The 1920s, often called the “Roaring Twenties,” were a time of major change and excitement. After World War I, people were ready to let loose and enjoy life, and it showed in everything from fashion ...

Looking at history we often conjure up an idealized view of the past or one that is scornful and appalled at the poor conditions of the time. One hundred years ago in Quincy, people were coping with ...

The 1920s were a decade of change, often remembered as the Jazz Age or Roaring 20s. WWI ended in 1918. Prohibition started in 1920, outlawing the making and sale of alcohol across the country. The end ...

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What was life in Louisville like a century ago? During the 1920s in The Derby City, Louisvillians saw women gain the right to vote, the dawn of the Jazz Age and prohibition — the last seeming ...

Beginning in the 1890s, Portuguese, primarily from the Azores, settled in Back Central’s tenements and multi-family dwellings. By the early 1920s, over 2,200 Portuguese immigrants and their children ...

Britain's Winston Churchill, (then Lord of the Admiralty and later World War II prime minister), France's World War I Field Marshall Ferdinand Foch, and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson were all ...