Titans of Industry
Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, John D. Rockefeller and the creation of Modern America
History
The Upswing
Robert Putnam explores how social capital was rebuilt in the United States in the early 20th century
Civilization in the United States
In the 1920s, a cultural fault line opened up that never closed
H.L. Mencken, The Scopes Monkey Trial and the Culture War
In 1925, the Scopes Monkey Trial pitted Victorians against Modernists
The New Era
Modern couples go on dates
Late Victorian Women’s Fashion
In the 1900s and 1910s, young women dressed in the Victorian style
The New Woman and 1920s Fashion
In the 1920s, young women adopted the Modern style
The GOP and Cultural Change
In the 1920 election, Warren Harding promised to Make America Normal Again
The Hays Code
Hollywood studios policed their own content for several decades
The Thirties
The Great Depression ended the revelry of the 1920s
America Is Having a Moral Convulsion
Modern America is in its death throes
The Rise of Hollywood
Jews, Hollywood and the creation of mass culture
Victorian Racial Attitudes
Victorian racial attitudes prevailed well into the 20th century
Franz Boas, Antiracism and the Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation financed Boasian anthropology
The Sun Also Rises
One generation passes away and another generation cometh
Antiracism, Social Science and the Revolt Against Victorian America
Antiracism triumphed in the social sciences in the 1920s
Victorian America
What was Victorian America?
The Second Klan and Modernism
100,000 Klansmen gathered in Kokomo, IN in 1923
Towards a Definition of American Modernism
Modernism deserves to be treated as a full-fledged historical culture
From Babbitt To Bateman: The Bohemian Origins of Consumer Capitalism
The pursuit of aesthetic self expression through alternative lifestyles encouraged a consumption ethic
The Greenwich Village Idea
Malcolm Cowley describes the Modernist culture of Greenwich Village
George Babbitt, Main Street and the Origins of the Culture War
The culture war between Moderns and Victorians began in the 1920s
The Triumph of Antiracism
In the late 1930s, racism was officially condemned by the American Anthropological Association
The Young Intellectuals and Nietzsche
H.L. Mencken, Emma Goldman and the Young Intellectuals Americanized Nietzsche’s philosophy
The Lost Generation and Modernism
In the 1920s, the artists, poets and novelists of the Lost Generation partied in France
Randolph Bourne, Modernism and The New Woman
The New Woman has become the ordinary woman
Hidden Hands: The CIA, Modernism and the Cold War
Modernism was used as a weapon to fight the Nazis and Soviets
This Side of Paradise
Modern America began in the 1920s
The Modernism Debate
Hunter Wallace, Richard Spencer and Keith Woods discuss Modernism
The Revolt Against The Masses
Fred Siegel explains the origins of the modern Left
The Cosmopolitan Ideal
By 1950, the American intelligentsia was half Jewish
The Retreat of Racial Science
Racial science fell out of favor in the 1920s