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ABC list, 494
Abenakis, 57
abolitionists, 205, 252
constitutional convention damned by, 241
evolution and, 284
founders judged by, 201
Texas annexation opposed by, 238, 241–42
women as, 207, 228
abortion:
anti-abortion terrorism, 702
and anti-feminist women’s movement, 652–53
Betty Ford on, 654, 655
and evangelical churches, 664
history of, 649–50
and National Women’s Conference, 661, 662
and 1960s political consensus, 647, 649
and Nixon, 653–54, 658
and political polarization, 647, 658, 667–68, 676
and right to privacy, 650, 678, 685–86, 688
and Schlafly, 656
Supreme Court on, 647, 653–54, 655, 656, 678
abstinence, 197
Abu Ghraib, 748
Abzug, Bella, 652
academia:
hate speech codes, 703–4, 763
and identity politics, 703
and 1960s activism, 634–35
postmodernism, 636
and Vietnam War, 635–36
see also universities
academic freedom, 545, 553, 554–55, 557
Account of the Antiquities of the Indians, An (Pané), 5–7, 24
Acheson, Dean, 578–79
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), 415–16, 744
and right to privacy, 686
and women’s rights, 652
Act for the Better Ordering and Governing Negroes, An (South Carolina colony), 59
Act Prohibiting the Teaching of the Evolution Theory, 418
ACT UP, 686, 687
Adams, Abigail, 650
on women’s equality, 96–97
Adams, James Truslow, 441
Adams, John, 82, 84–85, 87, 88, 92, 93, 94, 96–97, 98, 101, 102, 103, 111–12, 113, 114, 129, 180, 185
Alien and Sedition Acts and, 158
death of, 185–86, 190, 199
in debate with Jefferson on Constitution, 153–54
on Declaration of Independence, 98
in election of 1796, 158
in election of 1800, 154, 160–62, 164
Haiti revolution and, 159
on lack of established religion, 200–201
majority rule feared by, 155
Marshall appointed chief justice by, 165, 167
vanity of, 98, 155, 158, 160
Adams, John Quincy, 164, 176, 185, 217, 288
acquisition of Texas opposed by, 223, 236
death of, 251
desire to negotiate Mexican border, 222
election of, 184
in election of 1824, 180–81
in election of 1828, 186
in election of 1836, 224
Monroe Doctrine crafted by, 234–35
Adams, Samuel, 81, 92, 165
Addams, Jane, 368, 377, 380, 387
Adding Machine, The (Rice), 404
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), 587
advertising, 448, 534, 560, 572–73
Advisory Committee on Post-War Foreign Policy, 492
AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children), 618–19, 671, 700
Affluent Society, The (Galbraith), 591, 611
Afghanistan, 738–40, 742, 746
Affordable Health Care Act (2010), 754–55
Africa, 456, 462
Portuguese exploration of, 11
slave trade in, 11–12, 17–18, 38, 46
African Americans, 530–32, 541, 542, 575–88, 767
Black Power movement, 625–26, 627, 628, 651, 673, 701
black studies, 634–35
and criminal justice policy, 623, 700
and presidential election (1968), 633
and presidential elections, 599
race riots, 623–24, 627–28
and southern strategy, 632
voting rights of, 163
see also civil rights movement; specific people
African Free School, 210
African Labor Supply Association, 281
African Methodist Episcopal Church, 202, 203
Agassiz, Louis, 256, 284
Age of Machinery, 198
Age of Reason, The (Paine), 142
Agnew, Spiro, 638, 639, 644
Agreement of the People, An (1647), 49
Agriculture Adjustment Act, 437, 438
agriculture companies, 336
Agriculture Department, U.S., 473–74
Aguinaldo, Emilio, 367–68
AIDS, 685, 687
Aid to Dependent Children, 439
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 618–19, 671, 700
Aiken, Howard, 523
Ailes, Roger, 704–5, 706, 707, 710–11, 716, 742
Alabama, 531
gun laws in, 445
income tax in, 301
Indians in, 213
movement to, 221
secession of, 290
slaves sold to, 202
as slave state, 179
Albany Congress (1754), 66, 70–71, 77, 91
Albany Journal, 269
Alcatraz occupation (1969–71), 634
Alexander, James, 61–62
Algonquians, 55–56
Ali, Muhammad, 629
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), 158–59, 164, 165, 395, 745
Allen, Paul, 695
Allport, Gordon W., 460
All Slave-Keepers That keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates (Lay), 74
Almonté, Juan, 233, 238
Alpine race, 392
al Qaeda, 722, 738–39, 746–47
Alta California, 243
Amazon, 735
America, first use of term, 3, 14
America Firsters, 481, 482
American Academies of Arts and Sciences, 155
American Anti-Slavery Society:
founding of, 206
Texas annexation opposed by, 223
American Association for Labor Legislation, 37
American Association for Public Opinion Research, 542
American Bankers’ League, 405, 504
American Bar Association, 359
American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, 213
American Civil Liberties Union, see ACLU American colonies, British:
British troops in, 84, 87
credit crisis in, 81–82
Elizabeth I’s desire for, 25, 26, 28
English king’s claim to dominion over, 34
ethos of, 44–45
European migration to, 44, 45
expansion of, 43–44
extent of, 33–34
growth of literacy in, 59
Indian attacks in, 55–57
individual liberties in, 33, 34
James I’s charter for, 32–33, 34–35
mortality rates in, 67
newspapers in, 59
popular sovereignty in, 50
racial dimension of slavery in, 69–70
religious and political freedom in, 49–53
religious revival in, 67–69, 68
in Seven Years’ war, see French and Indian War slavery in, 45–46, 48
Spanish conquest vs., 33
taxation of, 78, 81, 88–89, 91–92
see also specific colonies
American Colonization Society, 176, 177, 178–79, 204, 240
American Dilemma, An (Myrdal), 501
American Dream, 441
American Equal Rights Association, 328
American Eugenics Society, 410
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 537
American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 317
American Geographical Society, 396, 400
American Historical Association, 353
American history, 1960s challenges, 634–35
American Indian Movement (AIM), 634
American Institute of Public Opinion, 455
American Liberty League, 447
American Magazine, 77
American Medical Association (AMA), 438, 546–48, 560
American National Election Survey, 544
American National Exhibition (1959), 590–91
American Party, 263
American Philosophical Society, 67, 155
American Political Science Association, 545–46
American Revolution:
Caribbean and, 101–2, 103
Continental currency printed in, 334
expectation of British victory in, 100, 101
first fighting in, 92–93
France and, 101–2
global dimensions of, 100–101
institution of slavery challenged by, 105–6
Loyalists in, see Loyalists
Native Americans and, 102
peace negotiations in, 103, 103, 107
seeds of, 75, 92
slavery and, 93–95, 100, 108
southern theater in, 102–3
American Taxpayers’ Association, 504–5
American Taxpayers’ League, 405
American Voter, The, 593
American Women (Commission on the Status of Women), 647
Americas:
European extraction of wealth from, 17
European migration to, 16–17
European voyages to, 11
introduction of European animal and plants into, 18–19
native population of, 8–9
slavery in, 17
Spanish conquest of, see Spanish conquest
America’s Town Meeting of the Air, 459–60, 571
America We Deserve, The (Trump), 714
Ames, Fisher, 112
Analytical Engine (Babbage), 193–94
“Ancient & Modern Confederacies” (Madison), 117
Anderson, John, 221, 665, 705
Angelou, Maya, 660
Angola, 38
Annapolis Convention (1786), in call for constitutional convention, 117–18
Anschluss, 466
Anthony, Susan B., 358
citizenship of women desired by, 321
National Woman Suffrage Association founded by, 328
Thirteenth Amendment pushed by, 303
women’s suffrage desired by, 340
anthropology, 348
anticolonialism, 583
Anti-Drug Abuse Act (1986), 699
Anti-Federalists, 129–30, 129, 131, 137, 143, 145
anti-feminist women’s movement, 646, 652–53, 661–62
Antigua, 34
slave rebellion in, 57–58, 63
Anti-Imperialist League, 368
Anti-Mason Party, 218–19
antislavery movement:
in Britain, 107–8
in New England, 87, 88
antitrust act, 388
antiwar movement, see peace movement Apaches, 222
“Apology for Printers” (Franklin), 61
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to those of the United States of America (Walker), 203, 204–5, 218, 256
Apple Computer, 695, 733
Apprentice, The, 762
Arabs, 399
Arbenz Guzmán, Jacobo, 574
“Are Computers Newsworthy?” (Mauchly), 559
Arguing the Point (Tate), 152
Aristotle, 21, 47, 112, 155
Arizona, 260–61, 394, 494
creation of, 332
irrigated land in, 409
women’s voting rights in, 386
Arkansas, 281, 584–87
black voting in, 344
free blacks banned from, 280
movement to, 221
sharecroppers in, 439
Arkansas National Guard, 585
Armed Services Committee, 538
Armenians, 390, 399
arms control, 680, 681
arms race, 570, 586
Army-McCarthy hearings (1954), 567, 567
Arnold, Thurman, 462
ARPANET, 731
Arthur, John, 769
Articles of Confederation, 97–98, 114, 121, 128, 290
attempted revisions of, 115, 117
artifacts, 8
Art of the Deal, The (Trump), 713
Ashcroft, John, 744, 745, 747
Ashley, John, 113
Asia, 407
Associated Press, 490
Atlanta, Ga., 302, 581, 582
Atlanta Daily World, 581
Atlantic Charter, 482–83
Atlantic Monthly, 448
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 553
Atomic Age Conferences, 526
atomic bomb, 514, 515–16, 517, 521–23, 531, 532, 538–39, 571, 587
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), U.S., 545
atomic power, 526
atomization, 527
Augusta, 483
Aurora, 161–62
Auschwitz, 513
Australia, 342, 344, 456
Austria, 466–67, 471, 473
Austrian Empire, 426
Autobiography (Franklin), 211
automatic weapons, 445
automation, 558–59, 574–75
Axis, 466, 479
Aztecs, 8, 21
Cortés’s defeat of, 22–23
Babbage, Charles, 193–94, 523
Bacevich, Andrew J., 741–42
Bacon, Nathaniel, rebellion of, 56
Bagram Air Base, 748
Baker, Ella, 596–97
Baker, Ray Stannard, 349, 371
Baldwin, James, xix–xx, 497, 622, 623, 756
Ball, Charles, 202–3
“Ballot or the Bullet, The” (Malcolm X), 613
Baltimore, Md., 287, 303, 582
Baltimore Sun, 417
Bancroft, George, 10, 185, 198–99, 353–54
Bank Act, 239
bankers, 343
Bankhead-Jones Act, 442
banking, 334
Bank of the United States (first), 138–39, 141
bankruptcy laws, 141
bankruptcy protection, 226
banks, 231, 363, 364
closing in the Depression of, 436
failure in the Depression of, 425–26
regulation of, 388
Baptists, 50, 201, 568
Barbados, 34, 46, 47
slavery in, 73
slave rebellion in, 56, 63
Barber, Francis, 92
Barbour, James, 179
Barlow, John Perry, 731, 732, 733
Barlowe, Arthur, 30
Barnum’s Museum, 274
Baruch, Bernard, 538, 551
“Basic Problem of Democracy, The” (Lippmann), 309
Bates, Fred, 467
Baus and Ross, 572
Baxter, Leone, 448, 449, 450, 451–52, 456, 478, 532–34, 533, 546–48, 553–54, 560, 561, 572, 704
see also Campaigns, Inc.
Bay of Pigs, 604
BBC, 467
Beacon Hill, 202
Beals, Jesse Tarbox, 385
Beard, Charles, 427, 438, 441, 449
Beaton, Ark., 439–40
Beaufort, S.C., 298
Beck, Glenn, 755, 762
Beck, James Montgomery, 403, 404
Beecher, Catherine, 197, 207, 215, 252
Beecher, Lyman, 195, 197, 201, 204
anti-Catholic views of, 208
Beekman, Jane, 2
Belgium, 473
Bell, Daniel, 592, 593, 614
Bell, Derrick, 703
Benezet, Anthony, 76
Bennett, James Gordon, 211, 229
Benthan, Jeremy, 98
Berkeley, William, 56
Berlin Airlift (1948–49), 539
Bermuda, 34
Bernays, Edward, 413–14, 424, 456, 457
Berners-Lee, Tim, 731
Bethlehem, Pa., 366
Bethlehem Steel, 382, 412
Bett (Elizabeth Freeman), 113–14
Beveridge, Albert J., 368
Biddle, Nicholas, 220
Biden, Joe, 699
Bigelow, Jacob, 198, 203
Big Oil, 363
Bikini Atoll hydrogen bomb test (1946), 571
bill of rights, xii, 127, 129, 130
Bill of Rights, U.S., 48, 134
established religion forbidden by, 200
150th anniversary of, 490–91
ratification of, 135, 137–38
Biloxi, Miss., 578
bin Laden, Osama, 722, 725, 738–39, 765
birth control, 386, 394
see also contraception
birther movement, 727, 762–63
Bishop, Abraham, 143
Black, Hugo, 339, 552, 579
black churches, 202
black codes, 318, 320, 578
black colleges and schools, 576, 581
Black Lives Matter, 726, 767–68
Blackmun, Harry, 685, 687
Black Panthers, 627, 768
Black Power movement, 625–26, 627, 628, 651, 673, 701, 767
blacks, 409, 411
citizenship of, 314, 317, 321–22
and colonization issue, 204, 205
in Colored Farmers’ Alliance, 336
as cowboys, 334
in the Depression, 440
excluded from common schools, 210
excluded from New Deal, 440, 457–58
Grant supported by, 324
and populist movement, 343–44
Republicans supported by, 323, 386–87
voting rights of, 320, 326, 330, 353, 501
women, 190
in World War II, 496–503, 500, 508
see also Jim Crow
Bleecker, Leonard, 140
Bleeding Kansas, 266
Bletchley Park, 523–24
Blick, Roy, 550
Bloom, Allan, 703
Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 547
“blue discharge,” 530
Blumer, Herbert, 542–43, 544, 546
Board of Trade, Chicago, 275
Bob Jones College, 461
Bob Jones University, 663
Body of Liberties, 48
Bogart, Leo, 667
Bolshevists, 363
Bond, Julian, 597
Booth, John Wilkes, 285, 305
Border Patrol, U.S., 410
border states, 303, 304, 318
Bork, Robert, 644, 687–90, 692, 734
bosses, 195
Boston, Mass.:
British troops in, 87
free black community in, 202
Irish in, 209
newspapers in, 59–60
segregation in, 259
siege of, 92
top 1 percent in, 207
Boston Gazette, 82–83, 92
Boston Globe, 433
Boston Harbor, closing of, 89, 89
Boston News-Letter, 59
Boston Tea Party, 89
Botkin, Benjamin, 441
Boukman (Haitian slave), 143
Bowers v. Hardwick, 685, 686–87, 768
Bracero Program, 674
Braddock, Edward, 77–78
Bradford, William, 38–39, 90, 93
Brady, James, 672, 676
Brady, Mathew, 285, 286, 294
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 676
brainwashing, 565
Brand, Stewart, 694–95, 731
Brandeis, Louis, 381, 382, 384, 388–89, 578
Brazil, 281
Breckinridge, John, 288
Brennan, William J., 644, 650, 679
Bretton Woods, 483, 506
Brevísima Relación de la Destrucción de las Indias (Las Casas), 24
Brides, 528
Bright, Bill, 664
British Empire:
American Revolution and, 100–101, 107
credit crisis in, 82, 88
slavery abolished in, 235
broadcasting, 422
Brokaw, Tom, 737
Bromfield, Louis, 551–52
Brooke, Heather, 770
Brooks, Preston, 266–67
Brown, H. Rap, 627
Brown, John, 279–80, 280, 281, 282–85, 288
Brown, Linda, 577
Brown, Michael, 767
Brown, Oliver L., 577
Brown, Pat, 626
Brown v. Board of Education, 382, 577–82, 586, 588, 614, 663, 677, 678
Bryan, William Jennings, 345–46, 430, 563, 570, 693
desire to stay out of World War I, 393
in election of 1896, 350–52, 351, 366, 374–75
fundamentalism and, 354, 391, 418
imperialism protested by, 366, 368
income tax supported by, 347–48, 376
made secretary of state, 387–88
Rockefeller boycotted by, 373
in Scopes trial, 414–19
in Spanish-American War, 367
Bryant, Anita, 661
Buchanan, James, 290
and election of 1848, 253
in election of 1856, 267–68
Buchanan, Pat, 654, 685, 691, 740
Buchanan v. Warley, 369
Buchenwald, 511, 512, 513
Buckley, William F., 554–55, 670
buffalo, 333–34
“Building of the Ship, The” (Longfellow), 259–60, 271, 480
Bulgaria, 426
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 539, 587
Bunyan, John, 192
Burdick, Eugene, 598–99, 603
Bureau of Efficiency, 363
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 317, 319–20
Bureaus of Intelligence, 402
Burger, Warren, 679
Burgoyne, John, 101
Burke, Edmund, 110, 555, 735
Burnham, James, 504
Burr, Aaron, 163
in election of 1800, 164
Bush, George H. W., 740
and abortion, 665–66
and contraception, 650
and judiciary, 678
and presidential election (1988), 706
and presidential election (1992), 691, 706
and talk radio, 704
Bush, George W., 739, 741, 743
and judiciary, 678
9/11 attacks and, 721, 722
and presidential election (2000), 716–17
war on terror and, 738–40, 744–45
Bush, Jeb, 716, 772
Bush, Vannevar, 524, 525
business machines, 558–59
busing, 663
Butler, Andrew, 266
Butler, William, 254
Byrne, Ethel, 394
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 194
cable television, 666, 679, 705, 707–8, 710–11
and presidential election (2000), 716
Cabot, John, 25
Caesar (slave), 3, 64, 83, 131
Cahokia, 8
Calhoun, John C., 224, 238
annexation of Cuba desired by, 242
annexation of Texas desired by, 236
in election of 1824, 182
and Indian removal policies, 214, 217
as John Quincy Adams’s pallbearer, 251
on necessity of slavery, 218, 255
nullification pushed by, 217–18, 239
opposed to granting citizenship to Mexico, 244, 245
Calhoun, Patrick, 233
California, 243, 250, 260, 450–51, 494, 532–34, 533, 535, 546, 549, 561
Chinese immigrants in, 324, 325
irrigated land in, 409
universal health care in, 379–80
women’s voting rights in, 386
California Medical Association, 533–37, 546
California State of the State Address (1945), 533
California Street (San Francisco), 406
Callender, James, 162, 174–75
Cambridge Analytica, 728, 780
campaign biographies, Jackson’s introduction of, 181–82
campaign financing, 562
Campaigns, Inc., 448, 449–50, 532–34, 533, 546–48, 560, 572, 625, 633–34, 636, 648
Campus Crusade for Christ, 664
Canada, 69
Loyalists in, 104, 107
canals, 195, 221
Cantril, Hadley, 460
Cape Cod, Mass., 39
capital gains tax, 405
capitalism, 230, 315, 331, 332, 335–36, 343, 427, 535, 555
idea of progress and, 156
Capitalism and Freedom (Friedman), 670
Capitol News Bureau, 449
Caribbean, 108
American Revolution and, 101–2, 103
black mortality rate in, 102
British colonies in, 34
British troops in, 84, 87–88
colonists’ boycott of goods from, 85
Continental Congress’s ban on trade with, 91
mortality rates in, 67
slave rebellions in, 56, 57–58, 63, 84, 99
slavery in, 46, 64, 142
Stamp Act in, 84
sugar plantations in, 45, 46, 47, 82, 102, 142
Carlyle, Thomas, 198, 203
Carmichael, Stokely, 621, 625–27, 629, 630, 651
Carnegie, Andrew, 336, 368
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 540
Carolina colony, Locke as secretary of, 52
Carolina Gazette, 160–61
Carson, Rachel, 680
Carter, Harlon Bronson, 675–76
Carter, Jimmy:
and arms control, 680
and Iranian hostage crisis, 680
and 1970s economic malaise, 656–57
and presidential election (1976), 659, 705
and presidential election (1980), 668, 696
and tax policy, 669
Carter, Rosalynn, 660
Cass, Lewis, 250, 253, 253
Castille, Philando, 767–68
Castro, Fidel, 604
Catholic Church, and abortion, 650, 653–54, 664
Catholicism, 26
Catholics, 50, 263, 410
immigrants, 208–9
Muslim wars with, 36
in riots, 209
rumors of plots by, 208–9
Cato’s Letters (Trenchard and Gordon), 60, 61, 63
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 431
caucuses, opposition to, 182
“Causes and Proposed Remedies of Poverty, The,” 366
Cayton, Horace, 502
CBS, 422, 467, 469–71, 491, 511, 557–59, 563–65, 564, 566
censure, 568
census, 125, 168
of 1790, 157
Census Bureau, U.S., 355, 558
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 538, 574
and Cold War, 639
Challenge to Liberty, The (Hoover), 506
Chamberlain, Neville, 467, 468
Chambers, Julius, 349
Chambers, Whittaker, 509, 540–41, 548–49, 555, 572
Changing Sources of Power (Dutton), 696
Chardon High School, 763
charitable aid societies, 207
Charles I, king of England, 44, 48
divine right of kings claimed by, 43
execution of, 49
Charles II, king of England, 50–51, 51
Charleston, S.C., 86, 102, 104, 105, 203, 204, 287
AME church in, 202, 203 Charleston Courier, 240
Charter of Liberties, English, 40–41
Chase, Salmon, 256–57
Emancipation Proclamation amended by, 298
Chase, Samuel, 115
Chavez, Cesar, 675
Cheever, John, 441
Cheney, Dick, 745
Chennault, Anna, 632
Cherokee Nation, 213–16, 218
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 215
Cherokees, 212–13, 213, 214–16, 337
Chicago, Ill., 287, 333, 334, 371
transcontinental railroad through, 262
Chicago, University of, 354, 763
Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, 460
Chicago Record-Herald, 453
Chicago Tribune, 349, 488, 542, 563
Chicago World’s Fair, 353–57
Chicano movement, 634, 634, 635, 660, 675
Chickasaw Bayou, 297
Chickasaws, 181, 212–13
child labor, 388
Children in Bondage (Creel), 395
Chile, 260
China, 260, 482, 539, 560
and creation of United Nations, 492
in United Nations, 503
U.S. food sent to, 486
China, ancient, 11, 12
Chinese, 399
Chinese Americans, 326–27
Chinese Exclusion Act, 325, 336, 359, 407, 409
Chinese immigrants, 281, 324–25, 325, 326–27, 342, 409
Knights of Labor’s opposition to, 336
Chisholm, Shirley, 652
Chocktaws, 181, 212–13
Chomsky, Noam, 635
Christensen, Clayton M., 736
Christian Coalition, 685, 712
Christianity, 190–91, 568–69, 584
Christy, David, 281–82
Chrysler, Walter, 383
Churchill, Winston, 468, 477, 478, 479, 480–81, 508, 536
Atlantic Charter negotiated by, 483
and creation of United Nations, 491–92
Hitler’s underestimation of, 485
Lend-Lease praised by, 481
and Pearl Harbor attack, 484
at Tehran Conference, 502–3
at Yalta Conference, 508–10, 509
church membership, 200
Church of England, 43
dissenters from, 38
Cincinnati Enquirer, 453
Cincinnati Gazette, 267
Citizen Kane (film), 449
citizenship, 311–16, 528, 575
of black people, 314, 317, 321–22
defined by Civil Rights Act, 319
defined by Fourteenth Amendment, 321–22
Douglass on, 327
of women, 314, 315, 321–22
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 760, 763
Civilian Conservation Corps, 504
Civil Rights Act (1866), 319–20
Civil Rights Act (1957), 585–86
Civil Rights Act (1964), 322, 612–13
Civil Rights Commission, U.S., 586
civil rights movement, 530–32, 541, 573, 575–88, 595–97
and Black Power movement, 627
Civil Rights Act (1964), 612–13
FBI surveillance, 626
Freedom Riders, 604–6
and George Wallace, 608, 613–14
Greensboro sit-in (1960), 595–96, 595
and Johnson administration, 611, 612–13, 614, 622
and Kennedy administration, 608–9
King arrest (1960), 600–601
and Malcolm X, 606–7, 613, 621–22
March on Washington (1963), 609–10, 613
and political polarization, 637
and presidential election (1960), 599, 600–601
and presidential election (1964), 613–14
Selma march (1965), 621–22
voter registration, 620–21
and White Power movement, 673–74
Civil War, U.S.:
black men in, 300
casualties of, 272, 293–94, 294, 390
draft riots in, 300
emancipation in, 296–97
federal government expanded by, 301, 316–17, 337–38
Lincoln’s claims to war powers in, 487
photography from, 272, 274, 294, 294, 295
slavery as cause of, 296, 389
start of, 292, 293
Clark, Ramsey, 633
Clark, Tom C., 579
Clark, Victor S., 409
Clarke, George, 63
“classical liberalism,” 555
Clay, Henry, 176, 178, 179, 184, 253
American Colonization Society founded by, 204
annexation of Texas opposed by, 236, 238
Compromise of 1850 of, 260–61
in election of 1824, 182
in election of 1832, 219, 220
in election of 1844, 237–38
in election of 1848, 254
Clean Air Act, 681
Clean Water Act, 681
Cleveland, Ohio, 371
climate change:
and conservatism, 690
and science, 680–81, 682–83
Clinton, Bill, 732, 741
background of, 696–97
and criminal justice policy, 699–700
and Democratic Party, 696
economic policy, 699, 700
ethics investigations, 697–98, 709–13, 714, 718
and health care, 698–99
marriage of, 692–93
and media, 707, 708
and presidential election (1992), 648, 693, 697, 698, 706
and social issues, 648
and welfare, 700
and women’s rights, 691–92
Clinton, Henry, 102
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 601, 725, 728, 753, 754–55, 765, 767
background of, 692–93
and ethics investigations, 710
and health care, 698, 699
and presidential election (1992), 693
and presidential election (2016), 692
right-wing attacks on, 709
and women’s rights, 691–92
Closing of the American Mind, The (Bloom), 703
CNN, 707, 716–17, 719, 721
Coast Guard, 363
Cobb, Thomas R. R., 292
code breaking, 523
Coercive Acts (1774), 89, 89, 90, 91
Cohn, Roy, 567
Coit v. Green, 662–63
Coke, Edward, 34–35
divine right of kings challenged by, 40, 41, 43
Colbert, Stephen, 744
Cold War, 525, 535–38, 553, 568, 570, 573, 578, 581, 584, 586–87
and academia, 635
Bay of Pigs, 604
Cuban Missile Crisis, 604
end of, 683–84, 690, 690
and Kennedy administration, 602
and knowledge workers, 693–94
and Nixon-Khrushchev meeting (1959), 589–91
and political polarization, 639
and Reagan, 627
and school desegregation, 663
and women’s rights, 658
Colfax, Schuyler, 301
collectivism, 555
Collingwood, Charles, 563–64
colonialism, and Vietnam War, 602, 603
Colonial Revival, 407, 411
colonization movement, 176, 177, 178
Colonization Society, 201
Colorado, 325
women’s voting rights in, 386
Colored Farmers’ Alliance, 336
Colored Orphan Asylum, 300
Colored People’s Day, 356
Columbian Almanack, xviii
Columbian Exposition, 353–57
Columbian Orator, 276
Columbia University, 348, 562
Columbus, Christopher, xviii, 17, 18, 337
diary of, 3–4, 12, 23–24
in 1492 arrival at Haiti, 3–4
second voyage of, 5, 18
sketch map of Haiti by, 4
Spanish sponsorship of, 12
western voyage proposed by, 12
Columbus, Ferdinand, 5, 16
Comey, James, 761
Commission on National Goals, 594–95, 597
Commission on the Status of Women, 647
Committee for Constitutional Government, 504–5
Committee on Political Parties, 545–46
Committee on Social Insurance, 379
Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP), 641
common schools, 209–10
Common Sense (Paine), xvii, 95–96, 130
communism, 482, 527, 534–41, 548–57, 565–68, 571, 581
Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels), 254
Communist Party USA (CPUSA), 552
Company of Royal Adventures of England Trading with Africa, 46
compassionate conservatism, 716
Compromise of 1850, 260–61
computers, 193–94, 521, 523–27, 524, 544, 557–59, 563–65, 573, 574–75, 587, 667, 694–95
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, 404
Comrie, L. J., 523
Comstock, Anthony, 652–53
concealed weapons, 446
Confederate States of America:
draft in, 300–301
formation of, 289–90
Hitler’s admiration for, 476
pardoning of leaders of, 318
taxes in, 300, 301
welfare in, 302–3
women in, 301–3, 302
Congregationalists, 201
Congress, U.S., 525, 529, 531, 535, 538, 541, 542, 546, 547, 548, 549, 566, 568, 569, 569, 572, 579, 582, 584, 585–86
Dickens’s criticism of, 243–44
inventory of manufacturing instituted by, 172
national bank charter renewed by, 234
slave trade abolished by, 172
war declared on Spain by, 366–67
Congress, U.S., First, 131–34
antislavery petitions and, 135, 136–37
Bill of Rights and, 134
debt assumption plan passed by, 140
and founding of Washington, DC, 139–40
Hamilton’s bank plan passed by, 138–39
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), 699
Congressional Government (Wilson), 373, 388
Congressional Record, 132, 408
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 537
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 604–5, 606, 607
Conkling, Roscoe, 329, 338
Connecticut, 654
suffrage sold in, 342
Connecticut Bee, 145
Connecticut colony, 44
Connecticut compromise, 125
Connor, Eugene “Bull,” 605
Conscience of a Conservative, The (Goldwater), 614
conscription of thought, 395–96
conservatism, 332, 364, 529, 552–57, 556, 560–63, 568, 570, 573, 579–80, 581
and Constitution, 677–79
and George W. Bush administration, 716
and gun control debate, 672–74, 675–78, 679
and health care, 698–99
and inflation, 629
New Deal vs., 444–45, 446–47
and 1960s political consensus, 592
and Nixon administration, 638
and political polarization, 711
and polling industry, 667
and presidential election (1964), 613–15
and race, 662–63
and race riots (1960s), 623
and Reagan, 624–25, 627
Republican Party takeover of, 658–59, 664–68
and science, 682–83
and technology, 666
Weyrich on failure of, 712
see also culture wars; political polarization
Conservative Mind, The (Kirk), 555
Constitution, Confederate, 290
Constitution, U.S., xi, 52, 287, 543, 552, 573, 575, 579, 582, 583, 728
Article I of, 139, 157
Article VI of, 138
bill of rights as originally lacking in, 127, 129, 130
commerce clause of, 462
and conservatism, 677–79, 684, 685, 686–87
and establishment of Cherokee Nation, 215
evolution and, 373
fundamentalist view of, 403, 404
God absent from, 200
New Deal and debate over, 462–66
originalism, 677, 678–79, 684, 685, 687–88
and payment of congressmen, 122
preamble to, xi–xii
property requirements for federal office holders rejected by, 122
publication of, 109, 128
ratification debate over, 128–31, 166
ratification of, xii–xiv
repeal of ratification by seceding states, 289–90, 289
rival interpretations of, 411–12
signing of, 128
slavery and, 127
slavery in, 191, 241, 256–57, 261–62, 268
slave trade and, 136
and state sovereignty, 217–18
three-fifths clause in, 130, 157, 173, 175
treated as scripture, 201
voting rights and, 122
and white supremacy, 701
and women’s rights, 650, 653, 691
see also Bill of Rights, U.S.; specific amendments constitutional convention (1787), xi, 109–10, 119–28
adjournment of, 128
apportionment issue at, 123, 125
conflicts between states as issue at, 121
Connecticut compromise at, 125
debate at, 275
debt and taxation as issue at, 121
free speech discussed at, 291
Madison’s notes on, 110, 111, 118, 149, 240–41, 256–57
Northwest Ordinance enacted by, 124–25
representation as issue at, 121–22, 123, 124–25
secrecy pledge at, 121
slavery as issue at, 123–27
slave trade as issue at, 125–26
three-fifths rule adopted by, 125
Virginia Plan and, 120
Constitutional Courant, 83
constitutional crisis of 1840s and 1850s, 238–41
“Constitution for the New Deal,” 466
Constitution of the Air, 422–23
constitutions, 112, 240
English, 110
constitutions, state, 111–13
branches of government in, 113
Declarations of Rights in, 112, 113, 114
slavery and, 113–14
voting rights in, 112–13
constitutions, use of term, 110
consumers, 380–81
consumer spending, 528, 558
Continental army, 93
Continental Congress, 92, 93, 97–98, 128
Articles of Confederation enacted by, 114
boycott of British goods by, 91
and calculation of states’ share of taxes, 115–16
Caribbean trade banned by, 91
and foreign demands for repayment of debts, 114, 116
paper money issued by, 115, 116
and question of representation, 90–91
taxing authority lacked by, 114–15
Continental currency, 334
contraception, 386, 394
history of, 649
1970s activism, 647
and right to privacy, 650, 678, 685–86, 688
Supreme Court on, 649, 650, 653, 678
see also birth control
contract, liberty of, 378
Converse, Philip, 593
Cooke, Henry, 335
Cooke, Jay, 335
Coolidge, Calvin:
efficiency of taxation by, 405
propaganda used by, 414
Cooper, James Fenimore, 212
Cooper Union, 285
Copley, John Singleton, 72
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), 604–5, 606, 607
Cornwallis, Lord, surrender of, 103, 104
Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 23
corporations, 330, 333, 336–37
as people, 339, 348
people vs., 348
taxing of, 336
“corrupt bargain” (1828), 236
corruption, 708
Cortés, Hernán, 21, 22–23
Corwin, Norman, 491
Cosby, William, 61, 62–63
Cosmos (TV show), 681
cotton, 203
doubling of production of, 202
export of, 217
Cotton Belt, 438
cotton gin, 172
Cotton Is King (Christy), 281
Coughlin, Charles, 461, 476, 479
Coulter, Ann, 722–23, 727
Council on Foreign Relations, 474
counting and measuring, see quantification Country Party (New York), 62, 63
Court Party (New York), 62
courts, see judiciary; Supreme Court
cowboys, 334
Cox, Archibald, 643–44
Cox, James, 403
Coxe, Tench, 172
Creeks, 212
Creek War, 213, 214
Creel, George, 395, 396, 414, 488, 496
“Crime Against Kansas, The” (Sumner), 266
Crimean War, 301
criminal justice policy:
and Clinton administration, 699–700
and gun control debate, 673
and Johnson administration, 622–23
mass incarceration, 699–700
NFL kneeling protests, 628
and presidential election (1968), 632–33
Crisis, 371, 396, 497
Crisp, Mary, 665
critical race theory, 703
Cronkite, Walter, 561, 563–64, 563, 565, 643, 706–7, 743
“cross-of-gold” speech, 570
CRP (Committee to Re-elect the President), 641
Crusade for Justice, 634
Cruz, Ted, 774
Cuba, 370, 374
filibusters in, 281
missionaries in, 366
Polk’s desire to annex, 242
Cuban Missile Crisis, 604
Cudjoe, 58
Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah, 136
Culpeper, Va., 297
culture wars, 647–48, 676
and anti-feminist women’s movement, 646, 652–53, 661–62
and conservative Republican Party takeover, 658–59, 664–68
and Constitution, 653–54, 677–79
end of, 712–13
and evangelical churches, 662–64
and immigration, 674, 675
and National Women’s Conference, 661–62
and 1960s political consensus, 649–51, 672–73
and 1970s economic malaise, 658
and Schlafly, 655–56, 658–59, 661, 662, 664
and White Power movement, 673–74
and women’s rights activism, 646–47, 651–52, 654–55
Cushing, Caleb, 288
Czechoslovakia, 400, 467–68, 473, 475
Dachau, 513
Daguerre, Louis, 272–73
daguerreotype, 272–74
Dakota Sioux, 333
Daley, Richard, 633
dams, 442
Darkest Africa (Stanley), 750–51
Darrow, Clarence, 365, 420
Prohibition opposed by, 398
at Scopes trial, 416–19
Darwin, Charles, 8, 284, 417, 419
data processing, 557–59
data science, 597–99, 603–4, 635
Davenport, Charles, 392
Davis, Elmer, 491
Davis, Garrett, 326
Davis, Jeff, 365
Davis, Jefferson:
inauguration of, 290
made president of Confederacy, 289–90
slavery defended by, 293
slaves of, 296–97
Davis, John W., 411, 577–78, 579
Davis, Reuben, 285
Davis’s Hotel (Washington), 176
Dawes, Henry Laurens, 337
Dawes Severalty Act, 337
D-Day, 505–6, 586
Dead of Antietam, The (exhibit), 294
Dean, Howard, 737
Dean, John, 633
debate, 275–76, 459–60
DeBow, James D. B., 292
Debs, Eugene, 352, 384, 385, 395–96, 416–17, 757–58
debt, national, Hamilton’s plan for repayment of, 138–40
debt, as slavery, 81, 82, 83
debtors’ prison, 141, 226
Declaration of Independence, xiv–xv, xvii, 75, 98–99, 112, 128, 154, 165, 227, 257–58, 280, 287, 728
and black Americans, 203–4
centennial of, 329
considered scripture, 202
criticism of, 256
fiftieth anniversary celebration of, 185
fiftieth anniversary of, 189–90, 199
Garrison’s praise of, 206
Jefferson’s draft of, 99
slavery ignored by, 99
Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, 733
Declaration of Liberty by the Representatives of the Slave Population of the United States of America, 283
Declarations of Rights, 112, 113, 114
Defense Department, U.S., 538, 545
Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States (Adams), 155
defense spending, see military spending Degler, Carl, xviii
Delaware, 578
DeLay, Tom, 748
“Demands of the Vietnamese People, The,” 399
de Mier y Terán, Manuel, 222
democracy, xviii
doubts in the Depression about, 426
measurement of public opinion and, 452–57
Nazism vs., 434
negative connotation of term, 112, 121
peace and, 395
public relations and, 402
republicanism vs., 181
spread of, 191, 192
and television, 592
World War II fought for, 492
Democratic Leadership Council, 696
Democratic National Committee (DNC), 431, 432, 454, 456–57, 557
Democratic Party, U.S., 264, 282, 331
and Civil Rights Act, 613–14
congressional majority of, 537, 549, 552–53, 567–68
conservative opposition to, 556, 557, 563
1832 convention of, 219
1860 conventions of, 287
1864 convention of, 303
1876 convention of, 345
1880 convention of, 340
1896 convention of, 350–52, 351
1912 convention of, 543
in election of 1836, 224
in election of 1840, 227, 228
and gender gap, 668
Irish in, 209
and labor unions, 693, 696
and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 621
1924 convention of, 410–11
1928 convention of, 428
1932 convention of, 429–30
People’s Party fused into, 346–47, 350
popular support for, 541–46, 560, 563, 564, 571, 572–73, 586
Populists folded into, 364–65
presidential election (1960), 597
presidential election (1964), 621
presidential election (1968), 633
rearrangement of, 431
rise of, 211
and southern strategy, 632, 636, 656, 667
southern white support for, 323
and technology, 693–96
Truman as leader of, 531, 541–46, 552 2004
convention of, 253
women’s rights supported by, 529
Democratic Party (Jacksonian), 186
Democratic-Republican Party, see Republicans (Jeffersonian)
Democratic Review, 243
demography, 157
denationalization, 526
Denmark, 473
Dennis v. United States, 552
deregulation, 671–72, 705–6
desegregation, racial, 530–31, 541, 575–88, 585, 663
Desk Set (film),574–75
Detroit, Mich., 383, 499, 500
Great Migration to, 371
Dewey, John, 395
Dewey, Thomas E., 541–46, 555–56, 563
Dias, Bartolomeu, 12, 17
Dickens, Charles, 234, 243–44
Dickinson, Anna, 264
Dickinson, John, 97, 127
Dies, Martin, Jr., 443–44, 498–99, 504
Difference Engine (Babbage), 193, 523
differential analyzer, 524
Diggers, 50
digital electronic computers, 524
direct mail, 666, 679
diseases, European, catastrophic effect on Native Americans of, 19–20
Disney, Walt, 528–29
Disneyland, 528–29, 566
disruption, economic, 735–36
District of Columbia v. Heller, 763–64
Divide and Conquer (MacLeish), 489
divine right of kings, 48, 54
Dixiecrats, 541
Dixon, Frank M., 541
Dodge City, Kans., 445
“Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?” (Du Bois), 581
Dole, Bob, 734–35
domestic economy, 197
Donnelly, Ignatius, 346
Doomsday Clock, 539, 587
Dougherty, John, 222
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 549
Douglas, Stephen:
Compromise of 1850
of, 260–61
in election of 1858, 265, 275, 276–79
in election of 1860, 288
and identity politics, 701
Kansas-Nebraska Act proposed by, 262
Lincoln’s criticism of, 285
Lincoln’s debates with, 275, 276–79, 286
Douglas, William O., 579, 584, 644, 650
Douglass, Frederick, 247–49, 248, 374, 417, 583, 767
black men urged to join Union army by, 300
Brown’s meeting with, 282, 283, 284
on citizenship rights, 327
Civil Rights Act pushed by, 319–20
on Columbian Exposition, 356–57
on constitutionality of slavery, 261–62
debate studied by, 276
Dred Scott decision denounced by, 270, 271
on Emancipation Proclamation, 297–98
escape from slavery, 314
Jim Crow’s rise explained by, 353, 355–56, 358
Lincoln’s study of, 264–65
on photography, 248, 273–74, 460
on separate creation of races, 256
worries about Reconstruction, 329
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 424
Downey, Sheridan, 449, 450, 549
draft riots, 300
Drake, Francis, 29
Dreams from My Father (Obama), 750
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 268–70, 291, 314, 360, 464, 727, 757
Dreher, Rod, 769, 778
Dresser, Robert B., 504–5
drought, in the Depression, 426, 439–40
Drudge, Matt, 710
Drudge Report, 763
drug laws, 376
drug policy, 699, 700
D’Souza, Dinesh, 727
Duane, William, 161–62
Du Bois, W. E. B., 296, 360, 369–70, 371, 396, 411, 496, 581
at Paris Peace Conference, 399
Duer, William, 140–41, 335
Dukakis, Michael, 694, 706
Duke Law School, 534
Dulles, John Foster, 574
Dunham, Stanley, 750–51
Dunham, Stanley Ann, 751
Dunmore, Lord, 93, 94–95
Du Pont, 448
du Pont, Irénée, 445, 446
du Pont, Lammont, 445, 446, 447
du Pont, Pierre, 445, 446
Durand, John, 2
Dutton, Frederick, 696
Dwight, Timothy, 159
Dyson, Esther, 732
“Earl Warren Special,” 561
Earp, Wyatt, 445
earth, geological history of, 7
East Asia Tin Works, 521–22
East India Company, 82, 88–89
Eastland, James, 582
Eaton, John, 181–82
Eckert, Presper, 524, 526–27, 558
Eckford, Elizabeth, 585, 585
Economic Consequences of the Peace, The (Keynes), 400
economic inequality:
and end of Cold War, 684
and Internet, 657–58
and Kennedy administration, 611–12
late 1960s increase in, 594
and 1970s economic malaise, 657, 658 1990s increase in, 702
see also poverty
Economic Opportunity Act (1964), 612
economic policy:
Clinton administration, 699, 700
deregulation, 671–72, 705–6
Keynesian, 592, 619, 657, 670
NAFTA, 699
Reagan administration, 669–72, 705–6
supply-side economics, 670, 671
economics, 348
economic situation:
early 1960s affluence, 591–92
late 1960s inflation, 629
1970s malaise, 656–57
1990s improvement, 714
and Reagan administration, 683
Edes, Benjamin, 92–93
Edison, Thomas, 424
Edison Institute, 424
Editors’ Research Bureau, 455
Edmunds, George F., 327
education, 527–30, 545, 553, 554–55, 557, 576, 579
of women, 386
Edward, Harry, 628
efficiency, 382
“eggheads,” 551–52, 561
Egyptians, 399
Ehrlichman, John, 638, 640
eight-hour workday, 346, 377, 388
Einstein, Albert, 474, 475, 526
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 741
and abortion, 649
and Cold War, 602
Commission on National Goals, 594–95, 597
conservative support for, 570, 579–80, 581
D-Day overseen by, 505
McCarthy as viewed by, 566, 568
and nuclear weapons, 680
Ohrduf visited by, 512, 513, 513
presidential campaign of (1952), 559–60, 562, 565
presidential campaign of (1956), 571–72
and presidential election (1960), 599, 602
racial policies of, 582, 584, 585–86
recording system, 640
religious affiliation of, 569
scientific research supported by, 587
“Eisenhower Answers America,” 560 Eisenstadt v. Baird, 650
Election Day, 342
election forecasts, 557–59, 563–65, 564
elections, California, 1934, 450–51
elections, direct, 156
elections, Illinois, 1858, 265
elections, indirect, 156–57
elections, U.S., 156–58
of 1789, 133
of 1796, 154, 158
of 1800, 154–55, 159–64, 160
of 1824, 180–85
of 1828, 185, 186
of 1832, 218–19
of 1836, 224–25
of 1840, 226–29, 257
of 1844, 236–38, 243, 257
of 1848, 253–54, 256–57
of 1856, 267
of 1860, 285, 286, 287–88
of 1864, 303
of 1866, 323
of 1868, 324
of 1876, 329–30
of 1896, 350–53, 351, 362, 366
of 1908, 376, 384
of 1912, 385–87, 543
of 1916, 393
of 1920, 403, 428
of 1928, 421–22, 423
of 1930, 427
of 1932, 429–31, 454, 536
of 1933, 549
of 1936, 447, 462, 503, 535
of 1938, 503
of 1940, 478
of 1942, 503
of 1944, 531, 542, 564
of 1946, 534–37, 549
of 1948, 541–46, 555–56, 559–60, 563, 564
of 1952, 552, 557–59, 561–65, 564, 570
of 1954, 567
of 1956, 570–73
“party tickets” in, 184, 186
Electoral College, 218, 573
in 1824 election, 184
in election of 1800, 154, 164
election of delegates to, 158, 163–64, 183, 186
three-fifths rule and, 157–58, 164
electrification, 404–5
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 732, 744
Elektro the Moto-Man, 526, 558
“Elements of Technology, The” (Bigelow) 198
Elizabeth I, queen of England, 25–26, 26, 27
Ellis, John, 716
Ellison, Ralph, 441
Ellsberg, Daniel, 640–41, 644
Ellsworth, Oliver, 122, 126
El Salvador, 281
emancipation:
implications for citizenship of, 311–12
see also slaver
Emancipation Day, 311
Emancipation Proclamation, 297–300, 303, 329
Emanuel, Rahm, 708
Embargo Act (1807), 171–72
Emergency Banking Act (1933), 437
Emerging Republican Majority, The (Phillips), 636
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 229, 230, 247, 252
Emery, Sarah E. V., 340, 346
Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California (Hastings), 242
empiricism, 349
End of Ideology, The (Bell), 592
End Poverty in California (EPIC), 450
Engels, Friedrich, 380
England, see Great Britain
England, Jake, 765
English Civil War, 48
English common law, 35, 47
Glanville on, 40
slavery and, 88
English North America, racism in, 23
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), 520, 523–27, 558
Enigma machine, 524
Enlightenment, 256
environmental movement, 681
Environmental Protection Agency, 681
Ephron, Henry, 574
Ephron, Phoebe, 574
EPIC campaign, 535, 549
Epic of America, The (Adams), 441
Episcopalians, 201
equality, 205–6, 360
criticism of, 256
and Dred Scott decision, 270
as moral idea, xv
political, see political equality
U.S. democracy’s reliance on, 341–42
equal pay, 581
Equal Pay Act, 659
equal protection of the law, 580
Equal Rights Amendment, see ERA
Equal Rights Leagues, 318
Equal Rights Party, 328, 340
Equal Rights Association, 402
ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), 402, 403, 529
Betty Ford on, 655
and conservative Republican Party takeover, 659, 664, 665, 668
and liberal feminism, 652
and NOW, 647
and right to privacy, 686
and Schlafly, 656, 658
Erie Canal, 195
espionage, 539, 540–41, 548–49
Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females, An (Beecher), 207
Essay on the Principle of Population (Malthus), 157, 171
estate tax, 405
ethics investigations, 708–13, 714
“Ethics of Family Planning, The,” 649
Ethiopia, 427
Etymologiae (Isidore of Seville), 14
eugenics, 391–92, 394, 410 Eugenics (Davenport), 392
Europe:
American voyages of, 11
before 1492, 9
extraction of wealth from Americas by, 17
Europe, Western, 537–38, 539
evangelical Christianity, 568–69, 584
and AIDS crisis, 685
Christian origin of U.S. claimed by, 201
and culture wars, 662–64
spread of, 199
see also Second Great Awakening
Evans, Walker, 441
Everett, Edward, 216, 220, 295
evidence:
in determinate of truth, 41–42
historical, xvii–xviii, 4
scientific, xvii
truth and, 61
evolution, 284, 348, 354, 390, 391
applied to Constitution, 373
in Scopes trial, 414–19
excess profits tax, 405
executive branch, FDR’s reorganization of, 466
Executive Order 8802, 498
Facebook, 736
fact-checking, 412–13
factions, 129
Madison on, 144
factories, 191, 193, 194–95, 202, 426
Fail-Safe (Burdick and Wheeler), 598
“Failure of Free Society, The,” debate, 276
Fair Deal, 532
Fairness Doctrine, 561, 682, 704
faith, history vs., xvi–xvii, xix
Falwell, Jerry, 663–64, 723
family, 196–97, 529, 557
Family Assistance Plan, 638–39
Far East, 456
farm cooperatives, 336
Farmer, James, 607
farmers, 343
declining number of, 375
in the Depression, 425, 426, 437–38
federal aid to, 388
in World War II, 486
Farmers’ Alliance, 340
Farmers’ Declaration of Independence, 335
Farmers’ Independence Council, 447
Farm Security Administration (FSA), 438, 441, 494
Farrington, Betty, 555–56, 557
fascism, 571
“Fate of the Earth, The” (Schell), 681
Faubus, Orval, 584–87, 585
Faulkner, William, 540
Fay, John Dewey, 226
“FB Eye Blues, The” (Wright), 443
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 443, 494, 495
and Black Power movement, 626
and Cold War, 639
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 422, 470, 561, 571
Federal Council of Churches, 366
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 437
Federal Firearms Act, 445
federal funding, 526
Federal Hall (New York City), 131–32, 132
Federal Housing Administration (FAA), U.S., 530
Federalist No. 52, 312
Federalist Papers, xiii–xiv, 128–29, 134, 166, 624–25
Federalists, 129, 129, 130–31, 137, 143, 144, 145, 211
as anti-slavery, 176
in election of 1796, 158
in election of 1800, 154–55, 160–62, 164
Louisiana Purchase and, 170
Federalist Society, 677, 678, 684, 688, 689
Federal Radio Act, 422
Federal Radio Commission, 422–23
Federal Reserve Bank, 364
Federal Theatre of the Air, 441
Federal Theatre Project, 437, 441, 444
Federal Writers’ Project, 437, 441, 444
Federation of American Scientists, 545
Federation of Atomic Scientists, 526
Female Anti-Slavery Societies, 207
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 647
feminism, 635, 652–53
and Clinton ethics investigations, 712
and identity politics, 701
see also women’s rights
Ferdinand and Isabella, monarchs of Spain, 12, 18
Ferguson, John, 358
Ferguson, Mo., 767
fertility rates, 196–97
Fifteenth Amendment, 326, 327, 328, 337, 476
Fifth Avenue (New York City), 406
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry, 300
filibusters, 281
Fillmore, Millard, 267
Filmer, Robert, 54
film industry, government influence on, 501–2
Final Edition, The (radio show), 702
finance, 335–36
Finland, 400
Finney, Charles Grandison, 197, 202, 204
Firearms Owners’ Protection Act (1986), 679
Firestone, Shulamith, 651
First Amendment, 137–38, 395, 552, 573
First Battle, The (Bryan), 353
First Maroon War, 58
First National Bank, 388
First Persian Gulf War, 722
First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, 299
First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, 367
Fisher, Irving, 379
Fitzhugh, George, 256, 276
Flanagan, Hallie, 443–44
Florida, 58
gun laws in, 445
income tax in, 301
Indians in, 213
Polk’s desire to annex, 242
secession of, 289
Spanish in, 25
Flowers, Gennifer, 697
Floyd, Jay, 653
Flynn, James T., 516
food laws, 376
Food Stamp Act (1964), 612
Forbes, Steve, 671
Force Act, 327
Ford, Betty, 646–47, 654–55, 655, 656, 660
Ford, Edsel, 405
Ford, Gerald:
and ERA, 659
and political polarization, 656
and presidential election (1972), 659
and presidential election (1976), 664, 705
and race riots, 625
and women’s rights, 660
Ford, Henry, 383–84, 405, 407, 424, 481
Ford Motor plant, 361
Foreign Affairs, 722
Forest Service, 363
Forlorn Hope, 138
Fortas, Abe, 618
Fort Duquesne, British attack on, 77–78
Fort Sumter, 292, 293
Fortune, 477, 489, 522
fossil record, 8
Foster, Judith Ellen, 340–41
founding principles, U.S., xiv–xv, xix
disagreement about, xvi
Fountainhead, The (Rand), 553
4chan, 724
480, The (Burdick), 598–99
Four Freedoms, 480, 483
Four Powers Pact, 467–68
Fourteen Points, 396–97, 491
Fourteenth Amendment, 321–23, 324, 326, 336, 337, 359, 369, 579
as applied to corporations, 338–39
Hitler’s desire for repeal of, 476
liberty of contract and, 378
Fourth of July celebrations, see July Fourth celebrations
Fox News, 742–43, 755, 774
and Clinton ethics investigations, 710–11
founding of, 707
and presidential election (2000), 716
“Fragments on Government” (Lincoln), 151
Frame of Government, Pennsylvania colony, 51
France, 223, 473, 745
American Revolution and, 101–2
British wars with, 65–66, 76–77, 170, 171, 172
constitution of, 240
economy of, 406
in Four Powers Pact, 467–68
India alliances with, 66
invasion of, 505–6
in Munich crisis, 467, 474
at Paris Peace Conference, 400
repayment of American debt demanded by, 116
U.S. arms used by, 475
U.S. food sent to, 486
war on Germany declared by, 476–77
in World War I, 398
Frankfurter, Felix, 426, 457, 465, 577, 579
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 302
Franklin, Benjamin, xv, 59, 83, 86, 93, 98, 101, 103, 115, 156, 165, 211, 736
abolition urged by, 135, 137
autobiography of, 75
childhood and youth of, 59–60
at constitutional convention, 119–20, 122, 124–25, 127–28
diffusion of knowledge promoted by, 66
“JOIN, or DIE” woodcut of, 65, 65, 66, 71, 76
in move to Philadelphia, 60–61
as newspaper publisher printer and, 60–61
in Paris peace negotiations, 107
Philadelphia house of, 119–20
as Philadelphia postmaster, 66, 67
Plan of Union of, 70–71, 77
on race, 70
slaves owned by, 74
Stamp Act opposed by, 82
Franklin, Deborah, 75
Franklin, James, 60, 75
Franklin, Jane, 59, 60, 93, 107, 116, 120, 130
and women’s equality, 87
free blacks, as political problem, 176–78
Freedmen’s Bureau, see Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
freedom, 536, 552, 553, 573
truth and, 49–50
freedom from fear, in Four Freedoms, 480
freedom from want, in Four Freedoms, 480
freedom of religion, in Four Freedoms, 480
freedom of speech, in Four Freedoms, 480
Freedom Riders, 604–6
Freedom’s Journal, 203
Freedom Summer (1964), 620
free labor, 255
Freeman, 447
Freeman, Elizabeth (Bett), 113–14
free markets, xviii, 364–65
Free Silver, 347
Free-Soil Party, 254, 255, 256–57, 259, 261, 264, 282
Free Speech, 356
free speech, and gag rule on antislavery tracts, 223, 276, 291
Free Speech Movement (1964–65), 620–21, 625–27, 694
free trade, 223
slavery and, 281–82
Frémont, John C., 242
in election of 1856, 267, 268
French and Indian War, 77
American troops in, 78–79
British troops in, 77–78
and taxation of American colonies, 78, 81
Washington’s skirmish with French in, 76–77
French Resistance, 506
French Revolution, 142
Freud, Sigmund, 413
Friedan, Betty, 647, 661
Friedman, Milton, 638, 669–70
frontier, 354–55
Frontierland, 528–29
Frum, David, 716
Fuchs, Klaus, 539
Fugitive Slave Law, 261
Fulbright, J. William, 635
Fuller, Margaret, 252, 254, 257, 258
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (Locke), 52–53, 55
fundamentalism, 390–91, 392–93, 418
on radio, 460–61
Fundamentals, The: A Testimony to the Truth, 391, 414
Futurama, 473
Gabriel (slave), 159
Gabriel Over the White House (film), 434
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 572, 591, 592, 594, 611
Gallup, George, 454–56, 457, 458–59, 542, 543, 560, 565, 597, 774
Gallup, George, Jr., 667
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 583
Gardener, William (Billey), 106–7, 125
Gardiner, David, 236
Gardner, Alexander, 272, 294, 295, 304
Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War (Gardner), 295
Garnet, Henry Highland, 256, 299
Garrison, William Lloyd, 190, 201, 247, 248, 269
American Anti-Slavery Society founded by, 206
Constitution damned by, 241, 262
Gates, Bill, 695, 735
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 703–4
gay rights movement, 768–69
and AIDS crisis, 685, 686, 687
and evangelical churches, 664
growth of, 651–52
and identity politics, 701
and liberal feminism, 661–62
and Supreme Court, 685, 686–87
Gazette of the United States, 161
gender gap, 616, 668
General Land Office, 221
General Motors, 447, 570
Genesis, 7, 9
Geneva Conventions, 746–47
Genoa, 12
George, David, 107, 136
George, Henry, 341–43, 350, 365
George C. Marshall Institute, 683
George III, king of England, 79
accession of, 79
factory visited by, 193
Georgia, 34, 531
Indians in, 213, 214, 215–16, 218
secession of, 289, 292
German educational model, 348
German immigrants, 208, 209–10, 313
Germany, 379, 548
American Revolution and, 101
in Axis, 466, 479
economy of, 406
Kristallnacht in, 471
Poland invaded by, 473, 474, 487
punished at Peace Conference, 400
rise of Nazis in, 427, 434
Soviet Union invaded by, 481–82
Sudetenland seized by, 467–68
unemployment in, 426–27
in World War I, 390, 391–92, 393, 394, 398
Geronimo, 337
Gerry, Elbridge, 121
Gettysburg, Battle of, 294–95, 294, 389
Gettysburg Address, 295–96, 307
Ghana, 578
ghettos, 530
“Giant Brain,” 520
G. I. Bill, 527–30, 528
Gilded Age, 336, 363
Gilder, George, 670–71, 734, 735
Gingrich, Newt, 683, 699, 700, 712, 732, 765
Gini, Corrado, 442
Gini index, 442–43
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 652, 686, 699
Gitlin, Todd, 703
Gladden, Washington, 305, 354, 365
Glanville, Ranulf de, 40–41
Glass-Steagall Act (1933), 437, 700, 749
Gobright, Lawrence, 249
God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom” (Buckley), 554–55
Goddard, William, 83
Godfrey, Arthur, 511
Goebbels, Joseph, 434, 452, 453, 456, 466
gold, 214–15
gold-bugs, 220
Golden Hour of the Little Flower, The (radio show), 461
Goldman, Eric, 594
Goldmark, Alice, 381
Goldmark, Josephine, 381
gold rush, 260, 324
gold standard, 334, 351
Goldwater, Barry, 556, 614–16, 624, 630, 649, 666
Gonzales, Alberto, 747
Gonzales, Rodolfo, 634, 634
Goodman, Paul, 636
Google, 736
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 683–84
Gordon, Thomas, 60
Gore, Al, 681, 696, 716–17
Gospel of Efficiency, 382–84, 404
government, Locke on role of, 53–54
Graham, Billy, 461, 568–69, 569, 616
Graham, Lindsey, 774
grain, 335
Grange, 335, 336
Grant, Madison, 392, 408
Grant, Ulysses S., 329
black support for, 324
on Civil War casualties, 293
corrupt administration of, 334
in election of 1868, 324
Lee’s surrender to, 305
grass-roots campaigns, 547
Great Basin, 333
Great Britain, 223, 537, 548, 554
American colonies of, see American colonies, British
antislavery movement in, 107–8
and creation of United Nations, 492
economy of, 406
in Four Powers Pact, 467–68
French wars with, 65–66, 76–77, 170, 171, 172
individual liberties in, 27, 33
in Munich crisis, 467, 474
Oregon Territory claimed by, 235, 242
at Paris Peace Conference, 400
political principles of, 27
as Protestant country, 26–27
repayment of American debt demanded by, 114
Restoration in, 50–51
in slave trade, 45–48
in United Nations, 503
U.S. arms used by, 475, 477, 480, 481
U.S. food sent to, 486
war on Germany declared by, 476–77
welfare state in, 378, 379
in World War I, 398
Great Depression, 424–25, 425, 436–44, 515, 529
end of, 486–87
“Great Lawsuit, The: Man versus Women” (Fuller), 252
Great Migration, 371, 576
Great Nebraska Silver Train, 350
Great Society, 611, 619, 623, 629, 657 “great train robbery,” 561
Greece, 537
Greeks, ancient, 11
Greeley, Horace, 235, 252, 303
Bleeding Kansas named by, 266
Emancipation Proclamation praised by, 297
slavery criticized by, 255
greenbacks, 334
Greenleaf, Thomas, 131
Grimes, William, 239–40
Grimké, Angelina, 252, 275
Grimké, Sarah, 652
Griswold v. Connecticut, 649, 653, 678, 685, 686, 688, 689, 768
Gruber, Bronko, 614
Guadalcanal, Battle of, 494
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of, 250, 251
Guantánamo Bay, 746–47, 766
Guatemala, 281, 574
Guatícabanú, 5, 16
Gulliver, 492
Gun Control Act (1968), 672, 679
gun control debate:
and Black Power movement, 627, 673
and conservatism, 672–74, 675–78
and originalism, 688
and political consensus, 672–73
and political polarization, 647–48, 676, 679
gun laws, 445–46
Gutenberg, Johannes, 13
Guttmacher, Alan F., 649
Hacker, Andrew, 638
Hadden, Briton, 412, 413
Haiti, 18, 337, 578
Columbus’s 1492 arrival at, 3–4
Columbus’s return to, 5
Columbus’s sketch map of, 4
constitution of, 240
French withdrawal from, 170
independence of, 203
revolution in, 254
revolution of 1791
in, 142–43, 143, 159
sugar plantations in, 142
Hakluyt, Richard, 25–26, 27–28
Haldeman, H. R., 626, 636, 637, 639, 640, 642
Haley, Alex, 660
Halifax, 136
Halsey, R. T. H., 407
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 748
Hamilton, Alexander, xiii–xiv, xvii, 117, 122, 134, 145, 154, 160, 163–64, 167, 624–25
on citizenship, 313
economic plan of, 334
as Federalist Papers coauthor, 128–29, 134, 166
and founding of Washington, DC, 139–40
on judiciary’s powers, 134–35
on self-rule by people, 420
U.S. Bank plan of, 138–39
Washington’s Farewell Address and, 146
Washington’s inaugural address written by, 133
Hamilton, Alexander (doctor), 67
Hamilton, Andrew, Zenger trial and, 62–63
Hancock, John, 92
Hanna, Mark, 374
Hannity, Sean, 755
Hanson, Peter, 720
Harbord, James G., 423
Harding, Warren G., 394, 504, 562
in election of 1920, 403
government efficiency desired by, 404–5
Harlan, John Marshall, 359–60
Harlem Renaissance, 411
Harpers Ferry, Va., 282–83, 284
Harrison, William Henry, 227, 234
in election of 1840, 227–28, 229
Hart, Gary, 696
Hartford Convention (1814), 173, 217
Harvard College, 45
Hastings, Lansford W., 242
Hatch, Orrin, 677, 678
hate speech codes, 703–4, 763
Hate That Hate Produced, The (TV documentary), 606
Hatfield, George, 450
Hayek, Friedrich A., 506, 507, 553, 592
Hayes, Rutherford B.:
in election of 1876, 329
strike broken by, 338
Haywood, Bill, 395
health care, and Clinton administration, 698–99
health insurance, 377, 378, 379–80, 438, 532–34, 533, 541, 546–48, 553–54, 560, 561, 570
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 380
Hearst, William Randolph, 349, 366, 367, 434, 437, 448–49, 453, 463, 475–76, 479
Heartland Institute, 683
Heller, Walter, 611, 612
Hemings, Beverly, 178
Hemings, Elizabeth, 174
Hemings, Eston, 186
Hemings, Harriet, 178, 186, 187
Hemings, John, 186
Hemings, Madison, 178, 186
Hemings, Sally, 174
Jefferson’s children with, 173–76, 178, 186
Henry, Patrick, 91, 94, 130–31, 167
Henry, prince of Portugal, 11
Henry I, king of England, 40
Henry VIII, king of England, 26
Hepburn, Katharine, 574–75
Hercules (slave), 147
Heritage Foundation, 648, 663, 683
Herodotus, xvi
Herring, Pendleton, 479
Hersey, John, 494, 521–22, 574
Hewitt, Abram, 343
Higby, William, 326
Hill, Anita, 697
Hill, David, 344
Hinckley, John, Jr., 672, 676
Hindoo, 341
hippies, 695
Hirabayashi, Gordon, 495
Hirabayashi v. United States, 495
Hiroshima bombing (1945), 517, 521–22, 571
Hispaniola, see Haiti
Hiss, Alger, 509–10, 515, 540–41, 548–49, 550, 641
“Hiss Case—A Lesson for the American People, The” lecture (Nixon), 549
historical studies, 353–54
history:
ancient concept of, xvi
artifacts and, 8
faith vs., xvi–xvii, xix
as form of heritage, xix
as form of inquiry, xvi–xviii
fossil record and, 8
founders’ study of, xv
geological, 7
importance of counting and measuring in, 16–18
as inheritance, xx
as study of what remains, 4
writing and, 12–13, 15
History of the American People (Wilson), 374
History of the United States (Beard), 441
History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent to the Present (Bancroft), 10, 198–99, 353–54
History of the World (Ralegh), xvi
Hitchcock, Alfred, 502, 516–17
Hitler, Adolf, 427, 434, 449, 467, 468, 474, 516, 554
Anschluss announced by, 466
Coughlin’s admiration for, 476
Soviet Union invaded by, 481–82
U.S. disdained by, 475
war on U.S. declared by, 485
Ho, Lew Wa, 316
Hobbes, Thomas, 37, 61, 106
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 570
Ho Chi Minh, 399, 602, 603, 629
Hodge, A. A., 391
Hodge, Charles, 390–91
Hoey, Clyde, 551
Hofstadter, Richard, 562
Holiday, Billie, 396
Holland:
American Revolution and, 101
repayment of American debt demanded by, 116
Hollerith, Herman, 355, 404
Holmes, John Haynes, 522
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 362, 378, 405, 462
Holocaust, 529
Holt Street Baptist Church, 583
home, work vs., 193, 195, 196–97
home loans, 530
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, 504
Home Protection Party, 340
Homestead Act, 317, 332, 333
Homo sapiens (modern humans), evolution and migration of, 8
homosexuality, 530, 550–52
Honduras, 462
Hood River, Oreg., 421
Hoover, Herbert, 362, 433, 506, 562
and building of new Supreme Court building, 462
efficiency of government by, 405, 406, 423–24
in election of 1928, 421–22, 423
in election of 1932, 430–31
Federal Radio Act pushed by, 422, 423
inauguration of, 423
made secretary of commerce, 405–6
New Deal criticism of, 506–7
radio addresses of, 427–28
relief work by, 421
response to the Depression of, 424–25
Hoover, J. Edgar, 443, 499, 626, 641
Hopkins, Elizabeth, 39
Hopkins, Harry, 438
Hopper, Grace Murray, 523, 524
Horsmanden, Daniel, 62, 63–64
Hose, Sam, 370
House of Burgesses, 37–38, 48
House of Representatives, U.S., 125, 535, 537, 540, 572, 586
Committee on Foreign Relations of, 481
Education and Labor Committee of, 537
and 1924 election, 184
Indian removal voted on in, 215
as open to speculators, 132
in presidential election of 1800, 164
Special Committee to Investigate the Taylor and Other Systems of Shop Management, 384
Texas annexation voted on by, 238
Ways and Means Committee of, 301, 317
House of Truth, 405
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 443, 498–99, 540, 572
housing, 530, 576
Houston, Sam, 223, 290
Howard, Jacob, 322, 326–27
Howard Johnson’s restaurants, 578
Howard University Law School, 576
Howe, Julia Ward, 328
Howe, Quincy, 570–71
Howe, William, 100, 101
Howells, William Dean, 287–88
Hughes, Charles Evans, 393, 462–63, 465
Hughes, Langston, 531
Hull House, 380
human rights, xviii, 313, 503
Locke on, 53–55
slavery and, 86
as U.S. founding principle, xiv–xv
“Human Rights Not Founded on Sex” (Grimké), 252
Hume, Brit, 710
Hume, David, xv
Humphrey, Hubert, 633
Hungarians, 409
Hungary, 383, 426
Huntington, Samuel P., 722
Hurja, Emil, 454
Hurston, Zora Neale, 441
Hussein, Saddam, 740
Hutchinson, Thomas, 79
hydrogen bomb, 524–25, 539, 571
I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (Sinclair), 450
IBM, 523
Ickes, Harold, 710
Idaho, 242, 324
creation of, 332
women’s voting rights in, 386
Ideas Have Consequences (Weaver), 554
identity politics, 668
and political polarization, 701–2, 703
“I Have a Dream” speech (King), 609–10
Illinois, 221
eight-hour workday in, 377
movement to, 221
Immigrant Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States through Foreign Immigrants (Morse), 208, 263
immigrant labor, 383
immigrants:
encouraging of, 208
nineteenth-century rise in, 208
and populist movement, 344
immigration, 314, 727
and identity politics, 701
restrictions on, 325, 336, 359, 407–11, 408
and White Power movement, 674
Immigration Act, 409
Immigration and Nationality Act (1965), 674
“Impeach Earl Warren” campaign, 582
Imperial Hearst (Lundberg), 449
imperialism, 366, 482
Incas, 8
income inequality, 757–58, 766–67
income tax, 347
in Civil War, 301
graduated, 345, 346
opposition to, 504–5
passage of Sixteenth Amendment on, 376–77
in Progressive Era, 364
TR’s endorsement of, 376
Independence, Mo., 531
Independent, 269
Indiana:
as free state, 176
gun laws in, 445
movement to, 221
suffrage sold in, 342
Indiana University, 528
Indian immigrants, 409
Indian’s Appeal to the White Men of Massachusetts, An, 215
Indonesia, 456
industrial accident compensation, 377
industrialization, 366, 529
economic security vs., 377
rise in 1920s of, 404
slavery and, 191
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 395
industry, 334
inflation, 629
influenza epidemic, 398
information age, 520
see also computers
Infowars, 724–25, 728–29, 762
infrastructure, 337–38
“In God We Trust” motto, 569
In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? (Sheldon), 366
Innovator’s Dilemma, The (Christensen), 736
Inquiry, 396
Inquisition, 12
Institute for Legislative Action, 675
intellectuals, 551–55, 561, 568–69
Inter-Allied Board, 398
Interest in Slavery of the Southern Non-Slaveholder, The (DeBow), 292
Internal Revenue Bureau, 301, 377
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 405
Internal Security Act (1950), 551
International Business Machines (IBM), 355, 404
Internet, 587, 731–38, 744, 769–70
and Clinton ethics investigations, 710
and economic inequality, 657–58
Gilder on, 671
and political polarization, 648
Interstate Commerce Committee, 384
inventors, 198
Iowa:
farm cooperatives in, 336
immigrants recruited to, 208
Iowa method, 455
Iranian hostage crisis, 680, 722
Iraq, 740, 765
Iraq War, 740–42, 741, 753, 766
Ireland, famine in, 209
Irish immigrants, 208, 209, 313
Iron Curtain, 536
Iroquois confederation (Six Nations), 66
in French and Indian War, 80
Isidore, Archbishop of Seville, 14, 15
Islamic fundamentalism, 722, 739–40
Islamic State, 765
isolationism, 406–7, 477, 481–82, 492, 537
Italians, 383, 409
Italy, 383, 427, 462, 517
in Axis, 466, 479
Ethiopia invaded by, 427
in Four Powers Pact, 467–68
invasion of, 502
at Paris Peace Conference, 400
It’s Up to the Women (Eleanor Roosevelt), 433
Jackson, Andrew, 173, 176, 225, 268, 332, 563
criticism of, 198, 208, 212
in election of 1824, 180–85, 183
in election of 1828, 186
in election of 1832, 218–19
and election of 1836, 224–25
inauguration of, 186–88, 187
Indian removal policies of, 212–13, 214–15, 216–17, 337
Lincoln’s opposition to, 288
majority rule as principle of, 187
national bank opposed by, 219–20, 239
nullification opposed by, 217, 218
Panic of 1837
caused by, 226, 227
people’s support for, 212
populism and, 181
and progress, 198, 199
Tyler’s criticism of, 233
Jackson, James, 135
Jackson, Mahalia, 610
Jackson, Robert, 579, 580
Jackson, Robert H., 446
Jacksonianism, and Second Great Awakening, 191
Jacobs, Harriet, 261
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 193
Jamaica, 34, 91
Maroon Wars in, 58
slave rebellions in, 63, 84, 85, 99
James, Henry, 390
James, William, 361, 368
James I, king of England, 32, 41
divine right of kings claimed by, 32, 39–40, 42
Virginia charter of, 32–33, 34
James River, 36
Jamestown, Bacon’s burning of, 56
Jane Crow, 500
Japan:
atomic bomb dropped on, 517
in Axis, 466, 479
Manchuria invaded by, 427, 481–82
Nanking invaded by, 481–82
in Pacific War, 493–94
Pearl Harbor attacked by, 484, 487, 494
Japanese Americans, internment of, 494–96, 495, 532
Japanese immigrants, 409
Jastrow, Robert, 683
Jay, John, 101, 103, 106, 163–64
as chief justice, 166–67
citizenship desired limited by, 312
as Federalist Papers coauthor, 129
Jay Cooke & Company, 335
Jefferson, Martha Wayles, 173
Jefferson, Thomas, xiv, xvii, 110, 111, 116, 117, 129, 134, 137–38, 139, 145, 159, 169, 174, 184–85, 212, 332, 360, 363, 728
Alien and Sedition Acts and, 158–59
death of, 185–86, 190, 199
in debate with Adams on Constitution, 153–54
and Declaration of Independence, 98–99
1807 embargo and, 171–72
in election of 1796, 158
in election of 1800, 154–55, 160–62, 160, 164
expansionism of, 168
farming promoted over manufacturing by, 168–70, 171–72
on Haitian revolution, 143, 144
Hemings children of, 173–76, 178, 186
inaugural address of, 165
inauguration of, 164–65
Kentucky and Virginia Resolves written by, 217
language of liberty used by, 235
Louisiana Territory purchased by, 170–71
on majority rule, 418–20
majority rule advocated by, 155
population theory of, 343
on progress, 192, 216
racial formula of, 175
religious freedom and, 161
slaves owned by, 104, 161, 186
tariffs and, 140
Turner influenced by, 354
on worship of Founders, 201
Jemmy (slave), 58, 63
Jenner, William, 552
Jersey, Battle of (1781), 72
Jesus Christ, 568
Jews, 12, 383, 399, 409, 410, 529
in American colonies, 50, 51
anti-Semitism vs., 448
Lindberg’s criticism of, 482
in Nazi Germany, 435, 466
Jim Crow, 330, 370, 499, 501
Douglass on, 353, 355–56, 358
and European immigrants, 410
and Plessy v. Ferguson, 359, 360
Progressives’ lack of discussion of, 364, 371–72, 386–87
and war in Philippines, 369
Wells’s resistance to, 356
in World War I, 496
Jim Crow laws, 531, 542, 575–88
Jobs, Steve, 695
Jobson, Richard, 46
John, king of England, 40–41
John Birch Society, 614
Johns Hopkins University, 348
Johnson, Andrew:
Douglass’s visit to, 320
impeachment of, 324
Radical Republicans vs., 320, 323
South protected by, 318
Stanton vs., 323–24
Johnson, James Weldon, 389
Johnson, Lady Bird, 660
Johnson, Lyndon B., 546, 552–53, 567–68, 586, 618
and civil rights movement, 611, 612–13, 614, 622
and criminal justice policy, 622–23
death of, 643
Great Society, 611, 619, 623
and immigration, 674
liberalism of, 444, 611
New Deal projects of, 442, 443
political power of, 617–18
and poverty, 611, 611, 618–19, 622–23, 657
and presidential election (1960), 597, 599
and presidential election (1964), 615–17
and presidential election (1968), 629–30
and race riots, 627–28
recording system, 640
and Vietnam War, 619, 629–30, 632
Johnson, Reverdy, 322
Johnson, Samuel, 92
Johnston, Eric, 501–2
Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S., 538
Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 321, 338–39
Joint United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, 251
Jones, Alex, 702–3, 723–25, 729, 762–63
Jones, Mary, 301–2
Jones, Paula, 709–10
journalism, Taylorism in, 412–13
Journalist, 349
journalistic exposé, 363–64
Journal of the American Medical Association, 379, 438
Judge, Ona, 147
judicial recall, 378
judicial review, 239, 358–59
judiciary:
and conservatism, 677
and Reagan administration, 684–90
separation of powers and, 165–66
Judiciary Act (1789), 134, 166
Judiciary Act (1801), 167
Judiciary Committee, 388
July Fourth celebrations, 153
of 1826, 185–86
Jungle, The (Sinclair), 450
Justice Department, U.S., 376, 395, 552, 576–77, 578, 581, 745
Kansas, 331, 331
creation of, 262
farm cooperatives in, 336
violence in, 266–67
women’s voting rights in, 386
Kansas City, Mo., 333
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 262–64, 265, 267, 276
Karski, Jan, 512
Kefauver, Estes, 570–71
Kelley, Florence, 377, 380, 381, 382
Kemp, Jack, 670
Kennan, George F., 535, 539, 557
Kennedy, Edward, 638, 688
Kennedy, John F., 535, 537, 552, 568
assassination of, 610, 613, 672
and civil rights movement, 600–601, 608–9
and Cold War, 602
and Commission on National Goals, 597
and conservatism, 614, 615
and Cuban Missile Crisis, 604
inauguration of, 601–2
and presidential election (1960), 597, 600–601, 601
recording system, 640
and Vietnam War, 602–4
War on Poverty, 611–12
and women’s rights, 647
Kennedy, Patrick, 209
Kennedy, Robert F., 568
assassination of, 631, 672
and civil rights movement, 600, 605, 625, 630–31
and presidential election (1968), 629, 631
and Vietnam War, 602, 619
Kent, James, 183
Kentucky, 579
gun laws in, 445
secret ballots in, 344
Kentucky Resolves, 217
Kerner Commission, 627–28, 633
Kerry, John, 694
Kesey, Ken, 694, 695
Keynes, John Maynard, 400, 435, 466
see also Keynesian economics Keynesian economics, 592, 619, 657, 670
Keyworth, George, 732
Khaldun, Ibn, xvi
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 680
Khrushchev, Nikita, 604
Nixon meeting (1959), 589–91, 589
Kiernan, W. C., 476
Kilgore, Harley M., 526
King, Billie Jean, 660
King, Boston, 105, 107
King, Coretta Scott, 661
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 441, 583–84, 750
arrest of (1960), 600–601
assassination of, 610, 630, 631, 672
and Civil Rights Act, 613
FBI surveillance, 626
“Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 607–8
March on Washington, 609–10
and Nation of Islam, 606, 607
and peace movement, 629
and presidential election (1964), 615
and Selma march, 621–22, 625
and SNCC, 597
and Watts riots, 623
King, Rufus, 125
King George’s War (1744–48), 66
King Philip’s War (1675), 55–56
King William’s War (1689–97), 66
Kirk, Russell, 555, 556, 682
Kissinger, Henry, 640, 642
Kitchen Debate (1959), 589–91, 589
“Kitchen Kabinets,” 557
Klan Act, 327
Knights of Labor, 336, 340
knowledge workers, 693–94
Know-Nothing Party, 263
Knox, Henry, 134
Knoxville Chancellor, 349
Koreans, 399
Korean War, 560, 565, 747
Korematsu, Fred Toyosaburo, 496
Korematsu v. United States, 496
Koresh, David, 702
Krauthammer, Charles, 722
Krimmel, John Lewis, 153
Kristallnacht, 471
Kristol, Bill, 698–99, 707
Kristol, Irving, 691, 734
KTSA, 442
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 318–19, 319, 323, 324, 327, 330, 410, 440, 579, 605, 608, 701, 770
Kurds, 399
Kursk, Battle of, 502
Kuwait, 739
Kwangtung Province, China, 324
Kyoto Protocol, 743
Labash, Matt, 743
labor force, 529
labor laws, 380–82
labor unions, 537, 541, 556
and Clinton administration, 699
and Democratic Party, 693, 696
and immigration, 675
Ladies’ Department, 190
Lafayette, Marquis de, 103, 105, 128
La Follette, Robert, 386, 447
La Follette, Robert, Jr., 549
La Follette Committee, 447
laissez-faire, 378, 427, 446
La Malinche, 23
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, 686
Landon, Alf M., 447
land tax, 301
Lane, Isaac, 297
Lane, Ralph, 29
Lane, T. J., 763
Lange, Dorothea, 425, 441, 494–95, 495
Lansing, Robert, 395
Las Casas, Bartolomé de, 3, 4, 5, 13, 23–25, 28, 47, 337
Laski, Harold, 426
Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper), 212
Latin America, 456
Law Enforcement Assistance Act (1965), 622–23
Lawrence v. Texas, 768
Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich, 434–35
Lay, Benjamin, 73, 92
background of, 72–73
as bookseller, 73
slavery denounced by, 73–74, 75–76
on women’s equality, 86–87
League of Gileadites, 279
League of Nations, 397, 400, 427, 435, 474, 515
League of Women Voters, 431, 571, 705, 706
Lease, Charles, 334–35
Lease, Evelyn Louise, 346
Lease, Mary E., 330–32, 334–35, 336, 339, 340, 341, 342, 388
Bryan mistrusted by, 346
Bryan supported by, 352
in campaign for George, 350
Democratic Party hated by, 331, 346
McKinley criticized by, 352–53
monopolism opposed by, 343
People’s Party formed by, 343
socialist views of, 347
Union Labor Party joined by, 342
Lederer, William, 598, 603
Lee, Ivy, 412
Lee, Richard Henry, 98
Lee, Robert E.:
Gettysburg defeat of, 294–95
Harpers Ferry retaken by, 283
surrender of, 305
Legal Defense Fund, 577, 579
legal precedents, 479
Leibovich, Mark, 708, 749, 759
Lemus, Rienzi B., 369
Lend-Lease Act, 480, 481
L’Enfant, Pierre Charles, 132
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” (King), 607–8
Letters concerning Toleration (Locke), 52
Levellers, 49, 50
Leviathan, The (Hobbes), 37, 61, 106
Lewandowski, Corey, 774
Lewinsky, Monica, 709, 710, 712, 714
Lewis, Anthony, 712–13
Lewis, John, 605–6, 609, 628, 726
Lewis, William, 490–91
Lexington and Concord, Battles of, 92
Leyte, 493
liberal arts, 275
liberal feminism, 652, 659
and abortion, 662
and gay rights, 661, 662
National Women’s Conference (1977), 659–62
liberalism, 427, 429, 554–55, 561, 565, 568–69, 580, 584
and Clinton ethics investigations, 712
and judiciary, 677, 685–86
Nazism vs., 434
in New Deal, 444
and New Democrats, 696
1960s decline of, 591, 592, 594, 610, 619–20
and 1970s economic malaise, 657
and originalism, 678–79
and presidential election (1968), 631
and race riots, 623, 625
and tax policy, 669
and technology, 694
and Vietnam War, 610
and War on Poverty, 619
after World War II, 504–5, 507–8
see also political polarization
liberal world order, xviii
Liberator, 189–90, 200, 206, 247, 269
Liberia, 179
liberty:
idea of, slavery and, 10, 64, 86, 88, 92, 96, 105–6
language of, 235
Liberty and Victory Bonds, 397
Library Company of Philadelphia, 66, 90
Liberty Party, 228, 238, 259
Libya, 765
Liddy, G. Gordon, 641, 644
Lie Factory, 448, 450–51, 456
Life, 481, 587
Lifeboat (film), 502
Life of Abraham Lincoln (Howells), 287–88
Life of Andrew Jackson (Eaton), 182
lightbulb, 424
Light’s Golden Jubilee, 424
Like Factor, 705
Limbaugh, Rush, 704, 742, 743, 762
Lincoln, Abraham, xix, 151, 311
assassination and funeral of, 305–7, 306
Cooper Union speech of, 285
Douglas’s debates with, 275, 276–79, 286
Douglass studied by, 264–65
Dred Scott decision denounced by, 270
in election of 1858, 265, 275, 276–79
in election of 1860, 285, 286, 287–88
in election of 1864, 303–4
Emancipation Proclamation supported by, 297–300, 303, 329
Gettysburg Address of, 295–96, 307
inaugurations of, 290, 304–5
Internal Revenue Bureau created by, 302
John Quincy Adams’s funeral organized by, 251
on labor, 255
Longfellow praised by, 260
Mexican War opposed by, 243, 263
photographs of, 273
slavery criticized by, 255, 263–66
Tarbell’s biography of, 371
Thirteenth Amendment pushed by, 304
vindictive peace disdained by, 317–18
war powers claimed by, 487
Lindbergh, Charles, 477, 479, 481, 482
Lippmann, Walter, 361–63, 371, 427, 457, 562, 682
Bernays influenced by, 414
Hoover praised by, 405
on majority rule, 309, 362–63, 364, 418–20, 423
on need for dictatorial powers, 434
peace proposal drawn up by, 396–97, 398, 400
on tariffs, 407
Lipset, Seymour Martin, 591
literacy, 210–11
Literary Digest, 453, 454, 458
Lithuania, 426
Little, Earl, 440
Little Rock Central High School desegregation (1957), 584–87, 585
Liverpool, U.K., 202
living standards, 527–28
Livingston, Robert R., 98
Lochner v. New York, 378, 380
Locke, Alain, 411
Locke, John, 1, 30–31, 34, 95
as Carolina colony secretary, 52
egalitarianism of, 53, 54
on human (natural) rights, 53–55
political philosophy of, 52–53
on slavery, 54–55
Lockheed Corp., 538
Lockwood, Belva, 340
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 401
Lomax, Louis, 606
London, German bombing of, 479, 512
Long, Huey, 461–62
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 259–60, 261, 267, 270, 271, 480
on Brown’s death, 284–85
on dissolution of Union, 290
on Lincoln’s election, 288
Los Alamos National Laboratory, 524–25
Los Angeles, Calif., 371, 568, 573
Los Angeles Times, 450
Louisiana, 281, 531
black governor of, 323
black voter registration in, 344
Indians in, 213
movement to, 221
secession of, 289
slaves sold to, 202
as slave state, 176
Louisiana Purchase, 251
Louisiana Territory, 69, 80, 170, 173
Jefferson’s purchase of, 170–71
see also New France
Louisville Courier-Journal, 541
Louis XVI, king of France, beheading of, 142
Louverture, Toussaint, 143, 170
Lovejoy, Elijah, 221
Lovelace, Ada, 194
Love’s Pilgrimage (Sinclair), 450
Loving v. Virginia, 751
Lowell, Francis Cabot, 194, 195
Lowell, Mass., 194–95, 194
Loyalists, 92, 94, 102, 103–4
in flight to Canada and Britain, 104, 107
loyalty tests, 545
Luce, Henry, 412, 413, 481, 540, 574
Luxembourg, 473
Lyles, CeeCee, 720–21
Lynch, Thomas, 115
lynching, 356, 368, 370, 396, 399
FDR’s failure on, 458
Twain’s denunciation of, 369
lynchings, 531
MacArthur, Douglas, 560
Macdonald, Dwight, 592, 594, 611–12
Machine Age, 444
machine guns, 445
MacKinnon, Catharine, 686
MacLeish, Archibald, 488–91, 504, 511, 512, 516
Madison, Ambrose, 94
Madison, Dolley, 233, 240
Madison, James, xii, xvii, 93, 116, 130, 156, 177, 363
Alien and Sedition Acts and, 158–59
antislavery petitions and, 135, 136–37
Bill of Rights authored by, 134, 137
on citizenship, 322
on citizenship requirements for Congress, 312
on colonization, 343
at constitutional convention, 109, 111, 118, 119–23, 125–26, 128, 149
on dangers of majority rule, 118–19, 123–24
on established religion, 200
on factions, 144
as Federalist Papers coauthor, 129
on importance of newspapers, 144–45
Kentucky and Virginia Resolves written by, 217
notes on constitutional convention kept by, 118, 240–41, 256–57
political history studied by, 117, 118
in proposal to count slaves as three-fifths of a person, 116
on religious freedom, 96
on religious liberty, 89–90
on republicanism, 144–45
slaves owned by, 105–6
Virginia Plan drafted by, 120
and War of 1812, 172
Madsen, Dennis, 750
Magby, Willis, 439–40
Magna Carta, 83–84, 95
Coke’s resurrection of, 40, 41, 43
and right to trial by jury, 41–42
Maine, 366
Maine, as free state, 179
majority rule, 155, 187
Madison on dangers of, 118–19, 123–24
Malcolm X, 440, 613, 621–22
assassination of, 622
background of, 606–7
and gun control debate, 673
Malthus, Thomas, 157, 168, 171, 343
Managerial Revolution, The (Burnham), 504
Manchuria, 427, 481–82
Mandeville, John, 13
Manhattan Project, 516, 523
manifest destiny, 10, 199
“Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals,” 443
Mansfield, Lord, 88
“Manual for the Motion Picture Industry, A,” 501–2
manufacturing, 192
Hamilton’s emphasis on, 140
inventory of, 172
Jefferson’s distaste for, 169, 171–72
slavery as form of, 169
in World War II, 486
Mao Zedong, 539
maps, mapmakers, 14
Marbury v. Madison, 168, 239, 268–69, 378
March on Washington (1963), 609–10, 613
Mark I computer, 523, 524
Marlowe, Christopher, 444
marriage, 529
Married Women’s Property Act, 257
Marshall, John:
Cherokee National recognized by, 215–16
as chief justice, 165, 167–68, 187
federal law overturned by, 239
on preservation of Union, 260
Marshall, Thurgood, 497, 575–88
on Johnson, 643
on originalism, 687–88
retirement of, 697
Marshall Plan, 538
Martin, Jim, 505–6
Martin, Luther, 125–26, 130
Martin, Tracy, 763
Martin, Trayvon, 763, 765, 767
Marx, Karl, 230, 231, 254, 255
Mary I, queen of England, 26–27
Maryland, 576
income tax in, 301
Maryland, University of, Law School, 576
Maryland colony, 44
Mashpees, 212, 215
Mason, George, xii, 86, 96, 99, 122, 128
bill of rights proposal of, 127
Massachusetts:
constitution of, 111, 112, 114, 128
Know-Nothings in, 263
ratification debate in, 130
Revolutionary War debt of, 116
secret ballot in, 344
Shays’s Rebellion in, 116, 118
slavery outlawed in, 114
Massachusetts Assembly, 88
Massachusetts Bay colony, 43–44, 44
Massachusetts General Colored Association, 203
Massachusetts General Hospital, 560
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 524, 587
mass advertising, 401
and campaign of 1912, 387
mass communication, 363, 420, 566
mass consciousness, 363
mass consumption, 363
mass delusion, 364
Masses, 362
mass hysteria, 363
mass incarceration, 699–700
mass migration, 363
mass production, 363, 444
Mather, Cotton, 57, 60
mattresses, 195
Mauchly, John, 520, 524, 526–27, 558, 559, 575
maximum-hour laws, 346, 377, 381, 382
Maya, 8, 11
Mayflower, 43
voyage of, 38–39
Mayflower Compact, 39, 43
McAllum, Sam, 317
McCain, John, 752
McCarthy, Eugene, 629, 633
McCarthy, Joseph, 504, 549–52, 553, 555, 556, 557, 565–68, 567, 571, 572, 592
McCarthyism, 592, 597
McClellan, George, 303, 304
McClure, Samuel Sidney, 371
McClure’s, 371
McCormick, Anne O’Hare, 423, 457
McCurry, Michael, 708
McGovern, George, 633, 642, 694
McGranery, James P., 578
McKellar, Kenneth, 39
McKinley, William:
assassination of, 375
in election of 1896, 352, 374, 375
warship sent to Cuba by, 366
McKissick, Floyd, 595
McMurray, Howard, 549
McNamara, Robert, 629, 640
McVeigh, Timothy, 702
McWilliams, Carey, 549, 560
Mead, Margaret, 660
measurement, see quantification
“Measurement of Inequality, The” (Gini), 443
Mechanics Magazine, 210
Mecom, Edward, 87
media:
and Ailes, 704–5, 742–43
consolidation of, 732–33
deregulation of, 737
Fairness Doctrine, 682, 704
and political polarization, 704, 707–8, 724
republicanism’s faith in, 144–45
Wilson’s relationship with, 388
Medicaid, 619, 671, 700
Medicare, and Reagan administration, 671
Meese, Edwin, 678–79, 684
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 489
Melich, Tanya, 652, 665
Mellon, Andrew W., 405, 443
Melville, Herman, 559
“Memorial Remonstrance against Religious Assessments” (Madison), 137
Menace of Modernism, The (Riley), 392–93
Mencken, H. L., 417, 418, 466
Mennonites, 569
Merchants of Death (Engelbrecht and Hanighen), 445
Mercury Theatre on the Air (radio show), 468–69
Merriam, Frank, 450, 451
Mesoamerica, 12
Mesopotamia, 12
Metacom (“King Philip”), 55–56
Methodists, 201, 366
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 407
Mexicans, 409–10
as cowboys, 334
Mexican War, 232, 241, 244, 368, 482
casualties of, 293
declaration of, 243
Douglass’s opposition to, 249
protests against, 246, 259, 263
and Wilmot Proviso, 244–46, 245
Mexico, 281, 394
Cortés’s invasion of, 22–23
immigration from, 674–75
movement of Americans into, 221–22
negotiation of border with, 222
Oregon Territory claimed by, 242
shrinking of, 250–51
Texas’s rebellion against, 222–23, 233
Mexico City, 250
Meyer, Philip, 667
Michigan, 208, 255
movement to, 221
Michigan, University of, 348, 544
Michigan Avenue (Chicago), 406
Microsoft, 695, 735
middle class, 529
Middle East, 11
Midway, Battle of, 494
military desegregation, 541
military spending, and Reagan administration, 671
militias, 702
Miller, Ola Babcock, 455
Millionaire’s Amendment, 505
Mills, C. Wright, 558–59, 566
Milton, John, 49, 291
Milwaukee, Wis., 371
minimum wage, 364
Ministry of Propaganda, German, 434, 452, 456, 481
Mink, Patsy, 659
Minnesota:
farm cooperatives in, 336
immigrants recruited to, 208
minorities, 544
see also specific minorities
Minor v. Happersett, 328
Minow, Newton, 571
missionaries, 366
Mississippi, 281, 541, 578
flood in, 421
Indians in, 213
movement to, 221
secession of, 289
slaves sold to, 202
as slave state, 176
Understanding Clause in constitution of, 344
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 621
Mississippi River, navigation rights on, 170
Missouri:
battle over statehood for, 176–80
movement to, 221
Missouri Compromise, 179–80, 253, 262–63
Missouri Question (Raymond), 178–79
Mitchell, Charles, 370
Mobile, Ala., 302
“Model of Christian Charity, A” (Winthrop), 43
Modern Efficiency Desk, 404
modernism, 354, 390
modernization, and Vietnam War, 603–4
Mondale, Walter, 683, 696, 706
monogenists, 256
monopolies, 335, 343, 363, 449, 526
Monroe, James, 172, 176
Monroe Doctrine, 180, 234–35
Montaigne, Michel de, 28
Montana, 325
blacks in, 369
creation of, 332
Montesinos, Antonio de, 21–22, 23
Montesquieu, 129, 135
Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott (1955–56), 582–84
Montreal, 79
Moody, John, 742–43
Moore, Mary, 302
moral crusades, 557
Moral Majority, 663–64
More, Thomas, 14, 54
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 372, 388
Mormons, 201
Morris, Dick, 710
Morris, Gouverneur, 119, 126–27
Morris, Robert, 109
Morris, Thomas, 223–24
Morrison, Philip, 545
Morrison, Toni, 712
Morse, Samuel F. B., 208–9, 229, 249, 263, 272–73
telegraph lauded by, 274–75
mortgages, 343
Morton, Levi, 313
Mosaic, 731
Mothers for Moral America, 616
Motion Picture Association of America, 501
Mount Vernon, 233, 236
MSNBC, 707
muckrakers, 371–73, 448
Muhammad, Elijah, 606, 613
mulattoes, 409
Muller, Curt, 381
Muller v. Oregon, 381–82
Mundus Novus (Vespucci), 14
Munich crisis, 467, 474
Munitions Committee, 445
Muñoz Camargo, Diego, 16
Murdoch, Rupert, 707, 743
Murphy, Frank, 495–96
Murray, Pauli, 497–98, 499–500, 647, 652
Murrow, Edward R., 511–12, 522, 563, 564–67, 574
Muslims, 11, 12
in American colonies, 50
Catholic wars with, 36
Mussolini, Benito, 427, 449, 467, 474, 514
Mutual network, 461
Myrdal, Gunnar, 501, 502
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), 699
Nagasaki bombing (1945), 517, 522
Nanking, 481–82
Napoleon Bonaparte, 371
Napoleon I, emperor of France, 170
Napoleonic Wars, 170, 171, 172
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Douglass), 248
Nation, 344, 414, 434, 502
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission), 627–28
National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), 587
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 371, 389, 396, 399, 497, 577, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 595, 596, 605
on criminal justice policy, 699
National Association of Manufacturers, 446
national bank, 233
renewal of charter of, 234
National Bank Act, 333
National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), 422, 435, 467, 473, 476, 562, 571
National Bureau of Standards, 363
National City Bank, 388
National Congress of Mothers, 380
National Convention of Colored Men, 238, 317
national debt, World War II growth of, 487
National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), 488, 525
“National Education Campaign,” 547
National Era, 269
National Farmers’ Alliance, 336
National Federation of Republican Women’s Clubs, 555–57
National Firearms Act, 445
National Insurance Act, 379
National Organization for Women (NOW), 647
National Origins Act, 407–8
National Photographic Portrait Gallery, 294
national prayer breakfasts, 569
National Press Association, 356
National Radio Chapel (radio show), 460
National Recovery Administration, 463
National Republican Party, 219
National Review, 555, 723
National Rifle Association (NRA), 445–46, 672–73, 675–76, 678
National Science Foundation (NSF), 525, 542, 545
National Security Act (1947), 538
National Security Agency (NSA), 538
National Urban League, 497
National War Labor Board, 397, 487
National Welfare Rights Organization, 638
National Woman’s Alliance, 346
National Woman’s Party, 394, 431
National Woman Suffrage Association, 328, 329
National Women’s Conference (1977), 659–62
National Women’s Political Caucus, 652
National Youth Administration, 504
Nation of Islam, 606–7, 613, 621, 622
nation-states, 525
and fiction of common ancestry, 9–10
rise of, 9
Native Americans, 399
American Revolution and, 102
catastrophic effect of European diseases on, 19–20
as cowboys, 334
declining territory of, 337
enslavement of, 48
European disease in, 17
excluded by populism, 336
French alliances with, 66
in human zoos, 354
legal and moral right as issue for, 55
Locke on rights of, 53
1960s activism, 634
path to citizenship of, 337
removal of, 192, 212–16
on reservations, 337
sovereignty and, 53–54
in wars with colonists, 55–56
nativism, 263
Naturalization Act (1798), 314
natural rights, see human rights
“Nature of Mass Belief Systems in Mass Publics, The” (Converse), 593
Navy, U.S., 486
Nazi Party, 427, 434–35
genocide by, 511–13, 513
Ndongo, 38
Neal, Claude, 458
Nebraska:
creation of, 262
farm cooperatives in, 336
women protected in, 380–81
Negro March on Washington, 498
Negroes with Guns, 607
Negro Seaman Acts, 203
Netherlands, 240, 473
Neutrality Acts, 474, 475
Nevada, 260–61, 324
creation of, 332
irrigated land in, 409
Nevins, Allan, 562
Nevis, 84
New American Right, The (Bell), 592, 614
Newby, Dangerfield, 283
New Communalism, 695
New Conservation, 437
New Deal, 429–30, 437–38, 444, 479, 504, 515, 526, 527, 531–32, 535, 552, 570
blacks excluded from, 440, 457–58
and Clinton administration, 700
conservatism vs., 444–45, 446–47, 656
and debate over Constitution, 462–66
first hundred days of, 462
Herbert Hoover’s criticism of, 506–7
liberalism of, 444
and New Democrats, 696
and Reagan agenda, 627
redistribution under, 443
Supreme Court vs., 463–66
New Democrats, 696
New Departure, 324
New Echota, Ga., 214–15
New England:
abolition of slavery in, 123
antislavery movement in, 87, 88
Caribbean sugar plantations and, 45
dissenters’ settlement of, 39, 40, 43
Indian removal and, 215
Indian wars in, 55–56
Pequot War in, 45
slavery in, 45, 48
New-England Courant, 60
New Forum, 346
Newfoundland, 34
New France, Métis in, 69
New Hampshire, constitution of, 111, 128
New Hampshire colony, 44
New Haven colony, 44
New Jersey colony, 51
New Left, 627, 628–29, 637, 651, 694
and identity politics, 703
New Mexico, 243, 260–61, 394
New Negro, The (Locke), 411
New Netherland, 44
New Orleans, Battle of, 173, 181
New Orleans, La., 170, 204
New Orleans Bee, 289
New Republic, 362, 396–97, 400, 403, 426, 541
New South, 587
New Spain, 17, 20, 26
free blacks in, 69
racial caste system in, 23, 24
newspapers, 211, 533–34, 540–41, 551, 552, 555, 557, 558, 563, 571–72, 580
growth of, 145
Madison on importance of, 144–45
partisanship of, 145
political campaigning and, 160–61
two-party system and, 145
see also media; press, freedom of
New Sweden, 44
Newsweek, 522, 577
New Theology, 354
Newton, Huey, 627
Newtown, Ct., 765
New Women, 386
New York, debtors’ prison abolished by, 226
New York, N.Y., 104, 105
corruption in, 342
draft riots in, 300
Federal Hall in, 131–32, 132
slaves in, 61, 62, 63–64
supposed slave conspiracy in, 63–64
top 1 percent in, 207
New York, secret ballot in, 344
New York American, 182
New York colony, 51
New Yorker, The, 413, 521, 572, 722
New York Herald, 210, 211, 229, 236, 349, 385, 453, 458
New York Herald Tribune, 479, 490
New York Journal, 349, 367
New York Observer, 273
New-York Packet, xi, xii–xiii, xviii
New York Power Authority, 438
New York state, slavery in, 123
New York Stock Exchange, 141–42, 407, 424, 436 New York Sun, 211, 229
New York Times, 255, 295, 297, 340, 342, 349, 350, 352, 363, 387, 445, 505, 523, 527, 558
New York Tribune, 235, 252
New-York Weekly Journal, 61–62
New York World, 349–50, 375
Ngo Dinh Diem, 603, 604
Nicaragua, 281
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 427, 541, 583
Nierenberg, William, 683
Nine Old Men, The, 464
Nineteenth Amendment, 402, 431
Nixon, Richard M.:
and abortion, 653–54, 658
as anticommunist, 540–41, 548–51
background of, 534–35, 540–41
“Checkers speech” of, 561–63, 572
congressional campaign of (1946), 534–37
and contraception, 650
and criminal justice policy, 622, 673
and economic malaise, 657
and environmental movement, 681
and gun control debate, 673
inauguration (1973), 642–43
Khrushchev meeting (1959), 589–91, 589
and Pentagon Papers, 640–41
and political polarization, 636, 637–39, 643
and presidential election (1960), 589, 599–601, 601
and presidential election (1964), 615
and presidential election (1968), 631–33, 636
and presidential election (1972), 641–42
as Republican leader, 536–37, 556–57, 572–73
resignation of, 594, 644–45, 645
as vice president, 571–72, 579–80, 586
vice-presidential campaign of (1952), 561–63
vice-presidential campaign of (1956), 571–72
and Vietnam War, 632, 642
War on Drugs, 699
Watergate scandal, 641–42, 643–45, 688
White House surveillance, 639–40
“Nixonland,” 572
Nock, Albert Jay, 447–48
Non-Importation Act (1806), 171
no-platform movement, 703
Nordic race, 392
Norfolk, Va., 299
Norris, J. Frank, 390, 392
North:
antislavery societies in, 205
Indians in, 212
North, Lord, 91–92, 101
North Africa, 11
North America, English colonization of, see American colonies, British
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 699
North Atlantic Treaty (1949), 539
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 539
North Carolina, income tax in, 301
North Carolina, University of, 497
North Dakota:
creation of, 332
farm cooperatives in, 336
Northern Democratic Party, 288
Northern Pacific Railway, 335
North Korea, 560
North Star, 249
North Vietnam, 399
Northwestern University, 340
Northwest Ordinance, 124–25
Northwest Territory, 114, 124–25
Norton, Louise, 440
Norton, Malcolm, 440
Norwegian Americans, 208
Notes (Madison), 240–41, 256–57
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 161
Nova Scotia, free blacks in, 107
nuclear war, 522, 524–25, 531, 532, 538–39, 570, 571, 586, 587
nuclear weapons, 680, 681–82, 683
nuclear winter, 681–83
Nueces Strip, 243
nullification, 217–18, 239
Nuremberg Laws, 466
Nye, Gerald P., 445, 446
Obama, Barack, 441, 519, 722, 725–26, 728, 748, 750–55, 751, 759–60, 763, 764, 765–66
Obama, Hussein, 751
Obama, Michelle Robinson, 752
Obergefell, James, 769
Obergefell v. Hodges, 768–69
Oberlin College, 366
“Objective Method for Determining Reader Interest in the Content of a Newspaper, An” (Gallup), 454–55
Observation on the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes (Benezet), 76
“Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c” (Franklin), 69
“Observations on Reading History” (Franklin), xv Occupy movement, 726, 758–59
Ochs, Adolph, 349
Office of Facts and Figures, 488, 489–91
Office of Naval Research, U.S., 545
Office of Price Administration, 487
Office of Scientific Research and Development, 488
Office of War Information, 485, 491, 492, 515
Ohio:
as free state, 176
gun laws in, 445
movement to, 221
Ohio Country Republican Women’s Club, 550, 556
Ohrduf, 512, 513, 513
Oil and Gas Conservation Act, 572
oil crisis (1970s), 657, 680
oil industry, 572
O.K. Corral, 445
Oklahoma, gun laws in, 445
Old-age Home Guard of the United States Army, 377
old-age pensions, 377, 378
Old Fashioned Revival Hour (radio show), 461
Old-Time Gospel Hour (TV show), 663
Olympics (1968), 628
Omaha, Neb., 333
“On Computable Numbers” (Turing), 523
One Goh, 764–65
101st Airborne Division, U.S., 586
One World or None: A Report on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb, 526
One World (Willkie), 492
“one world” vision, 538
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 284, 348
OPEC oil embargo, 657, 680
Operation Rescue, 702
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 516, 526
Oregon, 242, 260, 324, 494
blacks barred from, 280–81
female ten-hour law in, 381
women’s voting rights in, 386
Oregon Territory, 235, 242
Oregon Trail, 242
originalism, 677, 678–79, 684, 685, 687–88
origin stories, 6–7, 9
Orion, 508
O’Sullivan, John, 199, 243
Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It (Brandeis), 388
Otis, James, Jr., 80, 86, 88
on women’s equality, 87
Ottoman Empire, 390, 426
Our Enemy, the State (Nock), 447
“Our Invisible Poor” (Macdonald), 611–12
Outer Banks, N.C., 28–29
Out of Our Past (Degler), xviii
Owen, Robert, 194
Pacific Gas and Electric, 449
Pacific Railway Act, 332–33
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, 450
“Packaged Society,” 528
Paine, Thomas, xvii, 34, 95–96, 110–11, 142
French Revolution and, 142
on right of revolution, 95–96
Palin, Sarah, 755, 760
Pan-American Congress, 399
Pané, Ramón, 5–7, 13, 16, 24
Panic of 1792, 140, 141–42, 335, 749
Panic of 1809, 226
Panic of 1819, 207
Panic of 1837, 225–26, 225
Panic of 1873, 335
Panic of 1893, 347
paper currency, 220–21, 333
paper mills, 559
Parent Teacher Association (PTA), 380
Paris, Treaty of (1783), 107, 114, 123
Paris Peace Conference, 398–400, 414
Parker, Alton B., 376
Parker, Theodore, 246–47
Parker, William, 623
Parks, Rosa, 582–84
Parliament:
Coercive Acts passed by, 89, 90, 91
divine right of kings challenged by, 39–40, 42
English Civil War and, 48
Franklin’s appearance before, 83–84
popular sovereignty and, 49
slave trade abolished by, 172
and taxation of American colonies, 81, 82, 88–89, 91–92
partisanship, see political polarization
party caucuses, 159–60
party system, 211
Passing of the Great Race, The (Grant), 392, 408
passports, 314–16
Patent Office, U.S., 198
Patman, Wright, 505
Patriarcha (Filmer), 54
Patriot Act (2001), 744, 748, 765
Patterson, John, 605, 608
Patton, George, 512
Paul, Alice, 393, 394, 431
“Paul Revere’s Ride” (Longfellow), 285
PayPal, 735
payroll taxes, 439, 532
peace, democracy and, 395
Peace Corps, 602
peace dividend, 538
peace movement, and Vietnam War, 628–29, 633
peace societies, 207
Pearl Harbor attack (1941), 484, 487, 494, 537
Peck, Gregory, 688–89
Penn, William, 51, 51
Pennsylvania:
abolition law in, 106
constitution of, 112–13
income tax in, 301
slavery in, 123
Pennsylvania, University of, 530
Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 135
Pennsylvania colony, Charter of, 51
Pennsylvania Gazette, 61, 137
Pennsylvania Society for the Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 92, 114, 124
Penobscots, 215, 216
pensions, 377, 378
Pentagon, 487, 720, 722
Pentagon Papers, 640–41, 743
People’s Party, 343–44, 346–47, 350, 364
People’s Presidential Candidate, The, 227–28
People v. Hall, 325
Pequots, enslavement of, 45, 48
Pequot War (1637), 45, 48
Perkins, Frances, 436, 437
Perle, Richard, 682
Perlman, Nathan D., 408
Permanent Indian Territory, 262–63
Perot, Ross, 706
Persian Gulf War, 707
Peters, Frank, 136
Peterson, Elly, 617
Peurifoy, John, 550
Philadelphia, Pa.:
AME church opened in, 202
British capture of, 101
free blacks in, 106
Great Migration to, 371
religious riots in, 209
Working Men’s Party formed in, 207
Philadelphia & Reading Rail Road, 347
Philadelphia Inquirer, 268
Philadelphia Negro, The (Hose), 370
Philippine-American War, 368–69
Philippines:
missionaries in, 366
in Spanish-American War, 367–68
Philippine Sea, Battle of, 506
Phillips, Carl, 469
Phillips, Kevin, 632, 636
Phillips, Wendell, 276, 321
philosophes, 256
Phoenix, 213
photography, 248, 272–74, 460
Pickering, Timothy, 159, 164
Pierce, Walter, 459
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 192, 371
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 160, 164
slaves of, 79
Pinckney, Thomas, 158
Pintard, John, 140–41
Pitt, William, the Elder, 78
Pittsburgh Courier, 501
Plains, 337
Planned Parenthood, 649, 686
Plan of Campaign, 532, 547
plantations, 202
Plato, 50
“Plea for Captain John Brown, A” (Thoreau), 284
“Plea for Free Speech” (Douglass), 288–89, 291
“Plea for the Temperance Ballot for Women, A,” speech (Lease), 339
Pledge of Allegiance, 569
Plessy, Homer, 358
Plessy v. Ferguson, 358–60, 369, 381, 498, 576, 578, 579, 687
Plouffe, David, 759
Plymouth colony, 40
Plymouth Company, 33
Podesta, Tony, 760
Poe, Edgar Allan, 252
Poems on Slavery (Longfellow), 284–85
Poland, 240, 400, 426, 427, 535
German invasion of, 473, 474, 487
polio vaccinations, 570
political campaigning:
election of 1800
and, 159, 160, 160
Jackson and, 182
newspapers and, 160–61
paraphernalia of, 183
political consensus (1960s), 591–93, 633–34, 672–73
political consulting, 448–52
Democratic Party, 636–37
and Nixon, 632, 636
and Reagan, 625
and social issues, 648
political correctness, 703
Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, 286–87
political equality:
Locke and, 34
Paine on, 34
as U.S. founding principle, xiv–xv
Political Man (Lipset), 591
political parties:
ratification debate and, 129
rise of, 62, 63
Washington’s warning against, 146
see also two-party system
political polarization, 545–46
and abortion, 647, 658, 667–68, 676
and Clinton ethics investigations, 710–11
and gun control debate, 647–48, 676, 679
and identity politics, 701–2, 703
and Internet, 648
late 1960s increase in, 594, 636–39
and media, 704, 707–8
and 1970s economic malaise, 658
1990s, 691–92
and Nixon administration, 636, 637–39, 643
and polling industry, 667
and Reagan administration, 683
and Schlafly, 658–59
and southern strategy, 636, 656, 667
and Supreme Court, 688–90
and technology, 666, 668
and Vietnam War, 643
and women’s rights, 691–92
see also culture wars
political science, 348
politics:
change in, 525–26
debates in, 570–71
domestic, 536
issues in, 565–66, 570–71
parties in, 545–46
power in, 522, 576
quantification of, 156
“vital center” of, 553
warfare and, 539
Politics (Aristotle), 21
Polk, James K.:
desire for empire of, 242–43, 250
in election of 1844, 237, 238, 243
polling industry, 667, 705
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, 348, 376
polls, opinion, 542–46, 557, 560, 565–66
Pollsters: Public Opinion, Politics, and Democratic Leadership, The (Rogers), 543–44
poll taxes, 542
pollution, 680
Polo, Marco, 13
polygenists, 256
Pontiac, 81
Pool, Ithiel de Sola, 597–99, 603–4, 635
Poor Richard’s Almanack, 66, 79, 81
Pope, Alexander, 62
popular sovereignty, 261
in American colonies, 50
as legal fiction, 48
representation and, 49, 83, 122
as U.S. founding principle, xiv–xv
populism, 563
Jackson and, 181
populist movement, 330–32, 336–38, 364
Coughlin’s radio show on, 461
folded into Democratic Party, 364–65
gradual income tax pushed by, 345, 346
monopolies opposed by, 343
Progressives vs., 364–65, 371
racism of, 343–44
secret ballot pushed by, 344
state as bulwark against, 348–49
TR’s pursuit of policies of, 375–76
women in, 332, 339–40
Porfirio Díaz, José de la, 409
Portland Oregonian, 449
Portugal:
in exploration of Africa, 11
in slave trade, 11–12, 18, 38, 46
territorial claims of, 15–16
postmodernism, 636
poststructuralism, 636
poverty:
and Johnson administration, 611, 611, 612, 618–19, 622–23, 629
and Kennedy administration, 611–12
and Reagan administration, 671
Powell, Colin, 745
Powell, Lewis, 685, 687
Powell, Thomas, 403
“power elites,” 566
power looms, 193, 194
Powhatan, 31–32, 31, 36–37, 54
“Practicability of Equalizing Men and Women Before the Law, The” (Roosevelt), 343
prayer meetings, 569
Precision Journalism (Meyer), 667
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 297
Presbyterianism, 51, 201, 569
president, U.S.:
duties of, 134
elections of, 156–58
presidential elections:
and data science, 597–99
debates, 705–7
1960, 597–601, 601
1964, 613–17, 621
1968, 629–30, 631–33
1972, 641–42
1976, 659, 664–66, 705
1980, 669, 676, 696, 705
1984, 683, 696, 706
1988, 706
1992, 648, 693, 697, 698, 706
2000, 715–18, 717
see also elections, U.S.; specific presidents, politicians, and polictical parties
press, freedom of the, 49–50, 59, 60, 137
Alexander’s advocacy of, 61–62
Franklin’s advocacy of, 61
Stamp Act and, 82–83
Zenger trial and, 62–63, 64
see also media
Prince of Wales, 483
Princeton, USS, 232–33, 236, 238
Principles of Scientific Management, The (Taylor), 382
Pringle, Henry, 491
printing press, invention of, 13
privacy, right to, 650, 678, 685, 688
Problem of Civilization Solved, The (Lease), 343–44
Profits of Religion, The (Sinclair), 451
progress, 192, 197–99, 229–30
idea of, capitalism and, 156
Progress and Freedom Foundation, 732
Progress and Poverty (George), 341, 365
Progressive Era, 363–64
Progressive Party, 541
Progressives, 362
fundamentalists mocked by, 392–93
Jim Crow ignored by, 364, 371–72, 38607
progressivism, 348–49, 526
in election of 1912, 385–87
muckraking in, 373
Populists vs., 364–65, 371
reaction against, 403–4
roots of, 364
Prohibition, 397–98
Prohibition Party, 339–40
“Project X,” 557–59
propaganda, 414, 434, 452, 456–57, 578
in World War II, 488
Propaganda (Bernays), 414
property:
Locke on, 53–54
sovereignty and, 53–54
voting rights and, 56, 112–13, 122, 182–83
Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America, A (Franklin), 66–67
Proposition 4, 572
Proposition 13 (California), 669
Prospect before Us, The (Callender), 162
Protestantism, 26, 365, 568–69
Protestants, 50
in riots, 209
Ptolemy, Claudius, 11
Public Credit Act, 334
Publick Occurrences, 59
public opinion, 457–59
democracy vs., 452–57
Public Opinion (Lippmann), 401–2, 414, 454
“Public Opinion” (Madison), 144
Public Proclamation 1, 494
public relations, 402, 414
public relations campaigns, 532–34, 546–48, 553–54, 557, 559, 560–61, 572
public schools, 576, 579, 580–87
public transportation, 582–84
Public Works Administration, 437
Pulitzer, Joseph, 349, 350, 352, 366, 367, 375
Pumpkin Papers, 548–49
Purchas, Samuel, 12–13, 59
Puritans, 43, 45
Purnell, Fred S., 408
Pyle, Ernie, 493, 513
Quakers, 50, 51, 113, 135, 205
slavery banned by, 92
slavery denounced by, 75–76
quantification:
historical importance to, 16–18
of politics, 156
Quebec, 25, 84
British and American victory at, 79
Queen Anne’s War (1702–13), 66
Quest for Security, The (Rubinow), 438
Quincy, USS, 508
quota sampling, 458
race, 409
and Constitution, 701
Franklin on, 70
Jefferson’s formula for, 175
politics of, 176–78
slavery and, 55, 56–57, 69–70, 86, 143
and women’s rights, 660–61
see also civil rights movement
“Race Problem in America, The” (Douglass), 356
race riots (1960s), 623–24, 627–28, 630
and political polarization, 643
and presidential election (1968), 632, 633
racism, 530–31, 541, 575–88, 756
in English North America, 23, 24
in New Spain, 23
radical feminism, 651, 660
Radical Republicans, 317, 318, 320
in election of 1866, 323
radio, 421, 422–23, 427–29, 429, 430, 435, 436–37, 465, 479–80, 543–44, 561, 571, 572, 584, 704
debates on, 459–60
in the Depression, 440
fundamentalism on, 460–61
populism nourished by, 461
Radio Corporation of America (RCA), 422, 473
railroads, 189, 191, 231, 249, 255, 333–34, 336, 341, 347, 363, 364
desire for public ownership of, 346, 347
government support for, 338
income from, 406
regulation of, 376
taxing of, 336, 338
transcontinental, 262
Ralegh, Walter, xvi, 35
Roanoke colony of, 28–30
Ramsay, David, 181
Rand, Ayn, 553
Randolph, A. Philip, 498
Randolph, Edmund, 119, 121, 134
Randolph, John, 186
Randolph, Peyton, 94
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 205
Rather, Dan, 706
Rayburn, Sam, 568
Raymond, Daniel, 178–79
Reader’s Digest, 507
readjustment benefit, 527–28, 528
Reagan, Nancy, 616
Reagan, Ronald, 540
and abortion, 650
and AIDS crisis, 685
assassination attempt, 672, 676
background of, 624
economic policy, 669–72, 705–6
and end of Cold War, 683–84, 690
and Free Speech Movement, 625–26
gubernatorial race (1966), 625–27
and gun control debate, 673, 676–77
inauguration (1981), 668–69
and Iranian hostage crisis, 680
and judiciary, 684–90
and King’s assassination, 630
and media, 682, 704, 705–6
military spending, 681
and political polarization, 683
and presidential election (1976), 664, 665
and presidential election (1980), 669
and presidential election (1984), 683, 706
and race riots, 624
War on Drugs, 699
Real Majority, The (Scammon and Wattenberg), 636–37
Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the Columbian Exposition, The, 356–57
Reconstruction, 337, 368, 585–86
failure of, 329–30, 389
Reconstruction Acts, 323
Redeemers, 330
Red Scare, 415–16, 443–44
Reed, Ralph, 689
Reed, Stanley, 577, 579
Reflections on the End of an Era (Niebuhr), 427
Reformation, 42
Rehnquist, William, 580, 644
Reid, John, 181
Reign of Terror, 142
religion:
and abortion, 649–50, 664
evangelical churches, 662–64
lack of established, 200–201
and presidential election (1964), 616
slavery and, 17
religion, freedom of, 49–53, 137–38
as fundamental right, 96
Jefferson and, 161
Madison and, 89–90
Report of an Exploration . . . between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains (Frémont), 242
Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California (Frémont), 242
representation:
constitutional convention and, 121–22, 123, 124–25
popular sovereignty and, 49, 83, 122
sovereignty and, 90–91
taxation and, 81, 83
three-fifths rule and, 125, 130, 157
reproductive rights, see abortion; contraception; culture wars
Republic (Plato), 50
Republican clubs, 318
republicanism:
democracy vs., 181
Madison on, 144–45
Republican National Committee (RNC), 571, 581
Republican National Conventions:
of 1952, 561
of 1956, 572
Republican Party, U.S.:
and abortion, 668
black support for, 323, 386–87
business interests supported by, 562–63, 570, 572
conservative support for, 560–63, 570, 579–80, 581
conservative takeover, 658–59, 664–68
and contraception, 649
creation of, 264
1860 convention of, 287
1864 convention of, 303
and expansion west, 32–33
1912 convention of, 386–87
and Nixon-Khrushchev meeting (1959), 589
popular support for, 541–46, 564
and presidential election (1960), 599–600
and presidential election (1968), 631–33
and presidential election (1976), 664–65
and Reagan, 624
rearrangement of, 431
and Schlafly, 616–17, 658–59
southern strategy, 632, 636, 656, 667
women as supporters of, 529, 551, 555–57
and women’s rights, 658–59, 665, 692
see also Radical Republicans
Republican Party (first), 211
Republicans (Jeffersonian), 144, 145–46, 159
in election of 1800, 154–55, 160–62, 164
Louisiana Purchase and, 170
political dominance of, 172
as pro-slavery, 176
Republican Women’s Task Force, 659
Requerimiento, 22, 23
reservations, 337
Reston, James, 629
Restoring the Quality of Our Environment (Environmental Pollution Panel), 680
restrictive covenants, 530
return to normalcy, 407, 504
Revenue Act, 487–88
revolution, right of, 99
Paine on, 95–96
revolutions of 1848, 254
Rhineland, 427, 466
Rhode Island colony, 44
religious and political freedom in, 49–50
Rice, Condoleezza, 745, 763
Rice, Tamir, 767
Richards, Ann, 660
Richardson, Elliot, 643, 644
Richmond, Va., 302, 311
Richmond Examiner, 297
Richmond News Leader, 582
Richmond Recorder, 175
Ridings, Dorothy, 706
“Rights of Black Man, The” (Bishop), 143
Rights of Man (Paine), 142
Rights of the British Colonists Asserted (Otis), 86
“Right to Equal Opportunity in Employment, The” (Murray), 500
Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Subcommittee on the Constitution), 677
Riley, William B., 392–93
Rising Tide of Color Against the White World-Supremacy, The (Stoddard), 411
RKO, 473–74
Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek), 57, 506
Roanoke colony, 28–30
Roberts, Owen, 463, 465, 496
Robertson, Pat, 664
robots, 559
Rochester, N.Y., 195–96, 197, 202
Rochester Society for the Promotion of Temperance, 195–96
Rockefeller, John D., 352, 372–73, 412
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 405
Rockefeller, Nelson, 615
Roe v. Wade, 647, 653, 654, 655, 656, 664, 678, 686
Rogers, Lindsay, 542, 543–44, 546
Rogers, Ted, 563
Rollins, James S., 304
Roman law, slavery in, 21–22, 47, 48
Romney, George, 615, 665
Romney, Mitt, 728, 765, 774
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 428, 431–33, 432, 483, 504, 586
and Commission on the Status of Women, 647
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 750
“arsenal of democracy” concept of, 538
Atlantic Charter negotiated by, 482–83
Churchill’s courting of, 478
and colonialism, 603
convention attended by, 219
court-packing plan of, 464–65, 479
death of, 508, 510–11, 523, 531
in election of 1920, 403, 428
in election of 1932, 429–31, 454
in election of 1936, 462
executive branch reorganized by, 466
fight for civil rights by, 500–501
“forgotten man” concept of, 563
Hitler’s underestimation of, 485
inauguration of (1933), 433
influenced by populist movement, 332
Keynes’s letters to, 435, 466
letters to, 435–36
letter to Churchill from, 480–81
and liberalism, 611
on limits of welfare state, 438–39
New Deal policies of, 526, 527, 531–32, 535, 552, 570
and Pearl Harbor attack, 484
plan to arm Europe, 475
political consultants vs., 457
presidential campaign of (1944), 542
public opinion surveys relied on by, 457–58
racial polices of, 531
radio addresses of, 428–29, 429, 430, 432, 436–37, 465, 479–80
radio debates refused by, 460
recording system, 640
scientific research supported by, 525
at Tehran Conference, 502–3
United Nations plans of, 491–92, 502–3
urged to be dictator, 434
war powers claimed by, 487
on World’s Fair, 473
at Yalta Conference, 508–10, 509
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Jr., 478
Roosevelt, Theodore, 374, 428
in election of 1896, 374–75
in election of 1912, 386, 387
judicial recall supported by, 378
mothers praised by, 380
muckrakers named by, 371
on need to control commercial forces, 365
on Paris Peace Conference, 398–99
reforms pursued by, 375–76
in Spanish-American War, 367, 374
on women’s equality, 343
Roots (TV show), 660
Roper, Elmo, 597
Rosenthal, A. M., 711
Ross, Harold, 413
Rossetto, Louis, 731–32
Rostow, Walt, 603
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 110
Rovere, Richard, 572
Rubinow, Isaac M., 379, 438
Ruckelshaus, Jill, 665
Ruckelshaus, William, 644
Rucker, Edward, 225
rule, nature of, 15
rule of law, xviii
see also English common law
Rumsfeld, Donald, 746
Rush, Benjamin, 75, 200
on liberty and slavery, 92
Russia, 242, 426
Russian Revolution, 362
Rustin, Bayard, 498, 607, 609
Rutledge, Edward, 94
Rutledge, John, 126, 167
Sacramento Union, 448
Safer, Morley, 646–47, 655, 742
Sagan, Carl, 681–82, 683
Saint-Dominque, see Haiti
Saintes, Battle of, 103
St. John’s, slave rebellion in, 57
St. Kitts, 84, 88
St. Louis, Mo., 333, 522
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 472
St. Louis Republic, 453
Salem, Mass., witchcraft trials in, 57
Salisbury, N.C., 302
SALT II, 680
same-sex marriage, 686
Sandburg, Carl, 412
Sanders, Bernie, 757–58, 766–67
Sandys, George, 36
San Francisco, Calif., 342, 522
earthquake in, 376
San Francisco Chronicle, 379–80
San Francisco Examiner, 349, 448, 449
San Francisco Times, 341
Sanger, Margaret, 386, 394, 649
San Juan Hill, 367
Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 223, 250
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 339
Santayana, George, 361
Santorum, Rick, 764
Sao João Bautista, 38
Saratoga, Battle of (1777), 101
Sasaki, Toshiko, 521–22
Satan, 569
Saturday Evening Post, 507
Saturday Night Massacre, 644, 688
Saudi Arabia, 739
Savannah, Ga., 102, 104, 105, 204
Save Our Children, 661
savings and loan crisis, 672
Savio, Mario, 620–21
Scalia, Antonin, 684–85, 763
Scammon, Richard M., 636–37
Schell, Jonathan, 681
Schlafly, Phyllis, 646, 655–56
and evangelical churches, 664
and National Women’s Conference, 659, 661, 662
and presidential election (1976), 664
and Republican Party, 616–17, 658–59
and Trump, 668
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 553, 614, 691
school desegregation, 608, 628, 662–63
School of Politics, 557
school prayer, 662
schools, common, 209–10
school shootings, 764
Schumpeter, Joseph, 735
science:
and climate change, 680–81, 682–83
and conservatism, 682–83
and environmental movement, 680
and nuclear weapons, 682
“Science, the Endless Frontier” (Bush), 525
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), 596–97, 606, 607, 620, 622
Scopes, John, 414–19
Scott, Dred, 268–69, 270–71
Scott, Walter, 373
Scott, Winfield, 216, 250
SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), 681
SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), 625, 633
Seale, Bobby, 627
secession:
difficulty of decision, 292
push for, 289
Second Amendment, 673, 675, 677–78, 679, 688, 764–65, 768
Second Bank of the United States, 219–21
Second Bill of Rights, 532
Second Great Awakening, 190–91, 195–98, 196, 345
and alleged Christian origin of U.S., 201
Second Treatise on Government (Locke), 1
secret ballot, 344, 353, 386
Secret Service, 234
secularism, 555
Securities Exchange Commission, 437, 446
Sedgwick, Theodore, 113
sedition, 395
See It Now (TV show), 566–67
segregation, racial, 530–31, 541, 575–88, 585
start of, 330
Seitz, Frederick, 683
Selma march (1965), 621–22, 625
Seminoles, 181, 212-13
Senate, U.S., 125, 157, 529, 531, 537, 538, 546, 547, 548, 549, 551, 567–68, 586
Civil Rights Act (1866) passed by, 319–20
direct election to, 346, 364
Indian removal voted on in, 215
rule over Philippines discussed in, 368
Texas annexation vote of, 233
Versailles Treaty rejected by, 400–401
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 401, 551
Senate Judiciary Committee, 465–66
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 551
Seneca Falls convention, 257–58
“separate but equal” doctrine, 359–60, 576–77, 579, 580
separation of powers, 157
judiciary and, 165–66
in World War II, 479
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, xviii, 719–29, 719
Sepúlveda, Juan Ginés de, 25, 47, 337
Sequoyah, 214
Serviceman’s Readjustment Act (1944), 527
Seven Financial Conspiracies Which Have Enslaved the American People (Emery), 340
Seventeenth Amendment, 157
Seven Years’ War:
cost of, 78, 80
global arena of, 77
in North America, see French and Indian War 1763
treaty in, 79–80, 80
Seward, William, 689–90
“irrepressible conflict” speech of, 282
on passports, 315
slavery criticized by, 255
sexual harassment, 697, 709, 712
Sexual Suicide (Gilder), 670
Shaftesbury, Earl of, 52
Shakers, 201
Shall Christianity Remain Christian?, 415
Shanghai, 427
sharecroppers, 439
Share Our Wealth Society, 461–62
Shays, Daniel, 116
Shays’s Rebellion, 116, 118
Sheldon, Charles, 366
Sherman, John, 345
Sherman, Roger, 98
Sherman Antitrust Act, 345
Shields, Mark, 715
Shiloh, Battle of, 293
Shiloh Presbyterian Church, 299
Shine, David, 567
Short, Mercy, 57
Shotwell, James T., 506
Sierra Leone, 135–36, 147–48
“Significance of the Frontier in American History, The” (Turner), 354–55
Silent Spring (Carson), 680
Silicon Valley, 695–96
silver, 347, 352
“Simplified Blueprint of the Campaign against Compulsory Health Insurance, A” (Whitaker and Baxter), 547–48
Simulmatics, 598–99, 603–4, 635
Sinclair, Upton, 412, 450–51, 535
Singer, S. Fred, 680–81, 683
Sioux, 335
Six Nations (Iroquois confederation), 66
Sixteenth Amendment, 376–77, 504
skyscrapers, 406
slave owners, 223
Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia, 295
slave rebellions:
of Turner, 205, 206
of Vesey, 203
Slave Representation, 173
slavery, 536, 553, 554, 583
slaves, slavery, xiii, 10
American Revolution and, 93–95, 100, 108
and annexation of Texas, 235, 236, 246
Aristotle on, 21, 47
in Caribbean, 46
as cause of Civil War, 296, 389
Compromise of 1850
on, 260–61
and Constitution, 191, 241, 256–57, 261–62, 268
constitutional convention and, 123–27
Constitution and, 127
Davis’s defense of, 293
death toll of, 47
debt as, 81, 82, 83
Declaration of Independence’s ignoring of, 99
defenses of, 255–56
democracy vs., 191
efforts to silence dissent on, 223–24
and election of 1840, 228
in election of 1860, 287
and English common law, 88
and European extraction of wealth from Americas, 17
Federalist/Republican divide on, 176
forbidden to read, 205
as form of manufacturing, 169
as form of politics, 64
free labor vs., 255
free trade and, 281–82
global history of, 17–18
idea of liberty and, 10, 86, 88, 92, 96, 105–6
in industrializing U.S., 202–3
legal and moral right as issue in, 10, 15–16, 20–22, 45–48, 55, 74, 86, 108, 133, 177
liberty and, 64
Lincoln’s criticism of, 255, 263–66
Locke on, 54–55
in Loyalist exodus from U.S., 104–5, 107
Missouri statehood and, 176–80
Morse’s defense of, 263
New Deal recordings of, 441
in New England, 45, 48
opposition to, 199–200
post-Revolution increase in, 123
price of, 280, 281
Quakers’ ban on, 92
race and, 55, 56–57, 69–70, 86, 143
Raymond’s predicted growth of, 179
rebellions by, 3, 55, 56–59, 63, 84, 85, 99, 159
religion and, 17
under Roman law, 21–22, 47, 48
runaway, 74–75, 94, 100, 104, 203
in Spanish America, 18, 21–22
state constitutions and, 113–14
as three-fifths of a person, 116, 125, 130, 157, 173, 175
torture of, 58, 63, 73
in Virginia, 38
Walkers denunciation of, 203–4
in West, 221, 267
slave trade, 29, 46
in Africa, 11–12, 17–18, 38, 46
American colonies and, 48
Atlantic crossing in, 38, 47
British in, 45–48, 73
closing of, 202
Constitution and, 136
death toll in, 47
desire to reopen, 281
as issue at constitutional convention, 125–26
Portuguese in, 11–12, 18, 38, 46
within U.S., 123
Slavs, 383
smallpox, 19–20
Smith, Adam, 17, 82, 115–16
Smith, Howard, 613
Smith, John, 36
Smith, Margaret Bayard, 182, 187–88
Smith, Margaret Chase, 551, 613, 615
Smith, William Loughton, 135
Smith Act (1940), 552, 573
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), 597, 606, 607, 621, 625–26, 627, 628–29
Social Creed, 366
social Darwinism, 343, 378, 379, 391
Social Gospel movement, 365–66, 391
social insurance, 377
Social Insurance (Rubinow), 379
socialism, 384–85, 504, 553
“socialized medicine,” 547–48, 553–54, 570
social media, 770
social purity movement, 397
Social Science Research Council, 544–45
social sciences, 348, 349, 354, 542–46, 566, 578
Social Security, 447, 533
and Reagan administration, 671
Social Security Act, 438, 439, 465
Social Statics (Spencer), 378
Society for the Relief of Distressed Debtors, 140
Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, see Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
sociology, 348
Sojourner Truth Homes, 499
Solomon Islands, 494
Somerset, James, 88
Somerset v. Stewart, 88
Somme, Battle of, 390
Sons of Liberty, 82, 84–85, 86, 87, 299
Sontag, Susan, 722
South, 203
antislavery societies in, 205
black codes in, 318, 320
black voting rights in, 320
cotton production in, 202, 217
defense of slavery in, 255–56
divided into military districts, 323
exports from, 217
freedmen denied rights in, 317
Great Migration from, 371
Indian removal in, 212–16
movement into Mexico from, 221–22
secret ballot in, 344
South Carolina, 203
black “apprenticeship” in, 318
black politicians in, 323
desire to reopen slave trade of, 281
income tax in, 301
nullification and, 218
percentage of slaves in, 218
secession of, 289
slaves sold downriver from, 202
women arrested for voting in, 328
South Carolina colony:
slave rebellion in, 63
Stono Rebellion in, 58–59
South Dakota:
creation of, 332
farm cooperatives in, 336
Southeast Asia, 456
Southern Baptist Convention, 568, 664
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 584, 596–97, 606, 607, 620, 622
Southern Commercial Convention, 281
Southern Democratic Party, 288
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (Wells), 356, 357
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 338
South Korea, 560
sovereignty:
legal and moral right as issue in, 32, 39–43, 48, 53–54, 55
of the people, see popular sovereignty representation and, 90–91
Soviet Exhibition of Science, Technology, and Culture (1959), 590
Soviet Union, 535–39, 548, 570, 578, 586
and creation of United Nations, 492
German invasion of, 481
invasion of Afghanistan by, 680, 722, 738
in United Nations, 503
U.S. food sent to, 486
Spain, 221, 242, 462
American Revolution and, 101
as Catholic country, 26
civil war in, 474
expulsion of Muslims and Jews from, 12
and Polk’s desire for Cuba, 242
territorial claims of, 15–16
Spanish-American War, 366–67, 367, 374, 482
Spanish conquest, 18–25, 21, 26
British colonies vs., 33
debate over morality and legality of, 23–25
Florida and, 25
impact of European diseases in, 19–20
legal and moral right as issue in, 15–16, 20–22, 47
Requerimiento in, 22, 23
slavery in, 18, 21–22
see also New Spain
Special Report (TV show), 710–11
speculation, 140, 141
speech, freedom of, 49–50, 60, 62, 131, 137, 552, 573, 763
Spencer, Herbert, 343, 365, 378
Spencer, Richard, 770
Spencer, Sarah, 329
Spencer-Roberts, 625
Spirit of the Laws, The (Montesquieu), 129
Spooner, Lysander, 241
Spratt, Leonidas, 281
Sputnik launch (1957), 586, 587
Stages of Economic Growth (Rostow), 603
stagflation, 657
Stalin, Josef:
at Tehran Conference, 502–3
at Yalta Conference, 508–10, 514
Stalin, Joseph, 535, 539, 554, 570
Stalinism, 482
Stamp Act (1765), 82–87, 90
repeal of, 87
Stamp Act Congress (1765), 83, 91, 131
standard of living, 1960s, 591–92
Standard Oil, 371, 372–73, 412, 448, 449, 572
“stand your ground” laws, 764
Stanley, Henry Morton, 750–51
Stanton, Edwin, 317, 324
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 257–58, 329
citizenship of women desired by, 320–21
National Woman Suffrage Association founded by, 328
Thirteenth Amendment pushed by, 303
Stapleton, Jean, 660
Starnes, Joseph, 443–44
Starr, Kenneth, 710, 711
State, The (Wilson), 348
State Department, U.S., 134, 474, 492, 535–36, 540, 549, 550–51
state power, 1960s, 591
state primaries, 386
states’ rights, 223, 389, 577
States’ Rights Democratic Party, 541
Statistical Methods, with Special Reference to Biological Variation (Davenport), 392
Statute of Religious Freedom (Virginia), 137–38
steam, 192–93, 198, 347
steamboat, 18, 221
Steel, U.S., 363
steel companies, 336
steel production, 406
Steffens, Lincoln, 371
Steinbeck, John, 502
Steinem, Gloria, 652, 712
Stephanopoulos, George, 707
Stephens, Alexander, 290
Stevens, John Paul, 718
Stevens, Thaddeus, 317
Stevenson, Adlai, 551–52, 561, 565, 570–73, 600
Stewart, Charles, 88
Stewart, James W., 190, 202, 204, 205
Stewart, Jimmy, 491
Stewart, Maria W., 189–90, 192, 199, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 206
address to mixed audience given by, 206
speeches given up by, 207
Stewart, Potter, 653
Stimson, Henry, 514
Stimson, Henry L., 538–39
stock market, 407, 423, 424, 436
stock market crashes, of 1792, 141
Stoddard, Lothrop, 411
Stokes, Ronald X, 607
Stone, Harlan, 495
Stone, I. F., 487, 504
Stone, Lucy, 328
Stonewall riots (1969), 651, 769
Stono Rebellion, 58–59, 63
STOP ERA, 659, 662
Story, Joseph, 187, 212, 239
Stow, Marietta, 340
Strachey, William, 36
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 681
Strategy of Terror, The (Taylor), 488
strikes, labor, 537
strikes, railroad, 338
Strong, George Templeton, 209
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 597, 606, 607, 621, 625–26, 627, 628–29
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 625, 633
“Study of the Negro Problems, The” (Hose), 370
Subterranean Pass-Way, 280
Sudetenland, 467–68, 471
Sugar Act (1764), 81, 82
Sullivan, Andrew, 711
Summers, Larry, 700
Sumner, Charles, 210, 259, 270, 480
beating of, 266–67
on citizenship, 313
Compromise of 1850
despised by, 261
Wilmot Proviso criticized by, 245
worried about Emancipation Proclamation, 298
Sun Belt, 587
supply-side economics, 670, 671
“Supreme Court, The: They Will Mould the Government into Almost Any Shape They Please,” 166
Supreme Court, U.S., 530, 552, 573, 576, 577–82, 584
on abortion, 647, 653–54, 655, 656, 678
bankruptcy law ruled unconstitutional by, 226
Bork nomination, 687–90
and Clinton administration, 699
and constitutionality of laws, 159, 168
constitutionality of Second Bank upheld by, 220
on contraception, 649, 650, 653, 678
court-packing plan for, 464–65, 479
first meeting of, 135
on gay rights, 685, 686–87
income tax ruled unconstitutional by, 348
and Indian removal policies, 215–17
limited constitutional powers of, 134–35 Marbury decision of, 168
market beliefs of, 364–65
new building for, 462–63
New Deal vs., 463–66
and originalism, 687–88
and political polarization, 688–90
and presidential election (2000), 716, 717–18
Progressive labor legislation struck down by, 377–78
and Reagan administration, 684–90
and religion, 662
and right to privacy, 685–86
and school desegregation, 614, 662–63, 677
and Watergate scandal, 644
see also specific cases
Survey of Racial Conditions in the United States, 499
survival of the fittest, 365
Switzerland, 240
Szilard, Leo, 475, 515, 516, 526
Tabulating Machine Company, 355, 404
Tacky (slave), 84
Taft, Robert, 482, 487
Taft, William Howard:
in election of 1908, 376
in election of 1912, 386, 387
Hughes appointed to Supreme Court by, 463
income tax supported by, 376
Taft-Hartley Act (1947), 537
Taíno, 8–9, 16
near extinction of, 7
origin stories of, 6–7
Pané’s report on, 5–7
Taliban, 739, 746
talk radio, 679, 704, 709
Tallmadge, James, 177
Taney, Roger, 268–69, 270, 291, 757
Tarbell, Ida, 371, 372, 412
tariff:
nullification and, 217–18
slavery and, 281–82
Wilson’s lowering of, 388
Tariff Act (1930), 425
tariffs, 140, 347, 407
task management, 382–84
Tate, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 152
Taxation: The People’s Business (Mellon), 405
Taxation No Tyranny (Johnson), 92
taxes:
capital gains, 405
of corporations, 336
efficiency brought to, 405
excess profits, 405
estate, 405
on imports, 407
income, see income tax
payroll, 439
of railroads, 336, 338
taxes, taxation:
of American colonies, 78, 81, 88–89, 91–92
calculation of states’ share of, 115–16
Continental Congress’s lack of authority for, 114–15
representation and, 81, 83
taxes, World War II growth of, 487–88
tax policy:
and Johnson administration, 618–19, 629
and Reagan administration, 669, 670, 671
Taylor, Edward, 410, 488
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 382, 384, 404, 412
Taylor, Zachary:
in election of 1848, 253, 254
in Mexican War, 243, 245, 250
Tea Act (1773), 88–89
Tea Party, 726, 755–57, 756, 759, 761
technology, 198, 199
and Democratic Party, 693–96
and political polarization, 666, 668
Tehran Conference, 502–3
Telecommunications Act (1996), 732–33
telegraph, 191, 229, 231, 249, 272, 347
as allegedly bringing peace, 274–75
in Civil War, 293
transatlantic, 274–75, 347
television, 557–59, 560, 561–67, 570–74, 575, 576, 584
and conservatism, 666
and democracy, 592
and elections, 708
and presidential debates, 706
and presidential election (1960), 600, 601
and Supreme Court, 688–89
Teller, Edward, 682
temperance, 195–96, 206, 228, 342
women in, 339–40
Tennessee:
Fourteenth Amendment ratified by, 322–23
gun laws in, 445
Indians in, 213
Jim Crow laws in, 330
Tenochtitlán, 8
10 percent plan, 318
Tenth Amendment, 139
Tenure of Office Act, 324
terrorism, 721–23, 738–39, 746–47
Tet Offensive (1968), 629, 635
Texas, 250, 394
annexation of, 237, 238, 241–42, 243, 246, 259
annexation proposed for, 232–33, 234
gun laws in, 445
rebellion against Mexico in, 222–23, 233
secession of, 289
territory yielded to New Mexico by, 260
Texas longhorns, 334
textiles, 194, 194
Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Keynes), 437
These Are Our Lives (Federal Writers’ Project), 441
Thiel, Peter, 734–35, 736
Things to Come (film), 516
Thirteenth Amendment, 303, 306, 320
This Is War! (Corwin), 491
Thomas, Clarence, 697, 710, 712
Thompson, Dorothy, 434, 468, 470, 471, 476, 479, 489
Thoreau, Henry David, 230–31, 247, 255, 258, 284, 497
Thucydides, xvi
Thurmond, Strom, 541, 586, 613, 663
Tilden, Samuel, 329
Tillman, Ben, 368–69
Time, 412, 413, 459, 503, 509, 540, 562, 574, 731
time, quantification of, 156
Title IX, 652
tobacco, Virginia and, 37
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 206, 211–12, 226, 239
on economic equality, 341–42
language of liberty used by, 235
Toffler, Alvin, 732
Tombstone, Ariz., 445
Toombs, Robert, 297
Topeka, Kans., Board of Education, 577, 581
Torrey, R. A., 414
torture, 746–48
of rebellious slaves, 58, 63, 73
To Secure These Rights, 531–32
“Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System,” 545–46
Town Meeting of the Air, 459–60
town meetings, 543–44
Townshend Acts (1767–68), 87
Toynbee, Arnold J., 426
Tracy, Spencer, 574–75
trade, collapse in the Depression of, 425
Trail of Tears, 216
transatlantic cable, 274–75
trauma studies, 703
Treasury Department, U.S., 134, 389
Treasury of American Folklore, A (Botkin), 441
Tremont Temple, 288
Trenchard, John, 60
trial by jury, 58
right to, 41–42
Tribe, Laurence, 752
Trilling, Lionel, 553, 562
Tripoli, Treaty of, 200–201
Tripp, Linda, 710
True Law of Free Monarchies, The (James I), 32
Truman, Harry S., 618
and abortion, 649
atomic bomb decision of, 522
atomic bomb dropped by, 515–16, 517
communism as viewed by, 552
and creation of United Nations, 514–15
as Democratic leader, 531, 541–46, 552
domestic policies of, 535, 537, 541
foreign policy of, 535, 537–39
health insurance program of, 532–34, 533, 541, 546–48, 553–54, 560, 561
learning about atomic bomb, 514
made president, 511
presidential campaign of (1948), 541–46, 560, 563
racial policies of, 531–32, 576–77, 578, 581
recording system, 640
scientific research supported by, 525
vetoes by, 551
as vice president, 523, 531
see also Truman administration
Truman Doctrine, 537–39
Trumbull, Lyman, 326
Trump, Donald J., 567, 727–29, 731, 762, 765, 773
background of, 713–14
and Clinton ethics investigations, 714
and judiciary, 678
1990s campaign plans, 714–16
and presidential election (2016), 692, 773–74
and Schlafly, 668
truth:
as determined by evidence, 41–42, 61
freedom and, 49–50
nature of, 15
truther movement, 725, 727, 762
Tubman, Harriet, 261
Tumblr, 724
Turing, Alan, 523–24
Turkey, 537
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 353–55, 374
Turner, Nat, 205, 206
Twain, Mark, 273, 368, 369
Tweed, William Magear, 342
Twelfth Amendment, 164
Twenty-Fifth Infantry, 369
two-party system, 165
election of 1800 and, 154
Federalist/Anti-Federalists factions and, 129, 129, 145
newspapers and, 145
Two Treatises on Civil Government (Locke), 52, 53–54
Tydings, Millard, 551
Tyler, John, 178, 229, 232–34
and annexation of Texas, 234–35, 237
in election of 1844, 236–38
Tyler, Julia, 236, 238
Ugly American, The (Burdick and Lederer), 598, 603
unconscious, Freud’s theory of, 413
Unconstitutionality of Slavery, The (Spooner), 241
“under God” phrase, 569
Underground Railroad, 261, 279
Union Labor Party, 342–43
Union Leagues, 318
Union Party, 461–62
unions, 371, 379
of tenant farmers, 439
in World War II, 488
United Airlines Flight 93, 720–21, 725
United Airlines Flight 175, 720
United Farm Workers, 675
United Fruit Co., 574
United Mine Workers, 416
United Nations, 517
charter of, 483
creation of, 491–92, 514–15
plan for, 502–3
United Negro Improvement Association, 440
United States:
anticommunism in, 534–41, 548–57, 565–68, 571, 581
British recognition of, 107
budget of, 527, 539
Columbus’s voyage as origin of, 10
as democracy, 525, 536, 537, 543–46, 565–66, 575, 578, 583
division between industrial North and agricultural South in, 169–70
economic prosperity of, 527–28
federal government of, 526, 527, 531, 545
and fiction of common ancestry, 9–10
foreign policy of, 535, 537–39, 574, 578–79
founding principles of, see founding principles, U.S. free blacks in, 108
growing population of, 250
isolationism in, 537
mass society in, 566
military spending by, 538–40
mixed heritage of, xv–xvi
national security of, 538–39, 574
population of, 168
public opinion in, 542–46, 557, 560, 565–66, 579, 584
religious morality in, 568–69
slavery in, see slaves, slavery, in U.S.
southern states of, 531, 539–40, 546, 575–88
in space race, 586–87, 587
taxation in, 527, 532, 542, 570
technological progress in, 522, 525–26, 554, 557–59, 566, 586, 587
violent beginnings of, 10
as welfare state, 538
westward expansion of, 10
United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 326
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), 557–59, 563–65, 564
Universalists, 201
universal truths, 554
universities, 348, 354
see also see academia
university research, 526
Updike, John, 528
“Uppie and Downie,” 549
Upshur, Abel, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236
uranium, 475
U.S. v. Miller, 446
Utah, 260–61
irrigated land in, 409
women’s voting rights in, 386
Utes, 222
Utopia (More), 54
Vallee, Rudy, 491
Van Buren, Martin, 225, 227, 253
in election of 1832, 219
in election of 1836, 225
in election of 1840, 226–27
in election of 1848, 254
and nullification issue, 217
Tyler’s criticism of, 233
Vandenberg, Arthur, 460
vegetarian societies, 207
Verdun, Battle of, 390
Vermont:
constitution of, 113
slavery outlawed in, 113, 114
Versailles, Treaty of, 400–401, 466, 491
Vesey, Denmark, 203
Vespucci, Amerigo, 14
Vetal, Albert H., 409–10
Veterans Administration (VA), U.S., 6
“Vices of the Political System of the United States” (Madison), 118
Vicksburg, Battle of, 297
Vietnam War, 740, 741, 742
and academia, 635–36
end of, 642
and Johnson administration, 619
and Kennedy administration, 602–4
and liberalism, 610
peace movement, 628–29, 633
Pentagon Papers, 640–41
and political polarization, 643
and presidential election (1968), 629, 632
Viguerie, Richard, 663, 665, 666
Vinson, Fred, 579–80
Virginia:
black voting in, 323
constitution of, 112
1800 slave rebellion in, 159
gun laws in, 445
income tax in, 301
Nat Turner’s rebellion in, 205, 206
ratification debate in, 130–31
secession of, 292–93
slaves sold downriver from, 202
Virginia charter, 32–33, 34
Virginia colony:
founding of, 36–37
House of Burgesses of, see House of Burgesses
slavery in, 38
starvation in, 37
tobacco and, 37
Virginia Company, 33, 35, 35, 36, 37
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 99
Virginia Declaration of Rights and Form of Government, 96
Virginia Plan, 120
Virginia Resolves, 217
Voice to the Married, A, 196–97
“Voluntary Health Insurance Week,” 534
von Ranke, Leopold, 254
Voorhis, Jerry, 535, 536–37
voter eligibility, in election of 1800, 163
voters, 545–46, 565, 573, 574
voter turnout, in 1828 election, 185, 186
voting rights, 333
on black people, 320, 326, 330, 353, 501
of blacks, 163
Constitution and, 122
after Panic of 1819, 207
property and, 56, 112–13, 122, 182–83
and property qualifications, 206
of white men, 191, 209
of women, 163, 206, 315, 324, 328, 339–40, 342, 346, 353, 364, 385–86, 387, 393, 402
Voting Rights Act (1965), 622, 623
Waco siege (1993), 702
Wade-Davis Bill (1864), 318
wage limits, 537
wage workers, 343
Walden, A. T., 581
Walden Pond, 230–31, 247
Waldseemüller, Martin, 14
Walker, David, 202, 203–5, 215, 218, 256
Walker, Timothy, 198
Wallace, George, 608, 613–14, 621, 632
and ERA, 658
and presidential election (1968), 629, 630
Wallace, Henry, 474, 526, 541
Wallace, Mike, 606
Wall Street Journal, 406, 423, 487, 743
war, causes of, 274–75
“War Aims and Peace Terms It Suggests, The” (Lippman), 396–97
war bonds, 335
War Department, U.S., 134, 523, 524
War of the Worlds, The (radio play; Welles), 468–71, 468, 474, 475
War on Drugs, 699
War of 1812, 172–73, 190, 217
War on Poverty, 611–12, 619, 623
war on terror, 730–31, 738–47
War Production Board, 487
War Relocation Authority (WRA), 494–95
Warren, Earl, 532–34, 546, 561, 579–81, 582, 644, 674, 678, 684
War Room, The (film), 708
war veterans, 530–31
War without Violence (Murray), 497
Washington, 242, 324, 494
women’s voting rights in, 386
Washington, August, 279, 280
Washington, Bushrod, 176
Washington, DC, 569, 582
British burning of, 172–73
Davis’s Hotel in, 176
founding of, 139–40
Jefferson’s inauguration in, 164–65
slavery abolished in, 260
Washington, George, 86, 90, 105, 108, 116, 134, 148, 233
as commander of Continental army, 93
at constitutional convention, 109, 119, 120
death of, 147–48
in decision not to seek third term, 145–46
in failure to emancipate his slaves, 133–34
Farewell Address of, 146, 148
in first skirmish with French, 76–77
inaugural address of, 133
inauguration of, 132, 133
slaves owned by, 94, 104
will of, and freeing of slaves, 147
Washington, Harry (former slave), 94, 100, 104, 107
as leader of Sierra Leone rebels, 147–48
in move to Sierra Leone, 135–36
Washington, Martha, 146–47
Washington Bee, 389
Washington for Jesus rally (1976), 664
Washington Giving the Laws to America, 148, 149
Washington Post, 455, 546–47, 572, 722
Waste in Industry (Hoover), 406
Watchtower Over Tomorrow (film), 516–17
water cure, 368
Watergate scandal, 641–42, 643–45, 688, 708–9, 744
water wheels, 192
Watson, Thomas, 404
Watt, James, 192–93
Wattenberg, Ben J., 636–37
Watts riots (1965), 623
WAVES, 486
Wealth and Poverty (Gilder), 670–71
Wealth of Nations (Smith), 17, 82, 115–16
weapons trajectories, 523, 525
Weaver, James, 346
Weaver, Richard, 136
Weaver, Richard M., 554
Webster, Daniel, 230, 234, 239, 242
and Compromise of 1850, 261
in election of 1848, 254
on labor, 255
Weddington, Sarah, 653–54, 660
Weekly Standard, 707, 743
We Hold These Truths (Corwin), 491
Weisenberger, Walter W., 446–47
Welch, Joseph, 567, 567
welfare, 618–19
and Clinton administration, 700
and Nixon administration, 638–39
and Reagan administration, 671
welfare program, 377
in Civil War, 301
in Confederacy, 302–3
welfare state, 378
in the Depression, 438–39
Welles, Orson, 444, 449, 468–71, 468, 474, 475, 491
Wells, H. G., 400, 515–16
Wells, Ida B., 356, 357, 371
Weltrundfunksender, 456
West:
movement of people to, 221, 255
populist movement in, 332
Republican expansion of, 332–33
slavery in, 221, 267
U.S. economy transformed by, 333–34
West, Benjamin, 103
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 465
West Indies, see Caribbean
Westinghouse, 473–74
West Virginia, creation of, 293
West Wing (TV show), 708
Weyrich, Paul, 648, 663, 712
“What’s Cooking in Washington,” 557
“What the Railroad Will Bring Us” (George), 341
Wheaton College, 461
Wheeler, Harvey, 598
Wheeling, W. Virg., 550, 556
Whig Party, 226, 264, 282
collapse of, 267
in election of 1836, 224, 225
in election of 1840, 227, 228, 257
in election of 1844, 257
rise of, 211
Whitaker, Clem, 448, 449, 450, 451–52, 456, 478, 532–34, 533, 546–48, 553–54, 560, 561, 572
Whitaker and Baxter, see Campaigns, Inc. White, Byron, 686–87
White, E. B., 473
White, John, 29–30
White, Theodore, 574
White, Walter, 458
White Collar (Mills), 558–59
white-collar employees, 558–59
Whitefield, George, 67–69, 68
White House, 173, 187
public admitted to, 188
White Lion, 38
White Power movement, 673–74, 702
Whitewater, 709, 710
Whitman, Walt, 228
Whitney, Eli, 198
Whittier College, 534
Whole Earth Catalog (Brand), 695
Wichita, Kans., 445
Wilkeson, Samuel, 295
Wilkinson, Moses, 107, 136
Will, George, 762
Willard, Frances, 339–40
William Jennings Bryan University, 461
Williams, Roger, 44
religious and political freedom espoused by, 49–50
Willkie, Wendell, 478–79, 480, 481, 482, 492, 551
Wills, Garry, 679
Wilmington, N.C., 202, 204
Wilmot, David, 244, 246
Wilmot Proviso, 244–46, 245, 263
Wilson, Alex, 585
Wilson, Edith, 400, 401
Wilson, James, 119, 122, 124, 131, 141, 156, 167
Wilson, William B., 377, 384
Wilson, Woodrow, 348, 491
books on American democracy by, 373–74
desire to stay out of World War I, 393
in election of 1912, 385, 387
in election of 1916, 393
on evolution of Constitution, 373
Fourteen Points proposed by, 396–97
Geneva sculpture of, 474
good relationship with press, 388
inauguration of, 387–88
on industrialization, 378
at Paris Peace Conference, 398–400, 414
on Progressives, 365
racial inequality endorsed by, 389
strokes of, 401
tax bill of, 397
windmills, 192
Winning of the West, The (Roosevelt), 374
Winslow, Edward, 45
Winthrop, John, 20, 43, 44, 45
Wired, 730, 730, 731–32
Wisconsin, immigrants recruited to, 208
Wise, Henry, 292
WOKO, 428
Wolfe, Tom, 669
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Fuller), 252
Woman of Destiny, 444
Woman Rebel, The, 386
Woman’s Crusade, 339–40
Woman’s Independent Political Party, 340
women, 190, 252–53
citizenship of, 314, 315, 321–22
as computer programmers, 524–25
in Confederacy, 301–3, 302
as consumers, 380–81
education of, 529–30
and election of 1912, 387
in electoral politics, 615, 616–17
equal rights and, 402–3
equal rights for, 529
as housewives, 529, 555–57, 556, 573
lack of property rights of, 196
in manufacturing jobs, 380
in munitions manufacturing, 485–86, 486
political influence of, 529, 551, 555–57, 573
political party desired by, 340–41
in populist movement, 332, 339–40
Radical Republicans supported by, 320–21
in reform societies, 195–96, 206–7, 228
as Republicans, 529, 551, 555–57
in revival movement, 196, 196, 197
in temperance movement, 339–40
tilted toward Democratic Party, 433
voting rights of, 163, 206, 315, 324, 328, 339–40, 342, 346, 353, 364, 385–86, 387, 393, 402
at Whig conventions, 228
see also specific people
women, equality of, 86–87
Abigail Adams on, 96–97
Women’s Army Corps, 486
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 339–40
Women’s League for Equal Opportunity, 402
Women’s National Republican Association, 341
Women’s Peace Parade, 393
women’s rights:
Betty Ford on, 646–47, 654
Gilder on, 670
and hippies, 695
National Women’s Conference (1977), 659–62
and political polarization, 691–92
Schlafly activism, 646
see also culture wars; ERA; feminism
women’s studies, 635
Woodhull, Victoria, 328
Woodville, Richard Caton, 232
Worcester Town Meeting, 88
Worcester v. Georgia, 215
workingmen, 207–8
Working Men’s Party, 207
Workingmen’s Party of California, 336
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 441, 443–44, 465, 497, 504
World of Tomorrow, 472–73, 514
World’s Christian Fundamentals Association, 392–93
World’s Fair (1939), 472–74, 514, 526
World Trade Center, 719–20, 721
World War I, 362, 389–90, 393, 394, 531, 536, 745
Armistice, 398–99
Jim Crow in, 496
power of government expanded by, 397
U.S. entry into, 394–95
World War II, 523–24, 525, 527, 536, 537, 538, 586, 745
Allied need for U.S. in, 477–78
blacks in, 496–503, 500, 508
meaning of, 492–93
mobilization for, 485–87
Pacific War in, 493–94
power of government expanded by, 487–88
start of, 473
turning of tide of, 502–3
World Wide Web, 731
Wozniak, Stephen, 695
Wright, Fanny, 228
Wright, Richard, 441, 443
Wright, Silas, 225, 241
writing:
history and, 12–13, 15
invention of, 12
Y2K bug, 729–30
Yalta Conference (1945), 508–10, 509, 514, 535
Yancey, William, 281
Yaqui Indians, 222
Yates v. United States, 573
Yoo, John, 746–47
Yorktown, Va., Cornwallis’s surrender in, 103, 104
You Are the Message (Ailes), 705
Yugoslavia, 400
Zenger, John Peter, 61–63, 83, 131, 291
arrest and trial of, 62–63, 64
Zheng He, 11
Zimmerman, Alice, 394
Zimmerman, George, 763, 767
Zuckerberg, Mark, 736
Zuni, 23
Zwicker, Ralph, 566