This illustrated encyclopedia provides in-depth coverage of one of the most fascinating and widely-studied periods in American history. It portrays the politics, economics, society, and culture of the era in fast-paced entries that cover themes, personalities, institutions, ideas, events, trends, and more.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The Jazz Age, 1918–1929
• A-Z Entries
• Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923)
• Advertising
• African Americans
• Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929
• Agriculture
• Air-Conditioning
• Algonquin Round Table
• Alien Property Custodian Scandal
• American Civil Liberties Union
• American Farm Bureau Federation
• American Federation of Labor
• American Mercury
• Americanization
• Anarchism
• Anderson, Sherwood (1876–1941)
• Anti-Catholicism
• Anti-Prohibition Movement
• Anti-Saloon League
• Anti-Semitism
• Appliances, Household
• Arbuckle (Fatty) Scandal
• Architecture
• Armstrong, Louis (1901–1971)
• Art, Fine
• Asian Americans
• Atlas, Charles (1892–1972)
• Automobile Industry
• Automobiles and Automobile Culture
• Aviation
• Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922)
• Baker, Josephine (1906–1975)
• Baldwin, Roger (1884–1981)
• Baseball
• Beauty Industry and Culture
• Beiderbecke, Bix (1903–1931)
• Berger, Victor (1860–1929)
• Berlin, Irving (1888–1989)
• Bernays, Edward L. (1891–1995)
• Birth Control
• Black Sox Scandal
• Blues
• Bohemianism
• Borah, William (1865–1940)
• Boston Police Strike of 1919
• Bow, Clara (1905–1965)
• Boxing
• Brandeis, Louis (1856–1941)
• Bureau of Investigation
• Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875–1950)
• Business, Economics, and Labor
• Byrd, Richard E. (1888–1957)
• Canada
• Capone, Al (1899–1947)
• Catholics and Catholicism
• Celebrity Culture
• Chamber of Commerce, U.S.
• Chaplin, Charlie (1889–1977)
• Chicago Race Riot of 1919
• Child Labor
• Children and Child Rearing
• China, Relations with
• Cigarettes and Tobacco
• Coal Industry
• Coal Strike of 1919
• Commerce Department, U.S.
• Communist Party
• Consumer and Popular Culture
• Coolidge, Calvin (1872–1933)
• Country Music
• Credit and Debt, Consumer
• Crime, Organized
• Criminal Punishment
• Cummings, E.E. (1894–1962)
• Dance, Performance
• Dance, Popular
• Darrow, Clarence (1857–1938)
• Daugherty, Harry M. (1860–1941)
• Davis, John W. (1873–1955)
• Dawes, Charles (1865–1951)
• Dawes Plan (1924)
• DeMille, Cecil B. (1881–1959)
• Demobilization, Industrial
• Democratic Party
• Dempsey, Jack (1895–1983)
• DePriest, Oscar (1871–1951)
• Design, Industrial
• Dewey, John (1859–1952)
• Dominican Republic, Intervention in
• Dos Passos, John (1896–1970)
• Dreiser, Theodore (1871–1945)
• Drugs, Illicit and Illegal
• Du Bois, W.E.B. (1868–1963)
• Economic Policy
• Ederle, Gertrude (1906–2003)
• Education, Elementary and Secondary
• Education, Higher
• Election of 1918
• Election of 1920
• Election of 1922
• Election of 1924
• Election of 1926
• Election of 1928
• Electricity Industry
• Eliot, T.S. (1888–1965)
• Eugenics
• Europe, Relations with
• Evangelicals and Evangelical Christianity
• Fads and Stunts
• Fairbanks, Douglas (1883–1939)
• Family, Community, and Society
• Farmer-Labor Party
• Fashion, Men's
• Fashion, Women's
• Federal Highway Act of 1921
• Federal Power Commission
• Federal Radio Commission
• Fiction
• Film
• Film Industry
• Fisher, Carl (1874–1939)
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896–1940), and Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)
• Florida Land Boom
• Flu Pandemic (1918)
• Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley (1890–1964)
• Food Administration, U.S.
• Food and Diet
• Football
• Ford, Henry (1863–1947)
• Ford Motor Company
• Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922
• Foreign Affairs
• Fosdick, Harry Emerson (1878–1969)
• Four-Power Treaty (1921)
• Fourteen Points
• Fundamentalism, Christian
• Garvey, Marcus (1887–1940)
• Gary, Elbert H. (1846–1927)
• Gastonia Strike of 1929
• General Electric
• General Motors
• Geneva Arms Convention of 1925
• German Americans
• Gershwin, George (1898–1937)
• Gish, Lillian (1893–1993)
• Gitlow v. New York (1925)
• Golf
• Grange, Red (1903–1991)
• Haiti, Intervention in
• Harding, Warren G. (1865–1923)
• Harlem Renaissance
• Havana Conference of 1928
• Health and Medicine
• Hearst, William Randolph (1863–1951)
• Hemingway, Ernest (1899–1961)
• Hoboes
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841–1935)
• Homosexuals and Homosexuality
• Hood, Raymond (1881–1934)
• Hoover, Herbert (1874–1964)
• Hoover, J. Edgar (1895–1972)
• Housing
• Hughes, Langston (1902–1967)
• Immigration
• Immigration Laws of 1921 and 1924
• Industrial Workers of the World
• Irish Americans
• Italian Americans
• Japan, Relations with
• Jazz
• Jewish Americans
• Jones, Bobby (1902–1971)
• Journalism
• Keaton, Buster (1895–1966)
• Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
• Kennedy, Joseph (1888–1969)
• King Tut's Tomb
• Ku Klux Klan
• La Follette, Robert (1855–1925)
• Labor Movement
• Landis, Kenesaw Mountain (1866–1944)
• Lasker, Albert (1880–1952)
• Latin America, Relations with
• Latinos and Latinas
• Law and the Courts
• Lawrence Textile Strike of 1919
• League of Nations
• League of Women Voters
• Leisure and Recreation
• Leopold and Loeb Case (1924)
• Lewis, John L. (1880–1969)
• Lewis, Sinclair (1885–1951)
• Lindbergh Flight (1927)
• Locarno Treaties (1925)
• Locke, Alain (1885–1954)
• Lost Generation
• Luce, Henry (1898–1967)
• Lynching
• Marriage, Divorce, and Family
• Mayer, Louis B. (1882–1957)
• McAdoo, William G. (1863–1941)
• McKay, Claude (1889–1948)
• McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890–1944)
• Mead, Margaret (1901–1978)
• Mellon, Andrew (1855–1937)
• Mencken, H.L. (1880–1956)
• Mexico, Relations with
• Migration, Great
• Military Affairs
• Mississippi Flood of 1927
• Music, Classical
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Association of Manufacturers
• National City Bank
• Native Americans
• Ness, Eliot (1903–1957)
• New York Daily News
• New Yorker, The
• Nicaragua, Intervention in
• Nonpartisan League
• Normalcy
• Norris, J. Frank (1877–1952)
• Office Work
• Oil and Oil Industry
• O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887–1986)
• Oliver, Joe “King” (1885–1938)
• O'Neill, Eugene (1888–1953)
• Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1857–1935)
• Palmer, A. Mitchell (1872–1936)
• Paris Peace Conference of 1919
• Parker, Dorothy (1893–1967)
• Passaic Textile Strike of 1926
• Paul, Alice (1885–1977)
• Pickford, Mary (1893–1979)
• Poetry
• Politics
• Ponzi Schemes
• Population and Demographics
• Progressivism
• Prohibition (1920–1933)
• Prostitution
• Protestantism, Mainstream
• Psychology
• Radio
• Radio Corporation of America
• Railroad Shopmen's Strike of 1922
• Railroads and Railroad Industry
• Railway Labor Act (1926)
• Reader's Digest
• Real Estate
• Recession of 1921–1922
• Red Scare of 1917–1920
• Reparations and War Debts
• Republican Party
• Retail and Chain Stores
• Rockne, Knute (1888–1931)
• Rogers, Will (1879–1935)
• Rosewood Massacre (1923)
• Ross, Harold (1892–1951)
• Ruth, Babe (1895–1948)
• Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1920–1921)
• Sanger, Margaret (1879–1966)
• Sarnoff, David (1891–1971)
• Schenck v. United States (1919)
• Schultz, Dutch (1902–1935)
• Science
• Scopes Trial (1925)
• Seattle General Strike of 1919
• Sex and Sexuality
• Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)
• Siberian Intervention
• Sinclair, Harry (1876–1956)
• Sloan, Alfred P. (1875–1966)
• Smith, Al (1873–1944)
• Smith, Bessie (1894–1937)
• Snyder Act (1921)
• Social Gospel
• Socialism and the Socialist Party of America
• Speakeasies
• Steel Strike of 1919–1920
• Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946)
• Stock Market
• Strong, Benjamin, Jr. (1872–1928)
• Suburbs
• Swanson, Gloria (1898–1983)
• Swope, Gerard (1872–1957)
• Taft, William Howard (1857–1930)
• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Technology
• Telephone and Telegraph
• Tennis
• Theater
• Tilden, Bill (1893–1953)
• Time
• Travel and Tourism
• Tulsa Race Riots of 1921
• Universal Negro Improvement Association
• Vaudeville
• Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
• Veterans
• Volstead Act (1919)
• Walker, Jimmy (1881–1946)
• War Finance Corporation
• Washington Naval Conference (1921–1922)
• Wealth and Income
• Weissmuller, Johnny (1904–1984)
• Welfare Capitalism
• Wheeler, Burton K. (1882–1975)
• Wilson, Edith (1872–1961)
• Wilson, Woodrow (1856–1924)
• Women and Gender
• Women's Movement
• Young Plan (1929–1930)
• Youth
• Cultural Landmarks
• Art and Architecture
• American Radiator Building
• Black Iris II
• Chicago Tribute Tower
• Chrysler Building
• City from Greenwich Village, The
• City Night
• Dempsey and Firpo
• Dymaxion House
• Ennis House
• Greta Garbo
• House by the Railroad
• I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
• Lovell House
• Lucky Strike
• Monolith, The Face of Half Dome
• People of Chilmark
• Portrait of Gertrude Stein
• Shell
• Terminal Tower
• Wrigley Building
• Literature: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
• Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
• Age of Innocence, The
• American Language, The
• American Tragedy, An
• Americanization of Edward Bok, The
• Arrowsmith
• Babbitt
• Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, The
• Bridge of San Luis Rey, The
• Cane
• Color
• Coming of Age in Samoa
• Death Comes for the Archbishop
• Elmer Gantry
• Enormous Room, The
• Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home
• Farewell to Arms, A
• Flame and Shadow
• Frontier in American History, The
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Great Gatsby, The
• Harmonium
• Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
• Kindergarten Chats on Architecture, Education, and Democracy
• Life and Labor in the Old South
• Look Homeward, Angel
• Main Street
• Maltese Falcon, The
• Manhattan Transfer
• Mental Growth of the Pre-School Child, The
• Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture
• New Hampshire
• New Negro, The
• One of Ours
• Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist
• Public Opinion
• Reconstruction in Philosophy
• Rise of American Civilization, The
• Sartoris
• So Big
• Sound and the Fury, The
• Sun Also Rises, The
• This Side of Paradise
• Waste Land, The
• Weary Blues, The
• Winesburg, Ohio
• Woman and the New Race
• Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement
• Women at Point Sur, The
• Performing Arts: Film, Theater, and Music
• Abie's Irish Rose
• Adding Machine, The
• Ain't Misbehavin'
• American in Paris, An
• Anna Christie
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
• Beyond the Horizon
• Blackmail
• Broadway Melody, The
• Charleston, The
• Cocoanuts, The
• Down Hearted Blues
• Emperor Jones, The
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The
• Freshman, The
• Front Page, The
• General, The
• Gold Rush, The
• Hairy Ape, The
• Homesteader, The
• Iron Horse, The
• It
• Jazz Singer, The
• Kid, The
• King Porter Stomp
• Makin' Whoopee
• Nanook of the North
• No, No, Nanette
• Rhapsody in Blue
• Robin Hood
• Safety Last!
• Sheik, The
• Show Boat
• Shuffle Along
• St. Louis Blues
• Steamboat Willie
• Strange Interlude
• Swanee
• Ten Commandments, The
• Virginian, The
• West End Blues
• Master Bibliography