by Conrad Black
Citicorp
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil War; Anaconda Plan; Antietam; Appomattox Court House surrender; Atlanta; and Britain; Bull Run (Manassas); casualties of; conscription & volunteers; Emancipation Proclamation; Fort Sumter; Gettysburg; Hampton Roads Conference; Murfreesboro; Petersburg; Richmond; secession votes; Seven Days’ Battles; Seven Pines; Sherman’s March; Shiloh; Spotsylvania; and veterans’ pensions; Vicksburg
Clark, Beauchamp (Champ)
Clark, Mark
Clark, William
Clay, Henry; on abolitionists; and Bank of the U.S.; censure of Jackson; and Compromise of 1850; as “Great Pacificator,” loyalists of; as presidential candidate; Senate retirement; on tariffs; on Texas annexation; as war hawk; and Whig Party
Clayton, John M.
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Clemenceau, Georges
Cleveland, Stephen Grover; and Hawaii; second presidency
Clifford, Clark: on Israel; on Reagan; and Vietnam
Clinton, De Witt
Clinton, George; as vice president
Clinton, Henry
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Clinton, William J. (Bill); and Bosnia; as career politician; domestic measures; and Gulf War; and Haiti; and Kosovo; and mortgage crisis; NATO expansion; and Northern Ireland; and Oslo Accords; prudence of; and Rwanda; and Somalia; and terrorism; on UN funding
Clive, Robert
Colby, Bainbridge
Cold War; Eisenhower de-escalation efforts; end of; Marshall Plan; and Mutual Assured Destruction; Reagan & Gorbachev
Cole, USS
Colfax, Schuyler
Collins, J. Lawton
Collinson, Peter
Colombia; and Panama
Committee on the Present Danger
Common Sense (Paine)
Confederate States of America; battle flags of; readmission & Reconstruction; and Tyler
Conference for Progressive Political Action
Conflans, Hubert de Brienne, Count de
Congo
Congressional Medal of Honor
Congress of Berlin
Congress of Vienna
Conkling, Roscoe
Consalvi, Ercole Cardinal
Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Union Party
Continental Army; demobilizing of; force size; and militia
Continental Congress; Declaration of Independence; flight from Philadelphia; funding calls; and Paris peace talks; petitions to king; and war debt; Washington’s commission; weakness of
Conway Cabal
Cooke, Alistair
Cooke, Jay
Coolidge, Calvin
Cornell, Alonzo B.
Cornwallis, Charles, Lord
Coughlin, Charles E., Father
Coulson, J.E.
Cox, Archibald
Cox, James M.
Coxey, Jacob
Crawford, William H.
Creole mutiny
Crittenden, John J.
Croce, Benedetto
Crockett, Davy
Cronkite, Walter
Cuba; and Angola; Bay of Pigs; and Berlin; Castro revolution; FDR policy on; and Gorbachev; independence of; López attack; Maine explosion; missile crisis; and Ostend Manifesto; and Platt Amendment; rebels in; and Spanish-American War; and Watergate
Cumberland, William August, Duke of
Cumming, Thomas
Cunningham, Andrew
Curley, James Michael
Curtis, Charles
Custer, George Armstrong
Czechoslovakia; Communist coup in; and Hitler; Soviet invasion of
Czech Republic
Czolgosz, Leon
Daladier, Edouard
Daley, Richard
Dallas, George M.
Daniels, Josephus
Darlan, Jean François
Dartmouth, William Legge, Lord
Daugherty, Harry M.
Davie, William
Davies, Joseph
Davis, David
Davis, Henry Gassaway
Davis, Jefferson; as Confederate president; pro-slavery resolutions; as secretary of war
Davis, John W
Dawes, Charles Gates
Dawes Plan
Day, William R.
Dayton, William L.
Dean, John
Deane, Silas
Dearborn, Henry
Debs, Eugene V
Decatur, Stephen
Declaration of Independence; and Constitution; and French Revolution; on Indians; and Jefferson’s gravestone
Declaration of the United Nations (Atlantic Charter)
De Gasperi, Alcide
de Gaulle, Charles; ambitions of; appeasing Arabs; blaming America; at Casablanca Conference; and Churchill; and Cuban missile crisis; on D-Day; death of; “dictatorial personality,” ; and Eisenhower; and Fifth Republic; and Free France movement; and general strikes; and Germany; and Kennedy; on MacArthur; and NATO; and Nixon; and Roosevelt; Stalin on; in U.S.; and U-2 fiasco; and Vietnam
de Lattre de Tassigny, Jean
Delors, Jacques
Democratic Party; Chicago’68 convention; and Clintons; on gold standard; and Jackson; lack of convictions in; on League of Nations; racial attitudes; radical 1972 platform; and Reconstruction; slavery division; and southern vote; and Tammany Hall; and Vietnam
Democratic-Republicans
Deng Xiao-ping
Dependent Pension Act
De Valera, Eamon
Devers, Jacob
Dewey, George
Dewey, Thomas E.; and Eisenhower
Diaz, Porfirio
Dickinson, Angie
Dickinson, John
Dieckhoff, Hans Heinrich
Diem, Ngo Dinh; and Buddhist monks; murder of
Dillon, Douglas
Dinwiddie, Robert
Dirksen, Everett
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dixiecrats
Djilas, Milovan
Dobrynin, Anatoly
Dodge, Henry
Doenitz, Karl
Dole, Robert
Dole, Sanford B.
Dominican Republic; debt crisis in; military intervention in; and Trujillo
Donelson, Andrew
Doolittle, James A.
Doubleday, Abner
Douglas, Helen Gahagan
Douglas, Stephen A.; and Clay; and Kansas-Nebraska Act; and Lincoln debates; on “popular sovereignty,” as presidential candidate
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dubček, Alexander
Dukakis, Michael S.
Duke, James Buchanan
Dulles, Allen; and Bay of Pigs; and United Fruit Company; and Vietnam
Dulles, Avery
Dulles, John Foster; and Chiang Kai-shek; and Chou En-lai; criticism of; and Egypt; and Germany; on Korea; successes of; as uncongenial
Dumas, Charles
Dunmore, John Murray, Lord
Dupuy de Lome, Enrique
Duquesne, Abraham
Dutch East Indies
Eagleburger, Lawrence
Eagleton, Thomas
Early, Jubal T.
East Germany; and Berlin Wall; opening & reunification
East India Company
East Pakistan
Eaton, John
Eaton, Peggy O’Neal
Eden, Anthony; and Balkans settlement; on German division; and Roosevelt meeting; and Suez crisis; on Turkish president
Edward VII, King
Edwards, John
Egypt; Aswan Dam; and Camp David Accords; and Israel’s Sinai attack; Mubarak ouster; Six-Day War; and Suez crisis; and Yom Kippur War
Ehrlichman, John
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight D.; achievements; as Anglophile; at Buchenwald; budget discipline; and Castro; and China; and Churchill; and CIA; Cold
War de-escalation; and Columbia University; command structure; containment strategy; and Cuban exiles; and D-Day (Overlord); and defense economy; and de Gaulle; and desegregation; domino theory; and Formosa Resolution; and Germany; heart attack; and hostile Congress; and ICBMs; and Indochina; interstate highway project; and Khrushchev; and Korean War; and Latin America; and Lebanon; and Marshall; and McCarthy; and Mossadegh; and NASA; and Nasser; as NATO commander; and Nixon; nomination maneuvering; North Africa command; on nuclear weapons; Open Skies plan; presidential draft effort; public approval; reception abroad; reelection; show of strength; and space program; and Sputnik; and Stalin; stroke; and Suez crisis; and Truman; and U-2 fiasco; and Vietnam; in World War II; and Yalta agreements
Eisenhower, Milton
Eisenhower Doctrine
Electoral College; in Bush-Gore election; in Hayes—Tilden election; in Jefferson—Burr election; and three-fifths rule; and vice presidency; and Washington
Elizabeth, Czarina
Elizabeth II, Queen
Ellsberg, Daniel
Ellsworth, Oliver
El Salvador
Ely, Paul
Emancipation Proclamation
Embargo Act (1807)
Endara, Guillermo
Enfant, Pierre-Charles l’
English, William H.
Enlightenment
Entente Cordiale
Enterprise, USS
Environmental Protection Agency
Erie Canal
Erskine, David
Ervin, Sam
Estaing, Charles Henri (Admiral), Count d’
Ethiopia
European Advisory Commission
European Commission
European Common Market
European Defense Community
European Parliament
European Union
Eustis, William
Everett, Edward
Everts, William Maxwell
Explorer 1
Fairbanks, Charles W
Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia
Fall, Albert B.
Farley, James A.
Farouk, King of Egypt
Farragut, David
Fatah
Fauchet, Joseph
Faure, Edgar
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
Federal Republic of Germany; and Reagan; and reunification; see also Germany
Federal Reserve; and Roosevelt; and subprime mortgage crisis; Volker policy
Federal Trade Commission Act
Federalist Papers
Federalist Party; divisions among; and immigrants; vs. Jefferson; weakening of; and Whigs
Fenno, John
Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prince
Ferguson, Patrick
Ferraro, Geraldine
Fillmore, Millard; and Know-Nothings
Finch, Robert
Finland
Fish, Hamilton
Fisk, Jim
Foch, Ferdinand
Forbes, John
Ford, Gerald R.; vs. Carter; Nixon pardon; as president
Formosa; see also Taiwan
Formosa Resolution
Forrestal, James V.
Forsyth, John
Fort Duquesne
Fort Edward
Fort Frontenac
Fort Necessity
Fort Ticonderoga (Carillon)
Fort William Henry
Foster, John
Foster, Stephen
Foster, William Z.
Fox, Charles James; and naval blockade
France; and Algeria; and American Revolution; British defeat of; and Canada; and Civil War; Colbert’s economics; Communists in; and Convention of 1800; declining power of; and embargo; on European Defense Community; Fifth Republic; general strikes in; and Genêt’s privateers; German occupation of; greatness of; in Indochina / Vietnam; and Jackson; and Kellogg-Briand Pact; liberation of; and Louisiana Territory; and Mexico; Monroe in; and Morocco; Napoleonic Wars; and Panama Canal Company; Prussian defeat of; Resistance in; Revolution of 1848; and Rhineland occupation; in Seven Years’ War; ship seizures by; Spain invasion; and Statue of Liberty; and Suez crisis; and Texas; Third Republic instability; transitory government in; Vichy regime; XYZ affair; see also French Revolution
Franco, Francisco
Franco-American Treaty of Friendship
Franco-German Friendship Treaty
Franco-Prussian War
Franklin, Benjamin; as abolitionist; on American potential; and Braddock; on Canada; and Committee of Safety; and Constitution; constitution proposal; death of; and Declaration of Independence; diplomacy in London; esteem for; FDR comparison; and France; grand council proposal; on Intolerable Acts; at Paris peace talks; and Penn family; as polemicist; and son; on Stamp Act; on Townshend taxes
Franklin, William
Franks, Tommy
Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria
Franz Joseph, Emperor
Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia
Frederick William, King of Prussia
Freedmen’s Bureau
Free Soil Party
Frelinghuysen, Frederick T.
Frelinghuysen, Theodore
Frémont, John C.
French and Indian Wars. See Seven Years’ War
French Revolution; and Terror
Freneau, Philip
Frick, Henry Clay
Friedman, Milton
Fries, John
Fuchs, Klaus
Fugitive Slave Act; and Dred Scott
Gadsden Purchase
Gallatin, Albert; and War of 1812
Gambier, James, Lord
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gardner, Augustus
Garfield, James Abram
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garner, John Nance
Garrison, Lindley
Garrison, William Lloyd
Gates, Horatio
Genet, Edmond Charles (Citizen)
Geneva Accord
Geneva Convention
George, Walter
George I, King
George II, King
George III, King; demonization of; domestic opposition to; on Franklin; intransigence of
George V, King
George VI, King
Gerasimov, Gennadi
Germany: banking collapse in; Berlin blockade; Berlin Wall; Federal Republic recognized; Kennedy’s Berlin speech; and Khrushchev; Kristallnacht; and NATO; as naval & colonial power; Nazi rise; occupation zones in; rearmament of; reparations by; reunification of; and revenge; and Samoa; as semi-giant; unification of; see also East Germany; Federal Republic of Germany; Prussia; World War I; World War II