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Our Best Suggestion
If you can only read one book on the 1920s, make it
Only
Yesterday by Frederick L. Allen, written in 1932.
What makes this book so wonderful, is that Allen elected
not to focus on sweeping political issues, realizing that his perspective
was too close. Instead he documented the fads, the social trends,
and the lifestyle of the 1920s. There is a four or five page section
that explains the difference in the life of an average American businessman
in 1919 and 1929. It is a great book for flavor and for understanding
what people in the 1920s did, knew and talked about. |
Available in paperback:
List: $7.50
Paperback, 320 pages
Published by HarperCollins (paper)
Publication date: June 1957, copyright 1932
ISBN: 0060800046
Ask your bookseller today, or order it for $6.00
from www.amazon.com
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20's References
Project
Gutenberg
Vast array of literature online
Books
On-line, Listed by Author
The
Online Literature Library
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General
GM References
RPGNet GM Encyclopedia
A great source for GM Reference
material.
Desktop
Reference Links
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Incredible Resource!!
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Time, Calendars
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Phone Numbers, Area Codes
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Postal and Delivery Services
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On-Line Books, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,
Thesauri, Acronyms
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Writing Aids
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Geography, Maps, Travel
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Economy, Finance
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Law, Legal Information
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Health, Medicine
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Consumer Information
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Copyright, Patents, Trademarks
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Weights, Measures, Tables
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Census, Statistics, Genealogy
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Miscellaneous
Specifically: Calendar Generator
(print a calendar for the year of your game), Ecclesiastical Calendar,
Free Internet Encyclopedia, On-line Dictionaries Map-related Web Sites,
National Geographic's Map Machine
Good
list of Reference books Online
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The
Internet Public Library
The
World-Wide Web Virtual Library
The
Translator's Home Companion
Translation sites to help render
that inscription in a foreign language, or add color
Engine Room Terms
This was developed as vocabulary
to understand Kipling's 1894 "McAndrew's Hymn" (which is one of the sources
for characterizing all engineers as Scottish). Very useful for setting
a scene aboard a steamship.
Forensic
Entomology Page
The science of how insects devour
and live in corpses. Very useful in giving crime scene clues, but remember
this science wasn't very highly developed in the 20s.
Books
on Line
An index of books online.
A very large file, but useful.
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