by Jill Lepore
London Gazette, 30
Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (E. Bellamy), 127
Lost Cause of the Confederacy, 96
Lowell, James Russell, 102, 104
Lowell, Robert, 1, 135
Lukas, J. Anthony, 117
Lynd, Staughton, 67
Maddow, Rachel, 159
Madison, James, 22, 105, 106, 113, 119, 122, 123
Malcolm X, 65, 134
Malkin, Michelle, 9
Malone, Kat, 35, 90, 135
Marcus, Lloyd, 136
Mardi (Melville), 114
Marshall, Jocelyn, 160
Marshall, Thomas, 60–61
Marshall, Thurgood, 119–20
Marshall School, 79–80
Maryland Gazette, Expiring, 39
Massachusetts Constitution, 109
Massachusetts Family Institute, 5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 137
Massachusetts Poor Laws, 48
Massachusetts Tenth Amendment Resolution, 156
Maternal Physician, The (M. Tyler), 148
Mather, Cotton, 31
Maverick, Samuel, 62
Mayflower, 1, 5
McCarthy, Eugene, 67
McCarthyism, 13
McCullough, David, 46
McVeigh, Timothy, 22
“Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro, The” (Douglass), 73
Mecom, Benjamin, 50–51, 131, 138
Mecom, Edward, 49, 50
Mecom, Jane, 47–48, 51, 56–57, 102, 122, 138, 141
Christianity of, 148–49
death of, 143
death of her children, 49, 55
death of her husband, 49–50
despair of, 54–55
marriage of, 49
plundering of her home by the British, 131
on poverty and lack of education, 153–54
Mecom, Peter, 50, 59
insanity and death of, 138–39
Mecom, Polly, 55
media, old/mainstream/“liberal,” 40–41
Melvill, Thomas, 81, 86–87, 187n25
Melville, Herman, 87, 114
“Memorial Remonstrance against Religious Assessments” (Madison), 122
Mencken, H. L., 16–17
Mineau, Kris, 5
minutemen, 66, 93, 101–2
Minutemen Bicycle Path, 155
Montgomery, Hugh, 61
Moorhead, Scipio, 75
Moral Majority, 13
Morgan, Edmund S., 73, 74, 96
Moses, 13
National Center for Constitutional Studies, 112–13
National Organization for Women (NOW), 82
Nell, William Cooper, 114–15, 115–16
New-England Courant, 30–31, 32, 144
New-Hampshire Gazette, 39, 40
New Left, the, 73
New York Constitution, 107
Newspaper Death Watch, 41
newspapers: decline of in contemporary times, 41
history of, 30–31
Newsweek, 67
Nixon, Richard, 5, 7, 65, 71–72, 81–83, 117, 187n27
Nixon’s Bicentennial Commission. See American Revolution Bicentennial Commission
Obama, Barack, 3, 91, 98–99, 112
the Right’s view of, 8–9
the Tea Party’s view of, 136
Obamacare, 43, 64, 152
Old South Meeting House, 78–79
Oliver, Andrew, 33, 36
Oliver, Peter, 21, 24, 25, 33, 36
O’Neil, Jim, 83
“On the Affray in King Street” (P. Wheatley), 62
“On the Arrival of the Ships of War, and the Landing of the Troops” (P. Wheatley), 57
O’Reilly, Bill, 157
Organization of American Historians, 157–58
originalism, 118–125
in the courts, 123–25
“Origin & Progress of the American Revolution” (Oliver), 21
Origin of Evil, The (R. Tyler), 148
Otis, James, Jr., 25, 34, 36, 58, 64, 133, 141
insanity of, 59, 74–75, 182n38
Otis, James, Sr., 25
Our Country Deserves Better, 37
Paine, Thomas, 46, 92, 129–30, 137–38, 141, 147, 148, 149
arrest of, 142–43
dementia and death of, 145–46
statement of concerning his belief in God but not creeds, 143, 196n59
Palin, Sarah, 37, 97, 99, 111, 135, 136–37, 156, 157
Parker, Theodore, 115
Pataki, George, 152–53, 155
Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (2010), 83
passage of, 90. See also health care reform
Patriot’s Day, 155
Paul, Rand, 159
Paul, Ron, 79, 159
“Paul Revere’s Ride” (Longfellow), 6–7
Pelham, Henry, 34, 63, 75, 102
Pelosi, Nancy, 91, 112
Pennsylvania Gazette, 32
Pennsylvania Journal, 39
Peoples Bicentennial Committee, 65, 72, 82, 84, 96, 134
People’s History of the United States (Zinn), 66
Perry, Jeff, 156
Peters, John, 139
Philadelphia Hospital, 131
Phillis, 26–27
Pledge of Allegiance, 127–28
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 114
Plymouth Rock Foundation, 5
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (P. Wheatley), 76
Poindexter, Leon, 89
Poor Richard’s Almanack (B. Franklin), 52
Preston, Thomas, 11–12, 61
Price, Richard, 153–54
Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, The (Davis), 73
Publick Occurrences, 30
Putnam, Israel, 103
Quartering Act (1764), 56
Quincy, Josiah, 79, 93
Ramsey, David, 21–22, 28, 39, 146
Reagan, Ronald, 147
Real George Washington, The (Allison and Parry), 157
Rebels, The (Child), 86
Reconstruction Act (1867), 110–11
Reed, Ralph, 147
Remick, Christian, 63
Republican Party, 9, 41, 95
Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, A: With a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes (Hewes), 87
Revere, Paul, 34, 42, 57, 63, 91, 101, 116, 146
equestrian statue of, 152, 153
“Revere America,” 152–53
Ridpath, John, 8
Rifkin, Jeremy, 65, 72, 84, 95–96, 134, 147
Rights of Man, The (Paine), 142, 146
Rights of Man, The, Part the Second (Paine), 142
Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, The (J. Otis, Jr.), 29
Roberts v. City of Boston (1850), 114
Roe v. Wade (1973), 119
Romney, Mitt, 100, 122
same-sex marriage, 42
Santelli, Rick, 3, 20, 51
Sartor, Caesar, 76
“Saturday Night Massacre,” 81–82
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 38, 67, 69, 117, 184nn56–57
Sedition Act (1798), 144
Seven Years’ War. See French and Indian War
Shabazz, Betty, 134
Shaw, Lemuel, 114
Shaw, Robert Gould, 135
Shay’s Rebellion, 22
Sherman, Roger, 131
Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, A (S. Adams), 63
“silent majority,” 4–5
Sims, Thomas, 114–15
slavery/slaves, 27, 28–29, 54, 75–76, 93–94, 96, 106, 133, 190n20
abolishment of in Massachusetts, 154
American sailors held as slaves by Barbary Coast states, 149
banning of as a detriment to colonial unity, 74
escape from slavery during the American Revolution, 139–40
as an issue during the American Revolution, 113–16
outlawing of in Vermont, 141
punishments for slave rebe
llion, 58
slave rebellion, 57–58. See also Declaration of Independence, Jefferson’s initial attack against slavery in; liberty, and slavery
Sleepy Hollow, 17
Sons of Harvard, 54
Sons of Liberty, 8, 42, 58, 63, 77, 81
origins of, 34
Sousa, John Philip, IV, 136
Spirit of Seventy-Six, The, 17
“Squabble of the Sea Nymphs, The” (M. O. Warren), 85
Stamp Act (1765), 29–30, 39
repeal of (1766), 54
riots as a result of, 33–34
Stamp Act Congress, 39
Stark, Joseph Andrew, 10
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 116
Sugar and Currency Acts (1764), 28, 29
Sumner, Charles, 114
Taxation No Tyranny (S. Johnson), 93
taxation/taxes, 7, 15, 53, 84, 106, 190n20
on tea, 77–78. See also Townshend Duties (1767)
Tax Day (April 15), Tea Party protests held on, 3–4, 8, 20, 98
Taylor, Earl, 157
Tea Act (1773), 77
Tea Party, 2–3, 7, 64, 97
Chicago Tea Party, 3
chief political asset of, 14
gathering of on the Boston Common (2010), 126–29, 135–37
message of as antihistory, 8
as a product of a reactionary view of American history, 68
rumors concerning, 37–38
“TEA” acronym of (“Taxed Enough Already”), 37. See also Boston Tea Party (2009); Tax Day (April 15), Tea Party protests held on; Tea Party Express; “Tea Party Weekend”
Tea Party Express, 37, 126, 127, 136, 152
“Tea Party Weekend,” 82–83
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), 159
Texas School Board, 12–15, 158–60
Thoreau, Henry David, 54
Tibbels, Jean Paul, 42
Touchstone, The; Or a Humble Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Religious Intolerance (R. Tyler), 150–51, 196n63
Townshend Duties (1767), 54, 55
repeal of (1770), 77
Treaty of Paris (1783), 17, 149
Treaty of Tripoli (1797), 150
“Tree of Liberty” statement: as part of Tea Party paraphernalia, 22
popularity of among 1990s militia groups, 22
Trenchard, John, 59–60
True Uses of American Revolutionary History, The (Curtis), 7–8
Tuerck, David, 4
Twain, Mark, 142
Tyler, Mary, 148
Tyler, Royall, 147–48, 149
as a lay preacher, 148
on religious intolerance, 150–51
United States, as a Christian nation, 4, 5, 74, 95, 99, 120, 150, 157, 158–59
U.S. Constitution, 13, 22–23, 106–7, 112
Article VI of, 122
bicentennial of, 119–20
First Amendment of, 122. See also originalism
Varley, Christen, 35, 43, 64, 94, 98, 99, 126
beliefs concerning global warming, 41–42
involvement in politics, 41
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 66, 78, 136
voting, history of, 104–6
literacy tests, 110
paper/ticket balloting in the colonies, 107–11
and the U.S. Constitution, 106–7
women’s suffrage, 110
Voting Rights Act (1965), 23, 111
Wagner, Edward, 37–38
Warner, John, 133
Warren, James, 28, 74
Warren, Joseph, 90, 91, 101, 103
Warren, Mercy Otis, 28, 36, 74, 75, 85, 93
Christianity of, 148–49
death of, 146
reply of to John Adams’s criticism of her work, 45–46
Washington, George, 11, 17, 64, 94, 106, 123, 130, 133
as commander of the Continental Army, 103, 104, 138
Washington, Harry, 133, 140–41
Washington Post, 83, 134
Watergate, 14, 72, 81, 83, 90
Waugh, Caleb, 137
“Way to Wealth, The” (B. Franklin), 51–54
Webster, Daniel, 61, 86
Weems, Mason (Parson Weems), 103
West, Benjamin, 56
Wheatley, John, 27
Wheatley, Phillis, 27, 57, 62, 64, 93–94, 130
Christianity of, 148–49
freedom of, 77
marriage of, 139
meeting with Benjamin Franklin, 76
travel to England, 75–76
Whig Party, 23, 88
White, Hugh, 61
White, Kevin, 72, 83
Williams, Mark, 136
Williams, Roger, 122
Wilson, Woodrow, 172n30
Winthrop, John, 105
women, education of in the colonial era, 48–49
Young, Brigham, 122
Youth’s Companion, 127–28
Zinn, Howard, 66
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