| Into One's Own |
| Acknowledgments |
 | 1— Defining One's Own |
| 2— The Changing Life Course of America's Youth |
| 3— Modern Youth: The 1920s |
| 4— In the Great Depression |
 | 5— War and Its Aftermath |
| • | Prosperity and Optimism |
| • | Mobilizing Adolescents |
| • | Accommodating War |
| • | War and Marriage |
| • | Military Service and Marriage |
| • | Wartime Parenthood |
| • | Veterans Resume a Civilian Life Course |
| 6— The Baby Boom |
| 7— Modern in a New Way |
| 8— Coming into Their Own |
| Appendix 1— Data Underlying Figures |
| Appendix 2— Short-Form References to Publications of the United States, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census |
| Appendix 3— Short-Form References to Federal Vital Statistics Publications |
| Appendix 4— Citations to Machine-Readable Data Sets |
| Notes |
| Index |