LibGuides: ENG410: The Great Gatsby: Research the 1920's

Researching the 1920's

The Twenties in America
Call Number: e-book and print

Encyclopedia provides background essays on topics such as prohibition and organized crime.
The Roaring Twenties: An Eyewitness History by Thomas Streissguth
Call Number: e-book

Publication Date: 2001

Note: Also have a print copy in the library.

American Periodicals Series Online
Sample advanced search: prohibition with date range 1920-1929

More than 1,000 American magazines and newspapers published between 1741 and 1940.
ARTstor
Sample searches:
flapper
ford model t

Digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.
Naxos Music Library
Sample search: 1920s

Provider of streaming access to the entire Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of recordings. Works are searchable by composer, artist, period, year of composition, instrument or genre, and descriptive information about the works, artists and composers is included in the database.

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