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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s is a 1931 popular history by Frederick Lewis Allen that examines the United States in the decade after World War I. Rather than offering a strictly academic chronology, Allen writes as an observer of changing public moods, social habits, and national habits of mind. The book follows the arc from the postwar adjustment of 1918 and 1919 through Prohibition, the Harding scandals, the rise of consumer culture, the Jazz Age, the stock market boom, and the collapse of 1929. Its purpose is not only to recount events but to capture how the decade felt to people living through it. That approach helped make the book a landmark in popular history and one of the first widely read works to treat a decade as a coherent historical unit. Its influence lasted well beyond its publication, shaping later writing about the 1920s and the broader style of narrative social history.