Imagine for a moment that it’s 1920. If you’re over 14, there’s a 66 percent chance you’re already married—and probably for life, since the divorce rate is 6 percent. If you’re over 54, you’ve already ...
In many ways, life in the 1920s looked vastly different than our world today. Here's how times have changed.
In 1920, as Americans were preparing to choose their next president, the country — just out of World War I — was still reeling from a flu pandemic that killed nearly 700,000 Americans, recovering from ...
• Women receive the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th amendment. • Population is 106,021,537. (To compare: In 2010, it was 308,746,065.) • Unemployment stands at 5.2%. • The population's ...
One hundred years ago, the Bolsheviks drove the last White Russian forces opposing them in Europe out of their final stronghold on the continent, Crimea. Soldiers, officers, and thousands of civilian ...