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American Portraits: Charles Lindbergh
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HIST 180: Survey of American History
Benjamin Cawthra, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton
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The Modern Temper: The 1920s
Timeline: The Modern Temper: The 1920s
Who Is An American?
Tradition and the 1920s Klan
Immigration Policy
The Challenge of Modernism
Charles Sheeler and Modernism
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1. Timeline: The Modern Temper: The 1920s
Republican Warren G. Harding elected president.
First bill passed restricting immigration by national quotas.
President Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge becomes president.
1924 National Origins Act further limits immigration by quotas.
Teapot Dome and other Harding administration scandals exposed.
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue performed.
Coolidge elected president.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby published.
Charles Chaplin’s The Gold Rush debuts.
Sacco and Vanzetti executed.
Herbert Hoover elected president.
Stock-market crash begins the Great Depression.
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2. Who Is An American?
Gordon Grant, To Them that Star Stood for One Hundred Percent American Soldier, 1918. Poster.
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Woodrow Wilson, 1919, the year he failed to convince the Senate to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
Twentieth-century racial typing
Race Types, from Maury’s Complete Geography, 1906.
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U.S. Immigration Commission, Dictionary of Races or Peoples, 1911.
Persian: “In intellect, if not in civilization, the Persian is perhaps more nearly a European than is the pure Turk. He is more alert and accessible to innovation. Yet he is rather brilliant and poetical than solid in temperament. Like the Hindu he is more eager to secure the semblance than the substance of modern civilization.”
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English School Graduates, Ford Motor Company, gathering around a melting pot, c. 1915.
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3. Tradition and the 1920s Klan
The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
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Ku Klux Klan march, Washington, D.C, August 8, 1925.
Photograph.
Pro:
Racialism
Citizenship
Freedom
Con:
Feminism
Labor radicalism
Corporations
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4. Immigration Policy
Calvin Coolidge.
Photograph.
“America must be kept American.”
Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Better Babies competition, Tennessee State Fair, 1908
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5. The Challenge of Modernism
Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco, ca. 1920.
Photograph.
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Ben Shahn, Vanzetti and Sacco, 1927.
Poster.
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Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1930.
Detail from mural.
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Ernest Blumenschein, Church at Chimayo, 1929.
Oil on canvas.
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Louis Armstrong.
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Winold Reiss, Portrait of Langston Hughes, c. 1925.
Pastel on artist board.
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Aaron Douglas, Harriet Tubman, c. 1927.
Oil on canvas.
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Aaron Douglas, Rebirth, c. 1927. Illustration.
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James VanDerZee, Couple on 127th Street. 1932.
Photograph.
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Charlie Chaplin.
Photograph.
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Paramount Pictures Gate, 1926
MGM logo, 1928
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National Broadcasting Company, 1926
Columbia Broadcasting System, 1927
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Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey, Red Grange
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Babe Ruth, 1920.
Photograph.
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6. Charles Sheeler and Modernism
Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, still from Manhatta (1921).
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What Can You Do?, c. 1917. Poster.
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Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, still from Manhatta (1921).
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Charles Sheeler, Criss-Crossed Conveyers, 1927. Photograph.
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Charles Sheeler, Stamping Press, 1927.
Photograph.
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Charles Sheeler, American Landscape, 1930.
Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art.
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Charles Sheeler, Classic Landscape, 1931.
Oil on canvas.
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