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Every summer, something remarkable happens on the Ashland University campus in north-central Ohio. Social studies teachers from across the country pack a suitcase, leave home for a week (or two, or three, or fo...

Every year, I teach about the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, and my students automatically connect the subject to a booming American economy, flappers, and speakeasies. This tends to be their general understanding of the 1920s: that the entire American population enjoyed prosperity and the thrill of challenging social norms. To build my students’ appreciation of t...