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| Preface | |
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| The Reconstruction Era: Farmers and Workers in the West and North, 1866-1877 | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Background | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Evidence | |
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| Excerpts from Inspirational Literature | |
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| Western Farmers | |
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| Photos of sod houses | |
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| Excerpts from observations, letters, circulars, and meeting notes concerning the lives of western farmers | |
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| Northern Workers | |
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| Excerpts from letters, preambles, government reports, and autobiographies concerning the lives of northern workers | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The Road to True Freedom: African American Alternatives in the New South | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Background | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Evidence | |
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| Excerpt from Ida B. Wells's United States Atrocities (1892) | |
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| Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address (1895) | |
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| Excerpt from Henry McNeal Turner's "The American Negro and His Fatherland" (1895) | |
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| Excerpts from W. E. B. Du Bois's "The Talented Tenth" (1903) and Niagara Address (1906) | |
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| Excerpt from Frances E. W. Harper's "Enlightened Motherhood" (1892) | |
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| Table showing migration of Negro population by U.S. region, 1870-1920 | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| How They Lived: Middle-Class Life, 1870-1917 | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Background | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Evidence | |
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| Advertisements for clothing, beauty and health aids, firearms, books and home study courses, insurance, automobiles, household appliances and furnishings, 1882-1916 | |
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| Architectural drawings and descriptions of houses, 1878-1909 | |
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| Excerpts on the new business of advertising, 1898-1927 | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Progressives and the Family: The Redefinition of Childhood, 1880-1920 | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Background | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Evidence | |
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| Photographs of children at play and work | |
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| Photographs of children and parents | |
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| Visuals of the pure milk campaign | |
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| Table of children's meals | |
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| Excerpts of a child neglect report | |
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| Letters to the children's bureau | |
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| Excerpts of advice to middle-class parents | |
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| Legislation and court rulings on child labor | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Homogenizing a Pluralistic Nation: Propaganda During World War I | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Background | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Evidence | |
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| War song and poetry, advertisements, posters, editorial cartoons, speeches, movie stills | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The "New" Woman: Social Science Experts and the Redefinition of Women's Roles in the 1920s | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Background | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Evidence | |
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| Excerpts from the 1920s' social science literature on sex and sexuality | |
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| Excerpts and charts on women's work and pay | |
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| Excerpts from the 1920s' social science literature on marriage and the family | |
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| Biographies and autobiographies of three "new" women | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Documenting the Depression: The FSA Photographers and Rural Poverty | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Background | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Evidence | |
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| Documentary photographs as instruments of reform | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Going to War with Japan: A Problem in Diplomacy and Causation | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Background | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Evidence 210 | |
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| Excerpts from public opinion polls, foreign policy dispatches and memoranda from the United States and Japan, memoirs and diaries, press releases, and speeches | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Separate but Equal? African American Educational Opportunities and the Brown Decision | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Background | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Evidence | |
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| First section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution | |
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| Excerpts from Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
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| Photograph of doll experiment and excerpts from social science testimony | |
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| Excerpts from amicus curiae briefs, Brown v. Board of Education (1952) | |
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| Excerpts from the oral arguments, 1952 and 1953 | |
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| Excerpts from the Brown I decision (1954) | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| A Generation in War and Turmoil: The Agony of Vietnam | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Background | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Evidence | |
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| Sample release forms for oral history interviews | |
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| Interviews and photographs with five males and two females (veterans and civilians) of the Vietnam War era | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| A Nation of Immigrants: The California Experience | |
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| The Problem | |
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| Background | |
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| The Method | |
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| The Evidence | |
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| Proverbs, statistics, and excerpts from life stories of Asian immigrants | |
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| Excerpts from life stories and testimonies of Hispanic immigrants | |
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| Photographs of fourth-wave immigrants | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Epilogue | |