Roaring Twenties Magazine
Re-live the 1920's
Louis Armstrong: The Magical Musician
OUR TOP STORIES
The Great Henry Ford
Henry Ford, who was born in 1863 and died in 1947, was one of America's greatest businessmen, the founder of Ford Motor Company and the man largely responsible for initiating the era of mass-consumption and mass-production in the American economy. Ford's innovative business practices, including standardization, the assembly line, and high wages for workers, revolutionized American industry.
"Quality means doing it right when no one's looking" -Henry Ford
Worlds Greatest Magician Dead
Houdini, one of the most successful magicians this world has ever seen, suffered a ruptured appendix. On October 31st, 1926 surrounded by his wife and brother, Harry Houdini died. Houdini's funeral was held on November 4, 1926 in New York with more than 2,000 mourners in attendance.
Rise of the KKK
The Ku Klux Klan, a genocidal domestic terrorist organization founded during Reconstruction, was revitalized in 1920, the result in part of new Klan leadership with an eye for publicity. The Klan’s activities, were reigns of terror, spaced widely in time and place, that could be loosely compared to latter-day outbreaks of the Inquisition. But while the Inquisition targeted heretical Roman Catholics, the Klan hated not only Catholics, but Jews, Asians, African-Americans, and Europeans who were not from the non-Nordic countries of the north.
Politics
Warren G. Harding
Teapot Dome Scandal
Kellogg Briand Pact
Political Cartoon
Court Cases
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Sacco & Vanzetti
Schenck vs. United States
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Scopes
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
the outcome of the trial.
Innovations, Innovators & Culture
Aviation
Jazz Age
Henry Ford
Letter to the editor
Political Cartoon & Analysis
Nativism
Politics
Warren G. Harding
Teapot Dome Scandal
Kellogg–Briand Pact
Court Cases
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Sacco and Venzetti
Schenck Vs USA
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Scopes
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
outcome of the trial
Innovations, Innovators & Culture
Aviation
Jazz Age
Henry Ford
An American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line,[1] he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the twentieth century. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As the owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation and arranged for his family to control the company permanently.