PAID 112 Section 09 - Huinker (Spring 2020)

The American 1920s had many names: the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Dry Decade, and the Flapper generation. Whatever the moniker, these years saw the birth of modern America. This volume shows the many colorful ways the decade altered America, its people, and its future. American Popular Culture Through History volumes include a timeline, cost comparisons, chapter bibliographies, and a subject index.

This engaging reference traces the fascinating and often tumultuous growth of sports in America--how the icons, the commercial enterprises, sporting events, and even fan culture have changed from decade to decade and era to era.

Articles covers such diverse topics as alcoholism in baseball, baseball in France, the dumbest player, perfect games, and famous players.

Baseball has brought us great players, great writers, and some really rotten calls. Baseball: an Encyclopedia of Popular Culture looks at American society through the prism of its favorite pastimes, discussing not only the game but also such issues as race relations, writing, drug abuse, entertainment, gambling, movies, and the change from rural to urban society.

Traces the history of jazz music from its origins in New Orleans through the twentieth century, and looks at the lives and contributions of some of the genre's greatest composers and performers.

Contains approximately 370 alphabetically arranged entries covering the emergence of new ideas in literature, political thought, civil rights, racial pride, and the arts during New York City's Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s.

Features alphabetically organized entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of movies, including style, genres, actors and actresses, directors, producers, and motion picture studios.

Comprised of more than 300 entries spanning the invention of radio to the Internet, this reference work addresses personalities, music genres, regulations, technology, programming and stations, the "golden age" of radio and other topics relating to radio broadcasting throughout its history.

Includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes.

An essential resource for anyone interested in U.S. history and politics, this two-volume encyclopedia covers the major forces that have shaped American politics from the founding to today. Broad in scope, the book addresses both the traditional topics of political history--such as eras, institutions, political parties, presidents, and founding documents--and the wider subjects of current scholarship, including military, electoral, and economic events, as well as social movements, popular culture, religion, education, race, gender, and more. Each article, specially commissioned for this book.

The victorious end to the first World War offered hope to African Americans who had fought for freedom abroad and hoped to find it at home. Mark Schneider recounts the history of this turbulent era, paying particular attention to the ways in which African Americans actively challenged Jim Crow and firmly expressed pride in their heritage.

Perrett brings to life the crosscurrents of change and innovation that marked America's transition from innocence to maturity: the rise of the unions and radicalism, the changing role of women, the recognition of Black America. He depicts the revolution in standards and taste that followed the creation of the movie, broadcasting and publishing industries; the rise of jazz, modern fiction and an unselfconscious sexuality; and the dawning of a new, nomadic American life. He also traces the decline in faith, the collapse of old ideals, the loss of community and all the mixed blessings of liberation and mechanical progress that characterized the era. In them he recognizes the side-by-side existence of the old and the new and points to the conflicts, tensions and sense of excitement that this duality created.

In Discontented America, Goldberg integrates social and political history to provide a new take on the 1920s - an account deeply rooted in the perspectives of that time. Goldberg argues that this contentious and fascinating decade should be viewed now as it was viewed then, as a distinctive postwar period, during which many of the conflicts generated by World War I continued to reverberate throughout American society.

Social history of U.S. life and culture during the decade, a period marked by mass conformity as well as rebellion, and exceptional development.