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Defining Documents in American History: The 1920s (1920–1929)

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




A Return to Normalcy




Warren G. Harding: “Not Nostrums, but Normalcy”




Harding on Americanism




Franklin D. Roosevelt on Americanism




On the Transportation Act of 1920




On the Teapot Dome Scandal




The National Origins Act (Immigration Act of 1924)




The Sacco-Vanzetti Case in Context




The Case Against the Reds




Labor Will Not Be Outlawed or Enslaved




Summation of the Defense, Sacco-Vanzetti Trial




Summation of the Prosecution, Sacco-Vanzetti Trial




Selected Prison Letters of Bartolomeo Vanzetti




Selected Prison Letters of Nicola Sacco




From Facing the Chair: The Americanization of Two Foreign-born Workingmen




Prohibition and Problems




President Harding’s Appeal to Halt Lawbreaking




Fiorello La Guardia on Prohibition




An Account of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre




The Wickersham Commission Report on Prohibition and Crime




The Age of Coolidge




The Destiny of America




The Press Under a Free Government




Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence




On Intervention in Nicaragua




Women and the Modern World




Prison Writings of a Radical Suffragist




Now We Can Begin: Women and Their Vote




Margaret Sanger: The Morality of Birth Control




A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents




African American Affairs




Marcus Garvey on Back to Africa




W. E. B. Du Bois: An Open Letter to Warren G. Harding




On the Tulsa Race Riot




Letter Regarding Ku Klux Klan Activity in Arkansas




The Klansman’s Manual




The Name “Negro”—Letters between Roland A. Barton and W. E. B. Du Bois




The Scopes “Monkey” Trial




William Jennings Bryan: Scopes Trial Summation




Court Decision in the Scopes Trial




Impressions of the Scopes Trial




International Negotiations




On the Necessity of Naval Disarmament




Treaty on the Limitation of Naval Armaments




The Problem of Japan—A Japanese View




The Kellogg-Briand Pact




On the Multilateral (Kellogg-Briand) Pact




New Horizons in Industry, Travel, and Culture




From My Life and Work, by Henry Ford




Lindbergh’s Paris Trip Makes Him World Hero




The Jazz Singer: Reviews of the First “Talking Movie”




WLS Showboat: The Floating Palace of Wonder




Herbert Hoover Takes the Helm




Herbert Hoover on “The Constructive Side of Government”




President Hoover Responds to the Stock Market Crash




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography