| Table of Contents |
| | Introduction | 11 |
| | PART I PAST AS PROLOGUE | 15 |
| | -1919 | |
| | 1. A Road Runs Through It | 17 |
| | -1683 | |
| | 2. Pilgrims in a Strange Land | 29 |
| | 1683-1854 | |
| | 3. Farmers on the Prairie | 47 |
| | 1854-1919 | |
| | 4. Amos and Stella | 71 |
| | 1889-1919 | |
| | PART II FARM AND SMALL TOWN | 91 |
| | 1919-1935 | |
| | 5. Sterling, Illinois: My Camelot | 93 |
| | 1919-1921 and beyond | |
| | 6. Goshen, Indiana: Neighborhood on South Eighth | 113 |
| | 1921-1926 | |
| | 7. Bluffton, Ohio: Creek, Alleys, Vacant Lots | 137 |
| | 1926-1935 | |
| | 8. Teacher, Heroes, Peers | 157 |
| | 1926-1935 | |
| | 9. Preacher's Son and Probings | 177 |
| | 1926-1935 | |
| | PART III EXPANDING HORIZONS | 195 |
| | 1935-1941 | |
| | 10. Kansas: Crossing the Mystic Border | 197 |
| | 1935-1939 | |
| | 11. Summertime: New Worlds to Conquer | 221 |
| | 1936-1939 | |
| | 12. Chicago: University on the Midway | 241 |
| | 1939-1941 | |
| | PART IV CIVILIAN PUBLIC SERVICE | 275 |
| | 1941-1945 | |
| | 13. Work of National Importance | 277 |
| | 1941-1942 | |
| | 14. Akron, Pennsylvania: Town Set on a Hill | 305 |
| | 1942-1943 | |
| | 15. In Quest of China-An Ill-fated Mission | 323 |
| | 1943 | |
| | 16. Search for the Therapeutic Community | 353 |
| | 1944-1946 | |
| | PART V WAR'S AFTERMATH | 395 |
| | 1946-1949 | |
| | 17. Innocence Abroad | 397 |
| | 1946 | |
| | 18. Pacifist in Occupied Territory | 427 |
| | 1946-1947 | |
| | 19. Berlin: Island in the Russian Zone | 471 |
| | 1947-1948 | |
| | PART VI LOOKING FORWARD | 507 |
| | 1948-1952 | |
| | 20. Basel: a Scholarly Interruption | 509 |
| | 1948 | |
| | 21. Farewell to Europe | 541 |
| | 1949 | |
| | 22. Chicago: Back to Books | 567 |
| | 1949-1952 | |
| | Epilogue | 601 |
| | 1952-2002 | |
| | Notes | 605 |
| | Index | 609 |
