Daily life in the united states 1920 1940 by david e kyvig

Originally put out three years ago in a "library edition" by Greenwood Publishing Group, it is now made available to a general trade readership in this paperback from Ivan R. How these vanished people lived in these United States from 1920 to 1940 is the subject of David Kyvig's study. Marquand put it, "these vanished people made things what they are." But they are arguably no more important in the long run than the quieter developments that occurred in the daily lives of ordinary Americans whose names almost never make it into the history books yet who are, as the novelist John P.

The great events that occurred then still echo in the national memory: the Scopes trial, the Mississippi flood, the Lindbergh flight, the stock-market crash, the Depression, the New Deal.

The two decades between the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II were an incredibly important time in the history of the United States. How Americans Lived Through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression DAILY LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1920-1940