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These Truths

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by Jill Lepore


  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

&n
bsp; 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

 

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