Abolition, 90, 108, 121, 135, 176
Adams, Charles Francis, 204
Adams, John, 85, 92–93, 106, 113, 139, 141
Adams, John Quincy, 122, 139, 141, 148, 204
Adams, Samuel, 7, 19, 23, 37, 50, 85
Adams-Onis Treaty, 12
ADL, 199
Adler, Stella, 287
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), 354
Adventures of Augie March, The, 293
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 82–83, 111, 118
Aeschylus, 188
Affirmative action, 353
AFL, 256
African-Americans, 120, 177–78, 185, 192, 199, 223, 225, 227, 234, 248, 262, 283, 290, 304, 322, 328, 337, 353, 356. See also Slavery and slave trade
Agee, James, 228
Aguinaldo, Emilio, 219
Ali, Muhammed, 345
Allied invasion of Normandy (1944), 261, 275
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 256
American Indian Movement, 250
American Indians. See Native Americans; specific tribes
American Revolution, 12, 23, 29–30, 37, 44, 58
Amicus curiae briefs, 297
Anasazi, 5
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 199
Antipoverty programs, 306
Antislavery movement. See Abolition
Apache tribe, 198
Arctic, 341
Arlington National Cemetery, 230, 299
Armstrong, Louis, 161
ARPA, 354
ARPAnet, 354
Arthur Andersen, 361
Articles of Confederation, 71, 79, 120
Arts. See also specific artists and works
Adams, Ansel, 252
Ashcan school, 133
Audubon, John James, 28
Berlin, Irving, 182
Bernstein, Leonard, 329
Berry, Chuck, 308
Birth of a Nation, The, 147
Bogart, Humphrey, 273
Brady, Mathew, 56
Brando, Marlon, 287
Casablanca, 259
Chaplin, Charlie, 168
Citizen Kane, 266
Copley, John Singleton, 7
Davis, Miles, 301
Disney, Walt, 196
Duncan, Isadora, 154
Dylan, Bob, 336
Foster, Stephen, 49
Gershwin, George, 175
Godfather, The, 350
Grant, Cary, 245
Guthrie, Woody, 238
Hepburn, Katharine, 231
Hitchcock, Alfred, 280
Homer, Winslow, 63
Honeymooners, The, 294
Hopper, Edward, 203
Hudson River School, 35
Jackson, Michael, 357
jazz music, 161
Jazz Singer, The, 189
Johns, Jasper, 315
Joplin, Scott, 119
Lange, Dorothea, 217
Monticello, 14
Nast, Thomas, 70
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 210
Presley, Elvis, 322
Richardson, H. H., 84
Riis, Jacob, 112
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 98
sea chanteys, 42
Simpsons, The, 364
skyscrapers, 105
Sousa, John Philip, 91
“Star-Spangled Banner, The,” 21
State of Liberty, 77
Warhol, Andy, 343
Wizard of Oz, The, 224
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 126
Ashcan school, 133
Asian immigrants, 131, 151, 194, 206
Audubon, John James, 28
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 226
Autobahn system, 327
Autobiography of Malcolm X, 356
Babbit, 181
Bacall, Lauren, 273
Bailey, James, 123
Baldwin, James, 307
Baline, Israel. See Berlin, Irving
Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad, 88
“Bambino, the.” See Ruth, George Herman “Babe,” 271
B&O Railroad, 88
Banknotes, 81
Bankruptcy, 165
Baptists, 94
Barbed wire, 201
Barnum, P. T., 123
Barnum and Bailey Circus, 123
Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste, 77
Bataan Death March (1942), 268
Bates, Ruby, 290
Batista, Fulgencio, 324
Battle of Antietam (1862), 163
Battle of Bull Run (1861), 142, 156, 191
Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), 44, 51
Battle of Chancellorsville, 156
Battle of Concord (1775), 37, 44, 50, 69
Battle of Gettysburg (1863), 170, 178
Battle of Lexington (1775), 37, 44, 50, 69
Battle of Little Bighorn (1876), 198
Battle of Monmouth (1778), 65
Battle of New Orleans, 148
Battle of Saratoga (1777), 58
Battle of Vicksburg (1863), 82
Baum, L. Frank, 224
Beat generation, 321
Beaux-Arts buildings, 215
Beecher, Henry Ward, 218
Bellow, Saul, 293
Bellows, George, 133
Beloved, 363
Benzene pollution, 348
Bergman, Ingrid, 259
Berlin, Irving, 182
Berlin Wall, 310
Berners-Lee, Tim, 354
Bernstein, Carl, 358
Bernstein, Leonard, 329
Berry, Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck,” 308, 322
Bierstadt, Albert, 35
Big bang hypothesis, 48
Big Four, 151
Bill of Rights, 73
Birds of America, 28
Birth control pill, 269
Birth of a Nation, The, 147, 199, 298
Black Iris III, 210
Black Muslims, 332
Black Thursday, 312
Blanck, Max, 277
Blood on the Tracks album, 336
Bloudy Tenet of Persecution, The, 17
Bluest Eyes, The, 363
Bogart, Humphrey, 230, 259, 273, 287
Bolden, Buddy, 161
Bordewich, Fergus M., 143
Boston Massacre (1770), 23, 30
Boston Tea Party (1773), 19, 30, 37, 50, 64
Bradstreet, Anne, 6
Branding (advertising), 214
British Empire, 2–3, 11–12, 18, 57. See also American Revolution; War of 1812
Brook Farm, 89
Brooks, James L., 364
Brown, John, 76
Brown, Michael D., 362
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 220, 309, 311, 316
Bryan, William Jennings, 167, 207, 212, 219, 232, 291
Buchanan, James, 117
Building America
Atlanta, 166
barbed wire, 201
Boston, 19
Brooklyn Bridge, 180
Central Park, 145
Chicago, 103
Eads, James Buchanan, 187
Empire State Building, 278
Five Points, 96 frontier thesis, 222
Gadsden Purchase, 138
Golden Gate Bridge, 285
Great Chicago Fire, 173
Harvard University, 26
Hawaii, 257
Homestead Act, 152
Hurricane Katrina, 362
Land-Grant Act, 159
Las Vegas, 313
L’Enfant, Pierre, 54
Levittown, 306
Lewis and Clark expedition, 75
Los Alamos, 292
Los Angeles, 194
Louisiana Purchase, 68
Love Canal, 348
Mississippi River, 82
Mormon Trail, 117
Moses, Robert, 320
Muir, John, 208
New Orleans, 40
New York City, 33
Northwest Ordinance, 61
Oregon Trail, 110
Panama Canal, 264
Pentagon, 299
Pine Ridge standoff, 250
Provincetown, 355
Pueblo civilization, 5
Puerto Rico, 229
St. Augustine (Florida), 12
St. Lawrence Seaway, 334
San Francisco, 131
San Francisco earthquake, 243
Smithsonian Institution, 124
subways, 236
trans-Alaska pipeline, 341
utopian communities, 89
Washington, DC, 47
World’s Columbian Exposition, 215
Yankee Stadium, 271
Burr, Aaron, 120
Burroughs, William S., 321
Bush, George H. W., 359
Business. See also specific company
ARPAnet, 354
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 88
Barnum, P. T., 123
California Gold Rush, 109
Carnegie Steel Company, 186
Coca-Cola, 214
Colt, Samuel, 130
cotton gin, 25
Edison, Thomas, 179
Enron Corporation, 361
Erie Canal, 53
Federal Reserve, 291
Ford, Henry, 284
Gilded Age, 158
Gompers, Samuel, 256
Great Depression, 319
Hearst, William Randolph, 270
Hershey, Milton, 263
Hill, James T., 221
IBM, 340
Interstate Commerce Commission, 207
joint-stock companies, 11
laissez-faire philosophy, 172
Lowell, Massachusetts, 60
Mayer, Louis B., 298
McCormick, Cyrus, 102
McDonald’s Corporation, 347
mercantilism, 18
military-industrial complex, 333
minimum wage, 326
Morgan, J. P., 193
Morse, Samuel, 95
Otis Elevator Company, 137
Panic of 1837, 81
Panic of 1873, 165
Report on Manufacturing, 39
Rockefeller, John D., 200
Sears, Roebuck, 242 sharecropping, 228
Shepherd-Towner Act, 305
Sherman Antitrust Act, 235
Slater’s mill, 32
Stanford, Leland, 151
stock market crash (1929), 312
tariff, 74
tobacco, 4
transcontinental railroad, 144
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 277
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 116
Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur), 249
Chaco Canyon, 5
Cajun culture, 40
Calhoun, John C., 74, 108, 135, 162, 176
California, 109, 128, 131, 270. See also specific cities in
Cambridge (Massachusetts), 26
Campbell’s Soup cans, 343
Candler, Griggs, 214
Carnegie, Andrew, 186
Carnegie Steel Company, 186, 193
Carney, Art, 294
Caro, Robert, 320
Carson, Rachel, 335
Carter, Jimmy, 323, 343, 348, 352
Castro, Fidel, 324
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 272
Central Pacific Railroad, 144, 151
Central Park, 145
Century of Dishonor, A, 213
Chandler, Raymond, 230
Chanteys, 42
Chaplin, Charles Spencer “Charlie,” 168, 188
Chapman, Carrie, 276
Charles II, 31
Chavez, Cesar, 346
Cheney, Dick, 359
Chicago White Sox, 271
Child, David, 41
Child, Lydia Maria, 41
China, 317
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), 206
Chinese immigrants and laborers, 151, 194, 206
Chrysler Building, 105
Church, Frederick Edwin, 35
Churchill, Winston, 261
CIA, 324
Cinque, Joseph, 122
Citizenship, American, 192
Civil rights, 73, 108, 234, 318, 323, 339, 344. See also Rights and reform
Civil Rights Act (1964), 185, 339, 344
Civil War (1861–1865), 40–41, 56, 63, 66, 82, 97, 99, 129–30, 132, 134–35, 142, 149–50, 156, 163, 166, 170–71, 178, 183–85, 190–91, 197, 251
Claflin, Tennessee, 218
Clark, William, 75
Clay, Henry, 39, 74, 141, 155, 162, 169, 176
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. See Mark Twain
Cleveland, Grover, 257
Clinton, DeWitt, 53
Clinton, George, 127
Coast Guard, 39
Coffin, Levi, 143
Cold War (1945–1991), 310
Cole, Thomas, 35
Colt, Samuel, 130
Columbus, Christopher, 4, 205, 215, 229
Common Sense, 29
Communism and Communist Party, 234, 265
Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, A, 20
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (1980), 348
Compromise of 1850, 176
Confederate States of America (Confederacy), 82, 142, 149, 156, 166, 170, 177, 183–84, 190, 192, 197. See also Civil War (1861–1865)
Connecticut compromise, 73
Constitution, 43, 66, 68, 71, 73–74, 79, 94, 127
Constitutional Convention (1787), 3, 36, 66, 71, 73, 78, 92, 99, 120
Continental Congress, 47, 50–51, 92
Cooper, James Fenimore, 27, 34–35
Copley, John Singleton, 7
Coppola, Francis Ford, 287, 350
Corporations, 11. See also specific company
Cosby, William, 45
Council Bluffs (Iowa), 117
Crane, Stephen, 132
Crawford, Joan, 298
Crazy Horse (Chief), 198
Crédit Mobilier scandal, 144
Creole culture, 40
Crimean War (1853–1856), 130
Crucible, The, 265
Crying of Lot 49, The, 349
Cuba, 122, 205, 209, 212, 229, 310, 324, 330
Cuban missile crisis, 330
Cup of Gold, 244
Custer, George, 198
Dana, Richard Henry Jr., 42
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), 176
Daughters of the American Revolution, 260
Davis, Jefferson, 138, 163, 170, 190, 197
Davis, Miles, 301
Dawes, William, 37
Dawes Severalty Act (1887), 213
Day of the Locust, The, 364
DDT, 335
Death of a Salesman, 265
Debs, Eugene V., 239
Decatur, Stephen, 93
Declaration of Independence, 18, 57, 59, 85, 92, 106
Declaration of Sentiments, 136, 157
Deep focus (photographic technique), 266
Derivatives, 361
Desegregation, 220, 237, 304, 309, 311, 316, 337
Dickens, Charles, 96
Dickinson, Emily, 104
Diddley, Bo, 322
Discrimination, 131, 151. See also Slavery and slave trade
Disney, Walt, 196
Dissenters. See Puritans
Dix, Dorothea, 129
“Doughboys,” 233
Douglas, Anna Murray, 157
Douglass, Frederick, 136, 157, 177, 218
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 312
Draft, 345
Draft riots, 178
Drake, Sir Francis, 12
Dreiser, Theodore, 167
Drew, Daniel, 116
Drum Taps, 97
Du Bois, W. E. B., 223, 234, 262
Due process clause, 192
Du Maurier, Daphne, 280
DuMont television network, 294
Duncan, Isadora, 154
Dunmore, Lord, 64
Dyer, Mary, 24
Eads, James Buchanan, 187
Earl of Dunmore, 64
Earthquake of 1906 (San Francisco), 131, 243
Edison, Thomas, 179
Edwards, Jonathan, 38
Ehrlichman, John, 358
Eiffel, Alexandre-Gustave, 77
Eiffel Tower, 77
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 275, 302, 309, 311, 316–17, 324, 327, 333
Electricity, 179
Ellington, Duke, 161
Ellis Island, 255
Ellison, Ralph Waldo, 300
Emancipation Proclamation (1863), 108, 171, 177–78, 183
Empire State Building, 278
Enola Gay (bomber), 289
Enron Corporation, 361
Environmental Protection Agency, 351
Erie Railroad, 116
Espionage Act, 239
Evangeline, 69
Evans, Walker, 228
Evolution, 167
Executive Order no. 9981, 304
Fair Deal, 302
Fair Labor Standards Act, 326
Fall, Albert, 267
Faulkner, William, 40, 216, 363
FBI, 250
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 313
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 362
Federalist Papers, 127
Federalist Party, 20, 85, 113, 120
Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, 256
FEMA, 362
Feminine Mystique, The, 325
Fencing, 201
Ferdinand, Franz, 226
Ferris wheel, 215
Fiat currency, 291
Fifteenth Amendment, 185, 192, 339
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 98, 177
Fiske, Helen. See Jackson, Helen Hunt Fisk University, 234
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 202
Five Points, 96
Flamingo resort, 313
Flight, first, 249
Florida, 12
Foner, Eric, 178
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 146, 246, 269
Fordism, 284
Ford Motor Company, 284
Fort Baker, 313
Fort Ticonderoga, 58
Forty-niner, 109
For Whom the Bell Tolls, 209
401(k) retirement plans, 361
442nd Regimental Combat Team, 297, 304
Four Quartets, 174
Fourteenth Amendment, 185, 192
Frazer, James George, 174
Freedmen’s Bureau, 185
Freedom Tower, 105
“Free love,” 218
Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The album, 336
Frelinghuysen, Theodore, 155
Fremont, John, 204
French and Indian War (1754–1763), 16, 51
French Quarter, 40
French Revolution (1789), 29
Frick, Henry Clay, 186
Friedan, Betty, 325
Friedman, Carl, 325
Frontier thesis, 222
Frost, Robert, 160
Fundamentalist Christians, 167
Fusion music style, 301
Gadsden, James, 138
Gadsden Purchase, 138
Gage, Thomas, 37
Garland, Judy, 224
Garrison, William Lloyd, 41, 108, 121, 171
Gates, Horatio, 58
Gay Pride Day, 360
General Electric, 179
George II, 57
George III, 16, 30, 36, 52, 57, 59
Germany, 226, 233, 240, 247, 253, 261, 275, 310, 327
Geronimo, 198
Gershwin, Ira, 175
Gilded Age, 151, 158, 172, 186, 193, 215, 235, 239, 256
Giovanni’s Room, 307
Glass Menagerie, The, 272
Glass-Steagal Act (1933), 319
Gleason, Jackie, 294
Golden Bough, The, 174
Golden Gate Bridge, 285
Gold standard, 232
Goldstein, Betty Naomi. See Friedan, Betty
Goldwater, Barry, 344
Gompers, Samuel, 256
Gone with the Wind, 166, 251, 298
Go Tell It on the Mountain, 307
Gould, Jay, 116
Graceland mansion, 322
Grammatical Institute of the English Language, A, 20
Grant, Cary, 245
Grant, Ulysses S., 139, 149, 165, 183–84, 191, 211
Grapes of Wrath, The, 244
Gravity’s Rainbow, 349
Great Chicago Fire (1871), 105, 173
Great Depression (1930s), 172, 203, 281, 288, 312, 319, 326
Great Dictator, The, 168
Great Gatsby, The, 202
Great Lakes region, 53, 61, 103, 107, 114, 334
Great Northern Railroad, 221
Great Society program, 305, 344
Great Triumvirate, 162
Green Mountain Boys, 72
Greenstreet, Sydney, 259
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), 269
Groening, Matt, 364
Groves, Leslie R., 292
Guam, 205
Guest of Honor, A, 119
Guggenheim Museum, 126
Guns, 130
Guthrie, Wilson, 238
Guthrie, Woody, 238
HAL (computer), 340
Haldeman, H. R., 358
Haley, Alex, 356
Hamilton, Alexander, 39, 71, 73, 78, 92, 113, 120, 127
Hamilton, Andrew, 45
Hammett, Dashiell, 230
Hansberry, Lorraine, 328
Harding, Warren G., 239, 267, 281
Harlan, John Marshall, 220
Harris, Isaac, 277
Harrison, Benjamin, 235
Harrison, William Henry, 81, 114
Hartford Insurance Company, 279
Hate groups, 147, 185, 192, 199, 225, 248
Hayes, Rutherford B., 225
Health care, 305
Hearst, William Randolph, 266, 270
Hellman, Lillian, 230
Hell’s Angels, 342
Hershey, Milton, 263
Hershey Kisses, 263
Heth, Joice, 123
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 104
Hill, James T., 221
Hirohito, Emperor, 289
Hiroshima (Japan), 289
History of the Standard Oil Company, The, 200
History of the United States of America, The, 139
Hitchcock, Alfred, 280
Hitler, Adolf, 168, 240, 261, 271, 275, 284
Ho Chi Minh, 331
Holiday, Billie, 248
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 100
Home Insurance Company building, 105
Homer, Winslow, 63
Homestead Act (1862), 152, 198
Homestead Strike (1892), 186
Homosexuality, 272, 286, 355, 360
Honeymooners, The, 294
Hoover, Herbert, 260, 271, 274, 278, 281, 288
Hoovervilles, 281
House of Mirth, 153
House Un-American Activities Committee, 273. See also McCarthy anticommunism hearings (1953)
Howe, William, 44
How the Other Half Lives, 112
HTML, 354
Hudson River school, 35
Hughes, Langston, 97, 223, 300, 307
Huguenots, 12
Hull House, 260
Humphrey, Hubert, 338
Huntington’s chorea, 238
Hurricane Katrina, 40, 243, 362
Hurston, Zora Neale, 237
Hussein, Saddam, 359
Hutchinson, Anne, 10
Hypertext markup language (HTML), 354
IBM, 340
ICC, 207
Iceman Cometh, The, 188
Illinois, 61, 117, 276. See also Chicago
Immigration, 96, 255. See also specific ethnic group
Impeachment process, 211
Imperialism, American, 212, 232
Independence Hall, 71
Indiana, 61
Indian Territory, 101
Industrialization, 32, 158. See also Business
Industrial Revolution, 88, 137
International Business Machine (IBM), 340
International Workers of the World (IWW), 256
Internet, 354
Interstate Commerce Act (1887), 172
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 207
Interstate Highway System, 309, 327
Inventions. See specific types Invisible Man (Ellison), 300
Iran hostage crisis (1979), 352
Iraq, 359
Irish immigrants, 131, 151, 164, 178
Iwerks, Ub, 196
Iwo Jima, 282
Jackson, Andrew, 74, 81, 101, 141, 148, 155, 169, 185, 291
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 213
Jackson, Michael, 357
Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall,” 156
James, William, 234
Jamestown Colony, 1, 3, 11–12, 15, 26
Japan, 206, 247, 268, 282, 289, 297
Jasper, Sergeant William, 315
Jay, John, 127
Jay Cooke and Company, 165
Jazz Singer, The, 189
Jefferson, Thomas, 14, 29, 52, 59, 68, 75, 82, 92–94, 113
Jews, 80
Jim Crow laws, 220, 227, 318, 337
Johns, Jasper, 315
Johnson, Jacob, 211
Johnson, Lyndon B., 305, 338–39, 344, 351, 353
Joint-stock companies, 11
Jolson, Al, 189
Jones, Edith Newbold. See Wharton, Edith Joplin, Scott, 119
Joyce, James, 209
J. P. Morgan & Company, 46, 193
Juneteenth, 300
Jungle, The, 146
Kalakaua, King, 257
Kennedy, John F., 160, 209, 324, 330–32, 339, 344, 351, 353
Kerouac, Jack, 321
Key, Francis Scott, 21
Khomeni, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 352
Kind of Blue album, 301
Kinetoscope, 179
King, Martin Luther Jr., 234, 311, 318, 332, 336–37, 339
Kingdom of Fear, 342
King Kong, 278
King Philip’s War (1675–1676), 2, 9, 15
Kinsey, Alfred Charles, 286
Kipling, Rudyard, 212
Kitty Hawk, 249
Know-Nothing Party, 164
Korean War (1950–1953), 304, 317
Korematsu, Fred, 297
Kroc, Ray, 347
Kubrick, Stanley, 340
Ku Klux Klan, 147, 185, 192, 199, 225, 248, 323
Ku Klux Klan Act (1871), 199
Kuribayashi, Tadamichi, 282
Kuwait, 359
La Amistad (ship), 122
Laissez-faire philosophy, 158, 172
Land-Grant Act (1862), 159
Lange, Dorothea, 217
Last of the Mohicans, The, 34
Las Vegas, 313
Lay, Kenneth, 361
Leach, Archibald. See Grant, Cary
Leaders and leadership. See Politics and leadership; specific names
Leaves of Grass, 97
Lee, Robert E., 149, 156, 163, 170
Leibowitz, Samuel, 290
Lend-Lease Act, 247
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 228
Levitt, William, 306
Levittown, 306
Lewis, Meriwether, 75
Lewis and Clark expedition, 75
Libel, 45
Liliuokalani, Queen, 257
Lincoln, Abraham, 90, 108, 135, 142, 157, 163, 171, 177–78, 183–84, 211
Literature. See also specific writers and works
Adams, Henry, 139
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 118
Baldwin, James, 307
Bellow, Saul, 293
Bradstreet, Anne, 6
Child, Lydia Maria, 41
Cooper, James Fenimore, 34
Dickinson, Emily, 104
Eliot, T. S., 174
Ellison, Ralph Waldo, 300
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 55
Faulkner, William, 216
Frost, Robert, 160
Ginsberg, Allen, 321
Great Gatsby, The, 202
Haley, Alex, 356
Hammett, Dashiell, 230
Hansberry, Lorraine, 328
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 62
Hemingway, Ernest, 209
Hughes, Langston, 223
Hurston, Zora Neale, 237
Irving, Washington, 27
James, Henry, 125
Kinsey, Alfred Charles, 286
Lewis, Sinclair, 181
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 69
Mencken, H. L., 167
Miller, Arthur, 265
Moby-Dick, 83
Morrison, Toni, 363
Nabokov, Vladimir, 314
O’Neill, Eugene, 188
Poe, Edgar Allan, 48
Pynchon, Thomas, 349
Red Badge of Courage, The, 132
Silent Spring, 335
Sinclair, Upton, 146
Steinbeck, John, 244
Stevens, Wallace, 279
Thompson, Hunter S., 342
Thoreau, Henry David, 76
Twain, Mark, 111
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 90
Webster, Noah, 20
Wharton, Edith, 153
Wheatley, Phillis, 13
Whitman, Walt, 97
Williams, Tennessee, 272
Williams, William Carlos, 195
Wright, Richard, 258
Little, Malcolm. See Malcolm X
“Little Boy,” 289. See also Atomic bomb
Little Rock High School, 309, 311
Locke, John, 59
Lolita, 314
Long, Huey, 295
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 69
Long Island, 306
Lorre, Peter, 259
Los Alamos, 292
Los Angeles, 194
Louis, Joe, 271
Louisiana, 295, 362. See also New Orleans
Louisiana Purchase, 40, 68, 134, 152, 155, 198
Louis XV, 36
Love Canal, 348
Loving v. Virginia (1967), 227
Lowell (Massachusetts), 60
Luks, George, 133
Lynching, 248
MacArthur, Douglas, 268
MacGuffin (plot device), 280
Mackay, Ellin, 182
Madison, James, 71, 73, 99, 107, 120, 134
Madison Square Garden, 140, 154, 283
Mailer, Norman, 299
Main Street, 181
Manhattan Island, 33. See also New York City
Manhattan Project, 292
Marble Faun, The (Hawthorne), 62
Marbury v. Madison (1803), 113
Mardi Gras, 40
Marshall, James, 109
Marx, Karl, 239
Mason & Dixon, 349
Massachusetts, 8–9, 19, 50, 60, 67, 76, 79, 89, 276, 355. See also Boston
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 10, 15
Mather, Increase, 26
Mayer, Louis B., 298
Mayflower Compact, 22
McCarthy, Joseph, 265
McCarthy anticommunism hearings (1953), 265
McClellan, George, 163
McCormick Company, 102
McCormick, Cyrus, 102
McCormick, Robert, 102
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), 176
McDonald’s Corporation, 347
McDowell, Irvin, 142
McKim, Charles Follen, 84, 140
McKim, Mead, and White, 84, 140
McKinley, William, 219, 232, 246, 257
McNamara, Robert, 344
Mead, William Rutherford, 140
Meadows, Audrey, 294
Meat industry, 146
Medicaid and Medicare, 344
Melville, Herman, 55, 62, 67, 83
Ménendez de Avilés, Pedro, 12
Menlo Park, 179
Mental illness reform, 129
Mercantilism, 18
Mesa Verde National Park, 5
Metacom (King Philip), 9
Method acting, 287
Mexican-Americans, 346
Mexican War (1846–1848), 76, 128, 130, 155, 338
Mexican War (1846–1848)
Michigan, 61
Mickey Mouse, 196
Middle Passage, 52
Military desegregation, 304
Military draft, 345
Military-industrial complex, 333
Miller, Arthur, 265
Minimum wage, 326
Minnesota, 61
Miranda rights, 316
Miranda v. Arizona, 316
Mission Dolores, 131
Mississippi, 362
Mississippi River, 82, 103, 118, 187
Missouri, 187
Missouri Compromise, 134
Mitchell, Margaret, 251
Moby-Dick, 83
Model T, 284
Modern Times album, 336
Modern Times film, 168
Montgomery (Alabama), 318, 337, 339
Montgomery bus boycott (1955–1956), 318, 339
Monticello, 14
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 254
Mormonism, 115
Mormon Trail, 117
“Mormon War,” 117
Morrill, Justin, 159
Morrill Act (1862), 159
Morse, Samuel, 95
Morse code, 95
Morton, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll,” 161
Mount Vernon, 78
Muir, John, 208
Murray, John, 64
NAACP, 147, 227, 234, 262, 311, 318, 353
Nabokov, Vladimir, 314
Nagasaki (Japan), 289
Narragansett tribe, 17
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, 157
Nast, Thomas, 70
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 147, 227, 234, 262, 311, 318, 353
National Farm Workers Association, 346
National Guard, 338
National Highway System, 309, 327
National Museum of the American Indian, 124
National Organization of Women (NOW), 325
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), 241
Nation of Islam, 332
Native Alaskans, 341
Native Americans, 1–2, 4–5, 9, 16–17, 75, 80, 101, 114, 152, 198, 213, 221, 250, 292. See also specific tribe
Native Son, 258
NATO, 86
Nat Turner’s rebellion (1831), 121
Nauvoo (Illinois), 117
Nazis, 209, 261, 275, 284, 310
New Amsterdam, 33. See also
New York City New Deal, 288, 295, 319, 326
New Orleans, 40, 107, 148, 161, 187, 220, 362
New South, 166
New York City, 33, 96, 105, 140, 145, 180, 236, 277–78, 296, 320
New York Philharmonic, 329
New York State, 58, 276–77, 306
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), 33, 46
New York Yankees, 271
Niagara movement, 262
Night Hawks, 203
Nineteenth Amendment, 136, 241, 276, 305
Nixon, Richard M., 324, 330–31, 338, 341, 351, 358
Normandy, 275
North Carolina, 249
Northern Pacific Railroad, 221
Northwest Ordinance, 61
Notes of a Native Son, 307
NOW, 325
Noyes, John Humphrey, 89
Nuclear research and testing, 261, 292
Nutzhorn, Dorothea Margaretta. See Lange, Dorothea
NWSA, 241
Of Thee I Sing, 175
Ohio, 61
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 210
Oklahoma, 101
Old Man and the Sea, The, 209
O’Leary, Catherine (Mrs. Patrick), 173
Olmstead, Frederick Law, 145, 215
Omaha beach, 275
Oneida community, 89
O’Neill, Oona, 188
Organic architecture, 126
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 330
Otis, Elisha, 137
Otis Elevator Company, 137
Owen, Wilfred, 226
Pacific Fleet, 254
Palace of Versailles, 240
Palmerston, Lord, 204
Parks, Rosa, 318
Pearl Harbor attack (1941), 86, 247, 254, 261, 297
Pemberton, John S., 214
Penn, William, 31
Pennsylvania, 31, 67, 79, 170, 263, 276. See also Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad, 116
Pennsylvania Station, 140
Perry, Oliver Hazard, 107
Pershing, John, 233
Peters, John, 13
Philadelphia Story, The, 231, 245, 298
Philippines, 205–6, 212, 219, 268
Phillips, Sam, 322
Phonograph, 179
Pickett, George E., 170
“Pickett’s charge,” 170
Pierce, Franklin, 62, 129, 138
Pine Ridge standoff (1973), 250
Pinkerton Detective Agency, 186
Pitcairn, John, 37
Planned Parenthood Federation, 269
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 220, 227, 311
Plural marriage, 115
Poe, Edgar Allan, 48
Politics and leadership. See also specific names
Adams, Abigail Smith, 106
Adams, John, 85
Adams, John Quincy, 141
Addams, Jane, 260
Bradford, William, 15
Bryan, William Jennings, 232
Calhoun, John C., 162
Clay, Henry, 169
Confederate States of America, 190
Constitutional Convention, 71
Coolidge, Calvin, 274
Davis, Jefferson, 197
Debs, Eugene V., 239
Dunmore, Lord, 64
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 309
Federalist Papers, 127
Franklin, Benjamin, 36
George III, 57
Hamilton, Alexander, 120
Hancock, John, 50
Harding, Warren G., 267
Hayes, Rutherford B., 225
Henry, Patrick, 43
Hoover, Herbert, 281
Jackson, Andrew, 148
Jefferson, Thomas, 92
Johnson, Andrew, 211
Johnson, Lyndon B., 344
Kennedy, John F., 330
King, Martin Luther Jr., 337
Lincoln, Abraham, 183
Long, Huey, 295
Madison, James, 99
Marshall, John, 113
Mayflower Compact, 22
Monroe, James, 134
Nixon, Richard M., 351
Paine, Thomas, 29
Polk, James K., 155 presidency, first, 78
Reagan, Ronald, 365
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 288
Roosevelt, Theodore, 246
Seward, William, 204
Smith, John, 1
Truman, Harry S., 302
Wallace, George, 323
Warren, Earl, 316
Watergate scandal, 358
Webster, Daniel, 176
Wilson, Woodrow, 253
Winthrop, John, 8
Woodhull, Victoria, 218
Polygamy, 117
Ponce de Léon, Juan, 12
Poor Richard’s Almanac, 36
Porgy and Bess, 175
Portrait of a Lady, A, 125
Posters, propaganda, 203
Pound, Ezra, 195
Powell, Colin, 304
Power Broker, The, 320
Precaution, 34
Prescott, Samuel, 37
Prescott, William, 44
Presidency, first, 78
Presley, Elvis Aaron, 322, 343, 345
Progressive Era, 305
Project Y, 292
Protestantism, 87
“Protest literature,” 258
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The, 284
Provincetown (P-Town), 355
Publicola, Publius Valerius, 127
Pueblo civilization, 5
Pulitzer, Joseph, 270
Puritans, 2, 8, 10, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 35–36, 38
Puzo, Mario, 350
Pynchon, Thomas, 349
Quebec, 16
“Race” music, 322
Radcliffe College, 26
Ragtime music, 119
Railroads, 88, 103, 109, 116, 138, 144, 151, 165, 172, 191, 193–94, 221, 232
Rains, Claude, 259
Raisin in the Sun, A, 328
Ravelstein, 293
Reagan, Ronald, 297, 303, 337, 357, 365
Reaper, mechanical, 102
Rebecca, 280
Reconstruction, 185, 199, 225, 227
Red Badge of Courage, The, 132
Red Harvest, 230
Reform. See Rights and reform Religious revival, 38, 87
Religious Society of Friends, 24
Report on Manufacturing, 39
Republican Party, 151–52, 183–84, 211, 281, 351
Revolutionary War. See American Revolution
Rhapsody in Blue, 175
Rhode Island System, 32
Rights and reform
Amistad trial, 122
Anthony, Susan B., 241
Bill of Rights, 73
Brown v. Board of Education, 311
Chavez, Cesar, 346
Chinese Exclusion Act, 206
Civil Rights Act, 339
Declaration of Independence, 59
Dix, Dorothea, 129
Douglass, Frederick, 157 draft riots, 178
Du Bois, W. E. B., 234
Dyer, Mary, 24
Ellis Island, 255
Emancipation Proclamation, 171
First Great Awakening, 38
Friedan, Betty, 325
Garrison, William Lloyd, 108
Garvey, Marcus, 283
Hutchinson, Anne, 10
internment camps, 297
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 213
Jim Crow laws, 227
Know-Nothing Party, 164
Ku Klux Klan, 199 lynching, 248
Malcolm X, 332
Marshall, Thurgood, 353
military desegregation, 304
Montgomery bus boycott, 318
Mormons, 115
Niagara movement, 262
Nineteenth Amendment, 276
Penn, William, 31
Plessy v. Ferguson, 220
Reconstruction, 185
Sanger, Margaret, 269
Scottsboro Boys, 290
Second Great Awakening, 87
Seneca Falls Convention, 136
separation of church and state, 94
slavery and slave trade, 3, 52
Stonewall riot, 360
three-fifths compromise, 66
Trail of Tears, 101
Tubman, Harriet, 150
Underground Railroad, 143
Washington’s letter on toleration, 80
Williams, Roger, 17
Zenger trial, 45
Ringling Brothers, 123
Rockefeller, John D., 172, 200
Rockefeller, Nelson, 200
Rocky Mountains, 110, 144, 198, 221
Roebuck, Alvah, 242
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 288
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 248, 261, 281, 288, 295–97, 299, 302–3, 319, 326
Roosevelt, Theodore, 70, 98, 146, 172, 208, 235, 246, 264, 288
Roosevelt corollary, 264
Roots, 356
Ross, Araminta. See Tubman, Harriet Rough Riders, 246
Rural Free Delivery Act (1896), 242
Russia, 204, 296, 314, 341. See also Soviet Union
Ruth, George Herman “Babe,” 271
St. Augustine (Florida), 12
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 98
St. Lawrence Seaway, 334
Salt Lake City, 117
Sanctuary, 216
Sandburg, Carl, 103
San Francisco, 131, 206, 243, 285
Sanger, Margaret, 269
San Joaquin River valley, 346
Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 361
Scarlett Letter, The, 62
Schmeling, Max, 271
Scopes, John, 232
Scopes trial, 167
Scottsboro Boys, 290
Sea Around Us, The, 335
Sea chanteys, 42
Sears, Richard, 242
Sears, Roebuck, 242
Secession, 135. See also Civil War (1861–1865)
Second Great Awakening, 87, 89, 115
Segregation, 220, 227, 318, 337, 339
Seneca Falls Convention (1848), 136, 157, 276
Separate but equal doctrine, 311
Separation of church and state, 94
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 77, 299
Seven Years’ War (1754–1763), 16, 51
Seward, William, 204
“Seward’s folly,” 204
Sexuality, human, 286
Sharecropping, 228
Shays, Daniel, 79
Shays’s Rebellion (1786–1787), 79
Shearer, Harry, 364
Shepherd-Towner Act (1921), 305
Sherman, John, 235
Sherman, Roger, 71
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 166, 184, 191, 235
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), 200, 207, 235
Siegel, Bugsy, 313
Sierra Club, 252
Silent Spring, 335
Silver standard, 232
Simpsons, The, 364
Sinclair, Upton, 146
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing (1966), 199
Skyscrapers, 105
Slater, Samuel, 32
Slaughterhouses, 146
Slavery and slave trade, 3–4, 25, 41, 52, 66, 90, 108, 113, 121–22, 135, 141, 143, 150, 157, 162, 169, 171, 190, 192
Smart Set magazine, 167
Smith, Joseph, 115
Smithson, James, 124
Smithsonian Castle, 124
Smithsonian Institution, 124
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 196
Socialists, 239
Social Security, 319
Solanas, Valerie, 343
Sound and the Fury, The, 216
Sousa, John Philip, 91
South Carolina, 88
Southern Pacific Railroad, 138
South Korea, 317
South Vietnam, 331
Soviet Union, 309–10. See also
Russia Spanish-American War (1898), 205, 212, 246, 270
Sputnik (satellite), 309
Stamp Act, 85
Standard Oil Company, 172, 200
Stanford, Leland, 151
Stanford University, 151
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 136, 276
Starr, Ellen, 260
“Star-Spangled Banner, The,” 21
Statue of Liberty, 77
Steamboat Willie, 196
Steam trains, 88
Steel, 186
Steinbeck, John, 244
Stieglitz, Alfred, 210
Still, William, 143
Sting, The, 119
Stock bubble, 312
Stock market crash (1873), 165
Stock market crash (1929), 46, 281, 312
Stonewall riot (1969), 360
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 87, 90, 213
Stratton, Charles Sherwood, 123
Strauss, Joseph Baermann, 285
Streetcar Named Desire, A, 272, 287
Suburbs, 306
Subways, 236
Suffrage. See Voting rights
Sullivan, Louis, 105, 126, 173
Superdome, 362
Sutter, John, 109
Sweatshops, 277
Taft, William Howard, 219
Tammany Hall, 70
Tarbell, Ida, 200
Target with Four Faces, 315
Tariff, 74
Taxes, 18
Tea Act, 30
Technicolor film, 224
Telegraph, 95
Television (TV), 294, 330, 364
Tenant farmers, 228
Tenskwatawa (Shawnee Prophet), 114
Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, The, 6
Tenure of Office Act, 211
Terrorist attacks (2001), 77, 299
Texas, 128
Thanksgiving, first, 15
Their Eyes Were Watching God, 237
Thin Man, The, 230
Thirteenth Amendment, 185, 192
Thomas, Dylan, 336
Thompson, Florence Owens, 217
Thoreau, Henry David, 55, 62, 76, 128, 337–38
Three-fifths compromise, 66, 71
Thriller album, 357
Tibbets, Paul, 289
Tilden, Samuel, 225
Till, Emmett, 199
Timucua, 12
Tojo, Hideki, 254
Toleration, Washington’s letter on, 80
Tomlinson, Ray, 354
Tom Thumb (locomotive), 88
Topeka, 311
Townshend Act, 23
Tracey Ullman Show, 364
Tracy, Spencer, 231
Trail of Tears, 101
Trans-Alaska pipeline, 341
Transcentalist philosophy, 55
Transcontinental railroad, 144, 151, 221
Travis, Joseph, 121
Treaty of Ghent, 107
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 128
Treaty of Hartford, 2
Treaty of Versailles, 240
Treemonishia, 119
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 277
Triborough Bridge, 320
Trinity Church (Boston), 84
Truman, Harry S., 281–82, 289, 302, 304, 310, 317, 337
Trusts, 235
Turgenev, Ivan, 125
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 222
Turner, Nat, 121
Tuskegee Airmen, 304
Tweed, Boss, 70
Twenty Years at Hull House, 260
2001, 340
UN, 296
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 90, 135, 213, 258
Underground Railroad, 143, 150
Underground Rail Road, The, 143
Underground trains, 236
Union, 170, 177. See also Civil War (1861–1865)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). See Soviet Union
Union Pacific Railroad, 144
Unitarianism, 87
United Farm Workers of America, 346
United Kingdom, 261. See also World War I; World War II
United Nations (UN), 296
United Negro Improvement Association, 283, 332
United States Capitol building, 47, 54
United States Congress, 52, 61, 71, 74
United States v. Microsoft (2000), 235
University of Virginia, 14
US Navy, 93, 100, 205, 254, 264
U.S. Patent Office, 137
USS Arizona (ship), 254
USS Constitution (ship), 37, 100, 107
USS Maine (ship), 205
USSR. See Soviet Union US Supreme Court, 73, 101, 192, 235, 297. See also specific cases and justices
Utah beach, 275
Utopian communities, 89
V., 349
Valley Forge, 65
Van Buren, Martin, 81, 101, 122
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 116, 218
Vaux, Calvert, 145
Vermont, 72
Verrazano Narrows Bridge, 320
Vertical integration, 186
Vienna Stock Exchange, 165
Vietnam protest movement, 338
Vietnam War (1957–1975), 299, 310, 331, 338, 344
Villa, Pancho, 233
Vineland, 349
Virginia, 1, 4, 14, 121, 142, 190, 276
Von Steuben, Baron Friedrich, 51, 65
Voting rights, 129, 185, 192, 241, 276, 305, 339
Voting Rights Act (1965), 339, 344
Wainwright Building, 105
Walden, 76
Walker, Alice, 237
Wallace, George, 323
Wallace, Henry, 302
Wall Street, 33, 46, 120, 193, 312, 319
Wal-Mart, 242
Wampanoag, 9
War and peace
Arnold, Benedict, 72
atomic bomb, 289
Barbary pirates, 93
Bataan Death March, 268
Battle of Antietam, 163
Battle of Bull Run (1861), 142
Battle of Bunker Hill, 44
Battle of Gettysburg, 170
Battle of Saratoga, 58
Battles of Lexington and Concord, 37
Bay of Pigs, 324
Boston Massacre, 23
Boston Tea Party, 30
Civil War, 135
Cold War, 310
D-Day, 275
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry, 177
French and Indian War, 16
GI Bill, 303
Grant, Ulysses S., 184
Gulf War, 359
imperialism, 212
Indian Wars, 198
Iran hostage crisis, 352
isolationism, 86
Iwo Jima, 282
Jackson, Thomas, 156
King Philip’s War, 9
Korean War, 317
Lee, Robert E., 149
Mexican War, 128
military draft, 345
Pearl Harbor attack, 254
Pequot War, 2
Pershing, John, 233
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 191
Spanish-American War, 205
Tecumseh, 114
Turner, Nat, 121
United Nations, 296
USS Constitution, 100
Valley Forge, 65
Vietnam protest movement, 338
Vietnam War, 331
War of 1812, 107
War of the Philippine Insurrection, 219
Washington, George, 51
World War I, 226
World War II, 261
War Department, 177
War of 1812, 21, 99–100, 107, 114, 134
War of the Philippine Insurrection, 219
War of the Worlds, The, 266
“War on terror,” 297
Warren, Earl, 316
Warren, Robert Penn, 295
Washington, Booker T., 234, 262
Washington, DC, 47, 54, 299, 338
Washington, George, 29, 33, 51, 65, 78–80, 86
Waste Land, The, 174
Wealth of Nations, The, 18
Webster, Daniel, 162, 169, 176
Webster, Noah, 20
Welles, Orson, 266
Wells, H. G., 266
West, American, 201
West, Nathanael, 364
Westinghouse, George, 179
West Side Highway, 320
Wharton, Edith, 153
Wheatley, Phillis, 13
Whiskey Rebellion (1794), 79
White, E. B., 278
White Flag, 315
“White flight,” 306
Whitney, Eli, 25
Willamette Valley, 110
Williams, Tennessee, 40, 272, 287, 355
Williams, William Carlos, 195
Wilson, Woodrow, 167, 226, 232–33, 240, 253, 276, 288, 291
Wind Done Gone, The, 251
Winthrop, John, 8
Wisconsin, 61
Wofford, Chloe Anthony. See Morrison, Toni
Women’s rights, 129, 136, 157, 218, 241, 269, 276, 305, 325, 345
Woodward, Bob, 358
World’s Columbian Exposition (1893), 215
World Trade Center, 278
World War I (1914–1918), 86, 203, 226, 233, 240, 247, 253, 267, 304
World War II (1939–1945), 86, 240, 247, 254, 261, 268, 275, 282, 288, 292, 302–4, 309, 330
Wounded Knee massacre, 198, 250
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 126
Wright, Richard, 237, 258, 300
Wyoming, 276
Yale, 26
Yankee Stadium, 271
Yarborough, Ralph Webster, 339
“Yellow journalism,” 270
“Yellow peril,” 206
Yellowstone National Park, 208
Yoelson, Asa. See Jolson, Al Yosemite National Park, 208, 252
Zenger, John Peter, 45
Zenger trial, 45
Zimmerman, Robert Allen. See Dylan, Bob