A prairie childhood. Children of the Western Plains ; Some family traditions: abolition and the Civil War ; Democracy on the High Plains ; Our prairie home ; The rights of the Indian ; The rights of women ; Father's law office ; A home of law and politics ; The children's day ; Books in the prairie days ; Grace and the rights of children ; The treeless plains ; The end of the beginning -- The Hull House years. Life at Hull House ; Protecting immigrant arrivals ; The lost immigrant girls ; The children of immigrants ; Protecting workers: immigrants and women ; A fair deal: banks and courts ; The "new immigration" ; Immigration at the source ; The Massachusetts Commission on Immigration ; A pacifist in the first World War ; Julius Rosenwald ; Votes for women ; The Children's Bureau ; The first child labor law ; The tragedy of "Hammer V. Dagenhart" ; Children and the war ; Back to Chicago -- The crusade for children. The new chief ; The first year ; The maternity bill: a matter of life and death ; The Supreme Court and the radio ; The children's amendment ; Madame President ; The battle continues ; Publications and politics ; Geneva ; Extending the act ; 1929 ; Grace Abbott for the cabinet ; The White House conference ; Conversion by exigency ; First essentials ; The undying fire -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. The undying fire.
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