Multimedia

The Roaring Twenties

These videos and podcasts by eminent scholars, master teachers, and other speakers open a variety of ways to explore American history. The presentations range from two- or three-minute interview clips to hour-long lectures. Whether you watch them in class, assign them to your students for homework, or download them to your iPod for a long road trip, each one can give you new insight into the past.

America between the Wars, 1917–1940, Part 2

Speaker(s): Michael Kazin Duration: 0 seconds

Calvin Coolidge and Economic Growth

Speaker(s): Amity Shlaes Duration: 0 seconds

The Rise of Consumerism in the 1920s

Speaker(s): Michael Flamm Duration: 0 seconds

Multimedia from Other Sub-Eras

A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950

Speaker(s): Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Duration: 0 seconds

America between the Wars, 1917–1940, Part 1

Speaker(s): Michael Kazin Duration: 0 seconds

Defining the Twentieth Century

Speaker(s): Edward L. Ayers Duration: 0 seconds

FDR’s Popularity

Speaker(s): Michael Flamm Duration: 0 seconds

Great Biographies: African American Athletes

Speaker(s): Henry Louis Gates Jr. Duration: 0 seconds

The Power of Radio in the 1930s

Speaker(s): Michael Flamm Duration: 0 seconds