Editor's Introduction / Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD. Contributors.

POLITICS AND REFORM. William McKinley: Last Speech / Lewis L. Gould

Eugene V. Debs: "How I Became a Socialist" / Jonathan Rees, PhD, KP Dawes, MA

Lincoln Steffens: "The Shame of Minneapolis" / Mark S. Joy, Ph. D., Michael J. O'Neal, Ph. D.

Anna Howard Shaw: Address on the Place of Women in Industry and Address on the Condition of Women in Industry / K.P. Dawes, MA

American Antiquities Act / Michael J. O'Neal, Ph. D.

Pure Food and Drug Act / Amber R. Dickinson, Ph. D., Michael J. O'Neal, Ph. D.

Jane Addams: "Passing of the War Virtues" / Luca Prono, Ph. D., Amber R. Dickinson, Ph. D.

Muller v. Oregon / Randy Wagner, JD, PhD

Robert La Follette: Speech on the Amendment of National Banking Laws

Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Supreme Court Ruling in the Danbury Hatters' Case / Ron Briley, Ph. D., Amber R. Dickinson, Ph. D.

FOREIGN CHALLENGES. Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands / Justus D. Doenecke, PhD, Scott C. Monje, PhD

The Insular Cases: Downes v. Bidwell / Bartholomew H. Sparrow, PhD

Boxer Protocol / Ashleigh Fata, MA, Aaron Gulyas, MA

Vladimir Lenin: What Is to Be Done? / Brian Bonhomme, PhD

Panama Canal Treaty / Scott C. Monje, PhD, David Simonelli, PhD

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine / Lewis L. Gould, PhD

The Treaty of Portsmouth / Ashleigh Fata, MA

John Kenneth Turner: Barbarous Mexico / K.P. Dawes, MA.

AFRICAN AMERICAN DEBATES. Ida B. Wells: "Lynch Law in America" / Mark Elliott, PhD

George H. White: Farewell Address to Congress / Allan L. Damon, MA

Booker T. Washington: "Statement on Suffrage" / Gerald F. Goodwin, PhD, Cary D. Wintz, PhD

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk / Leland Ware, JD

W.E.B. Du Bois: "The Parting of the Ways" / Gerald F. Goodwin, PhD, Cary D. Wintz, PhD

Ida B. Wells: "Booker T. Washington and His Critics" / Gerald F. Goodwin, PhD, Cary D. Wintz, PhD

Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles / Cary D. Wintz, PhD

Theodore Roosevelt: Brownsville Legacy Special Message to the Senate / Garna L. Christian, PhD.

NATIVE AMERICAN LIFE. Charles Eastman: Indian Boyhood / Mark S. Joy, PhD

Edward S. Curtis: Introduction to The North American Indian / Mark S. Joy, PhD.

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY. Rufus M. Jones: "Essential Truths" / Adam W. Darlage, PhD

Rudolf Steiner: Theosophy / Luca Prono, PhD

Appendixes. Chronological List. Web Resources.