LibGuides: American History: APUSH 1920s

1920s Primary Sources

America in the 1920s
BECOMING MODERN presents an expansive collection of primary sources designed to enhance classroom study of the 1920s—a brief but defining period in American history, perhaps the first that seems immediately recognizable to us in the 21st century.
Ad*Access Duke Repository
The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Digital Public Library of America
Explore the DPLA collection by decade for primary source materials.
Prosperity and Thrift from LOC
A wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in this transition.
The Roaring Twenties
Supporting features such as complaints, documents, official responses, articles from the New York Times, newsreels, laws and Noise Abatement Commission (NYC) responses provide context to the historic view of the soundscape.
WWW-VL 1920s
From the World Wide Web-Virtual Library. Documents, pictures, paintings, speeches and other primary sources from the decade.
LOC Audio Recordings
Audio Recordings from 1920 - 1929.
CNU Primary Source Guide for the 1920s
Areas include: Culture, Music, Arts, KKK, Gangsters, Religion, Court Cases, People and much more.

American Decades Primary Sources by Cynthia Rose (Editor)
ISBN: 0787665908
Publication Date: 2003-12-05

American Decades, 1920-1929 by Manly
ISBN: 0810357240
Publication Date: 1995-11-20
From Ballots to Breadlines by Sarah Jane Deutsch
ISBN: 0195124065
Publication Date: 1998-03-26
A Chance to Make Good by James R. Grossman; Earl Lewis (Editor); Robin D. G. Kelley (Editor)
ISBN: 0195087704
Publication Date: 1997-04-24
Flappers and the New American Woman by Catherine Gourley
ISBN: 0822560607
Publication Date: 2007-01-09
Contemporary Musicians by Gale Editors
ISBN: 141448075X
Publication Date: 2012-06-01
This Fabulous Century, 1920-1930 by Time-Life Books Staff
ISBN: 0809457660
Publication Date: 1985-01-01

History Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is an online library of trusted academic research. It includes thousands of journals, ebooks, and primary sources. Used at over 5,000 colleges and universities, JSTOR encompasses over 75 disciplines.
AP Source This link opens in a new window
Covering a wide array of subject areas from the arts and multicultural studies to the STEM subjects, Advanced Placement Source offers students the essential research materials to achieve academic success in honors, AP or IB programs.
EBSCO Complete This link opens in a new window
A Comprehensive list of the databases available from our EBSCO collection. Just click the database(s) you would like to search, or search the whole collection, for the information that you need.
Classroom Video on Demand This link opens in a new window
A compilation of Films Media Group's best high school/college-level video content spanning the core subject areas. The Master Curriculum Collection, has 9,300 titles / 120,300 segments and 24/7 access to titles.

Newsbank Access World News AND Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Access World News includes sources from around the world from Newspapers, wire services, transcripts, magazines, and videos. Includes full-text coverage of global issues and events, local, state, regional, national and international perspectives as well as hundreds of primary sources

America's Historical Newspapers include first-hand primary source accounts of history as it happened from Colonization through Globalization (1690 - 2000) and today’s Information Age. Digital reproductions of hundreds of titles as they appeared in print from all states at the local, state, national, Native American, and African American newspapers.