The Great Gatsby

A unique retelling of F. Scott Fitgerald's classic novel. This version of The Great Gatsby was originally used for a grade 12 english project.

1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 Former German chancellor Gustav Stresemann initiates a move toward rapprochement with a note written February 9 and makes arrangements to meet with French and British foreign ministers at the Swiss city of Locarno.

Because the temperance movement taught that alcohol was a poison, it insisted that school books never mention the contradictory fact that alcohol was commonly prescribed by physicians for medicinal and health purposes. 7 Temperance Leader Lucius Manlius Sargent tried to get secondarty schools, colleges and universities to eleminate all references to alcoholic beverages in ancient Greek and Latin texts.

From Several Divisions of the Library of Congress The Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record of the past. These primary historical documents reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these collections, which may contain materials offensive to some readers.

Approximately 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper, although only about twenty percent of the images in the collection were published in the newspaper.

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The Great Gatsby takes place during the summer of 1922. Fitzgerald coined the phrase, "the Jazz Age" that same year to describe the flamboyant-"anything goes"-era that emerged in America after World War I. Find out more about the popular culture and historical events that shaped and defined the 1920s.

1920's Art plus information on Artists and Illustrators

Back to Hypertext History: Our Online American History Textbook By the end of the 1920s, Americans were overwhelmed by the rise of a modern consumer culture. In response, many of the bitter cultural tensions that had divided Americans had begun to subside.

Back to Hypertext History: Our Online American History Textbook Many of the defining features of modern American culture emerged during the 1920s. The record chart, the book club, the radio, the talking picture, and spectator sports--all became popular forms of mass entertainment.