Roaring Twenties | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/roaring-twenties/RSS feed for Roaring TwentiesenThu, 26 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000America Deported Her for Publishing a Book Titled 'Lesbian Love.' Years Later, She Was Murdered by the Nazis for Being Jewishhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/america-deported-her-for-publishing-a-book-titled-lesbian-love-years-later-she-was-murdered-by-the-nazis-for-being-jewish-180986864/Eve Adams, an immigrant and the proprietor of a 1920s lesbian tearoom, was imprisoned for disorderly conduct and obscenity, then sent back to Europe, where she became a target of the HolocaustThu, 26 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/america-deported-her-for-publishing-a-book-titled-lesbian-love-years-later-she-was-murdered-by-the-nazis-for-being-jewish-180986864/How Dreams of Buried Pirate Treasure Enticed Americans to Flock to Florida During the Roaring Twentieshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-dreams-of-buried-pirate-treasure-enticed-americans-to-flock-to-florida-during-the-roaring-twenties-180986376/1925 marked the peak of the Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers' visions of striking it rich in the land of sunshineTue, 15 Apr 2025 10:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-dreams-of-buried-pirate-treasure-enticed-americans-to-flock-to-florida-during-the-roaring-twenties-180986376/How an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twentieshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-an-interracial-marriage-sparked-one-of-the-most-scandalous-trials-of-the-roaring-twenties-180985486/Under pressure from his wealthy family, real estate heir Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander claimed that his new wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, had tricked him into believing she was whiteWed, 20 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-an-interracial-marriage-sparked-one-of-the-most-scandalous-trials-of-the-roaring-twenties-180985486/The Black Sailor Whose Heroic Actions During a Shipwreck Made Him an Instant Celebrity of the Roaring Twentieshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lionel-licorish-vestris-black-sailor-heroic-shipwreck-instant-celebrity-of-the-roaring-twenties-180983385/Lionel Licorish earned accolades for rescuing as many as 20 passengers from the wreckage of the S.S. "Vestris"Thu, 07 Dec 2023 12:15:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lionel-licorish-vestris-black-sailor-heroic-shipwreck-instant-celebrity-of-the-roaring-twenties-180983385/Why President Warren G. Harding's Sudden Death Sparked Rumors of Murder and Suicidehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-president-warren-g-hardings-sudden-death-sparked-rumors-of-murder-and-suicide-180982626/The commander in chief's unexpected death in office 100 years ago fueled decades of conspiracy theories but was most likely the result of a heart attackTue, 01 Aug 2023 11:15:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-president-warren-g-hardings-sudden-death-sparked-rumors-of-murder-and-suicide-180982626/Once a Floating Speakeasy, This Shipwreck Tells a Tale of Bullets and Boozehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/once-a-floating-speakeasy-this-shipwreck-tells-a-tale-of-bullets-and-booze-180981471/The "Keuka" sank in 1932, just three years after its grand opening as a dance hall, roller rink and illicit party boatFri, 20 Jan 2023 16:26:58 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/once-a-floating-speakeasy-this-shipwreck-tells-a-tale-of-bullets-and-booze-180981471/How a New York Tabloid Captured the First Photo of an Execution by the Electric Chairhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-a-new-york-tabloid-captured-the-first-photograph-of-an-execution-by-the-electric-chair-180981432/In January 1928, Tom Howard of the "Daily News" smuggled a camera into Sing Sing, where he snapped a picture of Ruth Snyder’s final momentsThu, 12 Jan 2023 17:09:29 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-a-new-york-tabloid-captured-the-first-photograph-of-an-execution-by-the-electric-chair-180981432/Man Ray's Iconic Portrait of Kiki de Montparnasse Is Now the Most Expensive Photo Ever Sold at Auctionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/man-rays-iconic-photograph-of-kiki-de-montparnasse-sells-for-record-124m-180980111/The Surrealist and Dada artist superimposed violin f-holes on his muse’s backThu, 19 May 2022 17:38:51 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/man-rays-iconic-photograph-of-kiki-de-montparnasse-sells-for-record-124m-180980111/Sacco and Vanzetti's Trial of the Century Exposed Injustice in 1920s Americahttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sacco-and-vanzettis-trial-century-exposed-injustice-1920s-america-180977843/The pair's path to becoming media sensations began 100 years ago. To this day the two remain emblems of prejudice in the American justice systemThu, 27 May 2021 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sacco-and-vanzettis-trial-century-exposed-injustice-1920s-america-180977843/What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/are-we-headed-roaring-2020s-historians-say-its-complicated-180977638/As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is trickyMon, 03 May 2021 16:20:51 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/are-we-headed-roaring-2020s-historians-say-its-complicated-180977638/