The 1920s: Flappers, Prohibition and Harlem
Monday: Furlough Day
Tuesday & Wednesday
Ken Burns' "The Jazz Age"
The Flapper vs. The Victorian Woman
-hair, dress and attitudes
Prohibition (AV 412; 436-7)
-law
-effects
-gangsters
HW In your journals answer why America is so obsessed with its gangsters. How does Al Capone represent the iconic American gangster?
Thursday & Friday (next Monday and Tuesday, too)
Harlem Renaissance (AV 426-431; 439)
-Who lives in Harlem?
-the players
Art & Culture
-the Village
-Hollywood
Politics
Warren Harding
-The "Ohio Gang"
Calvin Coolidge
-contrast to Harding
Andrew Mellon
-supplyside economics
Herbert Hoover
-cooperative individualism
-isolationism
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Industry (AV450-51)
-Henry Ford
-mass production
Innovation (AV 452-4)
-consumerism
-airline
-radio
-credit to buy new goods
