Amazon.com Widgets Favorite Celebrations ~  Jazz Age, 1918-1928 Celebrate Your Creative Self

"I owned the world that hour as I rode over it... free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparable I was bound to them." ~ Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.

The prosperity of the Jazz Age followed World War I and lasted until the stock-market crash of 1929. America emerged as a superpower of democratic industry. A time of bold liberation, Prohibition, and Jazz. In Paris, extraordinary art emerged.

ARTISTS
Coco Chanel
Pablo Picasso

PERFORMERS
Maude Adams
Isadora Duncan
Ethel Waters

PIONEERS
Clarence Birdseye
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
Steamboat Willie
Frank Lloyd Wright

LEADERS
Calvin Coolidge
Mahatma Gandhi
Margaret Sanger

Pablo Picasso

MUSICIANS
Ira Gershwin
Cole Porter

SPORTS STARS
Gertrude Ederle
Duke Kahanamoku

WRITERS
John Cage
Agatha Christie
T.S. Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
A.A. Milne
George Santayana
Gertrude Stein
Virginia Woolf

TIMELINES
B.C.
12th-15th Century
16th-18th Century
Wild West
Depression
1950s
1960s