Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Middletown: A Study in American Culture was primarily a look at changes in the white population of a typical American city between 1890 and 1925, a period of great economic change. The Lynds used the "approach of the cultural anthropologist " (see field research and social anthropology ), existing documents, statistics, old newspapers ...
Van Der Zee's work was the eyes of Harlem. His photographs are recognized as important documents of African-American life and culture during the early 20th century. They serve as a visual record of the achievements of the Harlem Renaissance. [48] Kelli Jones called him "the official chronicler of the Harlem Renaissance."
1920s: Energy. During the 1920s, while fragmented electricity grids were just maturing in towns and cities (the national grid not coming on until 1933), petroleum and to a lesser extent natural ...
During World War I, Mary Dennett focused her efforts on the peace movement, but she returned to the birth control movement in 1918. [81] She continued to lead the NBCL, and collaborated with Sanger's NYWPC. In 1919, Dennett published a widely distributed educational pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life, which treated sex as a natural and enjoyable ...
A series of efforts were made by the United States to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920. [1] [2] George Washington and Henry Knox were first to propose, in the American context, the cultural assimilation of Native Americans. [3]
July 10 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006). July 11 – David Challinor, American biologist, naturalist and scientific administrator at the Smithsonian Institution (died 2008). July 25 – Rosalind Franklin, English crystallographer (died 1958). July 30 – Marie Tharp, American geologist (died 2006).
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 ...