From the End of World War I to the Great Crash
By James Ciment
Includes: Topic Finder, A-Z entries, sidebars, cultural landmarks, photos, master bibliography
Reviews:
“This two-volume illustrated encyclopedia brings together articles and thematic essays that capture the social, political, economic, and cultural spirit of the Jazz Age. ... School libraries, public libraries, and libraries serving undergraduates will find this unique resource a welcome addition to their collection.” Library Journal
“The strength of Ciment’s historical encyclopedias is the degree to which he captures the extent of social and economic change, and this one is no exception. The topics and biographies he selects carefully reflect the artistic, cultural and social achievements of the period as well as its political, military and economic realities. A solid apparatus supports further research, and an annotated list of cultural landmarks help students and teachers find resources that reflect the period. This well-prepared encyclopedia will serve high school, public and academic audiences.” John R.M. Lawrence, Gale Reference Reviews
“This encyclopedia is a welcome addition…. Essential.” Choice
“Teachers will appreciate the range of topics, and students will find the text accessible and engaging. Highly recommended for high school and public libraries.” Doug Achterman, Gale Reference Reviews
Description: This illustrated encyclopedia offers in-depth coverage of one of the most fascinating and widely studied periods in American history. Extending from the end of World War I in 1918 to the Wall Street crash in 1929, the Jazz Age was a time of frenetic energy and unprecedented historical developments, ranging from the League of Nations, woman suffrage, Prohibition, the Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan, the Lindberg flight, and the Scopes trial to the rise of organized crime, motion pictures, and celebrity culture.
Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age provides detailed information on the politics, economics, society, and culture of the era in a fast-paced narrative that will appeal to readers from senior high school through the undergraduate level. Entries cover themes, personalities, institutions, ideas, events, trends, and more; special features such as sidebars and cultural landmarks help bring the era vividly to life.
Contents:
Introduction: The Jazz Age, 1918–1929
Cultural Landmarks
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923)
Advertising
African Americans
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929
Agriculture
Air-Conditioning
Algonquin Round Table
Alien Property Custodian Scandal
American Civil Liberties Union
American Farm Bureau Federation
American Federation of Labor
American Mercury
Americanization
Anarchism
Anderson, Sherwood
Anti-Catholicism
Anti-Prohibition Movement
Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Semitism
Appliances, Household
Arbuckle (Fatty) Scandal
Architecture
Armstrong, Louis
Art, Fine
Asian Americans
Atlas, Charles
Automobile Industry
Automobiles and Automobile Culture
Aviation
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922)
Baker, Josephine
Baldwin, Roger
Baseball
Beauty Industry and Culture
Beiderbecke, Bix
Berger, Victor
Berlin, Irving
Bernays, Edward L.
Birth Control
Black Sox Scandal
Blues
Bohemianism
Borah, William
Boston Police Strike of 1919
Bow, Clara
Boxing
Brandeis, Louis
Bureau of Investigation
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Business, Economics, and Labor (overview)
Byrd, Richard E.
Canada
Capone, Al
Catholics and Catholicism
Celebrity Culture
Chamber of Commerce, U.S.
Chaplin, Charlie
Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Child Labor
Children and Child Rearing
China, Relations with
Cigarettes and Tobacco
Coal Industry
Coal Strike of 1919
Commerce Department, U.S.
Communist Party
Consumer and Popular Culture (overview)
Coolidge, Calvin
Country Music
Credit and Debt, Consumer
Crime, Organized
Criminal Punishment
Cummings, E.E.
Dance, Performance
Dance, Popular
Darrow, Clarence
Daugherty, Harry M.
Davis, John W.
Dawes, Charles
Dawes Plan (1924)
DeMille, Cecil B.
Demobilization, Industrial
Democratic Party
Dempsey, Jack
DePriest, Oscar
Design, Industrial
Dewey, John
Dominican Republic, Intervention in
Dos Passos, John
Dreiser, Theodore
Drugs, Illicit and Illegal
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Economic Policy
Ederle, Gertrude
Education, Elementary and Secondary
Education, Higher
Election of 1918
Election of 1920
Election of 1922
Election of 1924
Election of 1926
Election of 1928
Electricity Industry
Eliot, T.S.
Eugenics
Europe, Relations with
Evangelicals and Evangelical Christianity
Fads and Stunts
Fairbanks, Douglas
Family, Community, and Society (overview)
Farmer-Labor Party
Fashion, Men’s
Fashion, Women’s
Federal Highway Act of 1921
Federal Power Commission
Federal Radio Commission
Fiction
Film
Film Industry
Fisher, Carl
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and Zelda Fitzgerald
Florida Land Boom
Flu Pandemic (1918)
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
Food Administration, U.S.
Food and Diet
Football
Ford, Henry
Ford Motor Company
Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922
Foreign Affairs (overview)
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
Four-Power Treaty (1921)
Fourteen Points
Fundamentalism, Christian
Garvey, Marcus
Gary, Elbert H.
Gastonia Strike of 1929
General Electric
General Motors
Geneva Arms Convention of 1925
German Americans
Gershwin, George
Gish, Lillian
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Golf
Grange, Red
Haiti, Intervention in
Harding, Warren G.
Harlem Renaissance
Havana Conference of 1928
Health and Medicine
Hearst, William Randolph
Hemingway, Ernest
Hoboes
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Homosexuals and Homosexuality
Hood, Raymond
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edgar
Housing
Hughes, Langston
Immigration
Immigration Laws of 1921 and 1924
Industrial Workers of the World
Irish Americans
Italian Americans
Japan, Relations with
Jazz
Jewish Americans
Jones, Bobby
Journalism
Keaton, Buster
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
Kennedy, Joseph
King Tut’s Tomb
Ku Klux Klan
La Follette, Robert
Labor Movement
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain
Lasker, Albert
Latin America, Relations with
Latinos and Latinas
Law and the Courts
Lawrence Textile Strike of 1919
League of Nations
League of Women Voters
Leisure and Recreation
Leopold and Loeb Case (1924)
Lewis, John L.
Lewis, Sinclair
Lindbergh Flight (1927)
Locarno Treaties (1925)
Locke, Alain
Lost Generation
Luce, Henry
Lynching
Marriage, Divorce, and Family
Mayer, Louis B.
McAdoo, William G.
McKay, Claude
McPherson, Aimee Semple
Mead, Margaret
Mellon, Andrew
Mencken, H.L.
Mexico, Relations with
Migration, Great
Military Affairs
Mississippi Flood of 1927
Music, Classical
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association of Manufacturers
National City Bank
Native Americans
Ness, Eliot
New York Daily News
New Yorker, The
Nicaragua, Intervention in
Nonpartisan League
Normalcy
Norris, J. Frank
Office Work
Oil and Oil Industry
O’Keeffe, Georgia
Oliver, Joe “King”
O’Neill, Eugene
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Palmer, A. Mitchell
Paris Peace Conference of 1919
Parker, Dorothy
Passaic Textile Strike of 1926
Paul, Alice
Pickford, Mary
Poetry
Politics (overview)
Ponzi Schemes
Population and Demographics
Progressivism
Prohibition (1920–1933)
Prostitution
Protestantism, Mainstream
Psychology
Radio
Radio Corporation of America
Railroad Shopmen’s Strike of 1922
Railroads and Railroad Industry
Railway Labor Act (1926)
Reader’s Digest
Real Estate
Recession of 1921–1922
Red Scare of 1917–1920
Reparations and War Debts
Republican Party
Retail and Chain Stores
Rockne, Knute
Rogers, Will
Rosewood Massacre (1923)
Ross, Harold
Ruth, Babe
Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1920–1921)
Sanger, Margaret
Sarnoff, David
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Schultz, Dutch
Science
Scopes Trial (1925)
Seattle General Strike of 1919
Sex and Sexuality
Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)
Siberian Intervention
Sinclair, Harry
Sloan, Alfred P.
Smith, Al
Smith, Bessie
Snyder Act (1921)
Social Gospel
Socialism and the Socialist Party of America
Speakeasies
Steel Strike of 1919–1920
Stein, Gertrude
Stock Market
Strong, Benjamin, Jr.
Suburbs
Swanson, Gloria
Swope, Gerard
Taft, William Howard
Teapot Dome Scandal
Technology
Telephone and Telegraph
Tennis
Theater
Tilden, Bill
Time
Travel and Tourism
Tulsa Race Riots of 1921
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Vaudeville
Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
Veterans
Volstead Act (1919)
Walker, Jimmy
War Finance Corporation
Washington Naval Conference (1921–1922)
Wealth and Income
Weissmuller, Johnny
Welfare Capitalism
Wheeler, Burton K.
Wilson, Edith
Wilson, Woodrow
Women and Gender
Women’s Movement
Young Plan (1929–1930)
Youth
Cultural Landmarks
Art and Architecture
Literature: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
Performing Arts: Film, Theater, and Music
