1920s Prohibition turned many mothers into bootleggers and women into entrepreneurs
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 disappeared from everyone’s memory as soon as it was over. Nobody seemed willing to address it, not even historians. Yet, it had lasting effects on the population that lived through it and has become relevant today once more in our new pandemic times.
Gang RoundUp – 2021 August – USPS Children mailed through the post (1910s)
The Spanish Flu pandemic of one hundred years ago bears striking similarities with the Covid-19 pandemic of today, but it also holds many differences.
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.
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” – Jonas Salk
Halloween wasn’t the great celebration it has becomeuntil the beginning of the 1900s. In the 1920s, with the booming consumerism, to which it appears to be closely bound, Halloween became ‘a thing’, especially in the United States.
It has become universally known as the Spanish Flu, but it didn’t originate in Spain. The place of origin of the most deadly pandemic in history is still a mystery.
In the 1920s for the first time youth became a social group distinct from all others, with their own value, their own rules and their own aspiration
Rising from the ruins of WWI, fated to end in the looming shadows of the Great Depression and then of WWII, the 1920s have that vitality that is not totally explainable. That X-factor that made them a time of excitement even in among terrible events.
In many respect, the 1920s was the decade of the woman. The perception of women and what they could and should do changed in the mind of both men and women.
Suffrage movements were old history in the 1920s, when the women of a few nations finally won their right to wote. But the fight had started in the 1800s