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• Historical introduction
• The sinking of the Laconia
• Pershing's arrival in Europe
• The landing of the first American contingent in France
• Through the school of war
• "Frontward ho!"
• Into the line
• The first American sector
• The night our guns cut loose
• Into Picardy to meet the German push
• Before Cantigny
• The rush of the raiders
• On leave in Paris
• Château-Thierry and the Bois de Belleau
• Wounded - how it feels to be shot
• "Good morning, nurse"
• Groans, laughs and sobs in the hospital
• "July 18th" - the turn of the tide
• The dawn of victory.

"On the night of February 27, 1917, when the Laconia was two hundred miles off the coast of Ireland, the Gibbons' "hunch" was fulfilled. The Laconia was torpedoed and sunk. After a perilous night in a small boat on the open sea, Gibbons was rescued and brought into Queenstown. He opened the cables and flashed to America the most powerful call to arms to the American people. It shook the country. It was the testimony of an eye witness and it convinced the Imperial German government, beyond all reasonable doubt, of the wilful and malicious murder of American citizens. The Gibbons story furnished the proof of the overt act and it was unofficially admitted at Washington that it was the determining factor in sending America into the war one month later" -- Foreword.

• Historical introduction
• Author's preface
• Pt. I. Leadership. A militant pioneer - Susan B. Anthony ; A militant general - Alice Paul
• Pt. II. Political action. Women invade the capital ; Women voters organize ; The last deputation to President Wilson
• Pt. III. Militancy. Picketing a president ; The suffrage war policy ; The first arrests ; Ocoquan Workhouse ; August riots ; Prison episodes ; An administration protest - Dudley Field Malone resigns ; The administration yields ; Political prisoners ; The hunger strike - a weapon ; Administration terrorism ; Alice Paul in prison ; The administration outwitted ; Political results ; An interlude (seven months) ; New attacks on the president ; President Wilson appeals to the Senate too late ; More pressure ; The president sails away ; Watchfires of freedom ; Burned in effigy ; Boston militants welcome to the president ; Democratic Congress ends ; A farewell to President Wilson ; At last ; Text of the National Suffrage Amendment.

A first-hand account of how suffragists in the National Woman's Party organized and fought a fierce battle for the passage for the 19th Amendment.

• Publisher's preface
• Historical introduction
• Sailing alone around the world
• Plans of the Spray
• Glossary
• Index.

• Historical introduction
• Author's preface
• The start
• Up the Paraguay
• A jaguar hunt on the Taquari
• The headwaters of the Paraguay
• Up the river of Tapirs
• Through the highland wilderness of western Brazil
• With a mule train across Nhambiquara land
• The River of Doubt
• Down to an unknown river into the equatorial forest
• To the Amazon and home.

• Historical introduction
• Prelude. Bly: The idea ; Bisland: The challenge
• Stage one. Bly: Eastward across the Atlantic ; Bisland: Westward across the Continent
• Stage two. Bly: Through Europe ; Bisland: Westward across the Pacific
• Stage three. Bly: The Middle East ; Bisland: Japan
• Stage four. Bly: Ceylon and Malaya ; Bisland: China
• Stage five. Bly: China ; Bisland: Malaya
• Stage six. Bly: Japan ; Bisland: Ceylon
• Stage seven. Bly: Eastward across the Pacific ; Bisland: Middle East
• The last stage. Bly: Eastward across the Continent ; Bisland: Europe and the Atlantic
• Epilogue.

The book consists of excerpts from Nellie Bly's Around the world in seventy-two days and Elizabeth Bisland's In seven stages: a flying trip around the world. The publisher "abridged and merged their narratives using Bisland's device of 'stages,' presenting first Bly's and then Bisland's account."

• Historical gazetteer
• Historical introduction
• Religion dissenters are driven from England by persecution
• Their troubled and difficult departure into Holland in 1608
• Their settling in Holland, and their manner of living there
• Why the Pilgrims left Holland
• Preparations for the difficult voyage
• Arrangements for the colony
• The departure from Leyden and preparations at Southampton
• The Speedwell proves unseaworthy and is left behind
• The voyage of the Mayflower and arrival in Cape Cod
• The landing and the Mayflower Compact
• Exploration and the first discovery
• The second discovery
• Choosing a likely location for settlement
• The third discovery
• Building a plantation
• The settlers and sailors suffer disease and death
• The arrival of Samoset and Squanto: peace treaty with Massasoit
• The Mayflower departs as the settlers begin Spring planting
• A journey to Pokanoket
• Voyage to the kingdom of Nauset to seek a lost boy
• A journey to Nemasket in defense of the Great King, Massasoit
• A relation of our voyage to the Massachusetts
• Fall brings the first harvest and the arrival of new settlers
• A letter sent to England by Winslow
• Hostile Indians threaten the colony
• A voyage to the Massachusetts to trade
• Suspicion about Squanto; the Sparrow arrives with no provisions
• The harvest being insufficient, the colonists buy corn from the Indians
• Word is sent to Plymouth that Massasoit is dying
• Troubles with settlers; Indians conspire to attack
• Individual planting begins
• Appendix: Passengers on the Mayflower.

• Historical introduction
• Prologue and Part I: Across the Atlantic to Cuba
• Part II: Florida
• Part III: Voyage by sea
• Part IV: Journey by land
• Part V: Return to civilization.

• Historical introduction
• Bartram sails to Charleston
• Savannah and the Altamaha River
• Georgia frontier settlements and trading houses
• Augusta and first encounter with Indians
• A storm on the Altamaha
• The Seacoast Islands
• En route to Florida
• Arrival in east Florida
• Down the St. Johns River
• Life on the river
• The Upper Trading House
• An alligator fight
• A hurricane
• A collecting expedition
• The journey to Cuscowilla
• The Seminoles of Cuscowilla
• The Alachua Savanna
• The journey to Talahasochte
• Explorations near Talahasochte
• Seminoles visit the Trading House
• Observations on the rattlesnake
• Return to Charleston.

• Book I. Captives: eleven years a prisoner in Algiers / James Leander Cathcart
• Book II. American captives in Tripoli / Jonathan Cowdery
• Book III. Horrors of slavery: or the American tars in Tripoli / William Ray.