E History: Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s: Ku Klux Klan

The Crusades sounds like a glamorous time period in the Middle Ages full of glory—but was it? Scholars find and review the truth of the Crusades' influence on the world through the resource. The study guides, separated individually by...

Small groups learn about a present-day nomadic culture in Mongolia and the threats to its existence by exploring a photo essay. The resource includes thoughtful discussion and writing prompts about cultural sustainability, the...

Using video clips of young adults from around the world describing their cultures and how they can be misunderstood, learners compare their own cultural point of view to that of others through discussion and writing.

Why do cultural misunderstandings happen? What causes stereotypes, and what is dangerous about them? After viewing some possible explanations to these questions provided by young adults around the world, your learners will discuss how...

Although this introduction to a more extensive site is not lengthy, it is filled with information about all the cultural tensions evident in the early 20th century. Of interest is a chart comparing the "Old" Culture with the "New" Culture.

This index included in the larger site on Prohibition gives links to political cartoons, photographs, and documents, which include essays, parts of speeches, and commission reports. Good primary sources.

Find the index to a larger site about the Scopes trial which has photographs pertinent to the trial, cartoons and diagrams, and essays and excerpts from magazines about the trial. Great primary source material.

Overview of the arrest, trial, and conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti, with a link to Felix Frankfurter's book on the subject, published in 1927, which concludes that the conviction was the result of the anti-immigration fury of the time.

Much of Latin American music owes its origins to the slave trade. Peoples from the Yoruban and Dahomean cultures brought with them the distinctive rhythms, time signatures, and eighth note patterns that now characterize Caribbean music....

Although brief, this discussion of the clash of cultures in the 1920s covers all the reasons for cultural discordance.