Marriage and Modernism
Expressive individualism is a solvent that has dissolved the American family
Aesthetics
Jews and Early American Modernism
Jews were heavily involved in American Modernism
The Liberal Club
In 1912, the Liberal Club was founded in the heart of Greenwich Village and became a gathering place for young Moderns
American History Series: Review: Rebellion Against Victorianism
A book review of Stanley Coben’s Revolt Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America
The New York Avant-Garde and Vitalism
Vitalism brought alienated WASP radicals into contact with the Jewish radicals of the Lower East Side
100 Years of Beauty
The ultimate women’s fashion collection
American History Series: Review: New World Coming
A book review of Nathan Miller’s New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
The New Era, The Modernist Intelligentsia and the Development of Modern Culture
In the 1920s, left-progressives began to call themselves “liberals”
Modernists and American Historiography
In the 1930s, America was transformed from an Anglo-Protestant nation to a modernist liberal melting pot
H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche and the Culture War
The Übermensch of Baltimore tore down America’s Victorian culture
Jazz and Black Politics In the 1920s
The Jazz Question and antiracism are related
Civilization in the United States
In the 1920s, a cultural fault line opened up that never closed
H.L. Mencken, The Scopes Monkey Trial and the Culture War
In 1925, the Scopes Monkey Trial pitted Victorians against Modernists
The New Era
Modern couples go on dates
Late Victorian Women’s Fashion
In the 1900s and 1910s, young women dressed in the Victorian style
The New Woman and 1920s Fashion
In the 1920s, young women adopted the Modern style
The Hays Code
Hollywood studios policed their own content for several decades
The Rise of Hollywood
Jews, Hollywood and the creation of mass culture
The Sun Also Rises
One generation passes away and another generation cometh
Antiracism, Social Science and the Revolt Against Victorian America
Antiracism triumphed in the social sciences in the 1920s
Victorian America
What was Victorian America?
The Second Klan and Modernism
100,000 Klansmen gathered in Kokomo, IN in 1923
Towards a Definition of American Modernism
Modernism deserves to be treated as a full-fledged historical culture
From Babbitt To Bateman: The Bohemian Origins of Consumer Capitalism
The pursuit of aesthetic self expression through alternative lifestyles encouraged a consumption ethic
The Greenwich Village Idea
Malcolm Cowley describes the Modernist culture of Greenwich Village
George Babbitt, Main Street and the Origins of the Culture War
The culture war between Moderns and Victorians began in the 1920s
The Young Intellectuals and Nietzsche
H.L. Mencken, Emma Goldman and the Young Intellectuals Americanized Nietzsche’s philosophy
The Lost Generation and Modernism
In the 1920s, the artists, poets and novelists of the Lost Generation partied in France
Randolph Bourne, Modernism and The New Woman
The New Woman has become the ordinary woman
Hidden Hands: The CIA, Modernism and the Cold War
Modernism was used as a weapon to fight the Nazis and Soviets
This Side of Paradise
Modern America began in the 1920s
The Modernism Debate
Hunter Wallace, Richard Spencer and Keith Woods discuss Modernism