Through art and text, lesson explores Modernism through the airplane as a symbol in the 1920s. Content includes questions for analysis and discussion, follow-up, and guide for discussing art.

A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information on the Jazz Age, a period in U.S. history associated with exuberance and the introduction of jazz music.

A historic look at the earliest wave of Russian immigration to the United States, which began in the late nineteenth century and continued up to the passage of restrictive immigration laws in the 1920s. With details about how World War I...

Learn about Carl Van Vechten, a U.S. novelist, music and drama critic, and an influential figure in New York literary circles in the 1920s.