1910-1919

Scope|Overview Sources|Personalities and Events|Notable Fiction|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications|Videos

SCOPE: During this decade America emerged as the richest nation in the world. It was a decade of causes with women's suffrage to secure the right to vote and prohibition, which would place a damper on the consumption and sale of alcohol. The government underwent reform. Three million American men were drafted and two million volunteered to serve during World War I. 100,000 men lost their lives. (Layman, American Decades)

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF E 169.1 .B664 American Chronicle

REF E 169.12.A419 American Decades, 1910-1919

REF E 161.T55 This Fabulous Century 1910-1920

REF E 174.5.W46 1991 The U.S.A: A Chronicle in Pictures

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection (located upstairs in the library)

PERSONALITIES AND EVENTS

Chesler, Ellen. Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Clements, Kendrick A. The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 1992.

Hickman, Larry. John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Jakab, Peter L. Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.

Livesay, Harold C. Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.

Paris, Michael. The First World War and Popular Cinema: 1914 to the Present. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

Rolling, Peter C. Hollywood's World War I: Motion Picture Images. Bowling Greenroom: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 197.

Wilson, David. Rutherford, Simple Genius. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1983.

NOTABLE FICTION

Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio. New York: Viking Press, 1960.

Cather, Willa. O pioneers! Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Cather, Willa. My Antonia. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

Dreiser, Theodore. Jennie Gerhardt. New York: Dell Pub. Co; 1963.

Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. New York: Scribner, 1939.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

• United States History-General

Open Access Journals in History

VIDEOS

D592 .L8 S5 2001 Sinking the Lusitania