Week of February 28, Monday Lecture

I. A Half Century of Social Change

II. Material Prosperity of the 20s

• Consumer Culture
  IMAGE: Broadcasting a Radio Show
  IMAGE: Listening to the Radio
  IMAGE: Movie Posters
  IMAGE: A Crowded Movie Theater
  IMAGE: Babe Ruth
• The Car
  IMAGE: Ford Assembly Line
  IMAGE: Parking Jam
• The Limits Placed by the Unequal Distribution of Wealth
• Advertising
  IMAGE: 1929 Billboards
  IMAGE: Refrigerator Ad
  IMAGE: Christmas in Consumerland
• The Politics of Big Business

III. The First Modern Decade

• The Jazz Age
  IMAGE: Jelly Roll Morton
  IMAGE: The Flapper
• The Reactionary 20s
  IMAGE: President Harding
  IMAGE: President Coolidge
• The Ambivalent Decade

return to From Prosperity to Collapse

created: February 10, 2000
last updated: February 23, 2000

Copyright 2000, Mark Kornbluh