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by Jill Lepore


  Gordon, Thomas, 60

  Gore, Al, 681, 696, 716–17

  Gospel of Efficiency, 382–84, 404

  government, Locke on role of, 53–54

  Graham, Billy, 461, 568–69, 569, 616

  Graham, Lindsey, 774

  grain, 335

  Grange, 335, 336

  Grant, Madison, 392, 408

  Grant, Ulysses S., 329

  black support for, 324

  on Civil War casualties, 293

  corrupt administration of, 334

  in election of 1868, 324

  Lee’s surrender to, 305

  grass-roots campaigns, 547

  Great Basin, 333

  Great Britain, 223, 537, 548, 554

  American colonies of, see American colonies, British

  antislavery movement in, 107–8

  and creation of United Nations, 492

  economy of, 406

  in Four Powers Pact, 467–68

  French wars with, 65–66, 76–77, 170, 171, 172

  individual liberties in, 27, 33

  in Munich crisis, 467, 474

  Oregon Territory claimed by, 235, 242

  at Paris Peace Conference, 400

  political principles of, 27

  as Protestant country, 26–27

  repayment of American debt demanded by, 114

  Restoration in, 50–51

  in slave trade, 45–48

  in United Nations, 503

  U.S. arms used by, 475, 477, 480, 481

  U.S. food sent to, 486

  war on Germany declared by, 476–77

  welfare state in, 378, 379

  in World War I, 398

  Great Depression, 424–25, 425, 436–44, 515, 529

  end of, 486–87

  “Great Lawsuit, The: Man versus Women” (Fuller), 252

  Great Migration, 371, 576

  Great Nebraska Silver Train, 350

  Great Society, 611, 619, 623, 629, 657 “great train robbery,” 561

  Greece, 537

  Greeks, ancient, 11

  Greeley, Horace, 235, 252, 303

  Bleeding Kansas named by, 266

  Emancipation Proclamation praised by, 297

  slavery criticized by, 255

  greenbacks, 334

  Greenleaf, Thomas, 131

  Grimes, William, 239–40

  Grimké, Angelina, 252, 275

  Grimké, Sarah, 652

  Griswold v. Connecticut, 649, 653, 678, 685, 686, 688, 689, 768

  Gruber, Bronko, 614

  Guadalcanal, Battle of, 494

  Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of, 250, 251

  Guantánamo Bay, 746–47, 766

  Guatemala, 281, 574

  Guatícabanú, 5, 16

  Gulliver, 492

  Gun Control Act (1968), 672, 679

  gun control debate:

  and Black Power movement, 627, 673

  and conservatism, 672–74, 675–78

  and originalism, 688

  and political consensus, 672–73

  and political polarization, 647–48, 676, 679

  gun laws, 445–46

  Gutenberg, Johannes, 13

  Guttmacher, Alan F., 649

  Hacker, Andrew, 638

  Hadden, Briton, 412, 413

  Haiti, 18, 337, 578

  Columbus’s 1492 arrival at, 3–4

  Columbus’s return to, 5

  Columbus’s sketch map of, 4

  constitution of, 240

  French withdrawal from, 170

  independence of, 203

  revolution in, 254

  revolution of 1791

  in, 142–43, 143, 159

  sugar plantations in, 142

  Hakluyt, Richard, 25–26, 27–28

  Haldeman, H. R., 626, 636, 637, 639, 640, 642

  Haley, Alex, 660

  Halifax, 136

  Halsey, R. T. H., 407

  Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 748

  Hamilton, Alexander, xiii–xiv, xvii, 117, 122, 134, 145, 154, 160, 163–64, 167, 624–25

  on citizenship, 313

  economic plan of, 334

  as Federalist Papers coauthor, 128–29, 134, 166

  and founding of Washington, DC, 139–40

  on judiciary’s powers, 134–35

  on self-rule by people, 420

  U.S. Bank plan of, 138–39

  Washington’s Farewell Address and, 146

  Washington’s inaugural address written by, 133

  Hamilton, Alexander (doctor), 67

  Hamilton, Andrew, Zenger trial and, 62–63

  Hancock, John, 92

  Hanna, Mark, 374

  Hannity, Sean, 755

  Hanson, Peter, 720

  Harbord, James G., 423

  Harding, Warren G., 394, 504, 562

  in election of 1920, 403

  government efficiency desired by, 404–5

  Harlan, John Marshall, 359–60

  Harlem Renaissance, 411

  Harpers Ferry, Va., 282–83, 284

  Harrison, William Henry, 227, 234

  in election of 1840, 227–28, 229

  Hart, Gary, 696

  Hartford Convention (1814), 173, 217

  Harvard College, 45

  Hastings, Lansford W., 242

  Hatch, Orrin, 677, 678

  hate speech codes, 703–4, 763

  Hate That Hate Produced, The (TV documentary), 606

  Hatfield, George, 450

  Hayek, Friedrich A., 506, 507, 553, 592

  Hayes, Rutherford B.:

  in election of 1876, 329

  strike broken by, 338

  Haywood, Bill, 395

  health care, and Clinton administration, 698–99

  health insurance, 377, 378, 379–80, 438, 532–34, 533, 541, 546–48, 553–54, 560, 561, 570

  Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 380

  Hearst, William Randolph, 349, 366, 367, 434, 437, 448–49, 453, 463, 475–76, 479

  Heartland Institute, 683

  Heller, Walter, 611, 612

  Hemings, Beverly, 178

  Hemings, Elizabeth, 174

  Hemings, Eston, 186

  Hemings, Harriet, 178, 186, 187

  Hemings, John, 186

  Hemings, Madison, 178, 186

  Hemings, Sally, 174

  Jefferson’s children with, 173–76, 178, 186

  Henry, Patrick, 91, 94, 130–31, 167

  Henry, prince of Portugal, 11

  Henry I, king of England, 40

  Henry VIII, king of England, 26

  Hepburn, Katharine, 574–75

  Hercules (slave), 147

  Heritage Foundation, 648, 663, 683

  Herodotus, xvi

  Herring, Pendleton, 479

  Hersey, John, 494, 521–22, 574

  Hewitt, Abram, 343

  Higby, William, 326

  Hill, Anita, 697

  Hill, David, 344

  Hinckley, John, Jr., 672, 676

  Hindoo, 341

  hippies, 695

  Hirabayashi, Gordon, 495

  Hirabayashi v. United States, 495

  Hiroshima bombing (1945), 517, 521–22, 571

  Hispaniola, see Haiti

  Hiss, Alger, 509–10, 515, 540–41, 548–49, 550, 641

  “Hiss Case—A Lesson for the American People, The” lecture (Nixon), 549

  historical studies, 353–54

  history:

  ancient concept of, xvi

  artifacts and, 8

  faith vs., xvi–xvii, xix

  as form of heritage, xix

  as form of inquiry, xvi–xviii

  fossil record and, 8

  founders’ study of, xv

  geological, 7

  importance of counting and measuring in, 16–18

  as inheritance, xx

  as study of what remains, 4

  writing and, 12–13, 15

  History of the American People (Wilson), 374

  History of the United States (Beard), 441


  History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent to the Present (Bancroft), 10, 198–99, 353–54

  History of the World (Ralegh), xvi

  Hitchcock, Alfred, 502, 516–17

  Hitler, Adolf, 427, 434, 449, 467, 468, 474, 516, 554

  Anschluss announced by, 466

  Coughlin’s admiration for, 476

  Soviet Union invaded by, 481–82

  U.S. disdained by, 475

  war on U.S. declared by, 485

  Ho, Lew Wa, 316

  Hobbes, Thomas, 37, 61, 106

  Hobby, Oveta Culp, 570

  Ho Chi Minh, 399, 602, 603, 629

  Hodge, A. A., 391

  Hodge, Charles, 390–91

  Hoey, Clyde, 551

  Hofstadter, Richard, 562

  Holiday, Billie, 396

  Holland:

  American Revolution and, 101

  repayment of American debt demanded by, 116

  Hollerith, Herman, 355, 404

  Holmes, John Haynes, 522

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 362, 378, 405, 462

  Holocaust, 529

  Holt Street Baptist Church, 583

  home, work vs., 193, 195, 196–97

  home loans, 530

  Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, 504

  Home Protection Party, 340

  Homestead Act, 317, 332, 333

  Homo sapiens (modern humans), evolution and migration of, 8

  homosexuality, 530, 550–52

  Honduras, 462

  Hood River, Oreg., 421

  Hoover, Herbert, 362, 433, 506, 562

  and building of new Supreme Court building, 462

  efficiency of government by, 405, 406, 423–24

  in election of 1928, 421–22, 423

  in election of 1932, 430–31

  Federal Radio Act pushed by, 422, 423

  inauguration of, 423

  made secretary of commerce, 405–6

  New Deal criticism of, 506–7

  radio addresses of, 427–28

  relief work by, 421

  response to the Depression of, 424–25

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 443, 499, 626, 641

  Hopkins, Elizabeth, 39

  Hopkins, Harry, 438

  Hopper, Grace Murray, 523, 524

  Horsmanden, Daniel, 62, 63–64

  Hose, Sam, 370

  House of Burgesses, 37–38, 48

  House of Representatives, U.S., 125, 535, 537, 540, 572, 586

  Committee on Foreign Relations of, 481

  Education and Labor Committee of, 537

  and 1924 election, 184

  Indian removal voted on in, 215

  as open to speculators, 132

  in presidential election of 1800, 164

  Special Committee to Investigate the Taylor and Other Systems of Shop Management, 384

  Texas annexation voted on by, 238

  Ways and Means Committee of, 301, 317

  House of Truth, 405

  House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 443, 498–99, 540, 572

  housing, 530, 576

  Houston, Sam, 223, 290

  Howard, Jacob, 322, 326–27

  Howard Johnson’s restaurants, 578

  Howard University Law School, 576

  Howe, Julia Ward, 328

  Howe, Quincy, 570–71

  Howe, William, 100, 101

  Howells, William Dean, 287–88

  Hughes, Charles Evans, 393, 462–63, 465

  Hughes, Langston, 531

  Hull House, 380

  human rights, xviii, 313, 503

  Locke on, 53–55

  slavery and, 86

  as U.S. founding principle, xiv–xv

  “Human Rights Not Founded on Sex” (Grimké), 252

  Hume, Brit, 710

  Hume, David, xv

  Humphrey, Hubert, 633

  Hungarians, 409

  Hungary, 383, 426

  Huntington, Samuel P., 722

  Hurja, Emil, 454

  Hurston, Zora Neale, 441

  Hussein, Saddam, 740

  Hutchinson, Thomas, 79

  hydrogen bomb, 524–25, 539, 571

  I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (Sinclair), 450

  IBM, 523

  Ickes, Harold, 710

  Idaho, 242, 324

  creation of, 332

  women’s voting rights in, 386

  Ideas Have Consequences (Weaver), 554

  identity politics, 668

  and political polarization, 701–2, 703

  “I Have a Dream” speech (King), 609–10

  Illinois, 221

  eight-hour workday in, 377

  movement to, 221

  Immigrant Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States through Foreign Immigrants (Morse), 208, 263

  immigrant labor, 383

  immigrants:

  encouraging of, 208

  nineteenth-century rise in, 208

  and populist movement, 344

  immigration, 314, 727

  and identity politics, 701

  restrictions on, 325, 336, 359, 407–11, 408

  and White Power movement, 674

  Immigration Act, 409

  Immigration and Nationality Act (1965), 674

  “Impeach Earl Warren” campaign, 582

  Imperial Hearst (Lundberg), 449

  imperialism, 366, 482

  Incas, 8

  income inequality, 757–58, 766–67

  income tax, 347

  in Civil War, 301

  graduated, 345, 346

  opposition to, 504–5

  passage of Sixteenth Amendment on, 376–77

  in Progressive Era, 364

  TR’s endorsement of, 376

  Independence, Mo., 531

  Independent, 269

  Indiana:

  as free state, 176

  gun laws in, 445

  movement to, 221

  suffrage sold in, 342

  Indiana University, 528

  Indian immigrants, 409

  Indian’s Appeal to the White Men of Massachusetts, An, 215

  Indonesia, 456

  industrial accident compensation, 377

  industrialization, 366, 529

  economic security vs., 377

  rise in 1920s of, 404

  slavery and, 191

  Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 395

  industry, 334

  inflation, 629

  influenza epidemic, 398

  information age, 520

  see also computers

  Infowars, 724–25, 728–29, 762

  infrastructure, 337–38

  “In God We Trust” motto, 569

  In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? (Sheldon), 366

  Innovator’s Dilemma, The (Christensen), 736

  Inquiry, 396

  Inquisition, 12

  Institute for Legislative Action, 675

  intellectuals, 551–55, 561, 568–69

  Inter-Allied Board, 398

  Interest in Slavery of the Southern Non-Slaveholder, The (DeBow), 292

  Internal Revenue Bureau, 301, 377

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 405

  Internal Security Act (1950), 551

  International Business Machines (IBM), 355, 404

  Internet, 587, 731–38, 744, 769–70

  and Clinton ethics investigations, 710

  and economic inequality, 657–58

  Gilder on, 671

  and political polarization, 648

  Interstate Commerce Committee, 384

  inventors, 198

  Iowa:

  farm cooperatives in, 336

  immigrants recruited to, 208

  Iowa method, 455

  Iranian hostage crisis, 680, 722

  Iraq, 740, 765

  Iraq War, 740–42, 741, 753, 766

  Ireland, famine in, 209

  Irish immigrants, 208, 209, 313

  Iron Curtain, 536


  Iroquois confederation (Six Nations), 66

  in French and Indian War, 80

  Isidore, Archbishop of Seville, 14, 15

  Islamic fundamentalism, 722, 739–40

  Islamic State, 765

  isolationism, 406–7, 477, 481–82, 492, 537

  Italians, 383, 409

  Italy, 383, 427, 462, 517

  in Axis, 466, 479

  Ethiopia invaded by, 427

  in Four Powers Pact, 467–68

  invasion of, 502

  at Paris Peace Conference, 400

  It’s Up to the Women (Eleanor Roosevelt), 433

  Jackson, Andrew, 173, 176, 225, 268, 332, 563

  criticism of, 198, 208, 212

  in election of 1824, 180–85, 183

  in election of 1828, 186

  in election of 1832, 218–19

  and election of 1836, 224–25

  inauguration of, 186–88, 187

  Indian removal policies of, 212–13, 214–15, 216–17, 337

  Lincoln’s opposition to, 288

  majority rule as principle of, 187

  national bank opposed by, 219–20, 239

  nullification opposed by, 217, 218

  Panic of 1837

  caused by, 226, 227

  people’s support for, 212

  populism and, 181

  and progress, 198, 199

  Tyler’s criticism of, 233

  Jackson, James, 135

  Jackson, Mahalia, 610

  Jackson, Robert, 579, 580

  Jackson, Robert H., 446

  Jacksonianism, and Second Great Awakening, 191

  Jacobs, Harriet, 261

  Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 193

  Jamaica, 34, 91

  Maroon Wars in, 58

  slave rebellions in, 63, 84, 85, 99

  James, Henry, 390

  James, William, 361, 368

  James I, king of England, 32, 41

  divine right of kings claimed by, 32, 39–40, 42

  Virginia charter of, 32–33, 34

  James River, 36

  Jamestown, Bacon’s burning of, 56

  Jane Crow, 500

  Japan:

  atomic bomb dropped on, 517

  in Axis, 466, 479

  Manchuria invaded by, 427, 481–82

  Nanking invaded by, 481–82

  in Pacific War, 493–94

  Pearl Harbor attacked by, 484, 487, 494

  Japanese Americans, internment of, 494–96, 495, 532

  Japanese immigrants, 409

  Jastrow, Robert, 683

  Jay, John, 101, 103, 106, 163–64

  as chief justice, 166–67

  citizenship desired limited by, 312

  as Federalist Papers coauthor, 129

  Jay Cooke & Company, 335

  Jefferson, Martha Wayles, 173

  Jefferson, Thomas, xiv, xvii, 110, 111, 116, 117, 129, 134, 137–38, 139, 145, 159, 169, 174, 184–85, 212, 332, 360, 363, 728

  Alien and Sedition Acts and, 158–59

  death of, 185–86, 190, 199

  in debate with Adams on Constitution, 153–54

  and Declaration of Independence, 98–99

  1807 embargo and, 171–72

  in election of 1796, 158

  in election of 1800, 154–55, 160–62, 160, 164

 

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