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Archibald MacLeish
Was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work -
E.E. Cummings
Was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century poetry. -
John Dos Passos
In 1920 he had his first novel published, One Man's Initiation: 1917, and in 1925 his Manhattan Transfer became a commercial success. In 1928, he went to The Soviet Union to study Socialism, and later became a leading participator in the April 1935 First American Writers Congress sponsored by the Communist-leaning League of American Writers. -
F Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. -
Ernest Hemingway
An author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid 1920s and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published 7 novels, 6 short story collections, and 2 nonfiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories, and three nonfiction works were published. His works are classics in American lit. -
The Jazz Age
The Jazz AgeIn 1920's America - known as the Jazz Age, the Golden Twenties or the Roaring Twenties - everybody seemed to have money. The nightmare that was the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, was inconceivable right up until it happened. The 1920’s saw a break with the traditional set-up in America. The Great War had destroyed old perceived social conventions and new ones developed. -
Prohibition
Prohibition DocumentaryProhibition Begins in 1920: In the 19th century, many people, especially women, blamed many of society's problems upon alcohol. With the hope of bettering society, organizations formed to advocate against the consumption of alcohol. By the beginning of the 20th century, many states had already created state laws banning alcohol. On January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Exactly one year later (January 16, 1920), this Amendment went in to affect -
National Negro League
The Negro National League (NNL) was one of the several Negro leagues which were established during the period in the United States in which organized baseball was segregated. -
NFL Forms
The 1920 APFA season was the inaugural season of the American Professional Football Association—named the National Football League in 1922. The league was formed on August 20, 1920 by professional American football teams from Ohio, all of whom had previously played in the Ohio League or New York Pro Football League. At the meeting, they first called their new league American Professional Football Conference. A second organizational meeting was held in Canton on September 17, adding more teams. -
Movies
The 1920s saw an expansion of Hollywood film making and film going. Throughout the decade, film production focused on the feature film rather than the "short" or "two-reeler." This is a change that had begun with the long D.W. Griffith epics of the mid-1910s. In Hollywood, numerous small studios were taken over and made a part of larger studios, creating the Studio System that ran American film making until the 1960s. MGM (founded in the middle of the decade) was the highest grossing studio. -
Illegal Gambling
Gambling is an example of a business that was run and regulated by gangsters with the intent of earning big profits. Gambling typically appeared in the forms of craps, various card games including faro, and perhaps most popularly, betting on horse races. The appeal to the gangster of managing gambling operations, which were often disguised as pool halls, is partly due to the illegality of gambling at the time, and also because the demand for such opportunities was present in chicago. -
Women Equality
Although Women had won the right to vote during the war, few women were elected to the house of commons or to the provincial governments. This related to "The Great Gatsby" the women in the novel didn't really have any say and they were treated very different then the men were -
Lost Generation
The Lost Generationgeneration was “lost” in the sense that its inherited values were no longer relevant in the postwar world and because of its spiritual alienation from a U.S. that, basking under Pres. Warren G. Harding’s “back to normalcy” policy, seemed to its members to be hopelessly provincial, materialistic, and emotionally barren. The term embraces Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Hart Crane, and many other writers in the 1920s -
KU KLUX KLAN
American SecretsThe Ku Klux Klan, Known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism. Since the mid-20th century, the KKK has also been anti-communist. The current manifestation is splintered into several chapters with no connection to each other -
The Great Depression
The Great DepressionAfter nearly a decade of optimism and prosperity, the United States was thrown into despair on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed and the official beginning of the Great Depression. As stock prices plummeted with no hope of recovery, panic struck. Masses and masses of people tried to sell their stock, but no one was buying. The stock market, which had appeared to be the surest way to become rich, quickly became the path to bankruptcy.
