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Tag: The Twenties are still Roaring

Total Results: 3

Ku Klux Klansmen in 1920s, when the KKK had 6 million members. Credit: National Photo Company/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty
01/13/2020 - 12:01am

The ‘Great Awokening’ started a century ago The 2020s are merely re-enacting the culture wars of the 1920s

Eric Kaufmann
Friday, January 10
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When female undergrads were ‘semi-demented spinsters’ A century ago the first women graduated from Oxford — and another obstacle to female emancipation fell

Francesca Wade
Thursday, January 9
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Like the 1920s, the 2020s will be an age of anxiety Below the surface, the first 'modern decade' was an era of increasing worry about the future

Richard Overy