Contributor
Wukovits, John F., 1944-
Imprint:San Diego : Greenhaven Press, c2000.
Description288 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:The progressive movement changes America / Richard Hofstadter - Child labor: a national disgrace / Walter Lord - Females demand their rights: the women's suffrage movement / Elizabeth Frost, Kathryn Cullen-DuPont - Denied at work, denied at home: the reasons people strike / Philip S. Foner - Mother Jones and the fight for workers' rights / Dale Fetherling - The Hollywood star factory / Robin Langley Sommer - The $5 day: Henry Ford revolutionizes industry / Mark Sullivan - The 1919 World Series: a sad moment for baseball / Geoffrey C. Ward - The Panama Canal unites the oceans / David McCullough - Pershing proves his mettle: the raid into Mexico / Gene Smith - The United States exerts its influence: the U.S. Marines in Haiti / Allan R. Millett - The Navy steps into the future: the first attempt to launch aircraft from a ship / George van Deurs - The sinking of the Lusitania nudges America toward war / John M. Taylor - The road to war / Ernest R. May - America enters the fray: the fight for Belleau Wood / John Toland - Eddie Rickenbacker: America's extraordinary ace / Eddie Rickenbacker - Eugene V. Debs's antiwar activism / Edward Robb Ellis - The League of Nations: triumph and tragedy for a President / Sean Dennis Cashman - Changes wrought by war: World War I and society / Page Smith - America overreacts: the 1919 red scare / Burl Noggle - A revival of hate: the Ku Klux Klan reawakens / David M. Chalmers - The coming of Prohibition / Herbert Asbury - Life in 1919 / Frederick Lewis Allen.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-281) and index.
