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Jazz Age

The Roaring 20's

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The Roaring Twenties by Joshua Zeitz Where there?s smoke there?s fire, by Russell Patterson, ca. 1925. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) The 1920s heralded a dramatic break between America?s past and future. Before World War I the country remained culturally and psychologically rooted in the nineteenth century, but in the 1920s America seemed to break its wistful attachments to the recent past and usher in a more modern era. The most vivid impressions of that era are flappers and dance halls, movie palaces and radio empires, and Prohibition and speakeasies. Scientists shattered the boundaries of space and time, aviators made men fly, and women went to work. The country was confident?and rich. But the 1920s were an age of
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