Modernity and the Great Depression: the transformation of American society, 1930-1941

Introduction: Order, planning, and reason

The end of times: defining modernity in the 1930s

A new model army: the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration, and modernity

Salvation awaits: expositions, world's fairs, and modernity

A woman's place, a family's hearth: interior decorators and modernity

Sounds for the Modern Age: music as celebration of modernity

Epilogue: new directions and challenges: the postwar divide.