The 1920s are typically recalled as the age of flappers, speakeasies, and jazz, all of which were examples of the "modernizing" of the United States. However, not all Americans approved of these "new things," rendering the 1920s a struggle between fundamentalism and modernity.  This lecture will begin by tracing how the First Red Scare of 1919 set the stage for the Roaring '20s, followed by an examination of the tug of war between Americans who wanted the nation to "stay as it was," and those who embraced the changes taking place in the nation's cities. It will conclude with an overview of the 1928 presidential election, which starkly captured this struggle of the modern versus the traditional. (Limit 35)