Students learn of the Return to Normalcy; automobile culture; flappers and the Revolution in Manners and Morals; the consumer revolution and rise of advertising; motion pictures; the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age; social polarization; Prohibition; rebirth of the KKK; the Scopes Trial; the Golden Age of sports.
In her diary, 10-year-old Hope writes about her life as a patriot in 1777 Philadelphia, as the Redcoats try to take over her city and defeat the Continental Army.