Early 1900s Research

@whalekeeper

I’m an American history nerd, but I can’t think of anything that sounds dense and academic right now, except for the Ken Burns dust bowl documentary. I do have a couple short articles somewhere with information about the 20s.

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@whalekeeper

Awesome. I’ll start digging this evening.

Right off the top of my head I know that WWI and the reformed American patent system both majorly contributed to technology, which changed the face of entertainment for the 1900’s. I’ll try to find where I know that from.

Archeology, that dear little side dream. I started getting interest in it with historical costuming, which led into experimental archeology and viking burial sites. From there…well, my favorite places to research are the British isles, the Baltics, and Isreal. I enjoy finding out how to put a thousand tiny pieces of artifacts together until you find a long lost story.

@whalekeeper

If it was for an assignment, there’s little hope that it actually stays in my brain. XD

Hm. That is really interesting to think about. I, for one, am glad there are so many viking burials. Especially the ones with ships.

Well, I have pretty much finished a civil war ensemble (all layers ect.) except for boots/shoes and a bonnet (which are more expensive to get than you’d think). It’s all based on period patterns and stuff. But I’ve designed ensembles for all sorts of time periods that I’d love to make someday, and of course have spent wayyy too much time in random research. XD Although, I haven’t done much after about 1910, except for army/medical uniforms.

It’s so much fun.

@whalekeeper

Hiiii 👋🏻 So, I will first say that a lot of my research has been sporadic or else focused on a single specific topic, so I honestly don’t remember a lot of sources I used for a lot of research by this point XD

And most of my research is focused on WW2😅

But each of the decades were really marked by specific things:

The 1910s was really mostly marked by a slowly changing culture and WW1.

The 20s was really the cultural growth/shock time, with the end of WW1, the onset of a lot of new entertainment, the Jazz age, flappers, economic growth, mass consumerism, the rights of women to vote, prohibition, the beginnings of Planned Parenthood (officially began in 1916, but the 20s is when it began to slowly take off), the beginnings of the Eugenics that would sweep the USA during the 30s, the Red Scare/increasing numbers of American communists, the Scopes trial/the beginnings of secular education and the introduction of the Evolution theory to schools, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 (and an earlier recession in the first few years after WW1), and, in Europe, when Hitler committed the Beer Hall Putsch in 1922, which marked his first attempt to take over Germany, the formation of the USSR, the rise of Mussolini, and the establishment of the League of Nations, the original United Nations organization. The 20s was marked by a lot of cultural change and world events.

The 30s in the USA was marked mostly by the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, racism, and Eugenics. It was also marked by the invasion of China by Japan, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, the Munich Agreement (which gave the Sudetenland part of Czechoslovakia to Germany), the beginning of the persecution/Holocaust of the Jewish population of Europe, and the invasion of Poland/the beginning of WW2. The 30s was marked as a time of economic collapse and political unrest and was a decade that really set the stage for WW2.

And then, of course, the 40s was pretty much just marked by WW2. It was a time when countries came together but also a time of a lot of bloodshed and death and darkness. I have too much information stored in my head to honestly write it all down here, but if there’s anything specific you’d like to know about this time, just let me know.