The early 1920s in the US offers historical lessons on how current pessimism about the state of the country can manifest in dangerous, discriminatory ways.

The Return of the 1920s America is again caught between nationalists longing for the glories of an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has never yet attained.

In Grays Harbor, Washington, which for decades made headlines for its record-setting lumber shipments and bloody labor wars, the mid-1920s witnessed the rise of a dominant Right-wing coalition with a ...

The 1920s and the Making of Modern America By Nathan Miller. Scribner. 433 pp. $30 Nearly three-quarters of a century after they ended, the 1920s still hold a powerful grip on the American ...

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The KKK’s Attempt to Define America Two new books explain how the Klan gained so much power in the 1920s.

A million kids worked, largely in factories and on farms. Here's a closer look at what the 1920 Census called "Children in Gainful Occupations." ...

America’s largest cities by population have changed over the decades, and 24/7 Tempo has reviewed data from the U.S. Census Bureau to identify what cities were the most populous the decade you ...

In the 1920s, the economy was good, the U.S. had won World War I, and a terrible pandemic ended. But many Americans did not see it that way. They entered the 1920s with a growing sense of paranoia … ...