Abolitionists, 194, 256, 268, 400, 406, 420, 421–422, 430, 465, 469, 472, 481, 499
Abplanalp, Bob, 331
Acheson, Dean, 89–90
Adams, Abigail (John Adams Sr.’s wife), 97, 255
Adams, Abigail “Nabby” (sister to John Quincy), 249
Adams, Charles Francis, 255
Adams, George, 255–256
Adams, John, 6, 10, 11, 97, 99, 100, 167, 226–234, 249–250, 255, 428, 489, 498
Adams, John Quincy, 167, 177, 219–220, 233–234, 247–258, 395, 429, 485, 486, 487–488
Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson, 253–256
Adams, Sherman, 78
Adenauer, Konrad, 132
Affordable Care Act, 501
Al Qaeda terrorist attacks, 374, 380–381
Alamo, 178
Alien Act, 100–101, 489. See also Sedition Act
Alsop, Joe, 327
American Food Administration, 411
American Native Party, 425
American System, 437
Amistad case, 394–395
Annenberg, Walter, 331
Antiquities Act, 65
Armstrong, John, 429
Arthur, Chester A., 4, 335–336, 338, 399–406
Arthur, William, 406
Attlee, Clement, 87
Atzerodt, George, 467
Audubon Society, 60
Ayers, Bill, 152
Badlands National Park, 60
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 64
Baker, James “Jim,” 121–122, 124
Bancroft, George, 172
Bank of the United States, 2, 223, 345.
See also Second Bank of the United States
Barkley, Alben, 86
Barron, Clarence, 319
Barry, William, 221–222
Baruch, Bernard, 55
Bates, Edward, 24–25
Battle of New Orleans, 218
Bayh, Birch, 295
Beardsley, Mimi, 109
Beecher, Henry Ward, 422
Beecher, Lyman, 422
Bell, Alexander Graham, 342
Bemis, Samuel Flagg, 252
Benton, Jessie, 218
Bentsen, Lloyd, 240
Biddle, Nicholas, 223
bin Laden, Osama, 381
Black Hawk War, 357
Blaesing, Elizabeth Ann, 451–452
Blaine, James G., 271, 272, 335–337, 339–340, 347, 351, 445
Blair, Francis Preston, Sr., 27
Bloody Kansas, 481
Blythe, William J. “Bill,” 183
Boone and Crockett Club, 66
Bork, Robert, 124
Bowles, Chester, 112
Boxer Rebellion, 409
Brandeis, Louis, 290
Breckinridge, John, 23
Britton, Nan, 451
Brodie, Fawn, 102–103
Brown, Aaron, 179
Brown, Henry B., 350
Brown v. Board of Education, 75
Brownell, Herbert, 75
Bryan, William Jennings, 198, 201, 284, 487
Bryce, James, 11
Buchanan, James, 1, 3, 11, 17, 30, 32, 176–178, 360, 425, 459, 461, 475–482
Burr, Aaron, 100, 102, 165–166, 206–207
Busby, Horace, 128
Bush, Barbara Pierce, 239, 241, 376, 377
Bush, George H. W., 5, 106, 235–246, 375, 376–377, 378
Bush, George W., 6, 106, 179, 239, 327, 374–385, 485
Bush, Laura Welch, 376
Bush, Prescott, 236
Bush v. Gore, 23
Butler, Ben, 472
Butler, Pierce, 449
Byrnes, Jimmy, 86
Calhoun, John C., 12, 175, 391, 439
Callender, James Thomson, 102
Camp David Accords, 308–309
Campbell, James, 197
Cannon, Joseph “Joe,” 284
Carter, William “Billy,” 303
Carter, James “Jimmy,” 106, 117, 302–310, 378, 492
Carter, Lillian “Miss Lillian,” 303
Cassidy, Edith, 182
Cassidy, Eldridge, 182
Challenger disaster, 119–120
Chandler, Zach, 368
Chapin, Dwight, 327
Chapman, Frank, 62
Cheney, Richard “Dick,” 245, 379, 380, 381–383, 384
Churchill, Winston, 48, 50, 52, 87
CIA, 74–75, 110, 113, 160, 241, 308, 310, 327
Civil Rights Act (1875), 499
Civil Rights Act (1957), 76
Civil Rights Act (1964), 113, 132, 134, 500
Civil Rights Commission, 500
Civil Rights Restoration Act, 501
Civil War, 29, 39–40, 61, 194, 257, 259–260, 262–264, 272, 335, 346, 366–367, 400, 402, 406, 454, 461–463, 465, 467–468, 472, 475
Clay, Henry, 12, 175, 177, 219–220, 223, 252, 345, 398, 420, 429–430, 437
Cleveland, Ruth, 278
Cleveland, Frances Folsom “Frank,” 273–275, 347
Cleveland, Grover, 5, 15, 197, 199–200, 269–279, 347–349, 350, 352, 415
Cleveland, Oscar Folsom, 271
Cleveland, Richard, 269
Cleveland Depression, 277
Clinton, George, 40
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 187–188, 190, 485–486, 490
Clinton, Raymond, 183
Clinton, Roger, 182–184
Clinton, Virginia Cassidy Blythe, 183–184
Clinton, William J. “Bill,” 6, 15, 106, 181–191, 378, 379, 384–385, 490, 495
Cohen, Jeffrey E., 15
Cold War, 3, 5, 76, 119, 242–244
Coleman, Ann, 476
Coles, Isaac, 207
Commission for the Relief of Belgium (CRB), 410
Committee on Fair Employment Practices, 500
Committee on Public Information, 489
Compromise of 1850, 360–362, 420, 423, 425, 479
Cone, James H., 157
Conkling, Roscoe, 335–338, 339, 400–403
Constitutional Convention [1787], 35, 37, 40, 208
Continental Congress, 10, 37, 38, 93, 97, 228, 230
Cook, Genevieve, 152–154
Coolidge, Calvin, 311–321, 413, 447, 448
Coolidge, Calvin, Jr., 317
Coolidge, Grace Goodhue, 318
Coolidge, John, 315
Cortelyou, George, 193
Cosway, Maria, 98
Cosway, Richard, 98
Cox, Ed, 331
Cox, James, 447
Cox, Tricia Nixon, 331
Crawford, William H., 219
Cronkite, Walter, 492
Cuban missile crisis, 106, 108, 110, 111, 132, 133
Curtin, Andrew, 31
Curtis, Benjamin, 472
Cushing, Caleb, 438
Czolgosz, Leon, 201–202
Daley, Richard, 326
Dalton, Kathleen, 8
Darling, J. N. “Ding,” 64
Darwin, Charles, 60–61
Davies, Samuel, 35
Davis, David, 369
Davis, Frank Marshall, 152
Davis, Jefferson, 23, 261, 357, 362, 363, 460
Davis, John, 448
Dawes Plan, 318
de Gaulle, Charles, 110
Deaver, Michael, 121–122
Declaration of Independence, 10, 97, 103–104, 166, 230, 499
Deeth, Earl, 135
Delano, Laura, 55–56
Democratic Party, 100, 101, 251, 275, 310, 394, 396–397, 421, 455
Democratic-Republican Party, 10, 219, 498
Dewey, George, 199
Dickens, Charles, 439
Dickinson, Charles, 217
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 113
Dimmick, Mary “Mame,” 353–354
Doheny, Edward, 449
Doherty, Harry, 447
Donald, David Herbert, 1
Douglas, Stephen A., 27, 420, 461
Douglass, Frederick, 481
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 325
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 3, 224, 472, 478, 479
Dukakis, Michael, 242
Dunham, Ann, 152
Dunham, Madelyn, 152
Dunham, Stanley, 152
Dutcher, William, 62
Dwyer, Jeff, 183
Eaton, John, 175, 220–221, 391–392, 493
Eaton, Margaret O’Neale (Timberlake) “Peggy,” 175, 221, 391–392, 493
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 4, 70–80, 92, 236, 325, 490
Eisenhower, Mamie Doud, 74
El Morro National Monument, 65
Electoral College, 37, 100, 175, 243, 275, 287, 350, 368, 379, 380, 458, 486
Electoral Commission Act, 369
Ellsworth, Elmer, 29
Elson, Edward, 74
Equal Rights Amendment, 501
Erlichman, John, 292
Ethics in Government Act, 304
Executive Order 9066, 500
Fair Housing Act, 240
Federal Radio Commission, 412
Federalist Party, 6, 10, 100, 102, 204, 209, 210, 213, 232, 251
Fehmer, Marie, 134
Ferguson, Thomas, 135
Fifteenth Amendment, 264, 366, 370, 372
Fillmore, Abigail Powers, 424
Fillmore, Mary, 425
Fillmore, Millard, 359, 360, 362, 419–425, 477
Fillmore, Millard Powers (son), 424
Finch, Robert “Bob,” 293
Finley, William L., 65
First Continental Congress. See Continental Congress
Fisher, Rob, 155–156
Flynn, Edward “Ed,” 86
Folsom, Emma, 273
Forbes, Charles, 449
Ford, Elizabeth Bloomer “Betty,” 297, 330
Ford, Gerald “Jerry,” 15, 105–106, 117, 241–242, 291–301, 303–304, 330
Ford, Henry, 416
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 310
Forrestal, Mike, 113
Fort McHenry, 212
Fourteenth Amendment, 264, 370, 372, 468, 499
Frankfurter, Felix, 290
Free Trade Democrats, 284, 285
Freeman, Joanne, 494
Fremont, John C., 345, 425, 477
French Revolution, 98, 100–101, 168–169, 232
Freud, Sigmund, 143
Fugitive Slave Act, 420–423, 457, 460, 479
Gable, John, 60
Garfield, James A., 333–334, 347, 370, 373, 402
Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 335
Gates, Robert “Bob,” 381
George III (King of England), 40
Gilbert, Cass, 289
Glavis, Louis, 283
Goldwater, Barry, 113
Gompers, Samuel, 314
Goodell, Charles, 295
Goodpaster, Andrew, 75
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 119, 242–243, 378
Gordon-Reed, Annette, 103
Gould, Jay, 271
Graham, Katharine, 327
Grand Canyon National Park, 59, 63, 65, 68, 69
Grant, Julia Dent, 261, 263, 266–267
Grant, Ulysses, Jr., 266
Grant, Ulysses S., 2, 12, 66, 259–268, 335–336, 337, 341, 367, 371, 401, 403, 439, 468, 470, 473
Gray, Gordon, 75
Grayson, Cary T., 142–143, 145, 147, 148
Great Depression, 3, 5, 414–418, 427
Greeley, Horace, 194
Greenspan, Alan, 383
Grier, Robert, 478–479
Griffin, Robert “Bob,” 295
Groves, Leslie, 87
Grundy, Felix, 173
Guinier, Lani, 156
Guiteau, Charles, 335–336, 338–343, 403
Gulf War, 244–245
Haig, Al, 294, 296–297, 298, 299–300
Haldeman, H. R. “Bob,” 292, 293, 298, 322, 327, 329
Halleck, Charles “Charlie,” 295
Halpin, Maria, 271–272
Hamilton, Alexander, 2, 38, 43, 99, 164, 165–166, 170, 204, 206, 209, 283, 286
Hammerschmidt, John Paul, 187
Hammond, Charles, 220
Hampton, Wade, 371
Hampton Roads Peace Conference, 31–32
Hance, Kent, 376
Hancock, John, 10
Hanna, Mark, 193
Hannity, Sean, 490
Harding, Florence Kling “Flossie,” 445–446, 450, 451, 452
Harding, Warren G., 3, 17, 288, 315, 412, 413, 443–453
Harding, Warren III, 452
Harlow, Bryce, 297–298
Harrison, Anna Symmes, 428
Harrison, Benjamin, 275, 344–354, 485
Harrison, Benjamin V (father of William Henry Harrison; great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison), 344, 427
Harrison, Caroline Scott, 345–346, 353
Harrison, John Scott, 344
Harrison, Russell, 354
Harrison, William Henry, 11, 17, 276, 344, 396, 426–435, 436–437
Hayes, Lucy Webb, 366, 372, 373
Hayes, Rutherford B., 194–195, 266, 282, 346, 364–373, 401, 485
Helms, Richard, 327
Hemings, Sally, 102–103
Hemings, Tom, 102
Henry, Patrick, 210
Henry Huntington Library, 99
The Hermitage, 216–217
Hickok, Lorena, 49–50
Higby, Larry, 327
Hiss, Alger, 489
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 290
Hoover, Herbert, 319, 407–418, 448, 487, 488
Hoover, Huldah, 408
Hoover, Irwin “Ike,” 280
Hoover, Jesse, 408
Hoover Dam, 417–418
Hopkins, Harry, 50–51
Hughes, Charles Evans, 286, 289, 412, 447, 448, 451, 453
Humphreys, David, 97
Hunt, E. Howard, 328
Hunter, David, 30
Hussein, Saddam, 245
Hutschnecker, Arnold, 325
Ignatius, David, 193
Iran-Contra Affair, 119, 123, 242
Iraq policy, George H. W. Bush, 244–245
Iraq war, George W. Bush, 374, 380–382, 385
Irving, Washington, 433
Jackson, Andrew, 2, 6, 14, 174–176, 215–225, 252–253, 345, 357, 391, 392, 395, 427, 429, 434, 476, 486, 487–488, 493–494, 498
Jackson, Rachel Donelson (Robards), 216, 220, 392
Jacksonian Democrats, 459, 460
Jager, Sheila, 153, 154–155, 156, 157
Japanese Internment camps, 500
Jay, John, 43
Jay Treaty, 166
Jefferson, Martha Wayles, 95, 97
Jefferson, Thomas, 6, 10, 12, 15, 16, 42, 43, 93–104, 162, 163, 164–165, 166, 167, 168–170, 204, 207, 209, 211, 227–234, 248, 251, 357, 427, 498
Jeffersonian Republicans, 232, 251, 437
Jim Crow legislation, 142, 499
Johnson, Andrew, 17, 264–265, 464–474, 487, 493, 499
Johnson, Eliza McCardle, 465
Johnson, Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird,” 128
Johnson, Lyndon B., 6, 15, 74, 105, 112, 126–136, 171, 185, 294–295, 326, 328, 417, 489, 500
Johnson, Sam Houston, 127
Johnston, Joe, 467
Jones, Emil, Jr., 159
Judiciary Act of 1922, 289
Judiciary Act of 1925, 289
Kagan, Elena, 161
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 345, 454, 459, 461
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 133
Kearny, Stephen, 179
Kelly, Dick, 183
Kelly, Thomas O. II, 15
Kennedy, Anthony, 124
Kennedy, Edward “Ted,” 108, 109, 309
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier “Jackie” (Onassis), 107, 109, 110, 323
Kennedy, John F., 1, 15, 71, 79, 105–113, 127–128, 129, 130–133, 181, 184, 294, 325, 326, 444, 473, 489, 492
Kennedy, Joseph “Joe,” Sr., 109
Kennedy, Robert “Bobby,” 106, 109, 127, 128–129, 131, 132–133, 328
Key, Frances Scott, 212
King, Leslie, Sr., 292
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 157, 323, 328
Kissinger, Henry, 240, 327, 328, 329, 331
Know-Nothing Party, 460
Knox, Henry, 43
Kroegel, Paul, 62
Ku Klux Klan, 266
La Follette, Robert, 284
Lafayette (Marquis de), 97, 162, 169
Laird, Melvin “Mel,” 293
Lane, Harriet, 477
Lawrence, Dave, 128
League of Nations, 8, 146, 285, 447
Lee, Robert E., 267, 268, 467, 481
LeHand, Marguerite “Missy,” 50, 51, 52, 58
LGBTQ rights, 501
Liddy, G. Gordon, 329
Lincoln, Abraham, 4–5, 8–9, 12, 15, 21–33, 179, 259–260, 263, 268, 283, 285, 358, 440, 444, 463, 465, 468, 487, 490–491, 499
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 26
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 312
Lindbergh, Charles, 312
Lindenwald, 397
Long, Huey, 489
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 321
Lonnstrom, Douglas, 14
Louisiana Purchase, 101, 251, 479
MacArthur, Douglas, 72, 90–91, 417
Madigan, Michael “Mike,” 159
Madison, Dolley Payne, 204, 206–208
Madison, James, 7, 97, 99, 166, 169–170, 203–214, 248, 286, 355, 356, 417, 429
Manifest Destiny, 2
Marbury v. Madison, 209
Marcy, William, 178
Marshall, John, 102, 168, 209–210, 286, 289, 290
Marshall, Thomas Riley, 148
Marshall Plan, 325
Martha (Princess) [of Norway], 51–52
Mayer, Margaret, 134–135
McCain, John, 383–384
McCormack, John, 295
McCulloch v. Maryland, 210
McDowell, Ephraim, 173–174
McKee, Mary Harrison, 353–354
McKinley, Ida Saxton, 195–196
McKinley, Nancy Allison, 194
McKinley, William, 62–63, 192–202, 281, 351, 367, 439, 490
McKinley Tariff Act, 197–198, 351
McNamara, Robert, 111–112
McNear, Alex, 153
McPherson, James, 268
Meade, George, 263–264
Mercer, Lucy (Rutherford), 50, 52, 53–56
Meredith, William, 360
Merrill, Charles, 319
Mesa Verde National Park, 65, 69
Mexican War, 171, 177–179, 261, 357–358, 419, 456, 457–458
Michelson, Charlie, 416
Michener, Louis T., 347
Minow, Martha, 156
Missouri Compromise, 345, 460, 479
Mondale, Walter, 306
Monroe, Elizabeth Kortright, 167–168, 169
Monroe, James, 5, 13, 97, 162–170, 208, 210, 211, 248, 252, 415
Monroe Doctrine, 167
Montes, Mary Ellen, 154
Montpelier, 206
Morgan, J. P., 285
Morgenthau, Robert, 133
Morris, Gouverneur, 41
Morrow, Dwight, 312
Morton, Oliver P., 346
Morton, Rogers “Rog,” 293
Mount Vernon, 36
Murdoch, Rupert, 490
Native Americans, 224–225, 395, 428, 429, 439, 498
Newhouse, Dick, 156
Nicholls, Francis, 371
Nineteenth Amendment, 499
Nixon, Francis, 324
Nixon, Hannah, 324
Nixon, Julie, 329
Nixon, Patricia Ryan, 323, 326, 330, 331–332
Nixon, Richard M., 6, 15, 77–78, 79, 105, 123–124, 240, 292, 296, 298–301, 303–304, 306, 322–332, 378, 488–489
Novak, Robert “Bob,” 109
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 106
Obama, Barack, 17, 150–161, 266, 383–384, 432, 488, 490, 495, 501
Obama, Michelle Robinson, 153, 156–157, 159
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 124
O’Donnell, Kenneth “Kenny,” 129
Olds, Leland, 136
Olympic National Park, 66
O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” 119–120
Oppenheimer, Robert, 87
Oregon Territory, 177
Paine, Thomas, 166, 168–169, 170, 230
Panic of 1819, 5
Panic of 1837, 427
Panic of 1857, 480
Panic of 1873, 367
Parker, Dorothy, 321
Parvin, Landon, 123
Patriot Act, 159–160
Payton, Bailey, 174
Pelican Island, 62
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, 373, 406
Perry, Matthew, 425
Petrified Forest National Park, 59
Phillips, Carrie, 446
Phillips, Jim, 446
Physick, Philip Syng, 173, 174
Pickwick Papers, 85
Pierce, Benjamin, 455
Pierce, Benny, 458–459
Pierce, Frankie, 459
Pierce, Franklin, 5, 17, 345, 454–463, 476
Pierce, Jane Appleton, 458–459, 461
Pinchot, Gifford, 66, 283, 286
Plessy v. Ferguson, 350
Polk, James K., 2, 11, 13, 171–180, 285, 358, 396, 439, 440, 476, 482
Polk, Sam, 172–174
Polk, Sarah (James’s mother), 172
Polk, Sarah Childress (James’s wife), 176, 180
Pope, John, 30
Powell, Colin, 381–383
Power, Thomas, 111
Powers, Dave, 109
Price, Ray, 327
Profiles in Courage, 106–107, 473
Progressive Party, 284, 313, 318, 373, 399, 412
Prohibition Party, 372
“Plug Uglies,” 30
Pulitzer, Joseph, 269
Randolph, A. Philip, 500
Randolph, Edmund, 208
Randolph, John, 460
Reagan, Michael, 120–121
Reagan, Nancy Davis, 122–123
Reagan, Ronald, 3, 15, 106, 114–125, 241–242, 307, 327, 385, 445, 477, 501
Rebozo, Charles “Bebe,” 325, 331
Reconstruction, 7, 141, 264–265, 266, 336, 350, 352, 364, 370–371, 373, 468–469
Rehnquist, William, 379
Republican Party, 25, 210, 213, 257, 281, 284, 335–337, 345, 347, 367, 373, 378–379, 403, 405, 417, 425
Revolutionary War, 34–35, 37–40, 44, 162, 163, 164, 168
Reynolds, Maria, 165
Rice, Condoleezza, 379, 381, 383
Richards, Ann, 377–378
Robards, Lewis, 216
Roberts, Bill, 114
Rodino, Peter, 300
Roosevelt, Anna, 52, 55, 56–57, 58
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 48–50, 52–54, 55, 56–58, 87
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 3–4, 5, 12–13, 15, 47–58, 71, 86, 415, 417–418, 487, 490, 492, 500
Roosevelt, Sara, 48–49, 51, 54
Roosevelt, Theodore, 3, 59–69, 116, 146, 199, 200–202, 268, 271, 282–283, 285, 286–288, 313, 319, 401, 406, 444, 445, 447, 491–492, 499
Ross, Edmund, 473
Rossiter, Clinton, 3
Rostow, Walt, 112
Rowe, James H., Jr., 127
Rumsfeld, Donald, 295, 327, 380, 381–383
Rush, Benjamin, 233
Rush, Bobby, 158
Rusk, Dean, 112–113
Russell, Francis, 446
Sand, Julia, 403–406
Sanford, Edward T., 449
Sarna, Jonathan, 263
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Sr., 12–14, 106, 108, 453
Schofield, John, 473
Schultz, George, 121, 124, 327
Scott, Dred, 478. See also Dred Scott v. Sandford
Scott, Winfield, 30, 178–179, 263, 345, 358, 430, 456, 458
Second Bank of the United States, 222–223
Second Continental Congress, 37, 38, 93, 230
Sedition Act, 100–101, 489. See also Alien Act
September 11 attacks, 374, 380–381
Seward, William H., 25, 27, 32–33, 359, 467, 469
Seymour, Horatio, 265
Shadow of Blooming Grove, The, 446
Shay’s Rebellion, 99
Sheridan, Philip, 66
Sherman, John, 351
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 66, 260
Sherman Antitrust Act, 350–351
Shine, Bill, 490
Short, William, 97
Shoumatoff, Elizabeth “Madame Shoumatoff,” 55–56
Shurz, Carl, 27
Sinclair, Harry, 449
Smathers, George, 325
Smith, Al, 413–414
Smith, Jess, 449–450
Smith, William French, 124
Sorenson, Theodore “Ted,” 107, 108, 132, 308
Sotomayor, Sonia, 161
Speed, Joshua, 8
Spencer, Stuart “Stu,” 114
Stanton, Edwin, 469, 470, 472, 493
Stephens, Alexander, 23–24
Stevens, Thaddeus, 469, 470, 471–472
Stevenson, Adlai, 78
Stimson, Henry L., 87, 236, 282
Stoddard, William, 24
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 422–423
Strong, Benjamin, 319
Stuart, Gilbert, 45
Suckley, Margaret, 55–56
Sumner, Edwin “Bull Head,” 29
Sumner, Charles, 494
Supreme Court, 43, 66, 75, 100, 102, 124, 161, 224, 282, 283, 285–286, 288–290, 350, 379–380, 395, 447–448, 449, 476–477, 478, 485, 499, 501
Sutherland, George, 449
Taft, Alphonso, 281
Taft, Helen Herron “Nellie,” 66, 282
Taft, William Howard, 66–67, 280–290, 417, 449
Taney, Roger B., 224, 478, 479
Taylor, Margaret Smith, 356, 362–363
Taylor, Maxwell, 111
Taylor, Zachary, 11, 178–179, 355–363, 419, 424
Teapot Dome Scandal, 413, 449, 452
Tecumseh (Native American), 428
Tenure of Office Act, 470, 472
Texas Seed Bill, 275
Thirteenth Amendment, 468
Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 103
Thomson, Charles, 10
Timberlake, John, 220–221
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), 383
Truman, Elizabeth Wallace “Bess”, 83–84, 86
Truman, Harry S., 4, 5, 56, 71, 72, 81–92, 110, 175, 500
Truman Doctrine, 90
Trumbull, Jonathan “John,” 40, 97, 98
Trump, Donald J., 16–17, 485–495
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 437
Tyler, John, 17, 177, 425, 426, 431, 435
Tyler, Julia Gardiner, 439–440, 441
Tyler, Letitia Christian, 439
Tyler Doctrine, 438
Underground Railroad, 422
United Nations, 80
Upshur, Abel, 438
US Fish and Wildlife Service, 59, 60, 61, 63
USS Harriet Lane, 477
Van Buren, Abraham, 397
Van Buren, Angelica Singleton, 393, 397
Van Buren, Hannah Hoes, 390
Van Buren, John, 397
Van Buren, Martin, 11, 175, 221, 225, 389–398, 415, 427, 432–434, 438, 460
Van Buren, Winfield Scott, 390
Vance, Cyrus, 308
Vaught, W. O., 184
Vietnam War, 74, 92, 105, 111–112, 113, 131, 171, 185, 191, 240, 305, 326, 375, 489
Vincent, John Heyl, 262
Wallace, David, 83
Wallace, George, 487
Wallace, Henry, 407
War of 1812, 166–167, 211–213, 218, 224–225, 251–252, 357, 428
War on Terror, 382
Ward, Ferdinand, 266
Warren, Earl, 75
Washington, George, 4, 6, 8, 10–11, 12, 15, 34–46, 94, 99, 102, 167, 168–169, 208–209, 251, 268, 357, 428
Washington, Harold, 154
Washington, Martha Custis, 35–36
Washington Monument, 31
Watergate, 105, 124, 241, 292, 294, 296, 298, 300–301, 327, 328–329, 331
Weems, Parson, 10
Weinberger, Casper “Cap,” 121, 123, 124
Welch, Ola Florence, 323
West, Benjamin, 40
Whig Party, 23, 179, 180, 222, 344–345, 358–359, 395, 421, 425, 427, 429–430, 433, 434, 437, 440, 456
White, Edward Douglass, 286, 288
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, 61
Will, George, 287
Willard, Henry, 32
Wills, Garry, 118
Wilmot, David, 419
Wilmot Proviso, 420
Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt, 144–145, 147, 148
Wilson, Ellen Axson, 143–144
Wilson, Woodrow, 66, 139–149, 285, 287, 288, 290, 308, 314, 411, 412, 447, 453, 489, 499
Wind Cave National Park, 65, 69
Wirthlin, Richard “Dick,” 119
Wise, Henry, 174
Wolfowitz, Paul, 381
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, 500
Wood, William S., 25–26
Woods, Rosemary, 331
World Bank, 112
World War I, 82–83, 139, 145–146, 409–410, 411, 414, 499
World War II, 72, 80, 87–89, 236–239, 240, 324, 500
Wright, Betsey, 189
Wright, Jeremiah, 156–157
Yalta Conference, 55
Yellowstone National Park, 66, 68–69
Yosemite National Park, 63, 65
Young, John Russell, 267