Domestic developments. Progressive Party Platform ; Sixteenth Amendment to the US Constitution ; Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography ; Woodrow Wilson: Second Inaugural Address ; Federal Reserve Act ; Billy Sunday: "Get on the Water Wagon" ; Emma Goldman: "The Philosophy of Atheism" ; Woodrow Wilson: Address at Gettysburg ; Theodore Roosevelt: Speech to the New York Republican State Convention ; Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution ; Volstead Act ; Schenck v. United States

The War Front. The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum and the Serbian Response ; Espionage Act of 1917 ; Zimmermann Telegram ; Woodrow Wilson: Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War against Germany ; Robert La Follette: Speech Opposing War with Germany ; Eugene V. Debs: Antiwar Speech ; Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen Points ; Railway Administration Act ; Treaty of Versailles

International Affairs. Emiliano Zapata: Plan of Ayala ; Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on Mexico ; Balfour Declaration ; Woodrow Wilson: Address in Support of a World League for Peace ; Covenant of the League of Nations

Labor and Immigration. Dillingham Commission Report ; Louis D. Brandeis: "The Jewish Problem: How to Solve It" ; Samuel Gompers: Circular to the Organizers of the American Federation of Labor ; Hammer v. Dagenhart

Women's Rights. Jane Addams: "Why Women Should Vote" ; Margaret Sanger: "The Prevention of Contraception" ; Alice Paul: Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee

African American Affairs. Act in Relation to the Organization of a Colored Regiment in the City of New York ; Monroe Trotter's Protest to Woodrow Wilson ; Guinn v. United States ; William Pickens: "The Kind of Democracy the Negro Expects" ; NAACP: Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States

Appendixes. Chronological List ; Web Resources ; Bibliography ; Index.