American Decades
Prohibition's Supporters and Detractors
Address to Congress
Speech
By: Warren G. Harding
Date: December 8, 1922
Source: Harding, Warren G. Address to Congress. December 8, 1922. Congressional Record: House of Representatives, 67th Cong., 4th sess., vol. 64, part 1 (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1922), 212.
About the Author: Ohio-born Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) served as president of the United States from 1921 to 1923. Elected by an overwhelming margin in 1920 over Democrat James Cox, the Republican Harding died in 1923 before he could finish serving out his first term.
"Jurors Go on Trial, Drank Up Evidence"
Newspaper article
By: The New York Times
Date: January 7, 1928
Source: "Jurors Go on Trial, Drank Up Evidence." The New York Times, January 7, 1928.
Introduction
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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
