ILLINOIS TRAILS Welcomes You To The 1920s!

Probably one of the most dramatic decades in United States history, the 1920s had it all.   Women's rights, political scandals, crimes of the century, and economic upheaval. This was a time where the old and the new clashed, and that clash caused some of the most sensational events in our history. Links Checked and Updated March 22, 2005 The Great Depression The Great Depression The New York Stock Exchange Timeline Black Thursday, 24 October, 1929 The Herbert Hoover Library The Main Causes of the Depression Social Overview - The Great Depression Myths of the Great Depression We Made Do Reminiscences of the Great Depression Railroad Monthly Compensations, by Occupation, 1924-1931 Prohibition Wickershaw Commission's Volstead Act (18th Amendment) Temperence and Prohibition Prohibition History of Alcohol Prohibition The Politics of Prohibition World League Against Alcoholism Prohibition Photographs Photographs from the Brown Library View a Temperence Fan Prohibition Ribbon "Repeal the 18th Amendment" Ribbon The Players The Crime Library: Al Capone Chicago Historical Society: Al Capone Eliot Ness St. Valentine's Day Massacre The Purple Gang - Bootlegger's Paradise Suffrage Movement Biographies of Campaigners for Women's Rights National Woman Suffrage Association American Woman Suffrage Association National American Woman Suffrage Association National Association of Colored Women Congressional Union for Women Suffrage National Consumers League Women's Trade Union League League of Women Voters Living the Legacy - The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998 Timeline of Legal History of Women in the United States Suffragists Oral History Project Interviews with 12 suffragists including Alice Paul, Jeannette Rankin. The Long Road to Suffrage From Seneca Falls to the 1920s: an overview of the woman suffrage movement The Politics of the 1920s Woodrow Wilson Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge The Teapot Dome Scandal The Palmer Raids J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover The Election of 1920 The Red Scare Famous Trials of the 1920s The Scopes Trial Tennessee vs. John Scopes - The "Monkey Trial", 1925 The Scopes "Monkey Trial" William Jennings Bryan Clarence Seward Darrow The Sacco-Vansetti Trial The Sacco-Vansetti Case Crime Library's The Legacy of Sacco & Vansetti The Leopold and Loeb Trial The Leopold and Loeb Trial From the Crime Library Clarence Darrow's Statement The Black Sox Trial The Black Sox Trial - An account of The 1919 Chicago White Sox team scandal Aviation Highlights The Spirit of St. Louis Secrets of the Spirit The Spirit of St. Louis Story PBS - The American Experience on Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis Amelia - the Early Years, the Celebrity and the Last Flight PBS - Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart's Family Tree Movies, Music and Style Great Silent Films The Silents Majority - silent film The History of Broadcasting A Timeline of Broadcasting 1925 A Year in Review Women's Fashions in the 1920s Flapper Style and Culture Flapper Station The Stork Club Speakeasies 1920s Slang (Terminology) Duke Ellington Radio Ads and Cover Art Radio Days Music Doc Scantlin and His Imperial Palms Orchestra Jazz - Harlem Renaissance Roaring 20's audios African-American Sheet Music - 1850-1920 Other Highlights of the 1920s Report on Rosewood The Boston Police Strike The West VA Mine Wars Murderer's Row ESPN Sports History Pages Leaded Gas Scare of the 1920s Aftermath, when the boys came home The Trenton Police Museum San Francisco Police, the 1920s The Margaret Sanger Papers Immigration in the 1920s History by the side of the road Politics of Sex, 1923 The Ku Klux Klan Bell Labs Innovations and Pioneers The Jr. League of Brooklyn Agricultural changes in the 1920s Henry Ford Museum The History of General Motors Research 1920's Automobiles American Culture in the 1920s At The Tomb of Tutankhamen Elkus Indian Papers The Wolf Lewkowicz Collection The American Memories Collection American Variety Stage, 1870-1920 The Evolution of the Conversation Movement, 1850-1920 African American Odyssey Photogtraphs, Prints and Drawings Textual Collections Sites Covering the 1920s 1920s Technology 1920s Timeline The Roaring 20s Another Roaring 20s Page For Fun! Felix The Cat Dinky Dog Cartoon The Vintage Vacuum Museum Visit the Time Capsule - here they have all sorts of information online for each day in history.  Search for 1920s events! The US Timeline GIF - This GIF shows the nation as it changes over time. Return to Illinois Trails Main Page  You are the 766827th visitor to our site ©2005 Kim Torp ©1998 Susan Cook