OSHER 889 - History of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

This course will cover important and interesting events about the 1920s and 1930s. For the 1920s, the "Roaring Twenties" or "Jazz Age," the course will feature politics, commerce, mobility (automobiles and aircraft), entertainment, and crime. For the 1930s, the course will cover the social and economic conditions of the Great Depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's life and New Deal activities.