"1683-1920" / The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germantown Settlement of 1683 and a Thousand Other Topics

The collection presents polemical essays and investigations into wartime and postwar controversies, assessing diplomatic claims, propaganda campaigns, legal measures, and social strains. Topics range from the fate of wartime peace proposals and territorial disputes to foreign influence in public education, the operation of security and property laws, maritime blockade and famine, and disputed atrocity accounts. It examines philanthropic and strategic agendas behind scholarships and peace funds, explores racial tensions and historical memory in the United States, and offers local historical sketches, aiming to clarify contested facts and policy outcomes for an American readership.