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Cosmetics, which until the 1920s were not typically accepted in American society because of their association with prostitution, became extremely popular. [ 73 ] In the 1920s, new magazines appealed to young German women with a sensuous image and advertisements for the appropriate clothes and accessories they would want to purchase.
Sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd conducted a major study of American society during the 1920s. In 1929, they published their research in a book titled Middletown . "Middletown" was the name used to disguise Muncie, Indiana, the actual place where they conducted their research.
Under the multi-national Dawes Plan, American and British banks loaned money to Germany to stabilize its currency and expand production, which then allowed it to pay reparations to countries like Britain and France. [18] In the 1920s, European and American economies reached new levels of industrial production and prosperity.
Historian Alonzo Hamby describes American progressivism as a "political movement that addresses ideas, impulses, and issues stemming from modernization of American society. Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century, it established much of the tone of American politics throughout the first half of the century." [1]
The American Class Structure: In An Age of Growing Inequality (Wadsworth, 2002) Newby, I. A. Plain Folk in the New South: Social Change and Cultural Persistence, 1880–1915 (1989). concentrates on the mill workers in the Carolinas and Georgia; Owsley, Frank Lawrence. Plain Folk of the Old South (1949), the classic study; Seal, Andrew.
1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...
Years ago, Loftin uncovered and published for the first time a collection of letters that readers had submitted in the 1950s and '60s to One Magazine, an early gay rights publication founded in ...