History Unbound: 1920s

The collection consists of minutes from the William Clinton Story American Legion Post for the years 1919-1927, showing their recreation and charitable work.

Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, spent the summer of 1926 at White Pine Camp in Paul Smiths, New York.

Charles H. Stoll came to Hicksville on Long Island in 1909 becoming, at that time, the town’s second lawyer. He financed and made a notable expedition to Alaska in 1928, documented here.

A collection of menus from all of the states and over 80 countries, as well as ships, railroads and airlines, narrowed by search filter to the 1920s.

Glenn Curtiss's Garden City factory was the first aircraft factory in the world to concentrate on new aircraft designs, rather than production. Between 1918 and 1931, Curtiss developed some of the best-known aircraft of aviation’s ‘Golden Age’ on Long Island.

The scrapbooks cover Rochester area radio news and events from 1922-1938.

The collection is comprised of black-and-white photographs taken between 1911 and 1927 at a cabin in the Adirondacks which was used for camping and hunting. The subjects of the photographs are High Falls Club members, their cabin, and hunted game.

This collection of scrapbooks contains photographs of Highland Hospital, the doctors, nurses, and the nursing students during the 1920s. Many of the photographs are labelled with names and dates.

The Rochester Homelands Exhibition was part of a national response to the "red scares" after World War I -- encouraging familiarity with the traditional arts and crafts of the cultures of immigrants to the US, and welcoming ethnic newcomers to the Rochester community. The exhibition, held on the grounds of Exposition Park, was hugely successful, attracting a total of 160,000 visitors.

This collection consists of patterns drawn to scale and finished with watercolor paints in order to imitate the colors of the actual quilts upon which the representations are based.

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (1861 - 1925) was known for many things, including being a philosopher and social reformer. He was the founder of an esoteric spiritual movement known as anthroposophy, which involved both spirituality and natural sciences.

The College of Saint Rose was founded in 1920 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet as a Roman Catholic college for women.

An exhibition of primary sources, especially from the midwest, about Prohibition.

In order to appreciate historical fiction, students need to understand the factual context and recognize how popular culture reflects the values, mores, and events of the time period. Since a newspaper records significant events and attitudes representative of a period, students create their own newspapers using primary source materials from the Library of Congress online collections.

In this lesson, students will be historians examining documents, trying to find out why "the great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far reaching in purpose" as Herbert Hoover called it, did not work. Students should try to identify the changing values and cultural pressures at the beginning of the 20th century. How are these similar to and different from those we are experiencing at the advent of the 21st century? What can we learn from Prohibition? How can we compare it to our own war on drugs? What cultural movements are happening today that relate to this time in American history? Use these questions and others to guide your students through their research on this "experiment."

Library of Congress primary source set.

Teacher's guide by the Library of Congress to accompany the primary source set.