JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL CONVERSATION
				"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it." Al Capone
		ARTICLE Boom to Bust: The Roaring 20s The 1920’s were an era of painful contradictions. Still reeling from the Great War and the world wide wave of disillusionment that it inspired; both dazzled and bewildered to their sudden access to such technological wonders as radios, movies, the automobile and the airplane; torn between the traditional life of simple rural virtue and the exciting jazz age that beckoned to them from the streets of cities (a lure of sexual experimentation and freedom from responsibility), people attempted to make sense of their lives. It was as if they had returned from the war to discover themselves living on a different planet, one made more by the hand of man than the hand of God, a world of neon skyscrapers, of new mass produced products hawked through new mass-audience media, and of new mores challenging Victorian notions of the proper and civilized. The twenties were the decade when modern society was established. Below: In accordance with the 18th Ammendment, Federal Agents pour alcohol down a sewer.			PDFs Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald BLOG Imperialism Immigration Industrialization Citizen Ben INFO GRAPHICS The Asserians The Korean War Africa 1955-1975 DD LINKS Civil Liberties Curtailed Timeline Hitler in Pop Culture Renaissance