National Geographic Magazine/Volume 32
- The Rat Pest: The Labor of 200,000 Men in the United States Required to Support Rats, Man's Most Destructive and Dangerous Enemy
- By Edward W. Nelson
- Russia's Man of the Hour: Alexander Kerensky's First Speeches and Proclamations
- Letters from the Italian Front
- By Marchesa Louise de Rosales to Ethel Mather Bagg
- Fearful Famines of the Past: History Will Repeat Itself Unless the American People Conserve Their Resources
- By Ralph A. Graves
August 1917
[edit]- Russia from Within
- Her War of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- By Stanley Washburn, for Three Years Special Correspondent with the Russian Armies
- Industry's Greatest Asset - Steel
- By William Joseph Showalter
- Mecca the Mystic
- A New Kingdom within Arabia
- By Dr. S. M. Zwemer
- "The Flower of Paradise"
- The Part Which Khat Plays in the Life of the Yemen Arab
- By Charles Moser, Formerly American Consul, Aden, Arabia
September 1917
[edit]- The Food Armies of Liberty
- By Herbert Hoover
- The Weapon of Food
- By Herbert Hoover
- The Geography of Medicines
- War's Effects upon the World's Sources of Supply
- By John Foote, M. D.
- A Few Glimpses into Russia
- By Lieut. Zinovi Pechkoff
- Conserving the Nation's Man Power
- Disease Weakens Armies, Cripples Industry, Reduces Production. How the Government is Sanitating the Civil Zones Around Cantonment Areas. A Nation-wide Campaign for Health.
- By Rupert Blue, Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service
October 1917
[edit]- Our Flag Number
- By Byron McCandless, Lieutenant-Commander, U. S. Navy, and Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor, National Geographic Magazine
- The Makers of the Flag
- By Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior
- Heroic Flags of the Middle Ages
- The Geography of the Earth as Known in Medieval Times Symbolized in 96 Historic Standards
November–December 1917
[edit]- Training the New Armies of Liberty
- Camp Lee, Virginia's Home for the National Army.
- By Major Granville Fortescue, U. S. A.
- America's New Soldier Cities
- The Geographical and Historical Environment of the National Army Cantonments and National Guard Camps
- By William Joseph Showalter
- The Immediate Necessity of Military Highways
- By A. G. Batchelder, Executive Chairman, American Automobile Association
- In French Lorraine
- That Part of France Where the First American Soldiers Have Fallen
- By Harriet Chalmers Adams
- Farm Scenes in Scotland (rotogravure insert)
- Various images
- From the Trenches to Versailles
- By Carolyn Corey