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SCOPE: The decade of the 1920s was a period of glitz and glamour as well as moral decadence and decay. Some of the most prolific writers of our time such as Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Pound, and Lewis, created literary masterpieces that are still read and studied by college students today. The Wright Brothers made their first flight, Henry Ford created the automobile, and women got to vote. Significant changes occurred in society that greatly influences the way we live today. This pathfinder will serve as a guideline in locating library resources that will provide an in-depth analysis of this topic.

OVERVIEW SOURCES (located in the Reference Collection )

REF E169.1.D796 2004 The 1920s

REF E 169.1.B664 1990 American Chronicle

REF E 169.12.A419 American Decades 1920-1929

REF E 169.02.M3547 1997 Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939, Decades of Promise and Pain

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

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection are:

NOTABLE FICTION

Cather, Willa. The Professor's House. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.

Cummings, E.E. The Enormous Room. New York: Modern Library, 1922.

Dos Passos, John. Three Soldiers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. New York: Buccanneer Books, 1976.

Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Modern Library, 1946.

Firda, Richard Arthur. All Quiet on the Western Front. New York: Buccaneer Books, 1983.

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Scribner, 1929.

Huxley, Aldous. Antic Hay. New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1983.

Joyce, James. The Portable James Joyce. New York: Penguin Books, 1976.

Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. New York: Bantam Books, 1983.

Lawrence, D.H. Women in Love. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960.

Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith; Elmer Gantry; Dodsworth. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2002.

Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. New York: Library of America, 1992.

Love, Glen A. Babbitt: An American Life. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993.

Toomer, Jean. Cane. New York: Liveright, 1975.

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life. New York: Scribner, 1952.

Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.

PERSONALITIES AND EVENTS

Armstrong, Louis. Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Avrich, Paul. Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Berg, A. Scott. Lindbergh. New York: G.P. Putnams, 1998.

Blair, Fredrika. Isadora: Portrait of the Artist as a Woman. New York: Quill, 1986.

Cochrane, Dorothy. The Aviation Careers of Igor Sikorsky. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989.

Cowley, Malcolm. Exiles Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s. New York: Penguin Books, 1976.

Fass, Paula S. The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash, 1929. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Hammond, Bryan. Josephine Baker. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991.

Harrison, Daphne Duval. Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Howard, Jane. Margaret Mead, a Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

Kraditor, Aileen S. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920. New York: Norton, 1981.

Lee, Henry C. Famous Crimes Revisited: From Sacco-Vanzetti to O.J. Simpson, Including Lindbergh Kidnapping, Sam Sheppard, John F. Kennedy, Vincent Foster, Jon Benet Ramsey. Southington, CT: Strong Books, 2001.

Lacey, Robert. Ford, the Men and the Machine. Boston: Little, Brown, 1986.

Leff, Leonard J. The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.

Madsen, Axel. Chanel: A Woman of Her Own. New York: H.Holt, 1990.

Rose, Phyllis. Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

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

United States History-General

American Prospect

Magazine of History

National Interest

Open Access Journals in History

VIDEOS

Video 177 The Great Waldo Pepper

TL540 .L5 L56 1990 Lindbergh: The Shocking, Turbulent Life of Americas Lone Eagle

D422 .P46 1998 v.6 People's Century 1927, Great Escape

UG633 .T46 1984 Those Magnificent Flying Fighting Machines

E785 .T83 1991 The Twenties

CDs

Audio CD 64 A Sampler of Decca Jazz, 1927-1949

Updated 08/22/2007