The Irresponsible Age:
America at Home and Abroad in the 1920's

Student Resources (send resources to Ann Gow - a.gow@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk and Dr O'Brien - ppo@modhist.arts.gla.ac.uk)

Here are the resources identified by the students in this course:

• Cleveland Advocate: Alabama Refuses Vote to Colored Women

• Onward Temprance Soldiers! (music score)

• The Liquor Ocotpus (cartoon)

• Cleveland Gazette: Race will Benefit from Prohibition

• "Babies Die" Prohibtion Propaganda

• The Forum, "All Wrong" story by Richard Connell

• Japanese Recruits to US Army in WW1

• The Politics of Sex, 1923
  

• Promoting Eugenics in America

• The Jazz Singer

• Duke Ellington

• Fitzgerald voice and film clips

• Africa for the Africans

• Gwendlyn B Bennett
  
  

• Shipping Lenin's Friends To Him

• Joe Hill IWW - Supreme Court Appeal (Utah)

• Mrs Robinson's Beauty Parlor (scroll down page to see image)

• Louis Armstrong's House, Video Tour (needs Quicktime)

• Patrick Quinlan "One Copy with the Woodrum Committee" - type Quinlan in the search box, click Search. Scroll down the resulting page to find pages 18 and 19.

• Woman Admitted to Klu Klux Klan

• 1924 Immigration Act

• Reminiscesses of a second generation Japanese immigrant

• Clevland Advocate - Prohibition is Enforced

• Boston to Honour Sacco and Vanzetti

• The Passing of the Great Race" Madison Grant

• Meyer v State of Nebraska 262 USA 390 (1923)

• Mrs Cora Lovell" - type Cora Lovell in the search box, click Search.

• American Imperialism: The Menace of the Greatest Capitalist World Power

• Reporter's Memo on the Beginnings of the Scopes Trial

• Introduction: F Scott Fitzgerald Poem

• Vanzetti’s court Address (1927) just before his execution

• Without Sanctuary: choose Photos then 24 - 26