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Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s, Primary Sources, America in Class® from the National Humanities Center

Florine Stettheimer, The Cathedrals of Broadway, oil on canvas, 1929

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1. "The Age" commentary
2. Only Yesterday year by year
3. Chicago Tribune political cartoons
4. New Yorker cartoons
5. Felix the Cat animated cartoons
6. Detroit News newsreels
7. New York City subway posters

1. Modern Youth
2. Modern Woman
3. Modern Democracy
4. Modern Faith
5. Modern City
6. Modern City in Art
7. Modern City in Film

1. "Machine Age"
2. Factory
3. Automobile
4. Airplane
5. Radio
6. Movies

1. "Age of Prosperity"
2. Business
3. Consumerism
4. Crash
5. Labor Union
6. Labor Strike

1. Ku Klux Klan
2. Black & White
3. City & Town
4. Wets & Drys
5. Religion & Science
6. Labor & Capital
7. Native & Foreign
8. "Reds" & "Americans"