sorry for the silence

Sorry for the lack of postings. Blogspot had American Twenties marked as a Span blog...probably because I had posted so many things at once.

Now back on the air.

Consumer's Imperium

Kristin L. Hogason touches on some of the background of ‘20s consumerism in her Consumer’s Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920. See Eric Rauchway’s review, “The Empire of Ennuui,” in Reviews in American History June 2008.

New Just Yesterday?

Rumors of a new (annotated?) version of Just Yesterday. Can anyone confirm?

Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations and the YWCA, 1906-1946

Joan Marie Johnson has an interesting review of Nancy Marie Robertson’s Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations and the YWCA, 1906-1946 in the June 2008 edition of The American Historical Review.

just my imagination?

Is it just my imagination or are the 1920s badly served by the profession? I see surprisingly little about them from University presses.

Jan Doolittle Wilson

Jan Doolittle Wilson looks at what she calls “the politics of materialism” in the 1920s in her The Women’s Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Materialism (University of Illinois Press). Interesting review by Dorothy Sue Cobble in in the June 2008 edition of The American Historical Review.

Please post!

Hello, Everyone,

please post anything that you think scholars should know about the '20s. Give us pointers to books or book reviews, web sites or conferences, deep thoughts or whatever ...

cheers

mjt