nineteen twenties

Cross-disciplinary source spanning the 20th century. Each volume in the set includes full or excerpted primary sources representing the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from a decade. Includes oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws , legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoons, recipes, and more.

Cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history.

"Discusses the decade 1920-1929 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics"--Provided by publisher.

"When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he has no idea that the mansion next to his modest house is home to the ostentatiously wealthy Jay Gatsby. When Gatsby shows intense interest in Nick's cousin Daisy Buchanan, her husband, Tom, begins probing into Gatsby's background with dangerous earnestness"--Dust jacket.

"In Prohibition-era Washington, [DC,] three best friends investigate their beloved headmistress's murder as dark secrets and new feelings start to arise among them"--Provided by publisher.

"With a notorious forger preying on New York's high society, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Lauren Westlake is just the expert needed to track down the criminal. As she and Detective Joe Caravello search for the truth, the closer they get to discovering the forger's identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime"--Provided by publisher.

"Content warnings: Scenarios involving emotional abuse, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety, suicidal ideation, violence, murder, and mentions of a race massacre"--Author's website.

"Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle. She forms a plan to go north, to pack up the secrets she's holding about her life in the South and hang them on the line for all to see. As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives"--Provided by publisher.

"1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven, whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie's empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho's gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost"--Provided by publisher.

"When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he has no idea that the mansion next to his modest house is home to the ostentatiously wealthy Jay Gatsby. When Gatsby shows intense interest in Nick's cousin Daisy Buchanan, her husband, Tom, begins probing into Gatsby's background with dangerous earnestness"--Inside front flap.