Life in the 1920s was defined by many cultural, political, and economic developments. Jazz music and flapper fashion defined the era's sound and look. The Harlem Renaissance brought popularity to art ...
In the 1920s, some women's lives changed radically due to the introduction of new rights and jobs. The 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920, and some women voted in the November 1920 election.
So often we hear about the Gatsbys of the 1920s — the people who were rich and famous. But what about the average person at that time? In Manitowoc in the 1920s, the average person was laid back and ...
WEST CHESTER–Let’s say you’re curious about what it was like 100 years ago? Now you’ve got the chance to see what it looked like during the 1920’s at West Chester University’s boldest exhibit to date, ...
A LONG-LOST childhood memoir is back in print. Pon My Puff, an autobiographical novel by the late Peter Stark Lansley, was rediscovered by his son, Dr Charles Morris Lansley, the North Hampshire ...
Special to Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter USA TODAY NETWORK – WISCONSIN “It was in 1901 that the state Legislature passed a law authorizing the county superintendent, with the consent of the County ...
It was a time when, if you wanted the sheriff, you could simply phone him. And more than once, Solano County Sheriff John R. Thornton would show up himself, at least in the Vallejo area where he lived ...
A review of Philip Ruff's book The Albert Memorial: The Anarchist Life and Times of Albert Meltzer (1920-1996). Albert was described as"Printworker, writer, troublemaker, but above all a tireless ...
One of the earliest mass-produced artificial Christmas trees, originally purchased for pennies in 1920, sold for an astonishing £3,400, or $4296.13, at auction on Friday, according to Hansons ...