S01E04: The Flapper Era & the Loudest Decade: Jazz, Gin, and the Backlash of the 1920s

History Chats with Dr. S. · Jul 5, 2026 · 24m

Episode Title: The Loudest Decade — Jazz, Gin,

and the Backlash of the 1920s

Episode Description: A nervous cornet player

steps off a train in Chicago in 1922, and the

sound he makes that night is the whole decade in

miniature. This episode traces the 1920s in full:

postwar disillusionment and modernism, the

Nativist backlash and the resurgence of the Ku

Klux Klan, Prohibition and the rise of Al Capone,

the Scopes Trial, the Jazz Age and the flapper,

and the economic cracks quietly forming

underneath all of it.

Keywords / Tags:

1920s, Roaring Twenties, Jazz

Age, Prohibition, Al Capone, Ku…