Prohibition never prohibited the consumption of alcohol. It never even prohibited the purchase of alcohol… though it did prohibit the selling.
Drys and Wets (supporters and opposers of Prohibition) put a very heavy stamp on all the time Prohibiiton was enforced… and it wasn’t just about alcohol
Youth as a concept was born in the 1920s colleges, where young people lived an independent life uncontrolled by their elders
Black-and-tans were speakeasies where jazz was hot and races could mix in a still segregated America. But wher they really the integrated example we think?
It may as well be true that Prohibition might have never come about if the Anti-Saloon League hadn’t existed. But the 1920s the perfect time for it
THE ROARING 1920Ss An AtoZ Guide – There’s a modernity to the Twenties that doesn’t belong to any other decade of the 1900s. Everything was evolving in the 1920s. Potentials were high.
One morsel review: Well-informed dissertation about life of the new youth of the Roaring Twenties. Maybe a bit too wordy, but very interesting.
The Damned and the Beautiful
American Youth in the 1920s
Paula S. Fass
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Genre: social history
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The book presents a portrayal of family life, with special regard to the education of young people in Victorian/Edwardian Eras. It…
During Prohibition most of alcohol was undrinkable, because it was produces in quiestionable environments. That’s why cocktails became so popular
THE COCKTAIL BOOK (Ross Bolton) – A collection of cocktail recipes from the Prohibition Era. Anastatic copy of a cocktail recipes book from 1926
THE JAZZ REVOLUTION (Kathy J. Ogren) The history of very early jazz in the U.S., spanning from 1890s to 1920s, What these music meant on a social and artistic level. How it changed people
ANXIOUS DECADES (Michael E. Perrish) A comprehensive introduction to the 1920s and 1930s in the U.S. covering all aspects of life, if just shortly. Essential to get a first taste for these two eras of transformation in American history.