After World War I, America found its happy place again and cooked up the nearly decade-long party known as the “Roaring Twenties.” Key ingredients were Prohibition booze, jazz, speakeasies, and ...

On May 1, 1920, the Saturday Evening Post published F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” a short story about a sweet yet socially inept young woman who is tricked by her cousin into allowing ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation,” by Judith Mackrell. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. For most, the “flapper” evokes images of fingercurled bobs, ...

A flask of bootleg hooch, worn at the hip. Cigarette smoke so thick, only the hottest jazz could cut it. Turned-down hose, revealing more than the girl who married dear old dad ever dared. Ladies and ...