Fitzgerald and The Jazz Age
Cover of the Original Gatsby |
A photo of Fitzgerald in his prime |
Three Flappers enjoy the summer |
Databases
Most databases will provide articles, images, and primary source documents.. Some provide links to external websites.
ProQuest Historical - search for newpaper articles as they appeared in the New York Times.
Student Resource Center Gold - search using keywords and look for "event overview" or "topic overview."
Aviation & Lindbergh
A Century of Flight / The Atlantic Challenge - part of a more general "history of aviation" site
Charles Augustus Lindbergh - a site dedicated to his achievement.
Lindbergh - from The American Experience on PBS
Architecture
Long Island Gold Coast - look at this site for mansions of Long Island.
Newsday - Long Island History - an article about life in Fitzgerald's territory.
American Memory Project / American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
Digital Archive of Architectural Design
Art
Painters of the Harlem Renaissance - includes information about 3 painters and some images of their work.
Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture - a noted site on the Harlem Renaissance featuring a section on the arts.
Dance
The
Flap Over Flappers - provides information & pictures on
the rise of the Flapper.
The Flapper Era - a page with extensive links
A Flapper's Appeal to Parents or why girls should be able to wear their hair short and smoke.
Politics
Clash of Cultures - includes links to Immigration Restriction and the KKK.
Sports
Babe Ruth
Black Sox - a link from Dr. Douglas Linder's Famous American Trials page.
Film
American Picture Palaces - explores the relationship between the emerging consumer culture, architecture, and film.
Music
Historic Music of the 1920s from Digital History
List of Popular Bands from Red Hot Jazz
General Interest
Guided Readings: The Jazz Age: The American 1920s from Digital History (The University of Houston)
Gallery of Images from PBS's: The Crash of 1929
Jazz age from the University of Pittsburg
Prohibition from Ohio State University
Only Yesterday-An Informal History of the 1920s from University of Virginia
Overview of the Era from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
October 20, 2009