ABSTRACT
This illustrated encyclopedia offers in-depth coverage of one of the most fascinating and widely studied periods in American history. Extending from the end of World War I in 1918 to the great Wall Street crash in 1929, the Jazz age was a time of frenetic energy and unprecedented historical developments, ranging from the League of Nations, woman suffrage, Prohibition, the Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan, the Lindberg flight, and the Scopes trial, to the rise of organized crime, motion pictures, and celebrity culture."Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age" provides information on the politics, economics, society, and culture of the era in rich detail. The entries cover themes, personalities, institutions, ideas, events, trends, and more; and special features such as sidebars and photos help bring the era vividly to life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |297 pages
Volume One
part |35 pages
Essays
part |261 pages
A—H Entries
letter |48 pages
A
entry |2 pages
Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923)
entry |2 pages
Advertising
entry |6 pages
African Americans
entry |2 pages
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929
entry |4 pages
Agriculture
entry |2 pages
Air-Conditioning
entry |2 pages
Algonquin Round Table
entry |2 pages
Alien Property Custodian Scandal
entry |2 pages
American Civil Liberties Union
entry |2 pages
American Farm Bureau Federation
entry |2 pages
American Federation of Labor
entry |2 pages
American Mercury
entry |2 pages
Americanization
entry |5 pages
Anarchism
entry |2 pages
Anderson, Sherwood (1876—1941)
entry |3 pages
Anti-Catholicism
entry |2 pages
Anti-Prohibition Movement
entry |2 pages
Anti-Saloon League
entry |2 pages
Anti-Semitism
entry |3 pages
Appliances, Household
entry |2 pages
Arbuckle (Fatty) Scandal
entry |5 pages
Architecture
entry |2 pages
Armstrong, Louis (1901—1971)
entry |3 pages
Art, Fine
entry |2 pages
Asian Americans
entry |2 pages
Atlas, Charles (1892—1972)
entry |3 pages
Automobile Industry
entry |3 pages
Automobiles and Automobile Culture
entry |3 pages
Aviation
letter |34 pages
B
entry |2 pages
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922)
entry |2 pages
Baker, Josephine (1906—1975)
entry |3 pages
Baldwin, Roger (1884—1981)
entry |3 pages
Baseball
entry |4 pages
Beauty Industry and Culture
entry |2 pages
Beiderbecke, Bix (1903—1931)
entry |3 pages
Berger, Victor (1860—1929)
entry |2 pages
Berlin, Irving (1888—1989)
entry |2 pages
Bernays, Edward L. (1891—1995)
entry |2 pages
Birth Control
entry |2 pages
Black Sox Scandal
entry |2 pages
Blues
entry |4 pages
Bohemianism
entry |3 pages
Borah, William (1865—1940)
entry |2 pages
Boston Police Strike of 1919
entry |2 pages
Bow, Clara (1905—1965)
entry |3 pages
Boxing
entry |3 pages
Brandeis, Louis (1856—1941)
entry |2 pages
Bureau of Investigation
entry |2 pages
Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875—1950)
entry |3 pages
Byrd, Richard E. (1888—1957)
letter |37 pages
C
entry |5 pages
Canada
entry |2 pages
Capone, Al (1899—1947)
entry |3 pages
Catholics and Catholicism
entry |4 pages
Celebrity Culture
entry |2 pages
Chamber of Commerce, U.S.
entry |3 pages
Chaplin, Charlie (1889—1977)
entry |2 pages
Chicago Race Riot of 1919
entry |2 pages
Child Labor
entry |3 pages
Children and Child Rearing
entry |2 pages
China, Relations with
entry |2 pages
Cigarettes and Tobacco
entry |2 pages
Coal Industry
entry |2 pages
Coal Strike of 1919
entry |2 pages
Commerce Department, U.S.
entry |3 pages
Communist Party
entry |3 pages
Coolidge, Calvin (1872—1933)
entry |2 pages
Country Music
entry |2 pages
Credit and Debt, Consumer
entry |5 pages
Crime, Organized
entry |3 pages
Criminal Punishment
entry |2 pages
Cummings, E.E. (1894—1962)
letter |27 pages
D
entry |2 pages
Dance, Performance
entry |2 pages
Dance, Popular
entry |2 pages
Darrow, Clarence (1857—1938)
entry |3 pages
Daugherty, Harry M. (1860—1941)
entry |2 pages
Davis, John W. (1873—1955)
entry |2 pages
Dawes, Charles (1865—1951)
entry |1 pages
Dawes Plan (1924)
entry |2 pages
DeMille, Cecil B. (1881—1959)
entry |3 pages
Demobilization, Industrial
entry |3 pages
Democratic Party
entry |2 pages
Dempsey, Jack (1895—1983)
entry |2 pages
Depriest, Oscar (1871—1951)
entry |2 pages
Design, Industrial
entry |3 pages
Dewey, John (1859—1952)
entry |2 pages
Dominican Republic, Intervention in
entry |2 pages
Dos Passos, John (1896—1970)
entry |3 pages
Dreiser, Theodore (1871—1945)
entry |3 pages
Drugs, Illicit and Illegal
entry |2 pages
Du Bois, W.E.B. (1868—1963)
letter |25 pages
E
entry |4 pages
Economic Policy
entry |2 pages
Ederle, Gertrude (1906—2003)
entry |3 pages
Education, Elementary and Secondary
entry |3 pages
Education, Higher
entry |2 pages
Election of 1918
entry |2 pages
Election of 1920
entry |2 pages
Election of 1922
entry |3 pages
Election of 1924
entry |1 pages
Election of 1926
entry |2 pages
Election of 1928
entry |2 pages
Electricity Industry
entry |3 pages
Eliot, T.S. (1888—1965)
entry |1 pages
Eugenics
entry |5 pages
Europe, Relations with
entry |3 pages
Evangelicals and Evangelical Christianity
entry |1 pages
Expatriates
letter |46 pages
F
entry |4 pages
Fads and Stunts
entry |2 pages
Fairbanks, Douglas (1883—1939)
entry |2 pages
Farmer-Labor Party
entry |3 pages
Fashion, Men's
entry |2 pages
Fashion, Women's
entry |1 pages
Federal Bureau of Investigation
entry |2 pages
Federal Highway Act of 1921
entry |2 pages
Federal Power Commission
entry |2 pages
Federal Radio Commission
entry |8 pages
Fiction
entry |3 pages
Film
entry |2 pages
Film Industry
entry |3 pages
Fisher, Carl (1874—1939)
entry |3 pages
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896—1940), and Zelda Fitzgerald (1900—1948)
entry |2 pages
Florida Land Boom
entry |4 pages
Flu Pandemic (1918)
entry |2 pages
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley (1890—1964)
entry |2 pages
Food Administration, U.S.
entry |4 pages
Food and Diet
entry |3 pages
Football
entry |2 pages
Ford, Henry (1863—1947)
entry |2 pages
Ford Motor Company
entry |3 pages
Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922
entry |2 pages
Fosdick, Harry Emerson (1878—1969)
entry |2 pages
Four-Power Treaty (1921)
entry |2 pages
Fourteen Points
entry |3 pages
Fundamentalism, Christian
letter |15 pages
G
entry |3 pages
Garvey, Marcus (1887—1940)
entry |2 pages
Gary, Elbert H. (1846—1927)
entry |2 pages
Gastonia Strike of 1929
entry |2 pages
General Electric
entry |2 pages
General Motors
entry |2 pages
Geneva Arms Convention of 1925
entry |2 pages
German Americans
entry |3 pages
Gershwin, George (1898—1937)
entry |2 pages
Gish, Lillian (1893—1993)
entry |2 pages
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
entry |2 pages
Golf
entry |2 pages
Grange, Red (1903—1991)
letter |27 pages
H
entry |2 pages
Haiti, Intervention in
entry |3 pages
Harding, Warren G. (1865—1923)
entry |3 pages
Harlem Renaissance
entry |2 pages
Havana Conference of 1928
entry |5 pages
Health and Medicine
entry |3 pages
Hearst, William Randolph (1863—1951)
entry |2 pages
Hemingway, Ernest (1899—1961)
entry |2 pages
Hoboes
entry |2 pages
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841—1935)
entry |3 pages
Homosexuals and Homosexuality
entry |2 pages
Hood, Raymond (1881—1934)
entry |3 pages
Hoover, Herbert (1874—1964)
entry |2 pages
Hoover, J. Edgar (1895—1972)
entry |3 pages
Housing
entry |2 pages
Hughes, Langston (1902—1967)
part |280 pages
Volume Two
part |280 pages
I—Z Entries
letter |8 pages
I
entry |4 pages
Immigration
entry |2 pages
Immigration Laws of 1921 and 1924
entry |2 pages
Industrial Workers of the World
entry |2 pages
Irish Americans
entry |2 pages
Italian Americans
letter |10 pages
J
entry |2 pages
Japan, Relations with
entry |3 pages
Jazz
entry |2 pages
Jewish Americans
entry |2 pages
Jones, Bobby (1902—1971)
entry |4 pages
Journalism
letter |9 pages
K
entry |2 pages
Keaton, Buster (1895—1966)
entry |2 pages
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
entry |3 pages
Kennedy, Joseph (1888—1969)
entry |2 pages
King Tut's Tomb
entry |4 pages
Ku Klux Klan
letter |35 pages
L
entry |2 pages
La Follette, Robert (1855—1925)
entry |5 pages
Labor Movement
entry |2 pages
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain (1866—1944)
entry |2 pages
Lasker, Albert (1880—1952)
entry |3 pages
Latin America, Relations with
entry |3 pages
Latinos and Latinas
entry |5 pages
Law and the Courts
entry |2 pages
Lawrence Textile Strike of 1919
entry |3 pages
League of Nations
entry |2 pages
League of Women Voters
entry |5 pages
Leisure and Recreation
entry |2 pages
Leopold and Loeb Case (1924)
entry |2 pages
Lewis, John L. (1880—1969)
entry |3 pages
Lewis, Sinclair (1885—1951)
entry |2 pages
Lindbergh Flight (1927)
entry |1 pages
Literature
entry |2 pages
Locarno Treaties (1925)
entry |2 pages
Locke, Alain (1885—1954)
entry |2 pages
Lost Generation
entry |3 pages
Luce, Henry (1898—1967)
entry |2 pages
Lynching
letter |19 pages
M
entry |3 pages
Marriage, Divorce, and Family
entry |2 pages
Mayer, Louis B. (1882-1957)
entry |2 pages
McAdoo, William G. (1863-1941)
entry |3 pages
McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
entry |2 pages
McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944)
entry |3 pages
Mead, Margaret (1901-1978)
entry |1 pages
Medicine
entry |2 pages
Mellon, Andrew (1855-1937)
entry |3 pages
Mencken, H.L. (1880-1956)
entry |2 pages
Mexico, Relations with
entry |2 pages
Migration, Great
entry |3 pages
Military Affairs
entry |2 pages
Mississippi Flood of 1927
entry |2 pages
Music, Classical
letter |14 pages
N
entry |2 pages
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
entry |2 pages
National Association of Manufacturers
entry |2 pages
National City Bank
entry |2 pages
Native Americans
entry |3 pages
Ness, Eliot (1903—1957)
entry |1 pages
New York Daily News
entry |3 pages
New Yorker, The
entry |2 pages
Nicaragua, Intervention in
entry |2 pages
Nonpartisan League
entry |2 pages
Normalcy
entry |3 pages
Norris, J. Frank (1877—1952)
letter |11 pages
O
entry |3 pages
Office Work
entry |3 pages
Oil and Oil Industry
entry |2 pages
O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887—1986)
entry |2 pages
Oliver, Joe “King” (1885—1938)
entry |3 pages
O'Neill, Eugene (1888—1953)
entry |1 pages
Organized Crime
entry |2 pages
Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1857—1935)
letter |25 pages
P
entry |2 pages
Palmer, A. Mitchell (1872—1936)
entry |4 pages
Paris Peace Conference of 1919
entry |2 pages
Parker, Dorothy (1893—1967)
entry |2 pages
Passaic Textile Strike of 1926
entry |2 pages
Paul, Alice (1885—1977)
entry |3 pages
Pickford, Mary (1893—1979)
entry |2 pages
Poetry
entry |2 pages
Ponzi Schemes
entry |4 pages
Population and Demographics
entry |2 pages
Progressivism
entry |6 pages
Prohibition (1920—1933)
entry |2 pages
Prostitution
entry |3 pages
Protestantism, Mainstream
entry |2 pages
Psychology
letter |25 pages
R
entry |3 pages
Radio
entry |2 pages
Radio Corporation of America
entry |2 pages
Railroad Shopmen's Strike of 1922
entry |3 pages
Railroads and Railroad Industry
entry |2 pages
Railway Labor Act (1926)
entry |2 pages
Reader's Digest
entry |2 pages
Real Estate
entry |2 pages
Recession of 1921—1922
entry |4 pages
Red Scare of 1917—1920
entry |2 pages
Reparations and War Debts
entry |3 pages
Republican Party
entry |2 pages
Retail and Chain Stores
entry |2 pages
Rockne, Knute (1888—1931)
entry |3 pages
Rogers, Will (1879—1935)
entry |2 pages
Rosewood Massacre (1923)
entry |2 pages
Ross, Harold (1892—1951)
entry |2 pages
Ruth, Babe (1895—1948)
letter |42 pages
S
entry |3 pages
Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1920—1921)
entry |2 pages
Sanger, Margaret (1879—1966)
entry |3 pages
Sarnoff, David (1891—1971)
entry |2 pages
Schenck v. United States (1919)
entry |2 pages
Schultz, Dutch (1902—1935)
entry |4 pages
Science
entry |4 pages
Scopes Trial (1925)
entry |2 pages
Seattle General Strike of 1919
entry |5 pages
Sex and Sexuality
entry |2 pages
Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)
entry |2 pages
Siberian Intervention
entry |3 pages
Sinclair, Harry (1876—1956)
entry |2 pages
Sloan, Alfred P. (1875—1966)
entry |3 pages
Smith, Al (1873—1944)
entry |2 pages
Smith, Bessie (1894—1937)
entry |2 pages
Snyder Act (1921)
entry |2 pages
Social Gospel
entry |2 pages
Socialism and the Socialist Party of America
entry |2 pages
Speakeasies
entry |3 pages
Steel Strike of 1919—1920
entry |2 pages
Stein, Gertrude (1874—1946)
entry |3 pages
Stock Market
entry |2 pages
Strong, Benjamin, Jr. (1872—1928)
entry |2 pages
Suburbs
entry |3 pages
Swanson, Gloria (1898—1983)
entry |2 pages
Swope, Gerard (1872—1957)
letter |17 pages
T
entry |2 pages
Taft, William Howard (1857—1930)
entry |1 pages
Tariffs
entry |1 pages
Taxes and Taxation
entry |3 pages
Teapot Dome Scandal
entry |3 pages
Technology
entry |2 pages
Telephone and Telegraph
entry |2 pages
Tennis
entry |3 pages
Theater
entry |2 pages
Tilden, Bill (1893—1953)
entry |2 pages
Time
entry |1 pages
Tobacco
entry |5 pages
Travel and Tourism
entry |2 pages
Tulsa Race Riots of 1921
letter |3 pages
U
entry |3 pages
Universal Negro Improvement Association
letter |8 pages
V
entry |2 pages
Vaudeville
entry |2 pages
Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
entry |4 pages
Veterans
entry |2 pages
Volstead Act (1919)
letter |20 pages
W
entry |2 pages
Walker, Jimmy (1881—1946)
entry |2 pages
War Finance Corporation
entry |3 pages
Washington Naval Conference (1921—1922)
entry |4 pages
Wealth and Income
entry |2 pages
Weissmuller, Johnny (1904—1984)
entry |3 pages
Welfare Capitalism
entry |2 pages
Wheeler, Burton K. (1882—1975)
entry |2 pages
Wilson, Edith (1872—1961)
entry |3 pages
Wilson, Woodrow (1856—1924)
entry |5 pages
Women and Gender
entry |2 pages
Women's Movement
letter |6 pages
Y
entry |2 pages
Young Plan (1929—1930)
entry |5 pages
Youth
part |27 pages
Cultural Landmarks