Tag: 1920s

  • The $5 Wage and Henry Ford's Secret Police

    “He nearly destroyed his own company with his obsessive, brutal attempts to keep labor down. But now he’s a hero to the left! ”

  • 'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong

    “That’s the piece that most people forget: The flapper movement wasn’t simply a fashion trend… it was a full-blown, grassroots feminist revolution. After an 80-year campaign by suffragists, women were finally granted the right to vote in the United States in 1920, when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. When the U.S. entered World War I […]