History of the United States II / Unit 9 USH2 1225 short lesson, about 20 seconds
A New Morality
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The idea
The writings of Sigmund Freud and Havelock Ellis, which treated sex as a natural part of human experience, shaped the decade's new morality.
In practice
Jazz in Harlem's nightclubs, and bootleggers thriving despite Prohibition.
Where people slip
Digital History calls the popular image of the decade, flappers and bathtub gin, profoundly misleading: the decade was one of deep cultural conflict.
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