Hi mary260-ga,
You know that the best source of information for this question is your
aunt or any of her friends that you can contact who would be able to
fill in some of the personal details.
I remember many long conversations with my grandparents who were born
even before your aunt :-)!
Imagine beginning life with horses a regular sight on the streets and
living through the introduction of the car (Henry Ford introduced the
automated assembly line in 1913), the telephone, radio, TV, movies,
air travel and men walking on the moon… and that was before the
computer made any inroads into our daily lives.
The changes in social mores and changes in society are amazing. Two
World Wars, the Great Depression, Prohibition, the roaring twenties...
Women’s roles moved out of the kitchen and into the streets to demand
the vote, control of reproduction and equality in the workplace.
Racial equality is another area that has changed radically – Rosa
Parks, who refused to move to the back of the bus in 1955, was born in
1913!
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade10.html
Is a good starting point. It covers the years from 1910-1919 with
pictures and includes fashion trends and other less academic
information. Be sure to check out the “Facts about this decade” in the
box on the right hand side. Incredible!
If you go to the main page, you’ll find an index of decades up to
1999.
http://www.nhmccd.edu/lrc/kc/decades.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/index.html
People’s Century gives a good overview of the century with the bonus
of personalstoriesof people who lived through the history.
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/1914-/
Covers the history and culture of the US from 1914 to the late 1900s –
dates end when Clinton was President in 1992.
http://www.americasstory.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb
The Library of Congress has a family and kids site – Jump Back In Time
- that has a ton of information.
Search terms: changes 1913 - present America
If you need more regional or personally relevant info, let me know and
I'll pull up more targeted resources.
What a special gift - for your aunt and for the whole family.
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