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General
- American Literature and Modernism
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- America's Story, from America's Library
- Image Database US and World History
- Literary Kicks
- Celebrating the "Bloomsday" Centennial
- When Literature Was Dangerous -- Ulysses (Chronicle)
- Harry Houdini I, HH II
- The Automobile I => The Most Important Road Trip in American History;
The EV transition: Ford's electric F-150 - Freud on the Web I, II, Standard Edition
- Scribbling Women
- American Modernist Writers and the Orient
- NYC-Subway Photos
- The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (YouTube)
- WWI: List of Ambulance Drivers; The "Spanish flue"
- Marie Curie and the x-ray
- NPR on WWI
- Centenary Edition: WWI Living History Project (2 hours)
- "The Great War": America's Forgotton Conflict - World War II, WW II in Photos
- People's Century (PBS)
- The Legacy Project -- Consequences of 20th-Century Historical Tragedies
- Whatever Happend to German America?
- Europe's Refugee Crisis: The Last Time Round . . .
- Teaching the American 20s
- (American( (literary) Naturalism I, II, III
- The Layered History of Smokey Bear
- Radium Girls: The Dial Painters of the 1900s, RG II, RG III,
- The Algonquin Round Table - A Symbol of the Roaring Twenties
- A Few Words about "Silent Cal"
- ALH online book reviews
- A Century Ago: Muckrakers and "fake news"
- Economic History Association, Thrift
Economic History of the 20th Century - The 1920s
The 1920s - The Real Deal
Rosie the Riveter and a wartime California dream - (Mod & Contemp) American Literature, WSU Stewart
- Center for History and New Media
- Modern American Poetry (MAP)
- Chinatown: The 1906 Earthquake I, II
- The Blue, the Gray and the Chinese: American Civil War Participants of Chinese Descent
- US has a long history of violence against Asian Women
- History of Modernism
- Chronicle: Arts & Letters Daily
- A Look Back at the Typewriter (NPR)
- RelicRadio.com/Old Time Radio
- Why Criticism Matters
- Author-on-Author insults :)
- Literary Timeline: The American Novel (PBS)
- Automobile in American Life & Society
- Emily Post & 1920s Etiquette
- 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature
- Literature and Hollywood's Seamy Underbelly
- H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell -- On Science
- Prohbition and the Cocktail Movement
- How Prohibition Changed the Way Americans Drink, 100 Years Ago
- American Socialists by Throughline: Eugene Debs (NPR Podcast)
- How the Sinister Study of Eugenics Legitimized Forced Sterilization in the United States (2021)
The Great Depression
- How The Great Depression Spawned Literary Masterworks
- Hard Times - The Great Depression in Utah
- Dorthea Lange (MoMA) I, DL & Maynard Dixon => Maynard Dixon
- What Caused the Dust Bowl?, The Dust Bowl
- The Bonus Army, The Great Depression, and the G.I. Bill
- The Living New Deal, II
Art
- Download Free Art Books (Metro MMA)
- Grove Art Online
- Ashcan School I,
- ARTstor (image database)
- Precisionism 1, Precis 2, Precis 3, Precis 4, Precis 5, Precis 6, Charles Sheeler
- Black Artists and the March into the Museum
- Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending in context, Nude II,
- Sounds Like Kandinsky + Machine Learning/Augmented Reality (Centre Pompidou 2021)
- Photo-Secession, Pictorialism in America, Alfred Stieglitz and American Photography
- For Italian Futurism, see 3320, European Studies. Also: Cosmopolitan and Colonialist—The Multiple Meanings of Fortunato Depero’s Advertisements
The Harlem Renaissance, Jazz, The Jazz Age, and Beyond
- The NAACA's Origin Story
- JAZZ, PBS companion site to film by Ken Burns (2001)
- The New Negro I
- Teddy Roosevelt's Shocking Dinner with Washington
- B.T.W. Washington - W.E.B. DuBois controversy
- Who Were the Harlem Hellfighters?
- The Hidden History of America's Black Soldiers
- Harlem 1900-1940, An African-American Community
- African American World Timeline (PBS)
- Black Renaissance in Washington, 1920-1930s
- How World War I . . . Transformed Black America
- Alain Locke Finally Laid to Rest (NPR)
- The Lesser Known Josephine Baker I, II
- Adelaide Hall -- The Birth of Scat 1, A Hall 2
- Netflixing Madame C. J. Walker
- Visual Arts in Harlem Renaissance
- Aaron Douglas I, II, III
- Archibald Motley I, II
- Jean Toomer I, II, III, How JT Rejected the Black-White Binary
Allyson Hobbs, 'A Chosen Exile' (on passing, J Toomer) - Claude McKay, Amiable with Big Teeth (2017), "If We Must Die": 100 Years after Red Summer
- Langston Hughes I, II, Not Without Laughter, Testimony in front of HUAC (1953)
- Wallace Thurman I, Niggerati/Fire!!
- Oscar Micheaux I,.II, III, Within Our Gates I, II, III; see also 28 Days, 28 Films below
- Yale History of Sexuality: W Thurman, van Vechten, G Stein, etc.
- Richard Wright I, II: Black Boy, RW - short biography, The Hammer and the Nail: RW's modern condition, Island Hallucination; Native Son (film 2019, Sundance James Baldwin on Native Son; The Man Who Lived Underground (2021), Underground II, Underground III
- 28 Days, 28 Films for Black History Month (NYT 2018)
- The 1619 Project (NYT)
- How Black Communities Built Their Own Schools (ca. 1913-1930)
- A New African-American Identity: The Harlem Ren (Smithsonian)
- Roots of the Harlem Ren and the Civil Rights Movments (story map)
- African American Rights Movements: The Harlem Renaissance
- How Black Cartographers Put Racism on the Map
- Toni Millionaire, Harlem Renaissance: 100 of History, Art, Culture
- The Evolution of Gospel Music -- and the Hammond Organ
- Ralph Ellison I, II: Invisible Man
- W.E.B. DuBois I, II, W.E.B. Dubois Papers, Heart of Smartness: Why we read W.E.B. Dubois? Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Dubois at the Paris Exposition (2019); W.E.B.DuBois and African American Studies (2023)
- Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro (1925 Survey Graphic Harlem Number)
- Power of Prose -- The Harlem Renaissance (PBS)
- The Harlem Renaissance I, II, III
- The Met Exhibit (finally) on the Harlem Renaissance (PBS, 2024)
- Sterling Brown, The Negro Caravan (documentary)
- Zora Neale Hurston I , II, Mules and Men, "Sweat", Their Eyes; for H's amazing (and little-known) field work footage, see 28 Days, below; Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (2020); 'You Don't Know Us Negroes' & Other Essays (2022); ZNH: Claiming A Space (PBS 2023)
- Charlotte Osgood Mason I
- Nella Larsen, The Performance of Racial Passing; A Conversation on Passing; Overlooked: Nella Larsen/Wrestling with Race & Sexuality
- Carl van Vechten I, II, III, IV, A Professional Dilettante (LABR 2014)
- I Hear America Singing (PBS)
- Minstrel Shows
- Gullah I, II
- A Nightclub Map of Harlem
- The HR-Student Discovery Sets (iTunes/Lib. of Congress)
- Sex, Booze and Jazz in 1920s Paris
- A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It (Robert Penn Warren, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Marshall Frady)
- 100 Years Ago, ‘Crazy Blues’ Sparked a Revolution for Black Women Fans
- US Postal Service: Voices from the Harlem Renaissance (2020)
- The Harlem Renaissance: What Was It, and Why Does it Matter? (2015)
- Winold Reiss, Artist of the HR, WR Symposium, WR Partnership
- Black Pete and Black Lives Matter
- Black Kids, The Brownies' Book, and the Defender Junior
- Billie Holiday’s Story Depends on Who’s Telling It => The United States vs. Billie Holiday (new biopic, 2021)
- Why Thomas Jefferson Owned a Qur'an
Special section on English 3620--The Civil War and Beyond,1865-1914
- Redrawing History: Indigenous Perspectives on Colonial America => Ghost River - The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga
- The Civil War
- David Blight, The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
- Roger L. Ransom, The Economics of the Civil War
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Slavery Made America. The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (PBS)
- Eric Foner, Slavery and the Origins of the Civil War (PBS), The Peculiar Institution (chap. 11)
- Promotion: General of the Armies, Ulysses S. Grant (2023) - Black People - 19th Century Photography - Social Change
- Charles Chestnutt, Humor to Combat White Supremacy
- Stephen Crane, Burning Boy. The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (Paul Auster 2021)
- Emily Dickinson, Reviving Emily Dickinson in 10 Episodes, ED is the unlikely hero of our time (8/20)
- William Dean Howells, W.H. Howells Society, WDH-Library of America, WDH, WDH - on-line lit
- Henry James, Prefaces to the NY Edition, Cultivating Solitude, The HJ Way, The Strange Case of Henry James's Testicles (BBC Radio); The Sex Lives of the James Family; Colm Toíbín, Henry James in the Closet
- Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton), Bio/themes, WAMS! (Women & the American Story), "Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian" / "Mrs. Spring Fragrance," "In the Land of the Free"
- Mark Twain, MT I, MT in His Times, MT online project, MT Papers (UC Berkeley), MT on Mormonism I, II (Roughing It, ch. 6 + letter)
- Edith Wharton, DQ - "The Other Two";
- Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (first edition, 1855), Preface II, WW Archive, WW, Pictures & Sound, Whitman, Emerson & 19th Century Literary America, LG, Sesquicenntenial Essays (2007), Should Walt Whitman Be #Cancelled? Black America talks back to "The Good Gray Poet" at 200.
- The Americanization of Irving Berlin, "Look out for the Bolsheviki Man," Bolsheviki Man II, "The Revolutionary Rag"
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler & John Ruskin
- Zitkala-Sa I, Z-S II, "Why I am a Pagan" (1902) <=> Carlisle School, PA: Native students resisting assimilation
- The Comstock law, "sex radicals," and contraception (2021)
- The Muckrakers I => Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), Federal Meat Inspection Act (1906); Encyclopedia of Chicago: Meatpacking, Meatpacking & The Jungle, Meatpacking Images; The Poison Squad (PBS); A Century Ago: Muckrakers and "fake news" (The Con, 2/18)
- Encylopedia of Strikes in American History (2009)
- How Humans Became "Consumers": A History (Atlantic 2016); Thorstein Veblen 1; TV 2, TV 3 , TV 4
Individual Writers
For 20th/21st-century American poets, the Modern American Poetry site (above) is generally useful.
See also: Modernism Lab; Annenberg Foundation Voices & Visions;
- Willa Cather I, II, III, Art in WC, "Wagner", Selected Letters (2013) I, SL II
Falling monuments of Spanish colonialism - John Dos Passos I, II, III, JDP: The Art of Fiction, JPD, Hemingway, France,
- Theodore Dreiser, D the journalist, Dreiser Short Stories, Sister Carrie Audiobook, Sister Carrie & The Ferris Wheel? (1893)
- TS Eliot-Letters (rev. ed., 2011), Waste Land iPad App, Waste Land links (The Guardian), T.S. Eliot & Roger Vittoz, Historical Forces Shaping TSE; The Love Song of T.S. Eliot (Audm, 2022)
- John Fante I, II, Sad Flower in the Sand
- William Faulkner I, II, "A Courtship"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald I, FSF II, Gatsby--Treasure Hunt , FSF/Zelda F, Gatz,
FSF, Tender, and Malcolm Lowry
Of interest: Ursula Parrott, Ex-Wife (1929) - (vs. The Great Gatsby? - Jesmyn Ward, "JG: A Dreamer to be Excluded" (NYT, 2018); The Great Gatsby & The Great Depression (2020); Gatsby -- 100 Years Later (2021)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" I, II
- Ernest Hemingway, [to be developed on day], 10 Interesting Facts About EH; Hemingway (6-hour PBS documentary, 2021)
> A. E. Hotchener, Heminway in Love (2015), Hemingway the Spy I , II, III, H Letters Project: the young Hemingway; opening of new EH archive (9/22); Mary V. Dearborn, Ernest Hemingway, A Biography (2017); Hemingway in Quarantine; Gabriel Garcia Marquez Meets E Hemingway (1957) - Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt at 100
- Amy Lowell, Amy Lowell Anew
- Mina Loy, "Feminist Manifesto," FM II (Christina Walter), Navigating the Avant Garde
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, ESt.VM II,
- Eugene O'Neill I, EON II
- Tillie Olsen, The Toll of Women's Labor - on Life & Art (NYT 2021)
- Carl Sandburg I, CS <=> 10 Chicago Writers, Chicago Literature; Poetry Foundation links to Carl Sandburg
- Gertrude Stein I, II, III, GS & Robert Haas
- John Steinbeck, The Joads Turn 75
- Wallace Stevens, MAP-WS
- Hart Crane I, MAP-HC
- Robert Frost I, "The Bleakest of Lords" (NYT 1977); "The Dark Side of Frost" (WP, 1977) RF II, RF's Last Adventure; Fence Ecology <=> "Mending Wall"; "The Bleakest of
- Susan Glaspell I, II,
- H. L. Mencken I, II, III, IV
- Henry Miller, HM at Big Sur => Nepenthe Restaurant
- Marianne Moore I, "Nevertheless,"
- O'Henry (William Sidney Porter), Are All Stories O'Henry Stories?
- Ezra Pound I, II, EP-Marshall McLuhan, EP-Documentary, EP in Rapallo, "Ezra Pound Speaking" (radio transcripts); Penn Sound: Ezra Pound, The Life an Afterlife of EP in Italy; EP and Olga Rudge: The Last 10 Years, Pound and Casa Pound, Brunnenburg and Merano; The Sound of Pound: A Listener's Guide
=> American Modernist Writers and the Orient
=> James Laughlin, champion of literature - New Directions - J.D. Salinger, When J.D. S Lost the Girl and Went to War
- Upton Sinclair, Jungle Centennial (1906), II, III
- COVID19 - Meat Packing Then and Now - Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1942) - revisited
- Robert Penn Warren I, II, III
- Nathanael West I, NW II, Lonely, Locust, Lonelyhearts (Bio)
- Thornton Wilder, Our Town
- William Carlos Williams, "The Great Figure", "WCB-Bio / "To Elsie"
- Genius: Thomas Wolfe & Maxwell Perkins (2016)
- Eudora Welty, reading "Why I Live at the P.O."
- The Seminal Novel about the 1918 Flu Pandemic: Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939)
Related Figures and Developments
- Armory Show I, II
- Expressionism I, II
- Eadweard Muybridge I, II
- Thomas Alva Edison I, "Fred Ott's Sneeze"
- Imagism I, II
- Klu Klux Klan I, II
- Margaret Sanger I, II, III, MS Papers
- Charlie Chaplin I, II Modern Times
- Reginald Marsh I, II
- Precisionism I, II
- E Hopper, Nighthawks,
- Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler, Manhatta, II, III - Red Scare I, II, III, Creel Commission, First Red Scare
John Reed I, II, III, Ten Days
- Bruce Barton I, II
- The Great Depression, Woody Guthrie, "Dustbowl Blues"
- Oswald Mosley -- founder of the British Union of Fascists
- Test Results Are In: The Secret About Harding is Out
- "The Bonus Army" and the Torching of Hooverville
- Sacco & Vanzetti I, II, III
- The Scopes Trial I, II
- Provincetown Players I, II, III, IV (Art)
- Literary Naturalism I, II, III
- Vorticism I, II, III, IV
- Wie deutsch ist Pablo Picasso?
- The Case against Woodrow Wilson at Princeton
- Norman Rockwell and Race: Complicating R's Legacy ; The Problem We All Live With (1964)
DVDs (in Stewart Library, eclectic)
- People's Century (PBS) a fine series of documentary films chronicling much of the 20th century
- Joel and Ethan Coen, Barton Fink (keywords: Clifford Odets, William Faulkner, Writers in Hollywood)
- James Joyce & Syphilis
- E. M. Forster, Howards End and
- last updated, 19 March 2024