Nina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on an island, are friends. When the doctor catches Nancy kissing the captain, known for kisses with a ...
Out of this musical melting pot came jazz. Since the ‘Jazz Age’ of the 1920s, jazz has become a major genre in musical expression, and its development has allowed for the rise of different breakout ...
Movie"A screaming film tonic of soul kisses and shaking shimmies. If you never laughed in your life before, you've got a howl coming in the land of Jazz." ...
Art Deco, which emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, is characterized by bold colors and geometric shapes. Just as jazz music was evolving during this era, Art Deco became a dominant design style that ...
A significant organization, the Free Speech League, became a principled defender of free expression two decades before the establishment of the ACLU in 1920. Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years ...
With World War I in the rear-view mirror, a period of great economic growth was underway, along with the dawn of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age—eras of great social change. Prohibition began as ...
Stuff Your Kindle Day is here, bringing a stash of free e-books that’ll have you playing period detective without spending a dime. Whether you’re into jazz-era London sleuths or cozy ...
Since the 1920s, the ACLU has been involved in virtually all of the landmark speech cases to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. In a landmark 1997 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the ACLU’s ...