Includes bibliographical references.

1916: The Revolution in Agriculture / Carl Vrooman -- The Interaction of Country and City / Warren H. Wilson -- Pure Science and Industrial Research / J. J. Carty -- Industrial Organization and National Defense / Howard E. Coffin -- Public Utilities and the People's Property / R. F. Pettigrew -- The Partnership of Labor and Capital / John D. Rockefeller, Jr. -- The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America / D.W. Griffith -- The New Manner in Modern Poetry / Amy Powell -- Miss Lowell and Things / Walter Lippmann -- "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter" / Carl Sandburg -- "I am the People, the Mob" / Carl Sandburg -- Limited Presidential Power / William Howard Taft -- The Gold Brick Twins / John M. Work -- Preparedness Is Militarism / Oswald Garrison Villard -- Armaments and Social Class / Simeon Strunsky -- Shall We Adopt Universal Military Service? / Charles W. Eliot -- 1917: Peace Without Victory / Woodrow Wilson -- The European War and the Preservation of America's ideal / Elihu Root -- Patriotism / Franz Boas -- War Message / Woodrow Wilson -- Opposition to Wilson's War Message / George W. Norris and Robert M. La Follette -- Tolerance of the Conscientious Objector / Norman Thomas et al. --The Press in Wartime -- "Over There" / George M. Cohan -- Puritanism as a Literary Force / H.L. Mencken -- "The Rest" / Ezra Pound -- "Salutation" / Ezra Pound -- Suffragettes- Criminals or Political Prisoners? / Doris Stevens -- The Children of the Crucible / Theodore Roosevelt -- Reasons for His Resignation from Columbia University / Charles A. Beard -- 1918: War as the Health of the State / Randolph Bourne -- "Hinky Dinky Parlay-Voo" -- "Would You Rather Be A Colonel With An Eagle On Your Shoulder, Or A Private With A Chicken On Your Knee?" / Sidney D. Mitchell -- "K-K-K-Katy" / Geoffrey O'Hara -- University Days and Draft Board Nights / James Thurber -- Interpretation of President Wilson's Fourteen Points -- The Archangel Expedition -- An Open Letter to American Workers / Lenin -- Appeal to the Voters to Return a Democratic Congress / Woodrow Wilson -- The Mooney-Billings Case / John B. Densmore -- "Memoir of a Proud Boy" / Carl Sandburg -- Business and the Higher learning / Thorstein Veblen -- 1919: The League of Nations / Woodrow Wilson -- Peace At Any Price -- Appeal for Support of the League of Nations / Woodrow Wilson -- The Senate and the League of Nations / Henry Cabot Lodge -- Program of Social Reconstruction -- Government Mills in North Dakota -- Industrial Research / Andrew W. Mellon -- Principles of Progressive Education -- "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan" / Vachel Lindsay -- Abrams et al. v. United States / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- The Making of a Red / Robert Benchley -- 1920: The Management of Universities / A. Lawrence Lowell -- The Schooling of the Immigrant / John J. Mahoney -- United States v. United States Steel Corporation et al. / J. McKenna and W.R. Day -- The Crisis of the Ages / Lothrop Stoddard -- Materialism and Idealism in the American Character / George Santayana -- Random Impressions / W.L. George -- 1921: The Negro Race in America / Franz Boas -- Criticism of the Ku Klux Klan / William Allen White -- Public Opinion in America / James Bryce -- The Return to Normalcy / Warren G. Harding -- Business as Savior of the Community / Edward E. Purinton -- 1922: The Selective Character of American Secondary Education / George Sylvester Counts -- Labor Policies of the United States Steel Corporation / Kirby Page -- Child Labor in the Anthracite Coal Mines -- The Fundamentalist Controversy / Harry Emerson Fosdick -- Benjamin Franklin / D.H. Lawrence -- The Native Theater / George Jean Nathan -- Music in the United States / Deems Taylor -- Humor in America / Frank Moore Colby -- On Being an American / H.L. Mencken -- 1923: Listening In -- "The Crowd at the Ball Game" / William Carlos Williams -- The New Order of Business / Thorstein Veblen -- The Ethics of Competition / Frank H. Knight -- Adkins v. Children's Hospital / G. Sutherland, W.H. Taft, and O.W. Holmes, Jr. -- "the Cambridge ladies" / E.E. Cummings -- The Chicago Tribune Competition / Louis Sullivan -- The Release of Political Prisoners / William E. Borah -- The Destiny of America / Calvin Coolidge -- The Norse State / Sinclair Lewis -- "A Brook in the City" / Robert Frost -- 1924: Objections to the Child Labor Amendment -- Against Immigration Restrictions Based on National Origins / Louis Marshall -- Moral Standards in an Industrial Era / Herbert Hoover -- Teapot Dome / Thomas J. Walsh -- Observations on American Farming / Henri Hauser -- Mechanical Architecture / Lewis Mumford -- Fundamental Principles of Taxation / Andrew W. Mellon -- "Away With Rum" -- "Little Brown Jug" -- "No More Booze" -- "How Dry I Am" -- The Age of Play / Rufus L. Duffus -- 1925: The Normal Majority / Will Rogers -- Wartime Hysteria / Frederic C. Howe -- Gitlow v. New York / E.T. Sanford and O.W. Holmes, Jr. -- "Science" / Robinson Jeffers -- "Shine, Perishing Republic" / Robinson Jeffers -- Military Aviation and National Defense / William Mitchell -- Sectionalism and National Unity / Frederick Jackson Turner -- "New England" / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- 1926: Living and Dying on the Installment Plan / Hawthorne Daniel -- "next to of course god" / E.E. Cummings -- The Klan's Fight for Americanism / Hiram W. Evans -- American Nationality and the Melting Pot / Henry Pratt Fairchild -- Ring Lardner / H.L. Mencken -- 1927: Intervention in Nicaragua / Calvin Coolidge -- The Success of Prohibition / Roy A. Haynes -- Last Statement in Court / Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- Plea for Sacco and Vanzetti / Heywood Broun -- Nixon v. Herndon / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- Alfred E. Smith / Defense of Catholics in Public Office -- Alone Over the Atlantic / Charles A. Lindbergh -- Work Is Worship / Andrew Furuseth -- America Only / Will Rogers -- 1928: Veto of the McNary-Haugen Bill / Calvin Coolidge -- "Eleven Cent Cotton" / Bob Miller and Emma Dermer -- "Down on Penny's Farm" / Bob Miller and Emma Dermer -- Indigenous America / Benton MacKaye -- The Mockery of American Divorce / Stephen Ewing -- Prohibition in America / Felix von Luckner -- The Great God Football / John R. Tunis -- Youth, Industry, and Progress / Henry Ford -- Rugged Individualism / Herbert Hoover -- Rockets and World Politics / James R. Randolph -- "Ode to the Confederate Dead" / Allen Tate -- Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist / James Weldon Johnson -- To the American Muse / Stephen Vincent Benet.