Web Review: History.com: The Roaring Twenties

Content

“The Roaring Twenties” is an article by History.com meant to be an overview of the decade. The article is broken down into sections – The “New Woman,” Mass Communication and Consumerism, The Jazz Age, Prohibition, and The “Cultural Civil War – giving short summaries of their respective topics. The main point of this article is to allow readers to branch off into other articles using hyperlinks embedded in the text. The article also has various images and videos from and about the 1920s.

Creators

The article is written by the History.com editors. History.com is the website for HISTORY (formerly the History Channel) owned by A&E Networks (subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company). HISTORY is the largest history related channel.

Search Methods

The website is very easy to navigate. In the top right corner there is a button that brings the user to a search page. Throughout the article, there are hyperlinks to other History.com articles. They made the website very easy to jump to various topics.

Trustworthiness

The article is trustworthy. HISTORY is the most view history channel in the country with over 80% of households that have televisions having the channel. They hire professional historians to write and edit their articles. These articles may not be as heavily peer-reviewed as articles written in professional journals, but History.com is a reliable free source.

Usefulness

This article is meant for the general public. The information on the main article is general with more specific information being reserved for the hyperlinks. This article would be useful for anyone interested in the 1920s. From a scholarly point of view, this article would be useful for getting basic/general information for papers.