The following are popular topics for 1920s research projects. Each link will open into a PDF listing books and films available from the John F. Kennedy Library.
Includes titles on 1920s fashion and clothing styles.
Includes titles on the 1920s economy, the farm depression, and factors leading to the Great Depression.
Includes titles on Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, and the Harlem Renaissance.
Includes titles on Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and Henry Ford.
Includes titles on communism, isolationism, the League of Nations, and World War I.
Includes titles on Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken, and Dorothy Parker.
Includes titles on immigrants, Charles Lindbergh, the Ku Klux Klan and racism, and the Scopes Trial.
Includes titles that give general information about the 1920s.
Includes titles on Calvin Coolidge, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, and Woodrow Wilson.
Includes titles on bootlegging, organized crime, and prohibition.
Includes titles on Aimee Semple McPherson and religious movements of the 1920s.
Includes titles on baseball, boxing, jazz, movies, radio, and theatre.
Includes titles on the 19th Amendment, Dorothea Dix, Margaret Sanger, and the Flappers.