1Introduction
41The Constitution of the Air
2Section I: Post-War America: The Dawn of a New Era
42Domestic and International Effects of the Radio
31919: A TUMULTUOUS YEAR
43MASS ENTERTAINMENT: Movies: Hollywood
4“Peace Without Victory”: Wilson’s Triumph and Downfall
44SPORTS AND LEISURE
5The Fourteen Points and the Paris Peace Conference
45Section III: Social and Cultural Upheaval
6Cross-Country Tour and Health Crisis
46THE VIEW FROM MIDDLETOWN
7The Demise of the Treaty
47NO ROOM IN THE MELTING POT: RESURGENT RACISM AND NATIVISM
8The Erosion of Civil Liberties
48The New Ku Klux Klan
9Labor Strife and Radicalism
49Race and Citizenship: Supreme Court Cases
10The Red Scare
50Ozawa and Thind
11First Amendment Supreme Court Cases
51The Johnson Reed Immigration Act of 1924
12The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
52Eugenics and Pseudoscientific Racism
13A Watershed Moment for African- American Culture and Politics
53“NEW WOMEN”: CHANGING GENDER IDEALS
14The Great Migration
54From Feminists to Flappers
15Jazz Conquers the Globe
55Women at Work
16The Red Summer
56AMERICAN MODERNS
17Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
57Bohemians and Expats of the “Lost Generation”
18CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND THE END OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
58Modernism Arrives
19The Eighteenth Amendment
59THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND THE NEW NEGRO MOVEMENT
20The Nineteenth Amendment
60AN ANXIOUS AGE
21A Return to “Normalcy”: Republican Rule Returns to Washington
61Freud and Psychiatry in American Society
22President Warren G. Harding and the Election of 1920
62The Mind of a Murderer: Leopold and Loeb
23Foreign Affairs: The Washington Naval Conference
63RELIGION AND SCIENCE
24Domestic Scandals
64The Scopes Trial
25Ponzi’s Scheme
65Aimee Semple McPherson
26The Teapot Dome Scandal
66PROHIBITION: Bootleggers, Speakeasies, and Gangsters
27The Coolidge Administration
67Section IV: Economic Crisis and the End of the Roaring Twenties
28The Gospel of Business
68THE 1928 ELECTION
29The Dawes Plan
69Deep Divisions: Southern Rural Drys v. Northern Urban Wets
30Section II: Prosperity and Technological Advancements
70Hoover “The Great”
31MASS PRODUCTION OF THE AUTOMOBILE
71Hoover’s Worldview
32Henry Ford and Fordism
72THE STOCK MARKET CRASH
33Welfare Capitalism
73THE GREAT DEPRESSION
34A Nation on Wheels
74Domestic Factors
35MASS CONSUMPTION
75International Factors
36Electrification and Home Appliances
76Hard Times
37Advertising
77Hoover’s Response
38Easy Credit
78FROM BAD TO WORSE
39MASS COMMUNICATION: THE RADIO
79Conclusion
40The Broadcasting Revolution