Index

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

Agnew, Spiro, 292–296, 306

Ailes, Roger, 242, 327

Al Qaeda terrorist attacks, 374, 380–381

Alamo, 178

Alien Act, 100–101, 489. See also Sedition Act

Alsop, Joe, 327

American Dream, 68, 229, 479

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

Atwater, Lee, 242, 376–377

Atzerodt, George, 467

Audubon Society, 60

Ayers, Bill, 152

Badlands National Park, 60

Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 64

Baker, Bobby, 127, 135

Baker, James “Jim,” 121–122, 124

Ball, George, 112, 271, 272

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

Bay of Pigs, 78–79, 110, 132

Bayh, Birch, 295

Beardsley, Mimi, 109

Beecher, Henry Ward, 422

Beecher, Lyman, 422

Bell, Alexander Graham, 342

Bemis, Samuel Flagg, 252

Benton, Jessie, 218

Benton, Thomas Hart, 218, 398

Bentsen, Lloyd, 240

Berlin Wall, 3, 119, 244

Berryman, Clifford, 66, 492

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

Brennan, Jack, 327, 331

Britton, Nan, 451

Brodie, Fawn, 102–103

Brown, Aaron, 179

Brown, Henry B., 350

Brown, John, 462, 481

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

Buchen, Phil, 296, 299

Bull Moose Party, 66, 67, 412

Burr, Aaron, 100, 102, 165–166, 206–207

Burroughs, John, 63, 64

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

Butt, Archie, 283, 286

Byrnes, Jimmy, 86

Calhoun, John C., 12, 175, 391, 439

Callender, James Thomson, 102

Cameron, Simon, 24, 33

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

Chase, Salmon B., 33, 263

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

Connally, John, 127, 128, 293

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

Daugherty, Harry, 316, 448

Davies, Samuel, 35

Davis, David, 369

Davis, Frank Marshall, 152

Davis, Jefferson, 23, 261, 357, 362, 363, 460

Davis, John, 448

Dawes, Charles, 318, 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

Dulles, Allen, 74, 78

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

Fall, Albert, 448, 449

FBI, 133, 298, 310, 328, 488

Federal Radio Commission, 412

Federalist Papers, 286, 288

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

Folsom, Oscar, 271, 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

Franklin, Benjamin, 97, 227

Free Soil Party, 394, 397

Free Trade Democrats, 284, 285

Freeman, Joanne, 494

Fremont, John C., 345, 425, 477

French and Indian War, 35, 36

French Revolution, 98, 100–101, 168–169, 232

Freud, Sigmund, 143

Fugitive Slave Act, 420–423, 457, 460, 479

Gable, John, 60

Gag Rule, 394, 395, 398

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

Ginsburg, Douglas, 124, 288

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

Gore, Albert “Al,” 175, 379

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

Great Society, 136, 500

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

Hagerty, James, 72, 76

Haig, Al, 294, 296–297, 298, 299–300

Halberstam, David, 112, 489

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

Harpers Ferry, 462, 481

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

Hartman, Bob, 296–297, 299

Hay, John M., 24, 29

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

Hiroshima, 87, 111, 239

Hiss, Alger, 489

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 290

Hoover, Herbert, 319, 407–418, 448, 487, 488

Hoover, Huldah, 408

Hoover, Irwin “Ike,” 280

Hoover, J. Edgar, 133, 328

Hoover, Jesse, 408

Hoover, Lou Henry, 409, 410

Hoover Dam, 417–418

Hopkins, Harry, 50–51

Houston, Sam, 178, 225

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

Hyde Park, 48–49, 54

Ignatius, David, 193

Indian Removal, 395, 398, 498

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, Peter, 94, 95

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

Jones, Joseph, 164, 170

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

Khrushchev, Nikita, 106, 111

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

Korean War, 72–73, 89–92

Kroegel, Paul, 62

Ku Klux Klan, 266

La Follette, Robert, 284

Lafayette (Marquis de), 97, 162, 169

Laird, Melvin “Mel,” 293

Lamon, Ward Hill, 8, 29

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

Lewinsky, Monica, 106, 379

LGBTQ rights, 501

Liberty Party, 394, 397

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

Lincoln, Robert, 26, 30

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 312

Lindbergh, Charles, 312

Lindenwald, 397

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 315, 352

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

Marsh, Jack, 296–297, 298

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

McClellan, George, 268, 465

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

Meese, Edwin “Ed,” 122, 124

Mellon, Andrew, 317, 448

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

Monticello, 103, 169–170, 229

Montpelier, 206

Morgan, J. P., 285

Morgenthau, Robert, 133

Morris, Dick, 188–189, 190

Morris, Gouverneur, 41

Morrow, Dwight, 312

Morton, Oliver P., 346

Morton, Rogers “Rog,” 293

Mount Olympus, 59, 66

Mount Vernon, 36

Muir, John, 59, 63, 64

Murdoch, Rupert, 490

Nagasaki, 87, 88, 111, 239

Native Americans, 224–225, 395, 428, 429, 439, 498

New Deal, 4, 71

Newhouse, Dick, 156

Nicholls, Francis, 371

Nicolay, John George, 24, 29

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

Panic of 1893, 201, 277

Parker, Dorothy, 321

Parvin, Landon, 123

Patriot Act, 159–160

Payton, Bailey, 174

Pearl Harbor, 7, 500

Pelican Island, 62

Pendergast, Tom, 84, 85

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

Pinkerton, Allan, 30, 31

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, 318, 372, 417

Prohibition Party, 372

“Plug Uglies,” 30

Pulitzer, Joseph, 269

Quaker, 31, 206, 408, 409

Randolph, A. Philip, 500

Randolph, Edmund, 208

Randolph, John, 460

Rayburn, Sam, 87, 128–129

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

Richardson, Elliot, 293, 294

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

Rove, Karl, 378, 379, 382

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

Scowcroft, Brent, 327, 329

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

Spanish-American War, 62, 199

Speed, Joshua, 8

Spencer, Stuart “Stu,” 114

Stalin, Joseph, 50, 73

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

Tilden, Samuel J., 365, 368

Timberlake, John, 220–221

Trail of Tears, 395, 398, 498

Treasury Department, 142, 277

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, Margaret, 84, 86

Truman Doctrine, 90

Trumbull, Jonathan “John,” 40, 97, 98

Trump, Donald J., 16–17, 485–495

Tubman, Harriet, 2, 481

Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 437

Twain, Mark, 265, 266–267

Tyler, John, 17, 177, 425, 426, 431, 435

Tyler, Julia Gardiner, 439–440, 441

Tyler, Letitia Christian, 439

Tyler Doctrine, 438

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 422, 423

Underground Railroad, 422

United Nations, 80

Upshur, Abel, 438

US Bank, 2, 223, 345

US Fish and Wildlife Service, 59, 60, 61, 63

USS Harriet Lane, 477

Valley Forge, 37–38, 39

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 Poverty, 134, 136

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

Weaver, James, 347, 353

Webster, Daniel, 12, 438

Weed, Thurlow, 25, 359

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