New! The Big Change: 1900-1920
One hundred years ago society went through a fascinating and life-changing transformation, moving from an agrarian society into the Industrial Age. Some 75% of the way your great and grandparents worked, lived and learned changed. Discover and relive those exciting years and changes. See the changes in dress, culture, novels, music and of course technology, work and political movements. Then discover the amazing parallels between then and now as our society goes through a similar change today.
One month; William A. Draves IV, instructor. $195 USD.
Agenda
Unit 1
Life in 1900
-The family farm, extended family and small towns
-The circus and Chautauqua
-Values and morality of the agrarian age
-The Wizard of Oz from a Kansas historian
-Real life Gibson Girl and the man who killed for her
Unit 2
Change Begins (1900 – 1910)
-Change is in the air
-The Music Man as history
-Suburbs, middle class, bank robbers appear
-Most amazing Titanic story you’ll ever hear
Unit 3
The New Age Emerges (1911 – 1919)
-The Suffragette & Prohibition Movements
-The Horseless Carriage
-Music, movies and culture
-New laws for the industrial age
Unit 4
Towards the Twenties
-The Big Change takes over
-From the Gibson Girl to the ‘It’ Girl
-From Main Street to the Great Gatsby in one year
-The Foundation to the Twenties