Index

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Key to Abbreviations:

Chartres = Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Education = The Education of Henry Adams

HBA = Henry Brooks Adams

History = History of the United States of America during the Administrations of James Madison and History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson

TR = Theodore Roosevelt

• Adams, Abigail “Abby” Brown Brooks (mother), 15, 22, 127
  • appearance, 16
  • character and personality, 16–17, 84
  • children of, 16
  • HBA as favorite son, 17
  • HBA’s marriage and, 142–43, 167
  • HBA’s relationship with, 17
  • The House on the Hill or The New House, Quincy, Mass. and, 15–16
  • inheritance of and wealth, 16, 17, 90
  • in London, 69
  • marriage to Charles Adams, 15, 16
• Adams, Abigail (great grandmother), 10, 29–30
• Adams, Abigail (niece), 90, 218
• Adams, Arthur (brother), 16
• Adams, Arthur (nephew), 258
• Adams, Brooks (brother), 16, 69, 125, 290, 306–7, 312
  • anti-Semitism of, 316, 319–20
  • as Brahmin aristocrat, 316
  • Europe’s Gothic cathedrals and, 310, 312, 352, 353
  • at Harvard, 168
  • HBA confides in, about upcoming marriage and concerns, 141, 142
  • on HBA’s Education, 367
  • on HBA’s hypochondria, 379
  • on HBA’s leaving Harvard, 168
  • HBA’s letter on the Cathedral of Coutances, 311
  • HBA’s letter on Cuban independence, 301
  • HBA’s letter on France, 320–21
  • HBA’s letter on German anti-Semitism, 317
  • HBA’s letter on Hay’s health, 357
  • HBA’s letter on Russia and American isolationism, 344
  • HBA’s letter on the Spanish-American War, 328–29
  • HBA’s letter on Western overreach, 341
  • on HBA’s “poses” and defenses after Clover’s suicide, 235
  • HBA’s relationship with, 292–95, 379
  • HBA’s suppression of his biography of John Quincy, 360
  • Law of Civilization and Decay, 293–94, 295, 307, 310, 319–20, 333, 340, 343, 352–53, 416n10
  • marriage to Evelyn “Daisy” Davis, 310
  • Panic of 1893 and, 293
  • pessimism of, 225, 293, 307
  • as a “philosopher manqué,” 293
  • “The Platform of the New Party,” 153–54
  • “realpolitik” of, 331, 340
  • writing for HBA’s North American Review, 127
• Adams, Charles (great-uncle), 32
• Adams, Charles Francis (father)
  • as aristocrat, 159
  • Boston Daily Whig editorial pages and, 21–22
  • called “the Governor,” 17
  • character and personality, 17, 31–32, 135, 208, 404–5n4
  • Charles, Jr.’s description of, 17
  • children of, 16, 17
  • Civil War era, conciliation with the South promoted by, 64–65, 67–68
  • as Conscience Whig, 21, 22
  • currency question and, 114
  • death of, 243, 289
  • dementia of, 224, 379
  • as editor, The Works of John Adams, 31, 168–69
  • expectations of, as an Adams, 32
  • Free Soil Party and, 23
  • in Geneva, American delegation to an international arbitration commission, 135, 137
  • Gurney and, 125
  • Harvard University and, 126
  • HBA as favorite son, 17
  • HBA as private secretary for, in London, 31, 69, 71–85
  • HBA as private secretary for, in Washington, 63–66
  • HBA’s description of, 32
  • HBA’s nom de plume and, 208
  • HBA’s position at Harvard and, 126
  • HBA’s postgraduate travel and, 47–48
  • HBA’s resignation from Harvard and move to Washington, D.C., and, 171
  • as lawyer, 47
  • Liberal Republican movement, 135, 136
  • on Lincoln, 68–69
  • Massachusetts governor’s race, 1876, 158–59
  • The House on the Hill or The New House, Quincy, Mass. and, 15–16
  • post–Civil War, outdated positions on the American South, 96–97
  • presidential ambitions of, 66, 71, 135, 136, 153–54
  • slave question and, 21–22, 24, 36, 64, 96
  • snobbishness of, 68
  • as U.S. Congressman, 56, 63–68, 71
  • as U.S. minister to Britain, 3, 31, 68, 69, 71–72, 134, 330, 331
  • as vice presidential nominee, 1848, 23–24
  • Washington, D.C. trip of 1850, with HBA, 25–30
  • Webster’s “Seventh of March” speech denounced by, 29
  • writing for HBA’s North American Review, 127
• Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. (brother), 16, 17, 32, 243, 397n8
  • on the Adams Memorial, 278
  • the Adams Trust and, 290–91
  • American Anti-Imperialist League and, 331
  • as anonymous reviewer of HBA’s Life of Gallatin, 184
  • Chapters of Erie: And Other Essays and, 120–21
  • Civil War and, 65, 71, 77
  • comments on and reaction to HBA’s wife, Clover, 142, 225
  • on church and Sundays in Quincy, 33
  • death of, 292
  • dining at home of Robert E. Lee, 63
  • Harvard and, 304
  • on HBA’s Education, 397n11
  • HBA’s Germany letters to, 49, 51
  • HBA’s Italy letters to, 56–62
  • HBA’s letter describing their father, 32
  • HBA’s London letters to, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76–77, 80–81, 84, 98, 195–96
  • HBA’s relationship with, 292
  • HBA’s stroke and, 380–81, 382, 383
  • HBA’s Washington letters to, 67, 249
  • on his father, 65
  • on his father’s meeting with Lincoln, 68–69
  • “Independents in the Canvas,” 156, 157–58
  • memories of grandfather, John Quincy Adams, 17–18
  • “Pemberton” letters published in the Boston Advertiser, 55, 56
  • writing for HBA’s North American Review, 127
• Adams, Elise (niece), 387, 388, 391–92
• Adams, Evelyn “Daisy” Davis (sister-in-law), 310
• Adams, George (nephew), 85
• Adams, George Washington (great-uncle), 32
• Adams, Henry Brooks (HBA)
  • accomplishments of, 7
  • appearance, 5–6, 18, 51, 77, 89, 129–30, 139, 236, 387
  • as art collector, 175, 217, 334, 389
  • birth, 1838, 1, 13, 15
  • as childless, 175, 176
  • death, 1918, 391–92
  • dogs owned by, 223
  • family’s waning influence, 63, 64, 90–91, 92, 93, 97, 107–8, 153, 159, 262, 295
  • as favorite son, 17
  • friendships with men (see Adams, Brooks; Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.; Cunliffe, Sir Robert; Gaskell, Charles Milnes “Carlo”; Hay, John; James, Henry; James, William; King, Clarence; La Farge, John; specific people)
  • friendships with women, 234, 271–72, 286 (see also Cameron, Elizabeth “Lizzie”)
  • as great American historian, 7, 395–96n7
  • income, inheritance, and wealth, 175, 215, 313, 390
  • lifestyle, 3, 6, 175, 177–79, 217–18, 234, 257, 385, 389
  • marriage, 1872, 142
  • marriage ends in wife’s death, 1885, 221
  • naming of, 16
  • personality, character, and “poses,” 6, 7, 17, 130, 139, 168, 200, 219, 234–36, 299, 311–12, 314–15, 341, 351, 352, 358, 363
  • place in American history, 7
  • relationship with Elizabeth Cameron, 199–200, 222, 226, 233–34, 263, 265–72, 285, 290, 298, 333–34, 376, 382 (see also Cameron, Elizabeth “Lizzie”)
  • —1838–1885, BECOMING HENRY ADAMS, 7
  • boyhood, 15–36, 397n8, 397n11
  • boyhood scarlet fever, lasting effects of, 18
  • boyhood visit to Mount Vernon, 30, 188
  • education of, 18–19, 34, 37–43, 47–53, 203
  • expectations of, as an Adams, 18, 37, 43, 47, 195, 369, 374
  • family’s challenge to slavery, influence of, 24
  • family’s history and Boston culture, influence of, 15–20, 24, 26
  • family’s library and, 18–19
  • father’s editing The Works of John Adams and, 31–32
  • father’s influence on, 31–32
  • first love, unrequited, 48–49
  • first published commentary, 55–62
  • in Germany (postcollegiate journey), 43, 48–53, 73, 75
  • at Harvard, as college student, 37–43, 218
  • at Harvard, as history professor and editor, 122, 125–31, 147–52, 157–58, 166, 167
  • in Italy (postcollegiate journey), 55–62
  • law study and, 43, 47–48, 49, 51, 63, 147
  • Liberal Republican movement and, 133–34
  • on Lincoln, 69
  • Lodge and dispute over the Hartford Convention, 161–66
  • in London, 1861–68, as father’s secretary and newspaper correspondent 3, 31, 69, 71–85, 195
  • in London, 1880, visit, 187
  • London-Italy trip, 1871, 120
  • marriage of, wedding year abroad, honeymoon trip to Egypt, 1872–73, 1, 137, 141, 142–45, 327
  • married life in Boston, 1873, 144–45
  • meets Elizabeth “Lizzie” Cameron, 1881, 199
  • in Paris (postcollegiate journey), 62
  • political adieu, elections of 1876 and, 153–59
  • “quarter taint of Maryland blood” and self-identity, 26
  • Quincy, Mass. and, 7, 10, 16, 18–19, 20, 25, 28
  • Quincy-Boston-Cambridge culture and, 10, 18–20, 33–35, 91
  • sister Louisa’s death and, 121–22
  • summer home with Clover, in Beverly, Mass., at Pitch Pine Hill, 9, 144
  • Sumner and, 34–36, 65–66
  • in Washington, D.C., 1850, “Washington education,” 25–30, 171
  • in Washington, D.C., 1860, as father’s secretary and news correspondent, 63–69
  • in Washington, D.C., 1868–70, seeking national influence, becoming a writer/critic, 91–121
  • in Washington, D.C., 1877–85, married life and emancipation from family, 158, 167, 170–71, 173, 175–79, 327, 407n6
  • in Washington, D.C., 1879–85, career as writer and historian, 179, 181–85
  • in Washington, D.C., 1885, building Adams House, 215–19
  • Washington D.C. friendships, the Five of Hearts, 178, 327
  • wife, Marian “Clover” and, 139–45, 273
  • wife’s suicide, Dec. 6, 1885, and, 7, 9, 221–27
  • —1885–1917, PERFORMING HENRY ADAMS, 7
  • Adams Memorial by Saint-Gaudens commissioned, 235, 273–76, 278
  • aging and health issues, 337, 356, 376, 379, 380–83, 385, 386–90, 422n2
  • AHA presidency and, 303–8
  • in the Bahamas, 1894, 299
  • British ambassadorship contemplated, 329–30
  • in Cuba, 1888, 1893, various trips, 4, 297–300
  • Cuban independence supported by, 297–98, 300, 301–2, 328, 332
  • death of Bay Cabot Lodge and, 373–77
  • deaths of friends, 357, 358, 373, 376, 377, 389, 390, 391
  • desire for a felt experience, 309, 311
  • develops interest in French medieval music, 386
  • Egypt trip, 1898, reconciliation with wife’s memory, 327–28
  • in England, various trips, 285, 290, 327, 329, 387
  • at the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Paris, and idea of the dynamo, 333–35
  • “flight” of (travel, wanderings), 233, 327
  • in Florida and South Carolina, 1894, 298
  • friends in high places, 337–42
  • in Germany, 1901, 343–44
  • grieving for his wife, 226–27, 231, 235, 236, 237, 244, 273, 390
  • his “posthumous” life, 233–36, 244, 266, 274, 287, 304
  • honorary degree, Western Reserve University, 305
  • Japan trip, with La Farge, 1886, 236, 237–44, 412n4
  • life of, at house on H Street, Washington, D.C., 226, 234, 237, 297, 302, 309, 339, 340, 380, 383, 388, 391–92
  • Mercedes purchased, 386
  • in Mexico, 1894, 306, 308
  • Normandy, France trip, 1895, 309–12, 333, 420n1
  • Panic of 1893 and the gold-bugs, 289–95, 298, 301
  • in Paris, various trips, extended stays, 312, 320–21, 322, 328, 333, 337, 379, 385–87
  • relationship with nieces, 233, 234, 261, 301, 311, 312, 314, 328, 329, 337, 354, 382, 387, 388
  • research assistant, Theodore Dwight, 226, 236, 239, 240, 241, 277
  • research assistant, Ward Thoron, 354
  • Russian trip with the Lodges, 1901, 4, 343–47
  • at the St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904, 4
  • in Salzburg, Austria, 1901, 344
  • in Scandinavia, 1901, 346–47
  • secretary-companion, Aileen Tone, 10, 383, 387, 388, 392
  • sinking of the Titanic and, 3, 379–8
  • South Pacific voyage, 1890–91, 1, 4, 233, 253, 255–63, 413–14n1, 414n12 (see also Tahiti; specific islands)
  • Spanish-American War and, 328–29
  • summer of 1917, return to Beverly house, 9–10, 390
  • summers of 1915 and 1916 in New England, 390
  • the Venezuelan boundary crisis and, 300–301
  • Warsaw, Poland, 1901, and, 345, 346
  • western U.S. tour, 1894, 4, 305–6
  • a widower’s existence, 327
  • at World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago, 283–87
  • World War I and, 386–88
  • writing of History, 15, 237, 244, 245–52, 297
  • —IDEAS, BELIEFS, AND OPINIONS
  • as American aristocrat, attitudes and elitism, 5–6, 40, 69, 72, 74, 77, 81, 83, 85, 90, 98–99, 101, 104–5, 118, 119, 139, 143, 144, 178, 183, 312, 316
  • on American finance and the gold-bugs, 289–95, 298, 301
  • on American finance and monetary policy, 112, 113–22, 157, 295
  • antimodernism of, 7, 256, 279, 281, 283–87, 297, 299, 311, 313–14
  • anti-Semitism of, 6, 119, 260, 291–92, 301, 315–23, 418n17
  • attitude of renunciation, 234, 304
  • aversion to nepotism, 304
  • aversion to scandal, 265–66
  • Boston worldview and, 33, 303, 310, 311, 368
  • “Cameronism” and Pennsylvanians, 196–97, 409n4
  • civil service reform and, 83, 90, 102, 107, 109–12, 114, 134, 136, 153
  • as “conservative Christian anarchist,” 299
  • corruption fights, muckraking by, 24, 101–2, 104, 111, 113–22, 133, 153, 154
  • on the cultural impact of industrial capitalism, 7, 366, 375
  • cynicism of, 192, 236, 338, 374–75
  • on democracy and governing American, 83–85, 90–91, 101, 102, 104–5, 106, 107, 147, 149, 153, 187–93
  • on dualities of Western civilization, 20, 333–36, 346
  • on the dynamo, as humanity’s Faustian bargain with technology, 333–35
  • enmity toward Britain, 72–73, 291, 301
  • enthusiasm for automobiles and inventions, 3, 4, 286–87, 325, 333–35, 385–86, 390, 419n3
  • fatalism and pessimism of, 121, 224–25, 251, 293, 302, 307
  • idea of civilizational decay and, 287, 293–95, 307, 310
  • as intellectual, cultural critic, 18–19, 39, 77, 311, 313, 368
  • as interpreter of the American past, 39, 112, 183, 299, 366
  • predicting a global crisis, 308
  • predicting economic depression, 340–41
  • predicting Russia as future adversary, 342
  • racial ideas and bias, 2, 95–99, 103, 148, 150–52, 157–58, 242, 257–58, 260, 299, 320, 402n7
  • on religion’s role in America, 208–13
  • Romantic ideal and, 212
  • science of history, Teutonic historical model, and German legal studies, 147–49, 303, 312
  • science of history rejected by, 303–8, 312
  • spiritual eclecticism, 3, 32–34, 210, 212, 237, 263, 267, 311
  • on the Virgin vs. the dynamo, 20, 97, 335, 336, 351–53, 355, 356, 419n3
  • on war and empire, 331–32, 341–42, 344
  • —AS A WRITER, AND PUBLISHED WORKS
  • Adams family as writers and, 140
  • “American Finance, 1865–1869,” 114
  • approach to biography, 31, 185
  • “The Argument in the Legal Tender Case,” 114
  • “Captaine John Smith,” 82–83, 202, 401n7
  • Chapters of Erie: And Other Essays, 120–21
  • Chartres and a new phase in his writing, 353–54
  • “Civil Service Reform,” 109–10, 112
  • Clarence King Memoirs: The Helmet of Mambrino, 358–59
  • Democracy, 178, 187–93, 209, 210, 318, 327
  • dispatches from London, New York Times, 79–81
  • dispatches from Washington, Boston Advertiser, 66–67
  • Documents relating to New England Federalism, 1800–1815, 163–66, 168
  • The Education of Henry Adams, 3, 5, 7, 18, 31, 35, 39, 41, 60, 63, 103, 120, 121–22, 128, 131, 181, 189, 195, 211, 213, 235, 256, 262, 277, 278, 312, 313, 314, 315, 317, 318, 325, 335, 337, 352, 359, 360, 362, 365–71, 397n11
  • Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law, 149–52, 182–83, 303
  • Esther, 208–13, 410n1
  • History of the United States of America during the Administrations of James Madison and History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson, 15, 31, 120, 165, 166, 193, 205–6, 237, 244, 245–52, 255, 266, 287, 302, 304, 315, 338, 353, 354, 359, 413n9
  • “Independents in the Canvas,” 156, 157–58
  • King’s Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, HBA’s review, 178–79
  • “The Legal Tender Act,” 115–17, 182, 292
  • letters from Italy, Boston Advertiser, 55–62
  • The Letters of Henry Adams, 6, 265, 266
  • Letters of John Hay, contributions to, 359–63
  • The Life of Albert Gallatin, 170, 171, 181–85, 201, 202, 359, 408n6, 410n1
  • The Life of George Cabot Lodge, 375–77
  • Lodge’s Life and Letters of George Cabot, HBA’s review, 163
  • Memoirs of Marau Taaoro Last Queen of Tahiti, 262, 278, 414n13, 414n14
  • “Men and Things in Washington,” 84
  • Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, 128, 213, 262, 312, 315, 335, 351–56, 375, 379, 420n1
  • “The New York Gold Conspiracy,” 117–20, 292
  • Palfrey’s History of New England, HBA’s review, 249
  • personal philosophy informing his works, 185
  • psychological tactic for response to his writing, 112
  • Randolph, 201–6, 359, 410n1
  • “The Session,” 104–5, 106, 109, 133
  • “The Tendency of History” (written address), 306–8
  • unsigned essays and reviews, North American Review, 127
  • “A Visit to Manchester: Extracts from a Private Diary,” 79–80
  • See also Democracy; Education of Henry Adams, The; History of the United States of America during the Administrations of James Madison and History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson; Esther; Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
• Adams, Herbert Baxter, 148, 152, 304, 305, 306
• Adams, James Truslow, 204
• Adams, John (great-grandfather), 10, 83, 137
  • building of an American navy and, 4
  • Committee of Five and, 92
  • criticism of the Essex Junto, 162–63
  • first occupant of the Washington White House, 29–30
  • Jefferson and, 248
  • Massachusetts Constitution and, 110
  • as U.S. envoy to France, 47
  • as U.S. minister to the Court of St. James’s (Britain), 71
• Adams, John, II (great uncle), 29, 32
  • death of (alcoholism), 29
• Adams, John Quincy (grandfather), 1, 16, 137, 248, 404–5n4, 409n4
  • bequests to children, 17–18
  • criticism of the Essex Junto, 162–63, 164
  • death of, 22
  • on Emerson, 398n5
  • in France, with his envoy father, 47
  • Gallatin and, 183–84
  • gifts at grandchildren’s births, 17
  • HBA influenced by, 22
  • HBA’s suppression of Brooks’s biography of, 360
  • home in Washington, D.C., 28–29
  • marriage to Louisa Catherine Johnson, 26
  • memories of, 17–18
  • Monroe Doctrine and, 301
  • opposing Mexican War, 22
  • “Reply to the Appeal of the Massachusetts Federalists,” 163–64
  • Seward and, 62
  • slave question and, 21, 24, 29
  • Treaty of Ghent and, 163
  • as U.S. minister to the Court of St. James’s (Britain), 71
  • as U.S. Congressman, 22
  • as U.S. minister to the Netherlands, 26
  • as U.S. minister to Russia, 346
• Adams, John Quincy, II (brother), 16, 37, 47, 142
  • Adams Trust and, 290–91, 292
  • death of, 292
  • failed runs for governor, 90, 91, 401n2
  • Harvard and, 304
  • political career of, and switch to Democrats, 89–90
• Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson (grandmother), 16, 25–26, 145, 346
  • HBA identifying with, 26
  • son Charles Francis influenced by, 32
• Adams, Marian Hooper “Clover” (wife), 139–45, 272, 327, 404n1
  • appearance, 139, 141
  • Cameron, Elizabeth, and, 199
  • as childless, 175, 176, 225, 407n3
  • Democracy and, 190, 191, 193
  • depression and, 142, 178, 221–22
  • dogs owned by, 223
  • family of, 1, 139, 224
  • grave for, 226, 235, 273
  • HBA’s behavior after her death, 9, 233–36, 244
  • HBA’s History and, 246
  • HBA’s return to Beverly, 1917, and, 9–10, 390–91
  • honeymoon trip to Egypt, and breakdown, 137, 142–44, 327
  • intellect and personality, 141–42
  • James, Henry, and, 179, 191
  • lifestyle, 215
  • marriage to HBA, 1, 141, 142, 273
  • mental health of, 142, 143–44, 221–25
  • as model for protagonist in Esther, 209, 210–11, 212
  • as photographer, 209, 221, 225
  • relationship with her father, 144, 145, 167, 209, 211, 221–23, 273
  • relationship with her in-laws, 167, 171, 235
  • Saint-Gaudens’s memorial statue and, 235, 273–79, 349
  • shawl of, buried with HBA, 392
  • snobbishness of, 139
  • suicide of, 7, 9, 211, 221–27, 266
  • in Washington, D.C., married life and salon of, 167, 173, 175–79, 327
• Adams, Mary Catherine Hellen (aunt), 28–29, 92
• Adams, Mary (sister), 16, 69, 75, 290
• Adams family
  • alcoholism and, 1, 32, 224
  • American South and, 89, 96, 98, 135, 153–54, 158
  • architectural style preferred by, 217
  • Boston and, 123
  • as Boston Brahmins, New England gentry, 139, 140, 141, 171
  • collected letters, biographies, memoirs, and diary extracts left by, 246, 358, 360
  • cycle of writing and traveling, 252–53
  • declining status of, 63, 64, 90–91, 92, 93, 97, 107–8, 153, 159, 262, 295
  • expectations of, 18, 37, 43, 47, 195, 369, 373
  • federal power and, 135
  • humor lacking, 204–5
  • international travel by, 233
  • as judgmental, 141
  • mental rigidity of, 319
  • Old House at Peacefield (Adams family home), 7, 10, 16, 18–19, 20, 25, 40, 71, 89, 273, 290
  • as pessimists, 307
  • politics, public office, and diplomatic posts, 3, 26, 31, 68, 69, 71–72, 90, 93, 106, 134, 137, 140, 153, 330, 331
  • presidency and, 56, 71, 135, 153 (see also Adams, John; Adams, John Quincy)
  • presidential election, 1876, and, 153–59
  • as Republicans, Seward and, 62, 66
  • Santayana on, 19–20
  • slave question and the Constitution, 97, 98
  • study of law and, 147
  • Washington D.C. and, 27, 85
  • as writers, 127, 140, 156
• Adams Memorial by Saint-Gaudens, 235, 273–79, 349, 392, 415n5
  • Eleanor Roosevelt and, 278
• Adams Trust, 289–91, 292
• Addams, Jane, 105, 208
• Agassiz, Louis, 40, 377
• Age of Reason, The (Paine), 208
• Alcott, Bronson, 34
• Alcott, Louisa May, 34
• Alston, Theodosia Burr, 251
• Amalie Auguste, Princess of Bavaria and Queen of Saxony, 57
• American Anti-Imperialist League, 331
• “American Finance, 1865–1869” (HBA), 114
• American Historical Association (AHA), 303–8
  • HBA’s address: “The Tendency of History,” 306–8
• American Historical Review, 129
• American or Brahmin aristocrats, 143, 209
  • Adams, Charles Francis, as, 68, 159
  • Adams, Clover, and, 143, 144, 225
  • Adams, Clover, photographs of, 225
  • class conservatism of, 149, 168, 169
  • displacement by ethnic groups, 292
  • elite-born rule and, 101, 105
  • filial piety of, 181
  • the Grand Tour and, 255–56
  • Harvard and, 168, 401n10
  • HBA as, 5–6, 40, 69, 72, 74, 77, 81, 83, 85, 90, 98–99, 101, 104–5, 118, 119, 139, 143, 144, 178, 183, 312, 316
  • private schools of, 316
  • race snobbery and, 316
  • remaining a people apart, 316
  • Social Register, 316
  • traditional tourist destinations, 255
  • travel to Asia, 238–39
  • waning influence of, 203
  • See also Adams family
• American Institute of Architects, 356
• American Secular Union, 208
• American South
  • Adams family’s positions on, 89, 96, 98, 135, 153–54, 158
  • aristocracy and past of, 40
  • black codes, 95
  • black equality opposed, 95
  • caste system and segregation in, 95
  • conciliation with pre–Civil War states, 64–65, 67–68
  • federal Enforcement Acts (Ku Klux Klan Acts) and, 95
  • Hayes removes troops from, 158
  • HBA’s views of, 28, 101, 190–91
  • Jim Crowism in, 81, 95
  • Klan violence and lynchings, 95
  • Liberal Republican movement and, 134
  • Lost Cause mythology, 103
  • plantocracy of, 101, 110, 201, 204, 248, 283
  • Port Royal Experiment, 81
  • reconciliation, post–Civil War, 89, 96–97
  • Reconstruction, 89, 96, 98, 99, 103, 134, 154
  • secession, 64, 68, 89, 201
  • Smith and founding of Jamestown, 81–82
  • See also Civil War; slaves and slavery
• Ames, Fisher, 162
• Anderson, Nicholas Longworth, 38, 218, 221
• “Anglo-Saxon Courts of Law, The” (HBA), 149–52
• anti-Semitism
  • in America, 119, 315–16
  • American writers and, 319
  • Dreyfus Affair and, 321–22, 418n17
  • in France, 321
  • in Germany, 317
  • of HBA, 6, 119, 260, 291–92, 301, 315–23
  • HBA’s rudeness to the Berensons, 318–19
  • liberal capitalism and, 319
• Aquinas, St. Thomas, 335
• Arii Taimai (Tahitan matriarch), 260–62
• Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne), 240
• Artist’s Letters from Japan, An (La Farge), 242
  • dedication to HBA, 243
• Atkinson, Edward, 104
• Atlantic Monthly, 170, 204
• Austria, HBA in Salzburg, for Mozart festival, 344
• Austro-Hungarian Empire, 57–58

• Baden-Baden, Germany, 75
• Bahamas, 299
• Bancroft, George, 109, 169, 183, 215, 247, 251, 329, 389
• Banner, James M., Jr., 165–66
• Baring, Thomas, 98
• Barnard, George C., 115
• Baxter, Lucy, 286–87
• Beale, Edward F., 199
• Beale, Emily, 199
• Beard, Charles, 416n10
• Belknap, William, 103
• Benton, Thomas Hart, 39–40
• Berenson, Bernard, 318–19, 396n1
• Berenson, Mary, 319
• Berlin
  • HBA in, 48
  • HBA studying at the Friedrichs-Wilhelm-Werdesches Gymnasium, 50–51
  • HBA studying at the University of Berlin, 49
  • HBA takes leave of, 51
• Beverly, Mass.
  • HBA’s return to, 1917, 9–10, 390
  • HBA’s summer home at, 9, 155, 237
  • Hooper family in, 143, 144
• Bigelow, Caroline, 49
• Bigelow, Susan Sturgis, 142
• Bigelow, William Sturgis “Billy Big,” 237, 241, 290, 375
• Blaine, James, 187–88, 191, 215, 246
  • the Mulligan letters, 188
• Blanc, Louis, 74
• Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne), 34
• Boston, Mass., 311
  • Adams family home, Mount Vernon Street, 16
  • birth of Henry Adams, 1, 13, 15
  • Brahmins of, 168, 169, 183, 203 (see also American or Brahmin aristocrats)
  • Brooks family home, 20
  • Copley Plaza Hotel, 10
  • Free Soil Party and, 24
  • HBA and wife’s Back Bay residence, 144
  • HBA on, 123, 256, 396n1
  • HBA on worldview of, 33, 303, 310, 311, 368
  • HBA’s rejection of, 91, 93, 167–70
  • Irish immigrants and, 151, 169, 320
  • Latin School, 19
  • literati and publishers in, 169–70
  • Museum of Fine Arts, 238, 241, 274
  • Park Street Church, 19
  • Quincy vs., 20
  • Quincy-Boston-Cambridge culture, 10, 18–20, 33–35, 91
  • Santayana on the Adams family and, 20
  • size of, 1840 census, 19
  • Trinity Church, 218
  • Unitarian Church, 32–33
• Boston Advertiser
  • HBA as Washington correspondent for, 66–68
  • HBA’s brother Charles writes for, under “Pemberton,” 55, 56
• Boston Courier
  • HBA’s “A Visit to Manchester,” 79–80
  • HBA’s letters from Italy published in, 55–62, 79–80
• Boston Daily Advertiser, 154
• Boston Daily Whig, 21–22
• Boston Post, 154
• Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, 413–14n1
• Bourne, Randolph, 319
• Boutwell, George S., 35
• Bowen, Clarence, 306
• Bowles, Samuel, 106, 154
• Brandeis, Louis, 319
• Bread-Winners, The (Hay), 178
• Briggs, Emily, 196
• Bristow, Benjamin H., 155
• Britain
  • Adams, Charles Francis, as U.S. minister to, 71–72
  • Adams, John, as U.S. minister to, 71
  • Adams, John Quincy, as U.S. minister to, 71
  • Anglo-American conflicts, 72
  • anti-immigration measures and white nativism, 316–17
  • declining status of, 343
  • Hay as U.S. ambassador, 329
  • HBA fleeing to, from France, 387
  • HBA rejected as U.S. ambassador, 329–30
  • HBA’s enmity toward, 72–73, 291, 301
  • HBA staying at Surrenden Dering, Kent, 329–30
  • proclamation of neutrality by, 71
  • recognition of the Confederacy and, 71–72
  • Royal Navy as obsolete, 3–4
  • the Venezuelan boundary crisis and, 300–301
  • See also London
• Brooke, Rupert, 262, 414n14
• Brook Farm, Mass. (experimental community), 34
• Brooks, Peter Chardon (maternal grandfather), 16
  • bequests to children, 17–18
  • gifts at grandchildren’s births, 17
  • HBA’s inheritance, 215
• Brooks, Phillips, 210
• Brooks, Preston, 35
• Brown, John, 55
• Browning, Robert, 74
• Buchanan, James, 62, 402n4
• Buddenbrooks (Mann), 5
• Buddhism, 238
  • Bigelow and, 237, 241, 375
  • Fenollosa and, 241
  • HBA and the Bodhi tree, 263, 267
  • HBA in Japan and the Kamakura Buddha, 241–42, 274, 311
  • HBA’s interest in, 33, 237, 239, 323, 375
  • Lodge, Bay Cabot, and, 375
• Burr, Aaron, 166, 205–6, 213, 251
• Bush, Clive, 367

• Cabot, George, 162–63, 166, 169
• Calvinism, 34, 295
• Cameron, Elizabeth “Lizzie,” 195–200, 210, 211, 215, 276, 277
  • Hay and, 267–68, 359, 360
  • HBA on the Dreyfus Affair and, 321
  • HBA’s anti-Semitism and, 319
  • HBA’s correspondence with, 265–72, 291, 294, 298, 306, 311, 327, 328, 330, 337, 339–40, 344, 346, 357, 358, 360, 363, 377, 379, 380, 389, 390
  • HBA’s letter on TR, 338
  • HBA’s relationship with, 199–200, 222, 226, 233–34, 263, 265–72, 285, 290, 298, 333–34, 376, 382
  • HBA’s South Seas letters and, 258–59, 263, 267
  • HBA with, in Kent, England, 329
  • marriage of, 197–99, 409n8
  • men’s attentions and, 265, 267–68
  • South Carolina plantation of, 298
• Cameron, J. Donald, 195–99, 215, 265, 285, 290, 301–2, 329, 376, 409n8
• Cameron, Martha, 265, 269, 333–34
• Cameron, Mary McCormick, 196
• Cameron, Simon, 195–96
• “Captaine John Smith” (HBA), 82–83, 401n7
• Carlyle, Thomas, 247
• Carnegie, Andrew, 331
• Carter, Jimmy, 402n4
• Cass, Lewis, 24
• Castilian Days (Hay), 361
• Cater, Harold Dean, 217, 385
• “Cathedral, The” (Lowell), 352
• Catholicism, 3, 33, 57, 148, 150, 151, 239, 294, 355
• Cecil, Lord Robert, 104
• Ceylon, 263, 267, 268
• Chandler, Joseph Ripley, 61
• Chanler, Margaret, 388–89
• Channing, Edward, 129
• Chapters of Erie: And Other Essays (HBA and Charles Adams), 120–21
• Chase, Salmon P., 116
• Chen Lau-Piu, 237
• Cherokee Nation, “Trail of Tears,” 2
• Chicago
  • Chicago Fire, 284
  • Giacosa on, 284
  • growth of, 283–84
  • HBA on, and view of American history, 283, 285–86, 287
  • Hotel Windermere, 285
  • Kipling on, 284
  • Palmer House, 284
  • the skyscraper and, 284
  • World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, 283–87, 335
• Chicago Tribune, 134
• Choate, Joseph Hodges, 331
• Cincinnati Commercial, 134
• “Civil Service Reform” (HBA), 109–10, 112
• Civil War, 63, 162
  • Battle of Bull Run, 73
  • battle of the Monitor and the Virginia, 3
  • bombardment of Fort Sumter, 71
  • border states and, 64
  • Britain’s neutrality and, 71
  • change in America and, 84–85
  • collapse of the Confederacy, 84
  • Emancipation Proclamation, 74
  • “Fire-Eaters” and, 201
  • France’s neutrality and, 71
  • greenbacks and, 115–17
  • Hay and, 339
  • HBA and, 1, 10, 190–91, 339, 387
  • HBA’s brother Charles in, 65, 71, 77
  • HBA’s classmates in, 76
  • New England’s relevance during, 169
  • Schurz and, 134
  • Secession Winter of 1860–61, 387
  • Sumner on secession, 64
  • U.S. presidents serving in, 404n3
• Clarence King Memoirs: The Helmet of Mambrino (HBA), 358–59
• Cleveland, Grover, 151, 289, 302, 331, 404n3, 417n10
• Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery with special reference to the management of sterile conditions (Sims), 176, 407n3
• Clover (Friedrich), 211
• Colman, George, the Younger, 39
• Commager, Henry Steele, 245
• Commons, John R., 316
• Congregationalism, 208, 238
• Conkling, Roscoe, 111
• Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (Twain), 355, 420–21n9
• Constitutional History of England (Stubbs), 147
• Cook, Capt. James, 261, 413–14n1
• Corbin, Abel Rathbone, 117–18
• Corbin, Virginia Grant, 118
• Corcoran, William, 175
• Cox, Jacob, 135
• Cram, Ralph Adams, 356
• Criminal Man (Lombroso), 293
• Crowninshield, Benjamin, 51
• Cuba
  • Cuban War of Independence, 300
  • HBA’s support for the independence movement, 297–98, 300, 301–2, 332
  • HBA’s trips to, 297–300
  • HBA welcomes rebels into his home, 302
  • Santiago de Cuba, 298, 300
  • Spanish-American War and, 299–300, 328
  • Ten Years’ War, 300
• Cunliffe, Sir Robert, 192, 201, 301
• Cunningham, Noble, Jr., 245
• Curtis, George William, 107
• Custis, George Washington Parke, 40

• Dana, Richard Henry, 34, 96
• Darwin, Charles, 41, 151, 306
• Das Capital (Marx), 41
• Davidson, J. W., 262
• Davis, Jefferson, 29, 136, 177
• Debs, Eugene, 105
• Declaration of Independence, 92, 188
• Degeneration (Nordau), 293
• Democracy (HBA), 178, 187–93, 209, 210, 318, 327
  • anonymous authorship, and guesses about, 192
  • James, Henry, on, 191
  • influence on HBA’s style, 193
  • publisher for, 192
• Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 83
• Democratic Party, 89, 105, 136, 204
  • Adams, John Quincy, II, and, 89–90
  • Convention in St. Louis and elections of 1876, 155–56, 157
  • Dixie wing, 158
  • Greeley as nominee, 136–37
  • HBA and, 302
  • presidential election of 1872, 135, 136–37
  • Tilden as nominee, 155–56
• Detroit Press, 134
• Dewey, Commodore George, 328
• Dial magazine, 140
• Dickens, Charles, 74
• Dinnerstein, Leonard, 316
• Documents relating to New England Federalism, 1800–1815 (ed. HBA), 163–66, 168
  • John Quincy Adams’s “Reply,” 164–65, 181
  • Lodge reviews, 164–65
• Dodd, William E., 148
• Douglass, Frederick, 2
• Dreiser, Theodore, 319
• Dresden, Germany, 51–52, 56, 57
• Drew, Daniel, 115
• Dreyfus, Alfred, 321–22, 418n17
• Drumont, Edouard, 321
• Du Bois, W. E. B., 95
• Dwight, Theodore, 226, 236, 239, 240, 241, 277
  • accompanies HBA to Cuba, 297
• Dykstra, Natalie, 171, 198

• Edinburgh Review, 120
  • “American Finance, 1865–1869” (HBA), 114
• Education of Henry Adams, The (HBA), 3, 5, 7, 128, 189, 359, 362, 365–71
  • “All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres,” 352
  • on Cameron, 195, 196–97
  • commentators on and critics of, 367–68, 370
  • concealment and confession in, 211
  • contemporary world loathed by HBA, 313
  • cultural impact of industrial capitalism, 366
  • on dining with the Robert E. Lees, 63
  • duality of modern industrialization and pre-industrial Virgin, 20, 335–36
  • emergence of modernism and, 5
  • “failure” motif, 366, 367, 371
  • Grandmother Louisa and, 26–27
  • on Grant, 103
  • on Harvard, 39, 41, 131
  • on having friends in powerful positions, 337–38
  • HBA sends out review copies, 314, 369, 397n11
  • HBA’s persona in, 315
  • as highly selective, 360
  • on his birth, 13, 15
  • on his expectations, 18, 369
  • on his historical perspective, 31
  • on his sister Louisa “Loo,” 60
  • on his sister Louisa, “Loo,” death of, 121–22
  • on industrial development, 7, 368
  • on influence of Gothic Normandy, 312
  • the “joke” of, 367
  • linking people of Israel with the Puritans, 317, 318
  • observation of a steam-driven dynamo, 325, 335, 366
  • omission of years, 1872–92, and wife Clover, 195, 235, 366
  • overview of contents, 366–67
  • popularity of, 369–70
  • as prophetic text, 368, 370–71
  • on Quincy, Mass., 181, 256, 368, 397n11
  • Randolph as harbinger of, 202–3
  • ranking as best non-fiction book, 365
  • reprinting of, 370
  • as saga of a once great family, 262
  • on the Saint-Gaudens figure, 277, 278
  • sections of, 365–66
  • on Sumner, 35
• Edwards, Jonathan, 32
• Egypt, 28
  • Alexandria, 144
  • HBA and Clover, honeymooning on the Nile, 143–44
  • HBA trip, 1898, reconciliation with wife’s memory, 327–28
• Einstein, Albert, 41
• Eliot, Charles W., 122, 125–26, 147, 152, 161, 170, 243, 370
  • HBA’s honorary degree from Harvard and, 304–5
• Eliot, T. S., 319, 368
• Ely, Richard, 316
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1, 34, 109, 140, 169, 238, 369, 398n5
• Emerton, Ephraim, 126–27
• Episcopalism, 208
• Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law (HBA), 149–52, 163, 303
• Essex Junto, 162, 163, 164–65, 168
• Esther (HBA), 208–13, 412n4
  • characters based on HBA’s wife and acquaintances, 209–12
  • ending a period in HBA’s domestic life, 213
  • nom de plume for, 208
  • publication of, 212
  • reviews, 213
  • theme of religious doubt, 210
• eugenics, 316
• Evarts, William, 92
• Everett, Charlotte Gray Brooks (aunt), 22
• Everett, Edward (uncle), 22
• evolutionary theory, 41
• Exposition Universelle of 1900, Paris, 333–35
  • Gallery of Machines, 334
  • HBA and the giant dynamos, 325, 334, 335

• Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), 207
• Fay, Father Sigourney, 388
• Federalists, Federalist Party, 161–66, 181, 318, 386, 408n1
• Fenollosa, Ernest, 241, 274
• Field, Cyrus, 120
• Field, David Dudley, 120
• Fiji, 258, 262–63
• Fillmore, Millard, 402n4
• Fisk, James, 117–18, 119, 120
• Fiske, John, 316
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 388, 414n14
• Fitzgerald, John “Honey Fitz,” 320
• Five of Hearts, The (O’Toole), 198
• Foote, William Henry, 246–47
• Forbes, John Murray, 151
• Ford, Gerald, 402n4
• Fordism, 41
• Forster, E. M., 399n3
• Forsyte Saga, The (Galsworthy), 5, 279
• France
  • Adams, John, as envoy to, 47
  • anti-Semitism and, 321
  • Coutances, 311, 332
  • Dreyfus Affair, 321–22
  • HBA in Normandy and the cathedral towns, 309–12, 333, 375, 420n1
  • HBA’s interest in medieval music, 386
  • HBA spending summers in, 320–21
  • history of, as chaotic, 148
  • La Mère Poulard, hotel and restaurant, 354
  • neutrality of, Civil War, 71
  • Tahiti and, 257
  • See also Paris
• France and England in North America (Parkman), 150
• Frankfurter, Felix, 319
• Franklin, Benjamin, 7, 92
• Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 58, 386
• Fraser’s Magazine, 120
• Freeman, Derek, 262, 414n14
• Free Soil Party, 23, 34, 63
  • convention, Buffalo, N.Y., 23
  • election of 1848, 24
  • HBA influenced by, 24
  • Sumner and, 35
• Frémont, John C., 62
• Friedrich, Otto, 211
• Froude, James, 120
• Fruitlands (experimental community), 34
• Fuller, Margaret, 140
• Fulton, Robert, 248