The Jazz Age


The following resources will help you research background information on the jazz age.
 

 Databases

   

Grolier Encyclopedia (Access from School)
Offers a combined search feature of encyclopedias, magazines,
websites and more.
Grolier Offsite (requires password)
   

General Reference Center Gold
Search multiple formats: journals, , magazines, encyclopedias, and more
 Helpful hint: enter keyword (ex: migration), hit enter, select Reference tab.

 Websites

Events The KKK in the 20s: www.assumption.edu/ahc/1920s/Eugenics/Klan.html

NY Times - Looking Back at the Crash of '29: http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html

PBS American Experience - The Monkey Trial: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/index.html

Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: http://www.crimelibrary.com/capone/caponesaint.htm

The Trial of Sacco & Vanzetti: http://www.courttv.com/archive/greatesttrials/sacco.vanzetti/
Fashion Cristy's Fashion Pages - Flapper Fashion: http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html

Flapper Fashion - 1920s: http://www.fashion-era.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm

The Jazz Aga - Flapper Culture and Style: http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/
General The 1920's: http://www.fact-index.com/1/19/1920s.html

Digital History - The Jazz Age; The American 20s: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?TitleID=67

The Jazz Age: http://reading.cornell.edu/reading_project_06/gatsby/jazz_age.htm

Kingwood College Library American Cultural History 1920-1929: http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade20.html

The Lawless Decade: http://www.lawlessdecade.net/intro.htm

Riverwalk Jazz - Speakeasies, Flappers and red hot jazz: Music of the Prohibition: www.riverwalkjazz.org/site/PageServer?pagename=jazznotes_speakeasies 

WWW Virtual Library - History - USA - 1920-1929: http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1920s.html

Yahoo - U.S. History - 1920s: http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_
Period/20th_Century/1920s/
Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance: http://www.42explore2.com/harlem.htm

Harlem Renaissance: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566483/harlem_renaissance.html

Online News Hour - Harlem Renaissance: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/february98/harlem_2-20.html
Jazz Music, Art and Culture of the 1920s (audio clips): http://alephnull.net/20s/cds.html

PBS - JAZZ - A Film by Ken Burns: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm

Riverwalk Jazz - Listening Room: www.riverwalkjazz.org/site/PageServer?pagename=listen_listeningroom
People Bonnie and Clyde - Depression-Era Duo: www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/bonnie/1.html

Al Capone: www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/index_1.html

Harry Houdini: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshchrn.html

PBS American Experience - People and Events of the Jazz Age: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/e_jazzage.html

PBS American Masters - Charlie Chaplin: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/chaplin_c.html

PBS - Jazz, by Ken Burns - Biographies: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/

PBS American Masters - F. Scott Fitzgerald: www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fitzgerald_f.html

PBS America Masters - Lillian Gish: www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/gish_l.html

PBS American Masters - Ernest Hemingway: www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/hemingway_e.html

PBS American Masters - Louis Armstrong: www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/armstrong_l.html
 
Prohibition

 

 Bootlegger's Paradise: http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters/purple/purplemain.htm

Eighteenth Amendment - Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/amdt18.html

Temperance & Prohibition: http://prohibition.osu.edu/

Twenty-First Amendment - The Repeal of Amendment Eighteen: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/amdt21.html

 

If you do not find what you're looking for in the above resources, try the search tips listed below.

  Internet Search Tips

  1. Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.yahoo.com, or www.google.com, etc.
     
  2. (Be sure to type the address exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and punctuation).
     
  3. Type in keyword(s). (If your keyword has two parts such as: "Jazz Age", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites on Jazz Age as opposed to all of the sites containing the word Jazz plus all of the sites containing the word Age.
     

  4. If you would like to search for something specific about the Jazz Age, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma followed by a space and your other search term(s). For instance; if I wanted to find out about prohibition during the Jazz Age,  would enter the following:

    "Jazz Age", prohibition

    Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
     

  5. Be sure to evaluate each Internet site for the following:
    • Authority: Can you tell if the author is credible (believable)?
    • Objectivity: Is the information objective (honest and free of bias)?
    • Currency: Is the information recent and up-to-date?
    • Design: Is the site designed in a clear and user friendly way?
    • Navigation: Is the site easy to navigate through, and are all links current and usable?

     

  6. Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on an Internet source, 
    you must include it in your bibliography.

Remember:  YOU MUST CITE EVERY RESOURCE YOU USED to gather information on your 
Works Cited (Bibliography) page.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.

 

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