American Decades
Discontinuing the Model T Ford
"Strut, Miss Lizzie!"
Editorial
By: The Nation
Date: December 14, 1927
Source: "Strut, Miss Lizzie!" The Nation, December 14, 1927, 672.
"The King Is Dead"
Magazine article
By: Margaret Marshall
Date: December 14, 1927
Source: Marshall, Margaret. "The King Is Dead." The Nation, December 14, 1927, 678.
About the Publication: The Nation, founded in 1865, has consistently been a voice for leftist viewpoints on politics, social issues, lifestyle trends, and the like. Margaret Marshall wrote for The Nation.
Introduction
It was remarked that you could purchase a Ford Model T in any color so long as it was basic black. In a nutshell, this statement captured automaker Henry Ford's lifelong commitment to producing and marketing a no-frills automobile, a "people's car," that would...
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1920's Lifestyles and Social Trends Primary Sources
- J. Edgar Hoover Monitors Marcus Garvey
- "'These Wild Young People': By One Of Them"
- Statement of Mr. William Joseph Simmons
- "Flapper Americana Novissima"
- Prohibition's Supporters and Detractors
- Babbitt
- Mary Ware Dennett and Birth Control
- "Rise and Present Peril of Mah Jong: The Chinese Game Has Escaped from Society's Chaperonage and Is on Its Own"
- Advertising Response: A Research Into Influences That Increase Sales
- Handbook for Guardians of Camp Fire Girls
- "Into the Land of Talk"
- "Fools and Their Money"
- Discontinuing the Model T Ford
- This Smoking World
- Men of Destiny
- "The Next Revolution"
- "The Child Stylites of Baltimore"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
