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.

part |297 pages

Volume One

part |35 pages

Essays

chapter |6 pages

Politics

chapter |7 pages

Business, Economics, and Labor

chapter |7 pages

Family, Community, and Society

chapter |6 pages

Foreign Affairs

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