1920s Blueswomen the voice of freedom – Blueswomen were a strong, loud voice speaking of the freedom of their people and of every human being.
It is still not widely known that women ran the industry in the silent film era. Directors, screenwriters, producers, writers were women.
Many different practises marked the shift in women’s role in the 1920s, and dating, funnily enough, was one of the most visible, most powerful and most feared.
Prohibition characterised American history for thirteen year, influencing life, social mores and probably the attitude of people towarda the law
It would be impossible to undervalue the importance of jazz in the 1920s. Far from being a mere form of music, jazz was the language of the new world. It incarnated everything modern, new, daring and futuristic.
At the moment in which the United States’s presence on the world stage became more critical, they pulled back and pursued a policy of isolationism.
A swift Gan Roundup this month, with just a couple articles about very unusual (even controversial) behaviour of the 1920s and a couple book recommendations
The sink of the Titanic was the first modern disaster. The first people around the worls sperimented as their own. Were still doing, 100 years later
It’s with great pleasure that today I’m hosting author Yecheilyah Ysrayl on my blog.
Yecheilyah is the author the Stella Trilogy and many other books and she has just inaugurated a new series set in Harlem in the 1920s, the Nora White Story . On her blog, PBS – Pearls Before Swine she maintains many weekly and monthly…
GANG ROUNDUP (August 2017) monthly roundup particularly centred around stories set in the ‘Diesel Era’ (1910 – 1950s) – plus a couple more things
In the 1940s, America was the perfect place where a phenomenon like film noir could manifest. Social anxiety, German Expressionism, popularity of films
The 1920s were a time of huge change in the courtship behaviour of young people. But was it as redical as we love to think?