1920's

The Great Depression (2003)

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This program examines the many factors that led to the Depression, Hoover's attempts to counter the nation's economic woes, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
00:30
The Great Depression

The Roaring Twenties (2003)

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The Roaring Twenties—In the presidential election of 1920, war-weary Americans elected Warren G. Harding, who promised a return to "normalcy". His inauguration in 1921 ushered in an exciting era of prosperity, rapid industrialization, social experimentation, and artistic renaissance—the Roaring Twenties, also known as the Jazz Age.

Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
00:30
The Roaring Twenties

Black Duck (Unabridged)

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When Ruben and Jed find a dead body on the Rhode Island shore, they are certain it has something to do with smuggling liquor. It's the 1920s, Prohibition and bootlegging is in full swing, and almost everyone in the shore community is involved. Suddenly, the boys find themselves involved as well: didn't the dead man have something on him, and didn't they take it?

Author: 
Janet Taylor Lisle
Grade Level: 
Middle
Lexile: 
790L
Length: 
05:30
Black Duck (Unabridged)

The Great Gatsby (Unabridged)

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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder". It remains one of the most widely read, translated, admired, imitated, and studied 20th-century works of American fiction.

Author: 
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
1070L
Length: 
04:44
The Great Gatsby (Unabridged)