The "Roaring Twenties" was a roaring decade indeed. The passage of the Volstead Act prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol and spawned a black market ne

This volume provides primary sources of American history and culture from the 1940s including an introduction to the source and an essay on its significance.

Provides fresh insight into the decade's most important events, people, and issues.

Contains over two thousand primary sources on twentieth-century American history and culture, featuring seventy-five different types of sources, arranged chrono