EDUCATION BEFORE THE 1920s

ENROLLMENTS APPROXIMATELY 1 MILLION HIGH SCHOOL

STUDENTS TYPES OF COURSES

HIGH SCHOOLS CATERED TO COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS

IMMIGRANTS MANY IMMIGRANT STUDENTS WHO SPOKE

SOME ENGLISH FINANCING

COSTS DOUBLED FROM 1913 TO 1920

EDUCATION DURING THE 1920s

ENROLLMENTS 4 MILLION STUDENTS

TYPES OF COURSES THEY CATERED TO BROAD RANGE OF

STUDENTS, INCLUDING THOSE INTERESTED IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND HOME ECONOMICS

IMMIGRANTS MANY WHO SPOKE NO ENGLISH

FINANCING COSTS DOUBLED AGAIN, TOTALING $2.7

BILLION A YEAR BY 1926

POPULAR CULTURE

MAGAZINE TIME, READER’S DIGEST

RADIO KDKA, MELODY MAKER

SPORTS BABE RUTH, JACK DEMPSEY, GENE TUNNEY,

HELEN WILLS, GERTUDE EDERLE, ANDREW FOSTER

MOVIES THE JAZZ SINGER, STEAMBOAT WILLIE

POPULAR CULTURE

THEATER, MUSIC, AND ART EUGENE O’NEILL, GEORGE GERSHWIN, EDWARD

HOPPER. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, THE HAIRY APE LITERATURE

SINCLAIR LEWIS, F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, DOROTHY PARKER, EDITH WHARTON, WILLA CATHER, EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, ERNEST HEMINGWAY, JOHN DOS PASSOS, T.S. ELIOT, EZRA POUND

BABITT, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, THE GREAT GATSBY, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, BARREN GROUND, MY ANTONIA, THE WASTE LAND, THREE SOLDIERS, THE SUN ALSO RISES, A FAREWELL TO ARMS

CHARLES A. LINDBERGH

LINDBERGH PILOTED THE FIRST NONSTOP SOLO FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN