The following pages provide additional links to online resources:

Think of these pages as electronic reserves. Refer students to them for online research.

Each page has a unique URL that you can link to from your own web page.

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Chapter 26 - Republican Resurgence and Decline

Images and Maps

The Life of Henry Ford

Model T Road Trip

Today in History: Henry Ford

1920s Consumer Culture

The American Experience (PBS): Lindbergh

The Official Site of Amelia Earhart

The Teapot Dome Scandal

Calvin Coolidge
(Two images)

Presidential Elections, 1928

America Votes: Campaign Memorabilia, Alfred Smith, 1928

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

Bonus March II: A New Beginning
(Images from the Bonus March, 1932)

 

Primary Sources

Ad* Access Project
(Hundreds of advertisements that can be used to highlight the consumer culture of the 1920s)

Warren G. Harding Inaugural Address

Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

The Times Looks Back: Alfred E. Smith vs. Herbert C. Hoover, 1928

Herbert Hoover's Inaugural Address

New Deal Document Library
(This site contains numerous sources relating to themes in this chapter.)

 

Secondary Sources

Reeve Lindbergh, "The Flyer Charles Lindbergh"
(From the Time 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century site)

Vivian Baulch and Patricia Zacharias, "The Rouge Plant: The Art of Industry"
(This site includes numerous images.)

Kathy L. Peiss, "American Women and the Making of Modern Consumer Culture"

Cal Thomas, "Silent Cal Speaks: Why Calvin Coolidge Is the Model for Conservative Leadership Today"

Daniel J. Mitchell, "The Historical Lessons of Lower Tax Rates"

J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century--XIV, The Great Crash and the Great Slump"

 

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