ABC News, 18
Acosta, Jim, 206
African Americans. See black people
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), 17
Alien Land Law of 1913 (California), 146
Allen, Garland, 157
Almond-Eyed: The Great Agitator (1878), 90–91
al-Qaeda, 24
Alta, Iowa, 125
Amendments to the US Constitution
Fifth Amendment, 154
Sixth Amendment, 154
Thirteenth Amendment, 206
Fifteenth Amendment, 77
Nineteenth Amendment, 206
America Fallen! The Sequel to the European War (1915), 128
American Defense Society, 117, 135
American Immigration Restrictionist League, 171
American Journal of Public Health (journal), 168
American Legion, 135
American Nun, The (1836), 57–58
American Protection League, 122–23
American Psychiatric Association, 34
American Red Cross, 115
American Socialist Party, 124
America's Answer (1918), 128
America Unprepared (1916), 128
Anderson, W. H., 155
annexation of Mexico, 18, 66–68
Anthropological Review (journal), 81
Anti-German League, 123
Anti-Jap Laundry League, 145
Anti-Saloon League, 126
Arab calligraphy scare, 136–37
Arab stereotypes in film, 190–91
Aryan “race,” 157, 160, 164, 166, 178, 188, 209, 213
Asahi Shumbun (Japanese newspaper), 99
Ashurst, Henry, 158
Asiatic Barred Zone, 30
Asiatic Exclusion League, 143
Atlanta-Journal Constitution (newspaper), 36
Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal (1836), 52, 54, 57
Bahr, Herbert, 179
Baltimore, Maryland, 46, 60–61, 133
Baltimore Literary and Religious Magazine, 60
Baltimore Post (newspaper), 61
Bandhauer, Carina, 72
Barbados, 23
Barbee, John, 62
Bartholomew, Robert E., 9, 12, 13
Bastrop County, Texas, 129
Bathhouse Riots of 1917, 73
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 180
Battle Cry for Peace, The (1915), 127
Battle Cry of War (1917), 127
Bauer, Jack (TV character), 191
Bay News (Florida newspaper), 130
Beach, Frank, 210
Beach, Walter, 144
Bear, Amy, 113
Bear Claw, 113
Bearden, Russell, 147
Beecher, Lyman, 50
Bender, Steven, 72
Bennett, Courtney, 117
Berger, Bethany, 103
Berlin, California, 121
Berlin, Iowa, 121
Berlin, Isaac, 207
Berlin, Michigan, 121
Berlin Summer Olympics of 1936, 164
Biddle, Francis, 154
Bigler, John, 86
Billington, Ray, 48
Bishop, Bridget, 24
Bjerge, Felma, 131
Blackfeet (tribe), 112
Black Legend, 68
black people
Black Legend, 68
miscegenation laws, 96
“Negroes,” 19, 65-66, 69, 76, 81, 89, 130, 144
Boalt, John, 81
Boston, Massachusetts, 30, 49–50, 52, 54, 117, 132–34
Boston Post (newspaper), 134
Boston Symphony Orchestra, 132
Bouldin, G. W., 124
Boynton, Thomas, 132
Bradford County, Florida, 130
Breivik, Anders, 188
Brinton, Daniel, 144
Brisbane, North Dakota, 116
British Guiana, 172
British West Indies, 32
Britt, George, 180
Brooke County, Georgia, 35
Bru, Federico Laredo, 172
Bubonic Plague, 141
Buck, Pearl S., 100
Buffalo, New York, 117
Bulc, Gregor, 39
Bureau of Indian Affairs, 108, 111
Burke, Edmund, 43
California gold fields, 84, 207
California Gold Rush of 1848, 82
California Police Gazette (newspaper), 88
California Sterilization Program, 74–76
Canadian Pacific Railroad, 118
Canton, China, 84
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 131
Carey, Patrick, 60
Carnegie Hall, 133
Casada, Glen, 187
Catholic scare, 13, 17–18, 38, 43–64, 180, 182, 191–92, 208
cat-killing scare (Slovenia), 39
Celler, Emanuel, 150
Center for Immigration Studies, 202–203
Centers for Disease Control, 37
Central Intelligence Agency, 21
Charlestown, Massachusetts, 46, 49, 59–60
Cheyenne (tribe), 105
Chicago, Illinois, 117, 120–21
Chicago Cubs (baseball team), 121
Chicago Tribune (newspaper), 151, 163
child-abduction scare of 1750 (Paris), 40
child sacrifice (by Catholic nuns), 17, 49, 57–58, 63, 86
Chin, Gabriel, 98
Chinese Exclusion Act, 99, 141
Chinese scare in popular fiction, 90–92
Chinese, 2, 10, 13, 17, 19, 41, 70, 80–100
denial of public education, 97
equated with insects and animals, 81, 94
from public menace to model minority, 98–100
Tom Kim Yung affair, 95
Christian Century (magazine), 155
Christianity and Crisis (magazine), 155
Christie, Chris, 185
chronic constipation, odds of dying from, 38
Chronicles of Mount Benedict, The (1837), 59
Cincinnati Post (newspaper), 171
Cincinnati Reds (baseball team), 33, 121
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, 132
Citizens Committee to Repeal Chinese Exclusion and Place Immigration on a Quota Basis, 99–100
Civil Liberties Act of 1988, 159
Civil War (Spanish), 176
Civil War (United States), 18, 44, 63, 107
Clark, Hugh, 62
Cleveland Indians (baseball team), 121
Clinton, Robert, 109
Coal Creek, Washington, 93
Code of Indian Offenses, 19, 101, 109, 114
Collinsville, Illinois, 129
colonialism
Puritans, 47
Committee on Public Information, 117
Committee on Selective Immigration, 149
Commonweal (magazine), 155
Communist “Red Scare,” 31–33, 39, 41, 69, 127, 157, 180, 197, 207, 211
Constitution (US). See Amendments to the US Constitution
Continental European witch scare, 39
Convent's Doom; A Tale of Charleston in 1834, The (1854), 59
Cooke County, Florida, 130
Coumbe, Fritz, 121
Courts of Indian Offenses, 112
cows, threat from, 183
“crack babies” scare, 35
Creighton University, 156
Crow (tribe), 113
Cubic Air Ordinance of 1870, 96
Curiel, Judge Gonzalo, 79
Cutter, Edward, 50
Czolgosz, Leon, 207
Daily Alta California (newspaper), 86
Dateline NBC (television program), 18
Dearborn, Michigan, 169
Dearborn Independent (newspaper), 169
Debs, Eugene, 124
Defenseless America (1915), 127
Deitz, Marie, 130
Delano, Laura, 171
Desert Hawk, The (serial), 191
Detroit, Michigan, 25
Dillingham Commission of 1911, 202
DiMaggio, Joe, 154
Disney, Walt, 20
displaced aggression, 16
Ditton, Jason, 10
Dodd, William, 164
Dominican Republic, 172
Dooner, Pierton, 91
Dray, Philip, 36
Dufrèsne, Father, 54
Durbrow, Elbridge, 173
Dutch Guiana, 172
East Alton, Illinois, 128
Easter Bunny, 101
Echo-Hawk, Walter, 102
Einsatzgruppen (Nazi death squads), 174
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 31
Elias, Robert, 101
Elk, Black, 110
Ellis, Charles, 133
Ellis Island, New York, 27–29, 204
El Paso, Texas, 73
English Defense League, 137
Erbelding, Rebecca, 174
Escalante, Jaime, 71
Espionage Act of 1917, 124
Eugenic Immigration League, 148
eugenics, 73–76, 148–49, 151, 155, 157, 166–70
American-Nazi connection, 151, 157, 166–70
and Mein Kampf, 151
sterilizations of Hispanics, 74–76
Executive Order 10450 (terminating suspected homosexuals), 31
Executive Order 9066 (interning Japanese Americans), 152, 154
Fair Pretender (1915), 126
falling TV sets, threat from, 21
Fall of a Nation, The (1916), 128
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 26, 32, 154, 177–80, 187, 195–96
Female Convents: Secrets of Nunneries Disclosed (1834), 48
Fenwick, Benedict, 50
Field, Stephen, 90
Fifteenth Amendment, 77
Fifth Amendment, 154
Finkelman, Paul, 121
flash floods, risk from, 38
Flint, Michigan, 25
Florida Female College, 131
Fluhrer, John, 121
Flying Torpedo, The (1916), 128
Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972), 22
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 25
Ford, Clellan, 210
Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States (1835), 45
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, 134
Friedman, Saul, 178
Friedrich III (emperor), 120
Gainesville, Florida, 130
Galveston News, 170
Gardner, Frederick, 123
Garfield, James, 94
Garfield High School (Los Angeles, California), 70–71
Garland, Nebraska, 121
Gates, W. Almont, 145
General Crimes Act of March 1817, 107
Geneva, Switzerland, 173
genital size, immigrants rejected for, 28, 37
George Washington Benevolent Aid Society, 120
Gerard, James, 123
German Foreign Office, 118
Germans, 17, 20–23, 39, 41, 43, 46–47, 62–63, 86, 115–39, 151, 153–54, 157, 160–81, 200, 208–11
depicted in cartoons, 116
sabotage and invasion rumors, 117–19
spy pigeon rumors, 116
sinking of the Lusitania, 119
Germantown, Indiana, 121
Germantown, Nebraska, 121
Germantown, Texas, 121
Giddings Deutsches Volksblatt (German newspaper), 129
Gila River, Arizona, 152
Goebbels, Joseph, 161
Goethe, Charles, 75
Goffman, Erving, 12
Gondi, Jean François Paul de, 201
Gonzalez, Alberto, 18
Good, Sarah, 23
Greeley, Horace, 80
Greensboro, Tennessee, 130
Gregory, Thomas, 122
Griffin, Susan, 58
Groh, Heinie, 121
“Ground Zero Mosque,” 24
Guggenheim, Paul, 173
gun violence statistics, 36–37
Gutman, Jeremiah, 114
Guyenne, France, 39
Hackensack, New Jersey, 26
Halloween-candy-tampering scares, 24–26
Hamburg, Germany, 172
Hannah Corcoran: An Authentic Narrative of Her Conversion from Romanism (1853), 59
Hannity, Sean, 46
Hansen, Chris, 18
Happy Hunting Ground, 111
Harding, William, 125
Hart, Bret, 89
Hazelton, George, 94
Hearst Corporation, 147
Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 152
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of New York City, 27
Heidelberg University, 151, 168
Helena, Montana, 85
Her Country First (1915), 126–27
Hertz, Alfred, 132
Higginson, Henry, 133
Hiroshima, Japan, 156
Hispanics and IQ, 71, 75, 203–204
Hitler, Adolf, 17, 22, 39, 149, 151, 155, 161–81, 188, 209
Hogan, William, 59
Homeland (television program), 191
Homo rubescus, 103
Hong Kong, 84
Hoover, Herbert, 76
Hoover, J. Edgar, 154, 177, 179–80
Horsetown, California, 93
Horsman, Reginald, 67
House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, 148
House Un-American Activities Committee, 33
Houston, Texas, 124
Hoyt, William, 56
Hrdlicka, Ales, 150
Huckabee, Mike, 186
Hutterites, 124
Hylan, John, 135
Ickes, Harold, 178
Immigration Act of 1891, 27
Immigration Act of 1903, 206
Immigration Act of 1917, 31
Immigration Act of 1924, 69
Immigration Restriction League, 148
Indian Removal Act of 1830, 107
Industrial Commission of 1901, 202
International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem (Ford), 169
internment camps for Japanese, 20, 139–60, 175
Iranian hostage crisis of 1979–1981, 157
Isaacs, Harold, 100
ISIS (Islamic State), 44, 182, 187, 197
Italian Americans, 11, 139, 153–54, 180
Jackson, Helen, 64
Jacobson, Matt, 11
Japanese, 17, 20, 41, 70, 98–100, 139–60, 165, 168, 175, 197, 207–208
discrimination by US military, 158–59
dropping of the atom bomb, 156–57
internment camps, 20, 139–60, 175
internment compensation, 159–60
Japanese American scare, 139–60
Pearl Harbor, 17, 98–99, 139, 156, 158, 160
popular stereotypes, 160
Japanese American Citizens League, 144
Japanese American scare, 139–60
Japanese Exclusion League, 143
Japanese internment camps, 20, 139–60, 175
Jefferson, Thomas, 189
Jennings, Herbert Spencer, 150
Jews, 13, 20–23, 27-28, 30, 73, 156, 160, 185, 190, 200, 208–210
burned alive, 39
discrimination against Jewish refugees, 161–81
Emma Lazarus, 16, 27, 204, 206–207, 209
ghettos, 108
inbred, 27
mentally defective, 28
Nuremberg Laws, 155
refugee ships, 172
sex-ring panic, 40
spy scare, 9, 17, 21, 161–81, 191, 197, 208–209
sterilization and extermination, 149
well-poisoning rumors, 39
John, Sister Mary (Elizabeth Harrison), 49–51
Johnson, Judy, 37
Jones, Claudia, 32
Journal of the American Medical Association (journal), 168
Juárez, Mexico, 73
Kaiser Friedrich Mutual Aid Society, 120
Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, The (1918), 128
Kai-shek, Chiang, 99
Katz, Ariel, 25
Katzenjammer Kids (comic strip), 116
Kearney, Denis, 141
Kennedy, Madge, 126
“kick-the-dog syndrome,” 16
Kindertransport (“children's transport”), 165
Kiowas (tribe), 112
Kipling, Rudyard, 102
Kitchen, Martin, 119
Kow, Ho Ah, 96
Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), 164
Kuhn, Fritz, 166
Kunwald, Ernst, 132
Kuo, Joyce, 97
Kurita, Kenneth, Jr., 156
LaGuardia, Fiorello, 154
Lake George, New York, 180
LaPorte, Cheryl, 136
Last Days of the Republic (1880), 91
Lavender Scare, 31
Lawrence, Thomas, 189
Lawrence of Arabia, 189
Lazarus, Emma, 16, 27, 204, 206–207, 209
Ledyard, John, 189
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others (2011), 12
Lexington Avenue Theater (New York City), 135
Life (magazine), 120
lightning strikes, threat from, 21, 183
Lincoln, Abraham, 34
Lincoln, Iowa, 121
Lindebner, Father, 110
Lindsey, Brink, 204
Lippmann, Walter, 182
Lira, Natalie, 74
literacy tests, 77
Liverpool, England, 119
Livingston Smith, David, 12
Los Angeles County, California, 76
Louis XV (king), 40
Louisville Journal (newspaper), 62
Lower Manhattan, New York, 187
Lowie, Robert, 113
Luce, Henry, 100
Lusitania (ship), 119
MacDonnell, Francis, 179
Madrid, Spain, 176
Manhattan Beach, California, 37
manifest destiny, 67
Maria Monk's Daughter (1874), 59
Marne, Michigan, 121
Marshall Law, 93
Martin, Vivian, 127
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 47, 181
Mateen, Omar, 187
Mathison, Carrie, 191
Mayberry-Lewis, David, 200
McCarthy, Maureen, 50
McClatchy, Valentine, 146
McClure, Addison, 94
McDougal, John, 86
McKinley, William, 207
McKinley High School (Honolulu, Hawaii), 156
McLaren, Angus, 33
McMartin Preschool scare, 37
“Medicine Dance,” 112
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 151, 169–70
Meloy, Michael, 145
Mennonites, 124
Mercantile Journal (Boston), 50
Mexican Americans and IQ, 71, 75, 203–204
Mexican Repatriation, 76
Meyers, Christopher, 36
Middletown, California, 93
Military Intelligence Service, 159
Miller, Stuart, 86
moccasin, 105
Mods and Rockers, 22
Mola, Emilio, 176
Mooney, James, 158
Moore, Hannah, 199
moral panics, 9–10, 13, 15–41, 182–83, 191, 210–11
Morris, William (John Fluhrer), 121
Morse, Samuel, 45
Morse Code, 45
Mount Benedict boarding school, 49
Mousekian, Donabet, 29
Muenster, Texas, 128
Mundo, Oto, 92
Mungen, William, 91
Muslims, 9, 12–13, 17, 19, 21, 30, 41, 43, 46, 63, 127, 136–37, 159, 161–62, 180, 182–99, 200–202, 205, 207, 210–12
Arab calligraphy scare, 136–37
exaggerated threat from, 9, 12, 17, 19, 21–22, 24, 26, 30, 41, 44, 63, 125, 136–37, 162, 180–99, 205, 207, 210–12
Nagasaki, Japan, 156
Nagel, Charles, 120
Nation (magazine), 171
National Academies of Sciences, 202
National Museum (Washington, DC), 150
National Security League, 135
National Socialist League, 145
Nation's Peril, The (1915), 127
Native Americans, 17, 68, 87, 101–14, 144, 157–58, 165, 190, 200, 208
Bear Claw, 113
Blackfeet (tribe), 112
Cheyenne (tribe), 105
and citizenship, 19
Crow (tribe), 113
Indian Removal Act of 1830, 107
Kiowas (tribe), 112
“Medicine Dance,” 112
Ojibwe (tribe), 112
“red skins,” 103
Shoshone (tribe), 112
Sitting Bull, 110
traditional dances, 110
Wolf Tail, 112
Wovoka (medicine man), 111
Yurok (tribe), 104
Navy Club, 135
Nazir, Abu, 191
Neale, Sister Isabella, 61
“New Colossus, The” (Lazarus), 27
New Haven, Connecticut, 116
New Hyde Park, New York, 187
New Orleans, Louisiana, 11
New World of Islam, The (1921), 190
New York City, 117, 119, 135, 154, 167
New York Commercial Advertiser (newspaper), 56
New York Journal-American (newspaper), 177
New York Metropolitan Opera House, 132
New York orphanage saga, 78
New York Philharmonic, 134
New York Post (newspaper), 177
New York Times (newspaper), 11, 31, 135, 150, 155, 168
New York Tribune (newspaper), 80, 126
New York World-Telegram (newspaper), 177
New York Yankees, 154
Niagara Falls, New York, 117
Nice, France, 188
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 155
Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht), 164
Nineteenth Amendment, 206
Nordic “races,” 69–70, 74, 78, 140, 148–50, 153, 162, 168
North Rhodesia, 172
Northwest Ordinance of 1787, 107
Nun of St. Ursula; or, the Burning of the Convent; a Romance of Mt. Benedict, The (1845), 59
Nuremberg trials, 151
Oahu, Hawaii, 156
Obama, Barack, 185
O'Bryan, Timothy, 25
Office of War Information, 152
Ojibwe (tribe), 112
Oklahoma City Federal Building, 187, 205
online sexual predators, 18
Order of Caucasians, 94
Order of the Star Spangled Banner, 45
Orlando, Florida, 187
Orleans, Massachusetts, 131
Osborne, Sarah, 23
Ottoman Empire, 190
Passing of the Great Race, The (1916), 149
Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, 137
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 17, 98–99, 139, 156, 158, 160
Peiping, China, 98
People (magazine), 38
Perils of Nyoka, The (1942), 191
Pershing, Indiana, 121
Pershing, John, 121
Pershing's Crusaders (1918), 128
Perth Amboy (tugboat), 131
Pets (magazine), 171
phantom Zeppelin sightings, 131
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18, 46, 61
Philadelphia Board of Controllers, 61
Pigtail Ordinance of 1873, 96
Pine Ridge Reservation, 112–13
Pittsburgh Press (newspaper), 177
Plecker, Walter, 169
Plessy v. Ferguson, 97
Pole Ordinance of 1870, 96
Police Gazette (newspaper), 88
Polk, James, 68
Pollock, Tom, 188
poll tax, 77
Pond, Gideon, 111
pope (Catholic), 18, 43, 45, 47, 48, 50, 196
Pope's Day (November 5), 47
Popular Science Monthly (magazine), 27
Portland, Oregon, 93
Prager, Robert, 129
Prekel, Henry, 125
Prentice, George, 62
Princeton Educational Testing Service, 70
Protestants, 44–50, 53–57, 59, 61–63, 105, 107, 192
Providence, Rhode Island, 133
Puerto Ricans, 71
Pulse nightclub attack, 187
Puyallup Fairgrounds, Washington State, 152
Quanza (ship), 172
race, as myth, 35, 71, 201, 208, 213
Ramji, Rubina, 190
Raskin, Israel, 28
Recovered Continent: A Tale of the Chinese Invasion, The (1898), 92
Red Cloud, 112
Red Deer, Robert, 113
Red Lake Reservation, Minnesota, 112
“red skins,” 103
Reed, Rebecca, 49, 52–53, 59, 63
Reformation, 105
Reumschüssel, Anja E., 9, 12, 13
Richwine, Jason, 203
Rising Tide of Color: The Threat Against White World-Supremacy, The (1920), 169
risks. See threats and risks
Riverheads High School (Virginia), 136
Robbins, Rossell, 106
Robin Hood, 33
Rockefeller Foundation, 169
Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, 93
Rogers, Edith, 170
Roma (people), 149
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 172
Roosevelt, Franklin, 114, 152, 155, 161–62, 164–65, 167, 173–76, 178, 180
Roosevelt, Theodore, 117, 133, 144, 190
Roscoe, Thomas, 48
Ross, Edward, 141
Rostow, Eugene, 153
Rubella, 120
Russo-Japanese War, 145
Sage, Rufus, 67
Saipov, Sayfullo, 187
Salem witch trials, 23, 181, 193
San Antonio Inquirer (newspaper), 124
San Francisco, California, 81, 85, 88, 96–97, 132, 141–43, 145
San Francisco Call (newspaper), 95
San Francisco Chronicle (newspaper), 142, 155
San Francisco City Council, 142
San Francisco Examiner (newspaper), 141
San Francisco Labor Council, 141
San Francisco Orchestra, 132
San Francisco School Board, 97, 143
Santa Anita Racetrack, California, 152
Santa Claus, 209
Santa Monica, California, 25
Santayana, George, 15
“scalp-dance,” 110
Schiller, Friedrich, 209
Schneider, Carl, 151
Schroeder, Paul, 121
Schroeder, Texas, 121
Schulte, Eduard, 173
Scientific American (magazine), 128
Scott, Winfield, 158
Seal Harbor, Maine, 132
Selective Service Act, 124
Sells, Cato, 112
Seneca the Elder, 182
serial killers, 17
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926), 189
Seventh Cavalry, 111
Shadows of the West (1920), 147
Shahada (Muslim prayer), 136, 194
Shakespeare, William, 161
Shasta County, California, 92–93
Shenanigan Kids (comic strip), 116
Sherwood, Percy, 117
Shoemaker, Nancy, 103
Short and Truthful History of the Taking of Oregon and California by the Chinese, A (1882), 91–92
Shoshone (tribe), 112
Sitting Bull, 110
Six Hours in a Convent (1857), 59
Six Months a Nun (no date), 59
Six Months in a Convent (1835), 52, 59
Six Months in a House of Correction (1835), 59
Sixth Amendment, 154
Smith, Eli, 189
Smithsonian Institution, 212
“sociopathic personality disturbance” (classification of homosexuality), 34
Spanish Civil War, 176
Squak Valley, Washington state, 93
SS Einsatzgruppen (Nazi death squads), 174
Stalin, Joseph, 31
Stand and Deliver (1988), 71
Stanford, Leland, 86
“Star-Spangled Banner, The,” (US national anthem) 45, 133
Statue of Liberty, 16, 27, 41, 204, 206, 208–209
Stimpson, Henry, 158
St. Louis (ship), 172
Stockton, Clay, 93
Stoddard, Lothrop, 69–70, 169, 190
Stokes, Rose, 124
Stop Islamization of America, 137
“sun-dance,” 110
Surgeon General (US), 28
Sussman, Robert, 167–68, 187, 213
Syrian refugee scare, 22, 38, 185–86
Tacoma, Washington, 93
Taft, Robert, 171
Taira, Katelyn, 159
Tampa Morning Tribune (newspaper), 130
Testimony of an Escaped Novice from the Sisterhood of St. Joseph, The (1855), 48
theory of disharmonious crossings (Laughlin), 150
Thirteenth Amendment, 206
Thorndale, Texas, 66
threats and risks
from cows, 183
from falling TV sets, 21
from flash floods, 38
from lightning strikes, 21, 183
from vending machines, 21
Tituba (witchcraft accusations against), 23
Totson, Kevin, 25
Treaty of Versailles, 135, 163
Treaty of Wyandot, 107
Trump, Donald J., 12–13, 19, 21, 44, 63, 65. 76. 78–79, 87, 159, 183–85, 197–98, 201, 205, 207, 211–12
Turner, Mary, 36
Twain, Mark, 189
Twenty-Fourth Amendment, 77
Tyler Kent Affair, 177
Under Four Flags (1918), 128
Ursulines, 49
US Constitution. See Amendments to the US Constitution
Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada), 118
Van Schaack, Eric, 127
Variety (magazine), 127
vending machines, threat from, 21
video-game violence, 17
Volksblatt und Freiheitsfreund (newspaper), 121–22
Waldenrath, Alexander, 122
“war-dance,” 110
Warfield, Edwin, 133
War Refugee Board, 176
Washington College, 61
Washington Post (newspaper), 126, 197
Washington Times-Herald (newspaper), 31
Watson, Tara, 203
Weber, David, 68
Wherry, Keith, 31
Whiteness of a Different Color (1891), 11
white people
“White Man's Burden,” 102
white slavery scare, 40
See also race, as myth
Whitney, Atwell, 90
Wickersham Commission of 1931, 202
Wiederhold, Patrick, 25
Wilson, Woodrow, 120, 122, 148, 211
witches, 23–24, 31–33, 39, 106, 181, 193
witch-hunts, 31–32, 39, 135, 193, 199, 211
Wolfgang Goethe, Johann, 209
Wolf Tail, 112
Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation (1917), 128
World Jewish Congress, 173
World Trade Center, 24
Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 110–11
Wovoka (medicine man), 111
Wu, William, 91
Wüstenbecker, Katja, 115
Wyman, David, 175
Xilomenos, Nicolaos, 29
“Yarbtown,” California, 90
Young, Jock, 9
Young, John, 143
Young, Rosamond, 134
Younger, Maud, 146
Yung, Tom Kim, 95
Yurok (tribe), 104
Zeppelin Attack on New York (1917), 128
Zyklon B, 73