America in the 1920s and 1930s

This website is made available through the work of Mrs. Renner-Singer's and Mrs. McPhetridge's American Studies students at Wenatchee High School.

***UNDER CONSTRUCTION****
Some sites still aren't linked but should be soon!

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Sports of the 1920s
Football--Knute Rockne
Baseball
Boxing--Jack Dempsey

Sports of the 1930s
Football
Lou Gehrig
Boxing
Jesse Owens

Movies of the 1920s
Charlie Chaplin
Clara Bow
Laurel and Hardy
Will Rogers
Academy Awards

Movies of the 1930s
King Kong
Gone With the Wind
Wizard of Oz
Disney
Greta Garbo
Shirley Temple
“horror movies”

Jazz Music of the 1920s
Jazz Age
Louis Armstrong

Music and Radio of the 1930s
Woodie Guthrie
Orson Welles: The War of the Worlds
Radio and Music in General

Fashion of the 20s and 30s
Hairstyles of the 1920s
Clothing of the 1920s
Hairstyles of the 1930s
Clothing of the 1930s

Workers Progress Administration (WPA)
Artists
Famous People
Federal Writers Progect (FWP)

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Grand Coulee Dam
Hoover Dam
National/Regional CCC Recreational Sites

Crime/Criminals of the 20s/30s
Al Capone
Bonnie and Clyde
Dillinger
Lindbergh Kidnapping

Architecture of the 20s/30s

Misc. Events of the 20s and 30s
Hindenburg Explosion
Prohibition
Women's Suffrage

About this site:

These web pages were created by students in Mrs. McPhetridge's and Mrs. Renner-Singer's 2007-2008 American Studies classes. You will find general information on different topics of the 1920s and 1930s as well as links to various other sites. Hopefully, you will find these sites useful and appreciate our students' work.

During this project students learned about copyright law and special emphasis was placed on correctly crediting work and following other sites' copyright policies. Each site should have a bibliography that credits both their book source/s and internet sources. Most images should also link back to the original image source.

Comments or questions? mcphetridge.h@mail.wsd.wednet.edu

Copyright 2008