The 1910s
By: John F. Wukovits, book editor.
Contributors: Wukovits, John F., 1944-
Series: America's decades
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Nineteen tens; United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918; United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Progressive Movement changes America  -- by Richard Hofstadter; title: Child labor : a national disgrace  -- by Walter Lord; title: Females demand their rights : the Women's Suffrage Movement  -- by Elizabeth Frost and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont; title: Denied at work, denied at home : the reasons people strike  -- by Philip S. Foner; title: Mother Jones and the fight for workers' rights  -- by Dale Fetherling; title: The Hollywood star factory  -- by Robin Langley Sommer; title: The $5 day : Henry Ford revolutionizes industry  -- by Mark Sullivan; title: The 1919 World Series : a sad moment for baseball  -- by Geoffrey C. Ward; title: The Panama Canal unites the oceans  -- by David McCullough; title: Pershing proves his mettle : the raid into Mexico  -- by Gene Smith; title: The United States exerts its influence : the U.S. Marines in Haiti  -- by Allan R. Millett; title: The Navy steps into the future : the first attempt to launch aircraft from a ship  -- by George van Deurs; title: The sinking of the Lusitania nudges America toward war  -- by John M. Taylor; title: The road to war  -- by Ernest R. May; title: America enters the fray : the fight for Belleau Wood  -- by John Toland; title: Eddie Rickenbacker : America's extraordinary ace  -- by Eddie Rickenbacker; title: Eugene V. Debs's antiwar activism  -- by Edward Robb Ellis; title: The League of Nations : triumph and tragedy for a President  -- by Sean Dennis Cashman; title: Changes wrought by war : World War I and society  -- by Page Smith; title: America overreacts : the 1919 Red Scare  -- by Burl Noggle; title: A revival of hate : the Ku Klux Klan reawakens  -- by David M. Chalmers; title: The coming of Prohibition  -- by Herbert Asbury; title: Life in 1919 -- by Frederick Lewis Allen.