OSHER 889 - The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

The Roaring Twenties brought massive social change to America, while the Great Depression of the 1930s almost rocked American society off its political and economic foundations. Class lectures will emphasize important people of the era and events that highlight the hedonistic nature of the 1920s and the disastrous gloom that settled over the country as a result of the worst economic depression in the nation's history.