Table of Contents of first edition (2003)

The twenty-first century : challenge and opportunity / Alexander B. Morrison
Joseph F. Smith and John Smith : sons of Hyrum / Gary Smith
"We are living for eternity" : Joseph F. Smith's vision for the LDS women / Audrey M. Godfrey
Relief Society grain storage program : a case study of the LDS Church meets the twentieth century / Jessie L. Embry
Joseph F. Smith and John A Widtsoe : reaching the Young Men through The improvement era / Alan K. Parrish
Prophet under fire : President Joseph F. Smith handles the media / John P. Livingstone
"Taft has made a good president" : Mormons and presidential politics in the election of 1912 / Brian Q. Cannon
Robber baron or bishop? : the business dealings of Charles W. Nibley and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1916-1921 / Matthew C. Godfrey
"Christ is the scientist of this earth" : President Joseph F. Smith's attitudes and policies toward science / Thomas M. Martin, Duane E. Jeffery, and Randy L. Bennett
Materialism and Mormonism : the early-twentieth-century philosophy of Dr. John Widtsoe / Clyde D. Ford
Charles W. Penrose : his apostolic contributions to LDS Church history and doctrine, 1904-1925 / Kenneth W. Godfrey
The post-gathering expansion of Zion : Mormon settlements of the twentieth century / Dale Beecher
The Woodruff correspondence, 1899-1904, in polygamy's last days / Lu Ann Faylor Snyder
Strangers in a strange land : Heber J. Grant and the beginning of the Japanese mission / Ronald W. Walker
Elder Alma Owen Taylor : LDS representative to China, 1910 / Reid L. Neilson
The stake president's view of the exodus from the Mormon Colonies in Mexico in 1912 / Joseph B. Romney
James E. Talmage and the Great War : an examination of his views and attitudes / Richard E. Bennett