Clark County Historical Museum Speaker Series: “Will the 2020s Roar Like the 1920s?”

Clark County Historical Museum and historian William Woodward present “Will the 2020s Roar Like the 1920s?” from 7 to 8 p.m. Aug. 3, the next installment in the museum’s 2023 Speaker Series. Doors open at 6 p.m. General admission is $5; seniors and students are $4; children under 18 are $3; and the evening is free for museum members, veterans and active-duty military personnel.

A pandemic, protests, and economic jolts ushered in the so-called “Roaring Twenties.” Americans adjusted in ways both innovative and counterproductive. What lessons from the 1920s can we apply to our own looming 20s? Woodward charts the eerily familiar developments of a century ago: shattered idealism, social clashes, domestic terrorism, culture wars, disorienting technologies and fearsome disease. Woodward is an award-winning professor of American and Pacific Northwest history at Seattle Pacific University.  His co-authored pictorial history of the Washington National Guard was released in 2019.  For more information, contact the museum at 360-993-5679 or outreach@cchmuseum.org