The Contents of Defining Documents in American History: The 1920s (1920–1929)
Publisher’s Note
Editor’s Introduction
Contributors
A Return to Normalcy
Warren G. Harding: “Not Nostrums, but Normalcy”
Harding on Americanism
Franklin D. Roosevelt on Americanism
On the Transportation Act of 1920
On the Teapot Dome Scandal
The National Origins Act (Immigration Act of 1924)
The Sacco-Vanzetti Case in Context
The Case Against the Reds
Labor Will Not Be Outlawed or Enslaved
Summation of the Defense, Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
Summation of the Prosecution, Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
Selected Prison Letters of Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Selected Prison Letters of Nicola Sacco
From Facing the Chair: The Americanization of Two Foreign-born Workingmen
Prohibition and Problems
President Harding’s Appeal to Halt Lawbreaking
Fiorello La Guardia on Prohibition
An Account of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
The Wickersham Commission Report on Prohibition and Crime
The Age of Coolidge
The Destiny of America
The Press Under a Free Government
Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
On Intervention in Nicaragua
Women and the Modern World
Prison Writings of a Radical Suffragist
Now We Can Begin: Women and Their Vote
Margaret Sanger: The Morality of Birth Control
A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents
African American Affairs
Marcus Garvey on Back to Africa
W. E. B. Du Bois: An Open Letter to Warren G. Harding
On the Tulsa Race Riot
Letter Regarding Ku Klux Klan Activity in Arkansas
The Klansman’s Manual
The Name “Negro”–Letters between Roland A. Barton and W. E. B. Du Bois
The Scopes “Monkey” Trial
William Jennings Bryan: Scopes Trial Summation
Court Decision in the Scopes Trial
Impressions of the Scopes Trial
International Negotiations
On the Necessity of Naval Disarmament
Treaty on the Limitation of Naval Armaments
The Problem of Japan–A Japanese View
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
On the Multilateral (Kellogg-Briand) Pact
New Horizons in Industry, Travel, and Culture
From My Life and Work, by Henry Ford
Lindbergh’s Paris Trip Makes Him World Hero
The Jazz Singer: Reviews of the First “Talking Movie”
WLS Showboat: The Floating Palace of Wonder
Herbert Hoover Takes the Helm
Herbert Hoover on “The Constructive Side of Government”
President Hoover Responds to the Stock Market Crash
Chronological List
Web Resources
Bibliography