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 General 1920s 

• About.com: 1920s
  Includes articles on flappers, Prohibition, and various people and events of the era.
• About: Women's Suffrage
  Links relating to women's right to vote.
• American Cultural History: Decade 1920-1929
  Bibliography to books and links about the people and themes of the 1920's.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennary Page
  Life, writings, bibliography, chronology.
• From Revolution to Reconstruction:... Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945
  From a hypertext project on American history based on An Outline of American History and related works.
• InfoPlease: 1920-1929 World History
  Timeline to significant world events during the 1920's, with links.
• Hemingway Resource Center: Links
  Annotated links to sites about Hemingway's life and writings.
• Jazz Age Culture / Jazz Poetry / Jazz & Blues
  Tons of annotated links from a professor of English at Pittsburg State University.
• Perspectives in American Literature: American Modernism: A Brief Introduction
  Outline description of modernism in American literature.
• Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
  Library of Congress "Learning Page" article.
• Temperance & Prohibition
  From a professor in the Ohio State Department of History; click on "Contents" to enter the actual site.
• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
  Documents, photos, audio, and video files from the Library of Congress.
• Wikipedia: The American Dream
  Wikipedia article with links to other pages both on and off-site about the "American Dream".
• World War I / Prohibition Era
  Timeline with links.
• WWW VL: History: USA: 1920's
  The World Wide Web Virtual Library is an index to valuable resources on the internet.
• XIII: The Roaring Twenties
  Selection from online book, "Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century".

 Harlem Renaissance 

• About: Women of the Harlem Renaissance
  "Women who played key roles in the Harlem Renaissance -- some are well-known, and some have been neglected or forgotten."
• Drop Me Off in Harlem
  "Discover the themes and work that emerged when creative and intellectual voices intersected during the Harlem Renaissance."
• Harlem, 1900-1940: An African-American Community
  "An Exhibition Portfolio from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library".
• Harlem History
  "Harlem History presents a wealth of archival treasures and scholarship from Columbia about the history of one of the world's most famous and influential neighborhoods."
• The Harlem Renaissance Multimedia Resource
  Video clips, audio clips, and images complement short written descriptions of aspects of the Harlem Renaissance.
• Library of Congress: Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
  "African-American expressions of writing, music, and art during the 1920s and 1930s are well represented in the vast collections of the Library of Congress. This guide presents the Library's resources as well as links to external Web sites on the Harlem Renaissance and a bibliography."
• Online Newshour: Harlem Renaissance
  Transcript from 1998 interview with Professor Richard Powell.
• Perspectives in American Literature: Harlem Renaissance: A Brief Introduction
  Timeline, links, and bibliography.
• Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
  Images and writings.
• The Topic: Harlem Renaissance
  "This project includes over one-hundred and fifty websites providing biographies of writers, poets, artists, musicians, entertainers, activists, thinkers, and leaders of the Harlem Renaissance movement."

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