John Whiteclay Chambers II is professor of history at Rutgers University. He recently co-edited The New Conscientious Objection and is the author of To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America

• Preface to the 2000 EditionPreface to the Second EditionCrisis of the 1890sA New Kind of GrowthThe Age of IndustrialismPrelude to the Twentieth CenturyNew Jobs, New RolesThe Weakened Spring of GovernmentPolitics in the Depression DecadeThe Taste of EmpireThe Challenge of ChangeThe Corporate RevolutionThe Great Merger MovementThe Mass Production, Mass Consumption SocietyChanges in Work and the Work ForceProductivity and Pain in AgricultureThe New Corporate EconomyA Changing Society and CultureA Growing NationClass and Status in American SocietyWomen, the Family, and SexualityModernism and Institutions: Schools, Hospitals, Places of WorshipThe Challenge of the CityA New Mass Consumption CultureAviation and the Promise of TechnologyModernism in Thought and ArtThe Progressive ImpulseThe Great LightProgressives as InterventionistsThe Progressive AgendaThe Development of Nationwide ReformVoluntarism as a Middle WayReform in the CitiesProgressivism in the StatesThe Progressive ImpulseThe Washington WhirligigThe Death of a PresidentTheodore Roosevelt: The Warrior as PresidentThe Square Deal, 1901 -- 1909Taft versus the Insurgents, 1909 -- 1913Woodrow Wilson: The Scholar as Chief ExecutiveThe New Freedom, 1913 -- 1916Political ModernizationTaking the Flag OverseasThe Road to InterventionismRoosevelt's Big-Stick DiplomacyTaft's Dollar DiplomacyWilson's Missionary DiplomacyWorld War I: U.S. Neutrality, 1914 -- 1916The Road to Belligerency, 1916 -- 1917The Debate over American EntryWorld War I and the Search for a New World Order, 1917 -- 1920America Goes to WarMobilizing the Home FrontWorkers and War: Organized Labor, Women, and MinoritiesVictory in France, Defeat in the Soviet UnionThe Diplomacy of Peacemaking and the Rejection of the LeagueDomestic Discord and RepressionThe Meaning of the Progressive EraThe Interventionist Impulse``Modernization'' in World PerspectiveCycles of ReformThe Legacy of the Progressive EraThe Progressive Era and the Nature of Modern AmericaBibliographyIndex