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The Roaring twenties
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Download The Modern Temper
- Date: March 6, 2007
- Location: Ipswich Town Hall
- Time:9AM - 3PM
- Dr. Brad Austin
- Professor of History
- Salem State College
- Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen:“The Big Red Scare”and “The Revolution in Manners and Morals”
- From Major Problems in American History, 1920-1945: “The Culture of Advertising” by Roland Marchand and “The Class Anxieties of the Ku Klux Klan” by Nancy MacLean
- Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century by Warren I. Susman: “Culture Heroes: Ford, Barton, Ruth”
- The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s by Lynn Demenil: “Conformity and Community”
- Ipswich Town Hall
- Conference Room B
- 25 Green Street
- Ipswich, MA 01938
- From the South
Map- Follow Rt. 1A North to Ipswich
- DO NOT follow Rt. 1A North into Downtown Ipswich. When 1A intersects Poplar Street (next street after Argilla Road), stay straight onto County Street
- Take your next right on Green Street
- The Town Hall is located on your right
From the North
Map- Take 95 South or 495 South until Route 133 towards Georgetown and Rowley
- Continue on Route 133 into Ipswich
- In Ipswich, Route 133 and Route 1A will become the same road
- Bear left and continue on High Street, DO NOT continue on Route 133
- Turn Right onto County Street
- Turn left at Green Street
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The Roaring 20s seminar will examine social, political, and economic issues to elucidate the tension between modernity and traditionalism that characterized this tumultuous time. Anti-Immigrant agitation, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Scare, changing gender and behavioral/moral norms and the beginnings of a mass-market consumer culture will all be discussed in the readings and at the seminar.
Brad Austin is Assistant Professor of History at Salem State College. Dr. Austin received his Doctorate in Modern U.S. History from The Ohio State University, and has published“Protecting Athletics and the American Way: Ideological Defenses of Intercollegiate Athletics at Ohio State and Across the Big Ten During the Great Depression,” in the Journal of Sport History. His forthcoming work, “Progressives at Play: Recreation and Leisure During the Progressive Era,” will be featured in Retrieving the American Past. Dr. Austin currently serves as Chairperson of the American Historical Association’s Teaching Prize Committee
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