Curated OER
History Matters: Not Rum but Righteousness: Billy Sunday Attacks Booze
Listen to one of Billy Sunday's sermons denouncing liquor and the government's taxing of it. [12:19 min.]
Curated OER
History Matters: Aimee Semple Mc Pherson on Prohibition
Listen to a speech by Aimee Semple McPherson, well-known evangelical preacher in the 1920s, where she talks about Prohibition. [12:19 min.]
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: 'Dry Manhattan' Traces Prohibition's Failure
Listen to an NPR interview with author Michael A. Lerner whose book, Dry Manhattan, contends that Prohibition caused a culture clash in New York City between those who supported Prohibition and the large immigrant community which...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Roaring 20s
In which John Green teaches you about the United States in the 1920s. They were known as the roaring 20s, but not because there were lions running around everywhere. In the 1920s, America's economy was booming, and all kinds of social...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scopes Trial
View scenes from the 1960 Paramount and Pathe News film "Greatest Headlines of the Century" that chronicled the Scopes Trial of 1925. Consider both sides of the debate on this landmark case.