1. Sowing the Seeds of Revolution -- 2. Abolition: Turning America's Conscience Against the Sins of Slavery -- 3. Slowing the Momentum for Women's Rights -- 4. Attacking Municipal Corruption: The Tweed Ring -- 5. Journalism as Warmonger: The Spanish-American War -- 6. Muckraking: The Golden Age of Reform Journalism -- 7. Defying the Ku Klux Klan -- 8. Father Coughlin: Fomenting Anti-Semitism via the Radio -- 9. Creating "Rosie the Riveter": Propelling the American Woman into the Workforce -- 10. Exposing Joe McCarthy: Television's Finest Hour -- 11. Pushing the Civil Rights Movement onto the National Agenda -- 12. Vietnam War: Bringing the Battlefield into the American Living Room -- 13. Watergate Forces the President to His Knees -- 14. Rush Limbaugh: Leading the Republican Revolution -- 15. 9/11: Failing the American Public -- 16. How the News Media Have Shaped American History: Focusing on the How