1. American Pastimes and Heroes

2. Journal question 100
How did news coverage change in the 1920s? How did education change in the 1920s?

3. Increasing…
By 1926 – 4 million young adults were preparing for college or higher skilled industry jobs.
Due to prosperous times & increase in education standards for employment (good job = high school diploma)
School costs doubled between
Increase in taxes
Emergence of the modern high school.

4. Education Immigrants
Leading up to WWI, approx. 1 million people arrived in the US.
Students and teachers (schools) were determined and worked hard
Higher proportion of these students learned to read and write than native-born white Americans.

5. New News Coverage
During and after the war, interest in the news increased.
First weekly news magazine, Time, was published in 1923.
Newspapers bought radio stations.

6. Introduction of Tabloids
Half the page size of regular newspapers.
Used pictures – large & violent
Like yellow journalism
Specialized in murders, actors/actresses, gangsters, & kidnapping.
Ballyhoo media hype. Insignificant events blown way out of proportion.

7. Charles Lindbergh
5/20/27 – began solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in Spirit of St. Louis.
Took 33 ½ hours
Called “Lucky Lindy” and “Flying Fool” by the press.

9. American Sports Heroes
George Herman “Babe” Ruth: hit 60 HRs in one season, 714 in total.
Harold Edward “Red” Grange: halfback; scored 4 touchdowns in the first 12 min of a game.
Jack Dempsey: Heavyweight champion for most of 1920s. Defeated in 1927.
Bobby Jones: won the “grand slam” of golf

12. Hooray For Hollywood
Rise of Hollywood as the center for movie entertainment.
Warner Brothers – 1923; Colombia
Chinese Theater – opened in 1927
First Academy Awards

13. Famous Actors & Actresses
Buster Keaton
James Cagney
Douglas Fairbanks
Mary Pickford

14. Model T Car designed by Henry Ford Mass Produced Affordable
1908 to 1927 Ford produced more than 15 million Model Ts

15. American Authors F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises

17. Other Stories Bambi – 1923 Felix Salten
Winnie the Pooh A.A. Milne
Velveteen Rabbit – 1922 William Nicholson