Includes chapters on Oneida, Neal Dow, Timothy Shay Arthur, Frances Willard, Carry Nation, Populism, Henry George, Lucy Stone, Bloomers, Noble Order of Knights, Coxey's Army, Eugene Debs, Wobblies, among others.

The flight of a genius -- Oneida: a light for the world -- The complex family portrait -- Retreat and transition -- Visions of the night -- Science fails idealism -- There was a tavern in the town -- A mortal sin is dram-taking -- The reformed drunkard appears -- The ear of Neal Dow and Timothy Shay Arthur -- O praying bands of visitation -- The times of Miss Willard and Mrs. Nation -- Triumph and the great illusion -- A most vexing problem -- The gods of the hills -- Rebellions on the manors -- Free homesteads for all -- The populist revolt --Henry George: the noble failure -- Early Amazons -- The morning star of Lucy Stone -- The bloomers of Mrs. Bloomer -- New hope in the west -- Ranks torn asunder -- No doll was Abigail -- Men come to Waterloo -- The cries of bedlam heard -- Poison weeds grew there -- The world of mutes -- The world of the blind -- War on the Monongahela -- The noble order of knights -- Coxey's army of the commonweal -- The Debs rebellion -- Dynamite -- The wonderful Wobblies -- Labor joins the trusts.