The 1910s opened with progressive energy still strong and closed with a nation exhausted by war, pandemic, and political reaction. Woodrow Wilson brought major reforms — the Federal Reserve, lower tariffs, stronger antitrust tools — then led the United States into the First World War. On the home front, industry was coordinated as never before, families conserved food and fuel, and women stepped into factories in large numbers. After the fighting ended, Wilson carried his vision of a League of Nations to Paris, only to see the Treaty of Versailles defeated in the Senate. Jim Rand walks through the decade that tested American ideals under the pressure of global conflict and rapid change.

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