements




Asia




Asian Americans




Astronomy




Automobiles and auto manufacturing




Auto racing




Aviation




Babbitt




Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.




Baker, Josephine




Band-Aids




Banking




Bánky, Vilma




Banting, Frederick Grant




Bara, Theda




Barrymore, John




Baseball




Bathing suits




Bathtub gin




Baylor Plan




Beiderbecke, Bix




Bell, James “Cool Papa”




Bell Labs




Ben-Hur




Berlin, Irving




Better Homes in America movement




Birdseye, Clarence




Birth control




Black-and-tan clubs




Black Swan Records




Bobbed hair




Bonus Act of 1924




Book clubs




Bookman, The




Book publishing




Border Patrol, U.S.




Bose, Sudhindra




Bow, Clara




Boxing




Bread slicer




Bridge of San Luis Rey, The




Broadway musicals




Brooks, Louise




Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters




Bryan, William Jennings




Bubble gum




Buck v. Bell




Bulldozer




Bungalows




Bunion Derby




Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, U.S.




Burns and Allen




Bushman, Francis X.




Business and the economy




Byrd, Richard E.




Cabell, James Branch




Cable Act of 1922




California Institute of Technology (Caltech)




Canada and Great Britain




Canadian minority communities




Canadian nationalism




Cancer




Capablanca, José Raúl




Capone, Al




Carmichael, Hoagy




Carr, Mary




Carter Family




Cascade Tunnel




Castle Gate, Utah, mining disaster




Cather, Willa




Cellophane




Censorship




Chain stores




Chandler, Harry




Chanel, Coco




Chaney, Lon




Chaplin, Charlie




Charleston, The




Chemistry




Chinese Immigration Act of 1923




Chrysler, Walter P.




Chrysler Building




Circus, The




Cities




City, The




Civil rights and liberties




Classical music




Cline, Genevieve R.




Cloche hats




Cobb, Ty




Cocoanut Grove




Cocoanuts, The




Cohan, George M.




Coleman, Bessie




Colman, Ronald




Comic strips




Coming of Age in Samoa




Communism




Compton, Arthur Holly




Coney Island




Congress, U.S.




Coogan, Jackie




Coolidge, Calvin




Coolidge, Grace




Copland, Aaron




Corrigan v. Buckley




Corrupt Practices Act of 1925




Cotton Club




Cotton swabs




Cox, Ida




Cox, James M.




Credit and debt




Crimes and scandals




Crooners




Crosby, Bing




Crossword puzzles




Cummings, E. E.




Currency and coinage




Curtis, Charles




Dance and choreography




Dances, popular




Darrow, Clarence




Daugherty, Harry M.




Davis, John W.




Dawes, Charles G.




Dawes Plan




Death Comes for the Archbishop




Debs, Eugene V.




DeMille, Cecil B.




Demographics




Dempsey, Jack




Demuth, Charles




Denby, Edwin




Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts




Desire Under the Elms




Detroit-Windsor Tunnel




Dewey, John




Dial, The




Differential analyzer




Disney, Walt




Doolittle, Hilda




Douglas Aircraft Company




Du Bois, W. E. B.




Duncan, Isadora




Durant, Will




Dyer antilynching bill




Earhart, Amelia




Eastman, George




Ederle, Gertrude




Education




Einstein, Albert




Elections, Canadian




Elections, midterm, U.S.




Elections of 1920, U.S.




Elections of 1924, U.S.




Elections of 1928, U.S.




Electrical recording




Electrification




Eliot, T. S.




Ellington, Duke




Elmer Gantry




Emperor Jones, The




Equal Rights Amendment




Eskimo Pie




Eugenics movement




Europe




Evangelism




Fads




Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr.




Farewell to Arms, A




Farm subsidies




Fashions and clothing




Faulkner, William




Faust, Frederick




Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921




Federal highway system




Federal Power Act of 1920




Federal Radio Commission (FRC)




Felix the Cat




Ferber, Edna




Fields, W. C.




Film




Fitzgerald, F. Scott




Fitzgerald, Zelda




Flagpole sitting




Flappers




Flesh and the Devil




Fokker, Anthony




Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration, U.S.




Food trends




Football




Forbes, Charles R.




Foreign policy, U.S.




Four Horsemen of Notre Dame




Fox, William




Foxx, Jimmie




Freon




Frontier in American History, The




Frost, Robert




Frozen foods




Fugitive, The




Fugitive Poets




Gambling




Garbo, Greta




Garvey, Marcus




Gehrig, Lou




General, The




Gentlemen Prefer Blondes




Gershwin, George




Gila Wilderness Area




Gilbert, John




Gipp, George




Girl Scout cookies




Gish, Dorothy




Gish, Lillian




Gitlow v. New York




Goddard, Robert




Gold Diggers of Broadway




Gold Rush, The




Goldwyn, Samuel




Golf




Gompers, Samuel




Graham, Martha




Grand Ole Opry, The




Grange, Red




Grauman’s Chinese Theatre




Great Gatsby, The




Great Migration




Great Mississippi Flood of 1927




Greed




Griffith, D. W.




Gross national product of the United States




Group of Seven




Grove, Lefty




Hair dryers




Hairstyles




Halibut Treaty of 1924




Hallelujah!




Hall-Mills murder case




Hammerstein, Oscar, II




Hammett, Dashiell




Hardin, Lillian




Harding, Warren G.




Harlem Renaissance




Harp Weaver and Other Poems, The




Hart, Lorenz




Haywood, Big Bill




Health care




Hearst, William Randolph




Hearst Castle




Hemingway, Ernest




Hester v. United States




Historiography




Hobbies and recreation




Hockey




Holland Tunnel




Hollywood Bowl




Hollywood sign




Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.




Home furnishings




Homosexuality and gay rights




Hood ornaments




Hoover, Herbert




Hoover, J. Edgar




Hopper, Edward




Hornsby, Rogers




Horse racing




Houdini, Harry




Housing




Hubble, Edwin Powell




Hughes, Charles Evans




Hughes, Howard




Hughes, Langston




Hurston, Zora Neale




I’ll Take My Stand




Immigration Act of 1921




Immigration Act of 1924




Immigration to Canada




Immigration to the United States




In the American Grain




Ince, Thomas H.




Income and wages




Indian Citizenship Act of 1924




Installment plans




Insulin




International Business Machines (IBM)




International trade




Inventions




Iron lung




Isolationism




Izaak Walton League of America




Jannings, Emil




Japanese American Citizens League




Jazz




Jazz Singer, The




Jews in Canada




Jews in the United States




Jim Crow in the U.S. South




John Brown’s Body




John Keats




Johnson, Jack




Johnson, James Weldon




Johnson, Judy




Jolson, Al




Jones, Bobby




Kahanamoku, Duke




Kane, Helen




Keaton, Buster




Keller, Helen




Kellogg, Frank B.




Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928




Kern, Jerome




King, William Lyon Mackenzie




King of Kings, The




Kirby, Rollin




Knickerbocker Storm




Koko the Clown




Kool-Aid




Ku Klux Klan




Labor strikes




La Follette, Robert M.




Landis, Kenesaw Mountain




Lang, Eddie




Langdon, Harry




Langley, John W.




Lardner, Ring




Lasky, Jesse L.




Latin America and the Caribbean




Latinos




Laurel and Hardy




League of Nations




League of United Latin American Citizens




League of Women Voters




Leopold-Loeb murder case




Lewis, John L.




Lewis, Sinclair




Lincoln Memorial




Lindbergh, Charles




Lindsay, Vachel




Lindy Hop




Lippmann, Walter




Literature in Canada




Literature in the United States




Little Blue Books




Lloyd, Harold




Lodge, Henry Cabot




Look Homeward, Angel




Los Angeles Aqueduct dynamiting




Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum




Lost generation




Loudspeakers




Lowell, Amy




Luce, Henry R.




Lynching




MacLeish, Archibald




Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade




Magazines




Mah-Jongg




Main Currents in American Thought




Main Street




Man o’ War




Marathon dancing




Marin, John




Marriage and dating




Marx Brothers




McFadden Act of 1927




McKinsey, James Oscar




McPherson, Aimee Semple




Mead, Margaret




Medicine




Meighen, Arthur




Mellon, Andrew




Mencken, H. L.




Menuhin, Yehudi




Merry Widow, The




Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)




Mexico




Meyer v. Nebraska




Micheaux, Oscar




Migrations




Millay, Edna St. Vincent




Millikan, Robert Andrews




Miss America pageants




Mitchell, Billy




Mix, Tom




Model A Fords




Montessori method




Moody, Helen Wills




Moore v. Dempsey




Morgan, Thomas Hunt




Morton, Jelly Roll




Motels




Mount Rushmore




Movie palaces




Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)




Music, popular




Nanook of the North




National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)




National Broadcasting Company (NBC)




National Conference on Street and Highway Safety




National debt of the United States




National Football League (NFL)




National Parks of the United States




Native Americans




Natural disasters




Natural resources, exploitation of




Negro History Week




Negro League Baseball




Newberry v. United States




New Criticism




Newspapers, U.S.




New Yorker, The




New York Yankees




Nightclubs




Nineteenth Amendment




Nixon v. Herndon




Nobel Prizes




Normand, Mabel




Novarro, Ramón




Oil Pollution Act of 1924




Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928




O’Keeffe, Georgia




Oliver, Joe “King”




Olmstead v. United States




Olympic Games of 1920 (Summer)




Olympic Games of 1924 (Summer)




Olympic Games of 1924 (Winter)




Olympic Games of 1928 (Summer)




Olympic Games of 1928 (Winter)




O’Neill, Eugene




Organized crime




Orphans of the Storm




Ott, Mel




Ouija boards




Our Gang comedies




Ozawa v. United States




Paddock, Charles




Palmer raids




Parker, Dorothy




Parrish, Maxfield




Paul, Alice




Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches




Pershing Map




Phillips, C. Coles




Philosophy and philosophers




Photography




Physics




Pickford, Mary




Pierce v. Society of Sisters




Piston, Walter




Player pianos




Poetry




Polio




Political parties




Polygraph




Pornography




Post, Emily




Postage stamps




Pound, Ezra




President’s Conference on Unemployment




President’s Daughter, The




Progressive Party of 1924




Prohibition




Prophet, The




Psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis




Public Opinion




Racial discrimination




Radio




Radio Act of 1927




Radio Corporation of America (RCA)




Railroads




Railway Labor Act of 1926




Randolph, A. Philip




Rayon stockings




Recession of 1920–1921




Red Scare, The




Reed, John




Refrigerators




Reid, Wallace




Religion in Canada




Religion in the United States




“Return to Normalcy”




Revenue Acts of 1924, 1926, and 1928




Rhapsody in Blue




Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus




Rin Tin Tin films




Roach, Hal, Sr.




Roaring Twenties




Robeson, Paul




Robinson, Edwin Arlington




Rocketry




Rockne, Knute




Rockwell, Norman




Rodgers, Jimmie




Rogers, Will




Romberg, Sigmund




Roosevelt, Franklin D.




Rosenfeld, Fanny “Bobbie”




Ross, Harold




Ross, Nellie Tayloe




Route 66




Royal Canadian Air Force




Rural Life




Russian Famine Relief Act of 1921




Ruth, Babe




Saarinen, Eliel




Sacco and Vanzetti case




Safety Last




Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre




Sandburg, Carl




Sanger, Margaret




Sarnoff, David




Sartoris




Schiaparelli, Elsa




Schindler, Rudolph




Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)




Scholz, Jackson




Schultz, Dutch




Science and technology




Science fiction




Scopes trial




Sears, Roebuck and Co.




Sennett, Mack




Sesquicentennial Exposition




Sex and sex education




Sexually transmitted diseases




Sheik, The




Shenandoah airship disaster




Sheppard-Towner Act




Show Boat




Shuffle Along




Sinclair, Upton




Slang




Smith, Alfred E.




Smith, Bessie




Soccer




Social sciences




Société Anonyme




Sound and the Fury, The




Southern Agrarians




Soviet Union and North America




Speakeasies




Spiritualism




Sports




Spring and All




Steamboat Willie




St. Francis Dam disaster




Stein, Gertrude




Stella Dallas




Stieglitz, Alfred




Stock market crash




Stone, Harlan Fiske




Strange Interlude




Student Prince, The




Studies in Classic American Literature




Sturtevant, Alfred H.




Suburbs




Sun Also Rises, The




Supreme Court, U.S.




Swanson, Gloria




Taft, William Howard




Tales of the Jazz Age




Talking motion pictures




Tarkington, Booth




Taylor, William Desmond




Teapot Dome scandal




Teasdale, Sara




Telephone technology and service




Television technology




Ten Commandments, The




Ten Days That Shook the World




Tennis




Theater in Canada




Theater in the United States




Thief of Bagdad, The




This Side of Paradise




Thompson machine gun




Thorpe, Jim




Three Soldiers




Tilden, Bill




Tin Pan Alley




Tomb of the Unknown Soldier




Tong Wars of Chinatown, San Francisco




Toomer, Jean




Traffic signals




Transportation




Travel




Tunney, Gene




Unemployment




Unionism




United Artists




United States v. Ninety-Five Barrels Alleged Apple Cider Vinegar




United States v. United States Steel Corp




Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)




Urbanization




Valentino, Rudolph




Vallée, Rudy




Van Der Zee, James




Vaudeville




Vidor, King




Vitamin D discovery




Voting rights




Walker, Jimmy




Wallace, DeWitt




Waller, Fats




Warner, Harry




Warner, Sam




Warner Bros.




Washington Naval Conference




Waste Land, The




Weissmuller, Johnny




West, Mae




West Virginia mining disaster




Wharton, Edith




What’s O’Clock




Whiteman, Paul




Wilder, Thornton




Williams, William Carlos




Wilson, Edith




Wilson, Edmund




Wilson, Woodrow




Wings




Women in college




Women in the workforce




Women’s rights




Workers’ education




World War I veterans




Wright, Frank Lloyd




Wylie, Elinor




Yo-yos




Ziegfeld, Florenz




Ziegfeld Follies




Zworykin, Vladimir




Entertainment: Major Broadway Plays and Awards




Entertainment: Major Films




Entertainment: Radio Programs, Personalities, and Firsts




Legislation: Major U.S. Legislation




Legislation: Major U.S. Supreme Court Decisions




Literature: Best-Selling Books in the United States




Music: Popular Musicians




Music: Top-Selling U.S. Recordings




Sports: Winners of Major Events




Time Line




Bibliography




Glossary




List of Entries by Category




Personages Index




Subject Index