Pt. I. The nineteenth-century American
The watershed of the nineties
Transition years in literature and journalism
John Fiske and the evolutionary philosophy
William James and the impact of pragmatism
Determinism in literature
The cult of the irrational
Religious thought and practice
Pt. II. Lester Ward and the science of society
Thorstein Veblen and the new economics
The transition in historical literature
Innovators in historical interpretation: Turner, Parrington, Beard
Toward a new science of politics
The applications of political theory
The evolution of American law
Masters of the new jurisprudence: Pound and Holmes
The twentieth-century American.
