Unit 9.4: Culture in Prosperity & Adversity U.S. History Content Standards: Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920’s and ‘30s. Harlem Renaissance (Lesson Sequence 2, Session 4) Harlem Renaissance Research Topics Timelines: Ad Access General timeline for 1920-25 http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess /timeline-1921.html Ad Access General timeline for 1926-30 http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess /timeline-1926.html Ad Access General timeline for 1930-35 http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess /timeline-1931.html Ad Access General timeline for 1936-40 http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess /timeline-1936.html Explain the international and domestic events, interests, and philosophies that prompted attacks on civil liberties and the rise of intolerance. Clash of Cultures Immigration restriction and the growth of the KKK in the 1910s and 20s. http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/ clash/Introduction/Intro.htm Red Scare Database of 137 images, including many political cartoons and photos of the Red Scare of 1918-1921. http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital /redscare/default.htm The Palmer Raids Links to primary sources from 1918-1921 that reflect both sides of the Red Scare and its impact on civil liberties. http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/red.html Only Yesterday An Informal History of the 1920s, by Frederick Lewis Allen; click on Chapter III: The Big Red Scare. http://xroads.virginia.edu/ ~HYPER/ALLEN/Cover.html Describe the urban and social reform movements under the leadership of W.E.B. DuBois, Jane Addams and Frances Willard with the initiation of the National Urban League and the NAACP. A Biographical Sketch of W.E.B. DuBois By Gerald C. Hynes; WEB DuBois Learning Center http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html Works by W. E. B. Du Bois Links to 9 of DuBois’ works. http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities /composition/assignments/dubois.html FBI: Freedom of Information Act DuBois’ FBI file, compiled because the FBI said he was affiliated with communist front groups. http://foia.fbi.gov/dubois.htm NAACP.org Timeline of NAACP history. http://www.naacp.org/past_future /naacptimeline.shtml National Urban League History of the National Urban League. http://www.nul.org/about/history.htm Jane Addams Hull House museum University of Illinois at Chicago http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/hull_house.html Jane Addams - Biography Nobel Prize website: she was too ill to give an acceptance speech, the presentation speech is there. http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1931 /addams-bio.html Temperance & Prohibition Many pages on temperance and prohibition http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu /Contents.htm Frances Willard A Nineteenth Century Leader OSU Prohibition site – bio info. on Frances Willard, abbreviated speech, interview, photos, and eulogy. http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/ projects/prohibition/willard/ Frances E. Willard Wisconson Electronic Reader - biographical information about Frances Willard http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext /WIReader/WER0105.html Explain the rise of the women’s movement; and its the significance in the 1920’s for American women; the passage of the 19th amendment, and the struggles of the leaders such as Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Carrie Chapman Catt. "The New Woman" Clash of Cultures - Ohio State University – new issues for women in the teens and twenties. http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects /clash/NewWoman/newwomen-page1.htm "Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less" Lesson – Library of Congress: The Learning Page http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu /lessons/99/suffrage/intro.html "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures Photos of women’s suffragists, 1850-1920 – Library of Congress: American Memory Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html One Hundred Years Towards Suffrage Timeline of women’s suffrage movement – LOC American Memory Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html "Votes for Women" National American Woman Suffrage Association; Library of Congress - American Memory Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html Alice Paul's Fight for Suffrage PBS American Experience site about Alice Paul http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kids/civilrights /features_suffrage.html Alice Paul: We Want to Vote Play about Alice Paul published in Junior Scholastic in 1994 – for performance in the classroom. http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro /lessonplans/womapaul.htm Elizabeth Cady Stanton Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton http://www.nps.gov/wori/ecs.htm Stanton & Anthony Papers Project Online Rutgers Univ. – primary source info, including letters and speeches. http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/ Declaration of Sentiments and the resolutions Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York, 19-20 July 1848; Rutgers University http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/seneca.html "Not for Ourselves Alone" PBS: Ken Burns documentary about Stanton and Anthony http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/ Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home Bio. info; info about suffrage, and articles http://www.catt.org/ About LWV (League of Women Voters) History of the League of Women Voters. http://www.lwv.org/about/pastfuture/past_history.html The Constitution: The 19th Amendment National Archives: Charters of Freedom exhibit. http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_ of_freedom/constitution/19th_amendment.html Describe the Harlem Renaissance and new trends in literature, art, and music and the impact of individuals such as Langston Hughes, Eubie Blake, and Rose McClendon. Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After Poets of the Harlem renaissance and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/exh/Exhibit.cfm?prmID=7 "Two Unreconciled Strivings" African-American identity in the Gilded Age, 1877-1915 (LOC American Memory). http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons /98/two/index.html Amazing Americans: Langston Hughes Bio on Langston Hughes from America’s Library, which is also a part of the Library of Congress site. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/hughes (James) Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Bio of Langston Hughes from PBS companion site to “I Hear America Singing” http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/hughes.html Langston Hughes: A Centennial Tribute Howard University site – extensive bio info and many links to other sites http://www.founders.howard.edu/reference /Langston_Hughes2.htm Eubie Blake Bio info on Eubie Blake, including audio of an interview with him. http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/magic/ saloon/blake.html "I'm Just Wild About Eubie..." Memories of Eubie Blake, including comments on his influence http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages /8735/8735.excerpt.html Analyze the growth and effects of radio and movies on the worldwide diffusion of popular culture. United States Early Radio History Articles & extracts about early radio and technology, concentrating on the U.S., from 1897 to 1927. http://earlyradiohistory.us/index.html "Thank You, Mr. Edison" Electricity, Innovation, and Social Change – Library of Congress American Memory lesson plan. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons /99/edison/intro.html Inventing Entertainment Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies – LOC American Memory Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html Explain the emergence of a modern market economy and its effects on mass culture. Prosperity and Thrift Library of Congress American Memory site: The Coolidge Era & the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ coolhtml/coolhome.html The Roaring Twenties Slouching Towards Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century; Chapter XIII. http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/ Slouch_roaring13.html The 1920s and the Start of the Depression, 1921-1933 U.S. Department of Labor website. http://www.dol.gov/asp/programs/history /dolchp02.htm Describe the monetary issues of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that gave rise to the establishment of the Federal Reserve and weaknesses in key sectors of the economy. Fed 101 US Banking and the Federal Reserve – a timeline http://www.kc.frb.org/fed101/history/ Analyze the principal explanations of the causes of the Great Depression and steps taken by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and the President to combat the economic crisis. On This Day: 10/29/29 New York Times article from October 30, 1929 reporting on the stock market crash http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/ onthisday/big/1029.html The Great Crash and the Great Slump Slouching Towards Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century; Chapter XIV. http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/ Slouch_Crash14.html Hoover Online Electronic research room for the Hoover Presidential Library – documents from the Hoover presidency . http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/ The Fed’s Depression and the Birth of the New Deal Policy Review Online; By Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton http://www.policyreview.org/AUG01/roberts.html Explain the effects of the Great Depression on workers, farmers, gender roles, and various social and ethnic groups. Voices from the Dust Bowl Library of Congress American Memory lesson plan http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html The Dust Bowl Library of Congress "The Learning Page" - Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/ timeline/depwwii/dustbowl/dustbowl.html Race Relations in the 1930s and 1940s Library of Congress "The Learning Page" - Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/ timeline/depwwii/race/race.html The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 Extensive review of the 1940 movie “The Grapes of Wrath,” based on John Steinbeck’s novel. http://www.filmsite.org/grap.html Explain the arguments for and against the New Deal. Americans React to the Great Depression Library of Congress "The Learning Page" - Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features /timeline/depwwii/depress/depress.html President Franklin Delano Roosevelt & the Great Deal Library of Congress "The Learning Page" - Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features /timeline/depwwii/newdeal/newdeal.html The New Deal Network Sponsored by the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute & the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University. http://newdeal.feri.org/ FDR Cartoons Created by Niskayuna (NY) High School – associated with the FDR Presidential Library http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/FDRcartoons.html Evaluate the successes and failures of the relief, recovery, and reform measures of the New Deal and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy. Labor Unions During the Great Depression and the New Deal Library of Congress "The Learning Page" - Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features /timeline/depwwii/unions/unions.html The New Deal Network Sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University. http://newdeal.feri.org/ From the New Deal to a New Century Tennessee Valley Authority website http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/history.htm FDR Cartoons Created by Niskayuna (NY) High School – associated with the FDR Presidential Library http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/FDRcartoons.html Economics Analyze the development and long-term effects of business, farm, and labor organizations on the United States economy. Labor Unions During the Great Depression and the New Deal Library of Congress "The Learning Page" - Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features /timeline/depwwii/unions/unions.html Geography Explain the political, economic, social, and environmental factors that contribute to the route, flow, and destination of human migration and the effect of migration on the character of both the origin and destination of places. Voices from the Dust Bowl Library of Congress American Memory lesson plan http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html The Dust Bowl Library of Congress "The Learning Page" - Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features /timeline/depwwii/dustbowl/dustbowl.html Return to U.S. History Resources

Return to SS Resources & Links U.S. History (1865-Present) 9.1: "Continuity and Change" 9.2: "Complex Change Transforms American Society" 9.3: "The United States and a World Identity" 9.4: "Culture in Prosperity and Adversity" 9.5: "The Common Good" 9.6: "The Struggle for Power in Postwar America" 9.7: "Balance in Foreign Policy" 9.8: "Patterns in Contemporary America" Elementary: Kindergarten Grade One Grade Two Grade Three Grade Four Grade Five USDE Teaching American History Grant * Grades 4 and 5 Corps of Historical Discovery Middle School: Grade Six Grade Seven Grade Eight High School: U.S. History NSL Government Modern World History