Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
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