Resources
identified by students of this coursePrimary Source Reading List.
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Resources
identified by students of this course
Week 2. America, the First World War and the League of Nations
American Leaders Speak: from the Subject Headings:
League of Nations: All Speeches
World War 1914-1918, Propaganda United States: All Speeches
World War 1914-1918, United States: All Speeches
Avalon Project, Yale Law School:
The Treaty of Versailles: Especially Part One, the covenant of the League of Nations
pro-League of Nations speech by Woodrow Wilson from September 25th 1919, presented by The Center for Presidential Studies and The Department of Speech Communication at Texas A&M University.
The Senate and the League of Nations:
Henry Cabot Lodge's Reservations
Senate Debate
1997 Atlantic Article
this article contains links to, ‘League of Nations’ H.G. Wells Article, 1919.
Week 3. Prohibition, The Great Crusade
Temperance and Prohibition. Subject Headings:
Cartoons from Prohibition: All
Richmond P. Hobson argues for Prohibition
American Prohibition in the 20’s: Council of Churches statement, testimony by
La Guardia and Yale student.
American Local History Network:
Wickershaw Commissions Volstead Act: 18th Amendment and Prohibition Act,
Museum of the City of San Francisco:
Senator Phelan attacks Prohibition and the anti-saloon league
Printed Resources:
Pamphlets
Prohibition has Justified Itself 1925
A National Survey of Conditions under Prohibition 1926Letters
'a distracted daughter' to Herbert Hoover 1928
E. J Richardson to Herbert Hoover 1927
S. M. Carpenter to Mass Temperance Society undated
Subject Headings: Read all entries in:
Campaign Speeches - 1919 - Democrats
Campaign Speeches - 1919 - Republicans
Campaign Speeches - 1920 - Democrats
Documents on the Interwar Period:
Red Scare: Go to image Database
Browse database of 137 images and select one for class discussion
A Chronology of US Historical Documents:
Printed Resources:
Documents from the Hoover for President Campaign of 1920
MSU: Special Collection, Radicalism
Note: the articles below are all in image format. You will have to use the NEXT IMAGE button to read all of each article.
Constitution and Laws of the Knights of the KKK
Printed Resources:
The American Standard 15 November 1924
Bulletin of Sons and Daughters of Washington August 1927
The Menace of Modern Immigration 1923
Unsigned letter to Herbert Hoover, 22 August 1926
Week 6. American Radicalism in the 1920s
The Coolidge Era and theConsumer Economy, 1921-1929.
Subject Heading: 'Labor'
#3 'New Masses, 1927.' Look at items 3, 4, 7, 18.
(use enhanced image)MSU Special Collections: Radicalism:
Subject Heading: IWW: (International Workers of the World)
Basic Readings in US Democracy
Printed Resources:
Pamphlets
'Manifesto and Program' Communist Party of the USA Undated
'The Coolidge Program' by Jay Lovestone 1925
'Capitalism and Crime' Debs excerpt 1927
Internet Resources
Documents of the interwar period.
Treaty Between the United States of America…..13 December 1921
Treaty Between the United States of America…..6 February 1922
The Treaty Relating to the uses of Submarines…..6 February 1922
CONFERENCE ON THE LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS…..6 February 1922
Text of Resolutions adopted at the Washington Conference, February 1922
Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928
Miscellaneous State Department and Navy Department Documents
On the Washington Conference.
Week 8. Black Americans in the 1920s
The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929.
Subject Heading: 'Afro American Business
Southern Workman-1927,Migration Difficulties in Michigan
Negro Women and Business.The Interracial Forum and Boley: an Exclusively Negro Town in Oklahoma.
Subject heading: Afro-American Social Conditions
'National Urban League Papers', A Survey of the Negro Population in Fort Wayne Indiana.
Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association PapersSeries IV through VI, September 1921-December 1927'
Sample Documents (read all)Printed Resources:
'Georgia: Invisible Empire State' by WEB Dubois
Unsigned letter to Herbert Hoover, 22 August 1926
Week 9. American Women in the 1920's
The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929.
Subject Heading: 'Women Consumers'The Household Magazine, Editorial,
Article entitled 'Around the Family Table.'
Good Housekeeping, All AdvertisementsSubject Heading: 'Women-Employment-USA'
MSU Special Collections: Radicalism:
Subject Heading: Birth Control Movement
Week 11 (term 2 week 1). Religion and the Scopes Trial
The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929.
Subject Heading: Spiritual Life
Address by Calvin Coolidge, 10 October 1928Material History of American Religion
The Man Nobody Knows by Bruce Barton (excerpts)
The Minister and his SavingsTennessee vs. John Scopes: The 'Monkey' Trial
Tennessee's Anti-Evolution Statute
Trial Pictures and Cartoons
H. L. Mencken's Reports of the Trial
Trial Excerpts; read as much as possible of the excerpts, in particular:
'Debate on Prayer': 'Debs Examines Bryan': 'Bryan's Summation'.
Week 12 (Term 2 Week 2). Sacco and Vanzetti; and, Leopold and Loeb
MSU Radicalism.
Subject Heading: Sacco and VanzettiCase of Sacco and Vanzetti in cartoons….
Decision of Governor Alvin T. FullerThe Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: 1927 Frankfurter Article in the Atlantic
The Leopold and Loeb Case of 1924All Newspaper Articles
Illinois vs. N.Leopold and R. Loeb
Week 13 (Term 2 Week 3). Republican Presidents: Harding, Coolidge and Hoover
Documents Relating to the Interwar Period
Harding Inaugural Address-1921
Coolidge Inaugural Address-1925
Hoover Inaugural Address-1929
The Coolidge Era and Consumer Economy, 1921-1929Title Index
Coolidge Address: Memorial Exercise Arlington VA: 31 May 1926
Printed Resources
Speech by the Honorable Herbert Hoover
16 October 1925
Week 14 (Term 2 Week 4): Gangsters
Museum of the City of San Francisco.
1922: Rum Bribery Higher-upsAmerican Local History Network
The Players: Read All
Gangster: Site from the Twenties Reconstruction Society
Read All
Yahoo links about Al Capone
Check all linksYahoo's St. Valentine's Day Massacre links
Check all linksNote: These are mostly secondary sources, so they must be read with a more critical eye. They often resort to generalization and myth-making, relying on the stereotype of 'gangsters.' What I want from you is to try and discover this stereotypical image and to see to what degree you believe it to be true.
Week 15 (Term 2 Week 5). American Business in the 1920's
The Coolidge Era and Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
Subject Heading: Business Ethics,
Atlantic Monthly, Select Article from 1927The Forum 1929: July Selections
Subject Heading: Business-Speeches
Coolidge Address, 19/11/25
Subject Heading: Businessmen: 1920-1930
Look at all pictures
Published SourcesHenry Ford, My Life and Work, London 1923.
Introduction, Chapter VIII, and Chapter XIII
Week 17 (Term 2 Week 7). Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance
Does Jazz put the Sin in Syncopation
Faulkner Article, 1921
Jazz Age Page
All music clips from 1920sRoaring Twenties Concert Extravaganza
Listen to as many music clips as possibleYahoo Links to the Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance-NKU EduZN Hurston short story, 'Black Death'
(optional) look at as many of the 1920's paintings as possible
The poetry of Langston HughesHarlem: Mecca of the New Negro
Contents of the Survey Graphic Harlem Number
(as much as possible-this is probably the most important document).