Download or read book Great American Glass of the Roaring 20s Depression Era written by James Measell and published by Antique Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the first volume of a series designed to provide a comprehensive overview, in color, of American glass from the 1920s and 1930s"-- Introduction.

Download or read book Great American Glass of the Roaring 20s and Depression Era written by James Measell and published by . This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the first volume of a series designed to provide a comprehensive overview, in color, of American glass from the 1920s and 1930s"--Introd.

Download or read book Great American Glass of the Roaring 20s Depression Era written by James Measell and published by Antique Publishers. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the first volume of a series designed to provide a comprehensive overview, in color, of American glass from the 1920s and 1930s"--Introd.

Download or read book The Great Depression written by Marcia Amidon Lusted and published by Nomad Press. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Great Depression: Experience the 1930s From the Dust Bowl to the New Deal, readers ages 12 to 15 investigate the causes, duration, and outcome of the Great Depression, the period of time when more than 20 percent of Americans were unemployed. They discover how people coped, what new inventions came about, and how the economics of the country affected the arts, sciences, and politics of the times. The decade saw the inauguration of many social programs that Americans still benefit from today. The combination of President Roosevelt’s New Deal and the dawning of World War II gave enough economic stimulus to boost the United States out of its slump and into a new era of recovery. In The Great Depression, students explore what it meant to live during this time. Projects such as designing a 1930s outfit and creating a journal from the point of view of a kid whose family is on the road help infuse the content with realism and practicality. In-depth investigations of primary sources from the period allow readers to engage in further, independent study of the times. Additional materials include a glossary, a list of current reference works, and Internet resources.

Download or read book Did the Twenties Roar written by Sandi Ludwa and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Did the Twenties Roar?" is a fascinating adventure through the 1920s and 1930s in America. This is a story of our country and the spirit of the American people. It begins with the end of World War I, the Great War. Americans were tired of picking up the newspapers and experiencing the constant news stories breeding fear. Deaths were overwhelming, not only from the War but from La Grippe, or the Spanish Flu. Doughboys came home wounded, with diseases, and tried to adjust to being civvies once again. Families had to make adjustments and people demanded more. We were tired and needed to move on. The twenties were upon us with prohibition, automobiles, flappers, and a search for fun and a good life. The twenties came and went and before America realized it, we were in a Depression -- a Great one. We struggled and somehow made it into the forties. World War II arrived and the economic depression was over. "Did the Twenties Roar?" is an adventure covering the two decades. It is both a light-hearted and dark story of events, people, and American determination to survive. Could these times happen again? Once you read this book, you will see the similarity with current events. We've witnessed the same issues during our lifetimes: disease, the Flu, political corruption, presidential ups and downs, yellow-press, recession and depression, good times rolling, and periods of prosperity. Look back and give the issues some thought and enjoy the experience reading about the Greatest Country in the World -- the United States of America.

Download or read book The Roaring Twenties written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few decades capture the imagination like the 1920s. Like so many good stories, it got its start from a time of great turmoil and ended in a dramatic fashion. What happened between 1920 and 1929 has passed beyond history and has become legend.

Download or read book The Great Depression in United States History written by David K. Fremon and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Depression began when the never-ending party of the Roaring Twenties came to a sudden half. On October 29, 1929, which became known as “Black Tuesday,” the stock market crashed, starting a downward economic slide. David K. Fremon recounts the fascinating events leading to the crash of the New York Stock Exchange, and tells of personal tales as a quarter of hard-working people were without jobs, banks failed, businesses were wiped out, and the Great Depression began. This book is developed from THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN AMERICAN HISTORY to allow republication of the original text into ebook, paperback, and trade editions.

Download or read book Depression Glass by Duncan written by Leslie Pina and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glassware made by The Duncan & Miller Glass Company, of Washington, Pennsylvania, in the 1920s -1940s is featured. This book presents their Depression Era production and includes essays about their Victorian wares and contribution to the Tiffin Glass Co. Over 500 color photos, catalog pages, advertisements, patent drawings, chronology of company history, detailed captions, bibliography, index, and value guide make this a complete reference for the popular glassware.

Download or read book The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dawn of a New Century written by John Kekec and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about the families of three brother in the following few decades after the turn of the century in 1900. The old Victorian Age was ending and this new century ushered in many new innovations contributing to the rapidly changing lifestyles. These occurred during the eras of WWI, Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and WWII; and what exciting times they were. But it is also the story of hard times and difficult circumstances for some. It reveals the vulnerable victims of these social and economic times, especially as a result of neglectful and estranged parental relationships. It tells of youth left on their own at very young ages to shift for themselves in a rather lawless, promiscuous, and often reckless environment. The characters of the story will probably raise a wide range of sentiments with accompanying emotions. Some may engender our admiration for the courage and grit and determination needed as they were able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps to find a better life for their families. Others may engender our compassion, but also even some degree of condemnation for choosing to take more selfish and irresponsible paths. The three brothers of this story are George, Fred, and Carl Kieslich, all three born in the first decade of this new century. America was bursting at the seams at the turn of the century in 1900 with the dynamic Teddy Roosevelt at the helm. The Spanish/American War had just ended; factories were humming, and all the new inventions and conveniences, such as the telephone, automobile, and electrification, were changing the way that people lived. Many foreign immigrants were still coming into our country because America was the land of opportunity and freedom; and they were looking for a better lot in life for themselves and their children. As a result of the suffragette movement and the 19th amendment women had won the right to vote and were asserting themselves in many other ways as exhibited in their new dress fashions. Prohibition also came in with the 18th amendment at the beginning of the 1920's decade, but it was only winked at. The law actually only had the opposite effect of creating a national obsession for alcoholic beverages and inadvertently resulted in a widespread contempt for most laws and ordinances in general. Never was a law destined to be so flagrantly violated by so many. The big city crime boss rackets took advantage of this situation and were able to extend their vices with impunity, and perhaps helped spawn the public enemy crime sprees across the nation during the depression era of the following decade. All of these rapidly changing events were ushered in during the decade that became known as the Roaring Twenties, but which has more correctly been called the Unruly Decade. This was the era of speakeasies, flappers, bootleggers and with all the accompanying gambling, prostitution, and vaudevillian entertainment, and all the new dances- the provocative atmosphere of excitement and danger that the new developing culture was thirsting for. The younger generation cut loose with the 'Charleston' and other uninhibited behavior with an exuberance as never before seen. Then the stock market crashed in 1929 and the Great Depression arrived. Jobs grew harder to find as farm prices plummeted, factories started shutting down, and such major industries as mining and railroads declined. To compound the situation of these desperate times, the Midwest region experienced the worst drought in U. S. Weather Bureau history. Dust storms raged throughout this seven-state region that became known as the Dust Bowl. So everything finally got worse for everyone including not only those that had already just been hanging on, but those that had been enjoying their elaborate garden parties, debuts, fetes, and fancy balls as well. Finally World War II came along and kicked American industry back into high gear.

Download or read book Daily Life in the United States 1920 1939 written by David E. Kyvig and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. Find out how worklife, domestic life, and leisure-time activities were affected by these factors as well as by the politics of the time. Details of matters such as the creation of the pickup truck, the development of radio programming, and the first mass use of cosmetics provide an enjoyable read that brings the period clearly into focus. Centering its attention on the broad masses of the population, this animated reference resource emphasizes the wide variety of experiences of people living through The Roaring Twenties and The Great Depression. Readers will be surprised to discover that some of the assumptions we have about the lives of average Americans during these eras are historically inaccurate. A final chapter provides a unique look at six American communities and gives a vivid sense of the diversity of American experience over the course of these tumultuous years.

Download or read book The Cut glass Bowl written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the face of it, Evelyn Piper has it all: a loving husband, a devoted daughter, and a secure lifestyle. However, she is also the owner of a cut-glass bowl given to her in anger by a rejected suitor. This bowl seems to act as the connecting thread between all the tragedies that befall Evelyn and her family. With the deft use of symbolism, Fitzgerald creates a short story that encourages the reader to reflect on their own lives, material wealth, and past regrets. An introspective read for fans of the author of ‘The Great Gatsby.’ F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century and the author of the classics ‘Tender is the Night’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’, with the latter having been made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. Skillfully capturing the prosperity of post-World War One America, his writing helped illustrate the 1920s Jazz Age that he and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald were at the centre of.

Download or read book American Glass written by George Skinner McKearin and published by Crown. This book was released on 1941 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference to types of glass and the history of numerous glass houses.

Download or read book Dark Realities written by Wyn Derbyshire and published by Spiramus Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stock market crash came in October 1929, and America slid into deep depression. Against a background of bank failures, industrial decline, rural poverty, and unemployment, there was an outbreak of protests, strikes, and riots. Hoover was swept from power in 1932, and it fell to the new President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to revive America's fortunes with a number of ground-breaking new programs which made up the New Deal. Dark Realities covers this period in America's history. The book introduces the key figures of this time period and reveals the impact that the Great Depression had on the American people.

Download or read book The Great Depression written by Edmund O. Stillman and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The event that defined the 1930s in the United States came before it started. On October 29, "Black Tuesday," stock-market investors lost more than $30 billion in the Great Crash. The ten-year Great Depression that followed was not the product of a single day or week. Nonetheless, it came as a shock to the American people and to the man they looked to for relief: President Herbert Hoover. Soon, as banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and unemployment soared, bread lines formed throughout the country in grim testimony to the state of the economy. The policies of Hoover and then Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal started a long road to relief, recovery, and reform. Here, from the respected historian Edmund O. Stillman, are the stories of The Great Depression, the 1930s, and an American people defined by their resilience in the face of debilitating despair.

Download or read book The Great Depression written by Robert S. McElvaine and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today. In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed insight into the machinations of politicians and economists who struggled to revive the battered economy, personal stories from the average people who were hardest hit by an economic crisis beyond their control, and an evocative depiction of the popular culture of the decade, McElvaine paints an epic picture of an America brought to its knees—but also brought together by people’s widely shared plight. In a new introduction, McElvaine draws striking parallels between the roots of the Great Depression and the economic meltdown that followed in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. He also examines the resurgence of anti-regulation free market ideology, beginning in the Reagan era, and argues that some economists and politicians revised history and ignored the lessons of the Depression era.

Download or read book The Roaring 20s and the Great Depression 1920 1940 written by Naunerle C. Farr and published by Pendulum Press. This book was released on 1976-06-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: