A new hand at the helm
Other battlefields
Roosevelt takes charge
The election of 1904
Municipal reform
1906
Conservation
The immigrants
The farmers
Losing ground: Black Americans
The election of 1908
Coming down: the Taft Administration
The left
The war goes on
The Paterson strike
Greenwich Village
It's Roosevelt again
The rise of Woodrow Wilson
The Swan song of the progressives
The commission on industrial relations
Fat cats and experts
Ludlow
A brilliant start
Foreign policy
The war begins
The European War
Neutral America
The election of 1916
America enters the war
The Russian Revolution
Suppressing dissent
Mobilizing the nation
Over there
The fourteen points
The Peace Conference
Troubled Europe
The Commissions
Concluding the treaty
The treaty and the Senate
The consequences of the war
Russia again
Americans against Americans
The Republicans recapture the White House
The genius of Woodrow Wilson
Religion
Education
The new technologies
Art and architecture
The popular novel
The literary scene
Four women writers
Recurrent themes
Conclusion.