Seven Events That Made America America

by Larry Schweikart

  Shlaes, Amity

  Sholokhov, Mikhail

  Shosteck, Eron

  Shultz, George

  Sinatra, Frank

  Sinclair, Upton

  60 Minutes

  slavery

  Compromise of 1850 and

  Constitution and

  Dred Scott case

  gag rules on discussion of

  Lincoln and

  Missouri Compromise and

  newspapers and

  Pinckney Resolutions and

  political parties and

  as property, economic significance of

  three-fifths compromise and

  Van Buren and

  Wilmot Proviso and

  Snyder, Howard M.

  Snyder, Steve

  Society of Professional Journalists

  Sousa, John Philip

  Soviet Union

  Spangler, George

  special interest groups

  spoils system

  Springsteen, Bruce

  Spurlock, Morgan

  Stamler, Jeremiah

  Standage, Tom

  Starr, Ringo

  state elections

  Stephens, Jack

  Stevens, John Paul

  Stills, Stephen

  Storey, Wilbur

  Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

  Suez Canal

  Sullivan, John L.

  Sumner, Charles

  Super Size Me

  Supreme Court

  Dred Scott decision of

  Sutcliffe, Stuart

  Syria

  Taney, Roger B.

  Tarr, H. C.

  Taubes, Gary

  Thatcher, Margaret

  Thomas, Clarence

  Thornton, Doug

  Thrasher, John

  Three Mile Island accident

  Time

  Townshend, Pete

  transportation networks

  railroads

  roads

  Trapnell, Garrett

  Trenchard, John

  Troitsky, Artemy

  Truman, Harry

  Trumbull, John

  Tshombe, Moise

  Turner, Ted

  Tweed, William Marcy

  Tyler, John

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)

  United Nations (UN)

  university, national

  University of Pennsylvania

  USA Today

  Valens, Ritchie

  Van Buren, Martin

  government growth and

  Jackson and

  Missouri Compromise and

  newspapers and

  party system and

  slavery and

  Vietnam War

  media and

  Viguerie, Richard

  Villard, Oswald Garrison

  Von Hoffman, Nicholas

  voting:

  political parties and

  property requirements for

  Tweed Ring and

  Walicki, Franciszek

  Walker, Robert

  Wall Street Journal

  Wal-Mart

  Washington, George

  government size and

  partisanship and

  press and

  terrorism and

  Washington Post

  Washington Times

  Watts, Charlie

  Webster, Daniel

  Weinberger, Caspar

  Western Electric

  Whigs

  White, Paul Dudley

  White, Richard

  White, Theodore H.

  Wiley, Harvey

  Williams, Juan

  Wills, Garry

  Wilmot, David

  Wilmot Proviso

  Wilson, Brian

  Wilson, Charlie

  Wilson, Kemmons

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Wood, Fernando

  Woodstock

  World Health Organization (WHO)

  Wright, Jeremiah

  Wright, William

  Yancey, William Lowndes

  Yarrow, Peter

  Yassin, Ali

  Yost, Casper S.

  Zappa, Frank

  Zawahiri, Ayman al-

  a Special thanks to Peter Cajka, who provided research for this based on his unpublished paper, “The National Cash Register Company and the Neighborhoods: New Perspectives on Relief in the Dayton Flood of 1913,” July 1, 2009, copy in author’s possession.