The Progressive Movement changes America / by Richard Hofstadter --
Child labor : a national disgrace / by Walter Lord --
Females demand their rights : the Women's Suffrage Movement / by Elizabeth Frost and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont --
Denied at work, denied at home : the reasons people strike / by Philip S. Foner --
Mother Jones and the fight for workers' rights / by Dale Fetherling --
The Hollywood star factory / by Robin Langley Sommer --
The $5 day : Henry Ford revolutionizes industry / by Mark Sullivan --
The 1919 World Series : a sad moment for baseball / by Geoffrey C. Ward --
The Panama Canal unites the oceans / by David McCullough --
Pershing proves his mettle : the raid into Mexico / by Gene Smith --
The United States exerts its influence : the U.S. Marines in Haiti / by Allan R. Millett --
The Navy steps into the future : the first attempt to launch aircraft from a ship / by George van Deurs --
The sinking of the Lusitania nudges America toward war / by John M. Taylor --
The road to war / by Ernest R. May --
America enters the fray : the fight for Belleau Wood / by John Toland --
Eddie Rickenbacker : America's extraordinary ace / by Eddie Rickenbacker --
Eugene V. Debs's antiwar activism / by Edward Robb Ellis --
The League of Nations : triumph and tragedy for a President / by Sean Dennis Cashman --
Changes wrought by war : World War I and society / by Page Smith --
America overreacts : the 1919 Red Scare / by Burl Noggle --
A revival of hate : the Ku Klux Klan reawakens / by David M. Chalmers --
The coming of Prohibition / by Herbert Asbury --
Life in 1919 / by Frederick Lewis Allen.