American dreams, lost and found. Vine Deloria, Native American author and teacher ; Andy Johnson, hardscrabble Finnish immigrant ; Wallace Rasmussen, Horatio Alger Award winner ; Vernon Jarrett, African-American newspaperman ; C.P. Ellis, former Klansman ; Leonel I. Castillo, former director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service

Hard times : an oral history of the Great Depression. Ed Paulsen, freight-train rider ; Arthur A. Robertson, mogul ; Clifford Burke, hustler ; Doc Graham, gangster ; Oscar Heline, farmer ; Jane Yoder, daughter of a WPA worker ; Jerome Zerbe, society's photographer ; Peggy Terry and her mother, Mary Owsley, mountain people ; We still see their faces : introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of The grapes of wrath

The good war : an oral history of World War II. Bob Rasmus, rifleman ; Peggy Terry, hillbilly ; E.B. (Sledgehammer) Sledge, marine ; Peter Ota, nisei ; Betty Basye Hutchinson, nurse

Division Street, America. Florence Scala, neighborhood crusader ; Dennis Hart, cabbie ; Lucy Jefferson, migrant from Mississippi ; Kid Pharaoh, con man ; Tom Kearney, cop ; Chester Kolar, next-door neighbor ; George Malley (a.k.a. Henry Lorenz), blue-collar worker ; Eva Barnes, landlady

Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do. Mike Lefevre, steelworker ; Dolores Dante, waitress ; Roberto Acuna, farm worker ; Eric Nesterenko, pro hockey player ; Phil Stallings, auto worker ; Tom Patrick, fireman

The great divide : second thoughts on the American dream. Caroll Nearmyer, family farmer ; Rex Winship, trader ; Sam Talbert, teamster ; Larry Heinemann, Vietnam War veteran ; Jean Gump, suburban grandmother

Race : how blacks and whites think and feel about the American obsession. Joseph Lattimore, African-American ; Diane Romano, white mother of six ; Lloyd King, mixed race

Coming of age : the story of our century by those who have lived it. Bessie Doenges, writer ; Jack Culberg, CEO ; Genora Johnson Dollinger, remembering the 1937 sit-down strike ; Jacob Lawrence, artist ; David Brown, environmentalist.