Helena, Arkansas, 113
Heller, Joseph, 282
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 102
Hemings, Sally, 40
Hemingway, Ernest, 226
Hendricks, Thomas A., 132
Hermitage, 181
Herndon, William, 101, 102
Herschel, John, 62
Hershkowitz, Leo, 142
Hessians, 23
Hickman, John, 128
Hoar, George, 151
hoaxes, 21, 22, 25, 26, 62, 217, 218, 220, 221, 222, 223, 247, 248
Hodges, William, 235
Hollywood, 210, 211
Holmes, H. H., 174, 175, 176
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 147, 168
Homestead Act, 163
Hooker, Joe, 114
Hoover, Herbert, 225, 227, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244
Hoover, J. Edgar, 258, 259, 283
House of Representatives see Congress
House Un-American Activities Committee, 258, 266, 267, 268, 269, 280
Houston, Samuel, 57, 65, 67
Houston Chronicle, 296
Howard, Roy, 220, 221
Howe, Julia Ward, 84
Howe, Richard, 22
Hubbell, Webb, 299
Hughes, Charles Evans, 230
Humphrey, Hubert, 259, 286
Hunt, E. Howard, 269, 270
Hunt, H. L., 225
Ibrahima, 51, 52, 53
ice cream soda, 85
Idaho, 178, 179, 308
Illinois, 63, 100, 132, 169, 211, 230, 256
Illinois Central Railroad, 104
immigration, 286, 287
impeachment, 55, 126, 127, 203, 299
income tax. See taxes
Independence Day, 21, 143
Indians, 1, 2, 3, 43, 44, 45, 58, 68, 69, 147, 163, 164, 165, 204, 242, 243, 244, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309
inflation, 1
Inouye, Daniel K., 276
intellectuals, definition, 275
Iran, 291
Irish, 139, 140, 141
Irving, Washington, 30, 55, 126
Israel, 304
Italy, 303
Ive, John, 13
Jackson, Andrew, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 73, 97, 103, 181, 204
Jackson, New Hampshire, 54
Jackson, Rachel, 59, 60
Jackson, Stonewall, 84, 97, 98
James, Henry, 206, 207
James, Jesse, 161, 162, 163
James, King, 7, 8
James, Margaret, 1
Jamestown, Virginia, 3
Japan, 251, 252, 304, 309
Jasper, Abram, 134, 135
Jay, John, 58
Jefferson, Thomas, 17, 18, 35, 40, 41, 42, 48
Jelderks, John, 309
Jerome, Jennie, 253
Jews, 84, 104, 105, 201, 236, 248, 257, 292
Jim Crow, Realtor, 279, 280, 281
Johnson, Andrew, 85, 96, 97, 126, 127, 203
Johnson, Hiram, 228
Johnson, Lyndon B., 251, 258, 259, 262, 263, 271, 278, 279, 283, 284, 285, 286
Johnson, Richard M., 71, 72
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 110
Jones, John Paul, 25, 26
Jones, Paula, 298, 299
Jordan, David Starr, 202
Jusserand, Jean Jules, 200
Kamburowski, Michael, 296
Kansas, 98, 99, 237, 242, 250
Karankawa, 68, 69
Kaw Indian reservation, 242
Kearns, Doris, 284
Keating, Kenneth, 275
Kennedy, John F., 259, 278, 279, 283
Kennewick Man, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309
Kennewick, Washington, 305, 306
Kentucky, 33, 54, 70, 71, 85, 90, 107, 136, 137
Kerrey, Bob, 298
Kettle Hill, 187
Kiefft, Willem, 1
King, William, 92
King Philip’s War, 2
Kinsley, Michael, 295
Knowlton, Charles, 56, 57
Knox, Philander, 198, 199
Korea, 292
Korean War, 124, 256
Ku Klux Klan, 217
LaFollette, Robert M., 181, 208, 209
L’Amour, Louis, 139
Landon, Alf, 238, 241
Lanier, Thomas, 36
Latimer, 10
law, 304
Lawrence, Richard, 60
lawyers, 6
Le Borgne, 44, 45
Lee, Arthur, 19, 20
Lee, Charles, 58
Lee, Ezra, 22
Lee, Robert E., 98, 104, 107, 136
Lees, Joseph, 169
Lehman, Herbert, 236
Lenin, V. I., 217, 218
Levy County, Florida, 105
Lewinsky, Monica, 298, 299, 300
Lewis, Anthony, 297
Lewis, John L., 240
Lewis, Meriwether, 43, 44, 45, 242
Liberia, 53
Liberty Bell, 21, 22
Libman, Emmanuel, 229
Lincoln, Abraham, 35, 58, 75, 90, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 112, 115, 116, 117, 120, 121, 122, 123, 157
Lincoln, Benjamin, 95
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 157
Lindbergh, Charles, 205
Lindsay, John, 286
Lippard, George, 21
Little, Arthur D., 230
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 151, 227
Loeb, Charles, 226
log cabin, 72
Long, Earl, 277
Long, Huey, 245
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 229
Lorillard, Pierre, 55
Los Angeles, 242
Los Angeles Times, 298
Louisiana, 2, 15, 86, 104, 245, 276, 277, 278
Louisiana Purchase, 43
LSD, 8, 9
Lucky Strikes, 231
Lucy, 76, 77
Luther, Martin, 5
Lutherland, Thomas, 8
Lyme, Connecticut, 10
MacArthur, Douglas, 181
McCarthyism, 266
McClendon, Jess H., 278
McDonald, Gregg, 296, 297
McDowell, John, 266
McGehan, Thomas, 130
McGroarty, John Steven, 247
McKinley, William, 180, 190, 194, 195, 196, 198
McReynolds, James, 250
Maddox, Lester G., 259, 260
Madison, James, 18, 34, 58, 246
maggots, 117, 118
Maine, 244
Manassas, Virginia, 110
manure, 197
Marion, Ohio, 228
marriage, 5, 6, 7, 76, 77
Marshalk, Colonel, 52
Marshall, George, 254
Marshall, John, 37, 39, 40
Marshall, Thomas, 182, 222, 223
Marx, Karl, 84
Maryland, 25, 26, 41, 74
Massachusetts, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 17, 19, 38, 136, 147, 168, 185, 192, 219, 233, 245
masturbation, 154, 155, 156, 168, 169
Mather, Cotton, 9, 10
Mather, Increase, 10
Mather, Samuel, 10
Matthews, George, 36
Maverick, Maury, 183
Maxwell House Coffee, 181
Mayan, 64
Medal of Honor, 112
medicine, 45, 46, 86, 87, 117, 118, 153, 168, 169, 170, 183, 184, 185
Mencken, H. L., 1, 2, 18, 219, 232
Merkle, Fred, 182
Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 248
Merrimac, 109
Metacomet, 2
Methodists, 164, 193, 243
Meucci, Antonio, 302, 303
Mexican War, 56, 77, 80, 81, 97, 123, 256
Mexico, 67, 68, 69, 74, 77, 80, 211
Mickey Mouse, 245
Middle East, 304
Miles, Nelson, 164
milk scandal, 257
Miller, Mitch, 67
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 212
Minnetaree, 44, 45
Mississippi, 36, 37, 51, 52, 53, 60, 80, 259
Missouri, 99
Missouri Compromise, 18, 50
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p; Missouri State Penitentiary, 242
Mock, Horace, 193
monarchy, 17
Monitor, 109
Montgomery, Benjamin T., 124
Montgomery Ward, 186
Mooney, William, 141
Moon hoax, 62
Morgan, J. P., 181
Morgan, James, 67
Morocco, 34, 35, 52
Morris, Dick, 300
Morris, Gouverneur, 25
Morris, Robert, 25
Morrison, Jim, 105
Mosby, John S., 106, 107
Moscow, Alvin, 288
Moslem, 52
Mother Goose, 2
Motion Picture Patents Company, 210
Mount Rushmore, 295, 296
mousetrap, 94
Murphey, Charles, 143
Mussolini, 182
Myers, Tom, 130
myths, 3, 4, 18, 19, 21, 22, 72, 90, 91, 109, 110, 120, 183, 187, 209, 210, 211, 235, 238, 239, 261, 262
Nashville, Tennessee, 58, 59
Nast, Thomas, 125, 126, 141
national debt, 55
National Grocers Association, 296
Native American, first, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309
Native American Graves and Repatriation Act, 307, 308
navy, 78
Nebraska, 258, 298
Negroes, 12, 14, 17, 40, 41, 44, 45, 51, 52, 53, 67, 76, 77, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 99, 100, 105, 106, 124, 134, 135, 138, 166, 181, 197, 198, 257, 267, 268, 269, 271, 272, 273, 279, 280, 281, 287
Nelson, Dr., 113
Nessen, Ron, 289, 290
Nevada, 308
New Amsterdam, 1
New Hampshire, 54, 91
New Jersey, 8, 18, 23, 27, 38, 102, 216
New London, Connecticut, 10
New Mexico, 82, 207, 208
New Orleans, 14, 85, 104, 277, 278
New Plymouth, 1
New York City, 1, 30, 41, 52, 62, 93, 94, 139, 141, 145, 150, 164, 166, 167, 172, 176, 183, 192, 197, 198, 220, 221, 226, 227, 231, 263, 286, 293
New York Evening Mail, 218
New York Giants, 182
New York Herald, 94, 167
New York Lottery, 293
New York Police Department, 293
New York State, 1, 17, 20, 30, 41, 46, 52, 55, 62, 93, 94, 127, 132, 141, 145, 150, 164, 166, 167, 172, 176, 183, 188, 189, 190, 192, 194, 197, 198, 210, 211, 220, 221, 226, 227, 231, 263, 276, 286
New York Stock Exchange, 18, 139, 182
New York Sun, 62, 174
New York Times, 185, 259, 260, 296, 297
New York Tribune, 84, 205
New York World, 193
Newark, New Jersey, 38
Newman, John, 44
Newport, Rhode Island, 180
Newsweek, 292, 297
Nicaragua Transit Company, 93
Nineteenth Amendment, 27, 28
Nixon, Richard, 259, 260, 283, 287, 288
Norfolk Virginia-Pilot, 205
Northhampton, Massachusetts, 232
North Carolina, 18, 52, 76, 77, 96, 110, 136, 199
Northerners, 42
O’Daniel, W. Lee “Pappy,” 250, 251
Ohio, 50, 83, 129, 169, 173, 219, 228
oil, 95, 96
Oklahoma, 242, 243
Oregon, 74, 105
O’Reilly, Alejandro, 15
Orlando, Florida, 296
Packer, Alferd, 146
Paducah, Kentucky, 136
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 142
Palmer, Mary Hunt, 30
Panama Canal, 198, 199
Pappan, Julie Gonville, 242, 243
Pappan, Louis, 242
Paris, 105
Parker, Dorothy, 233
Parkhurst, Charles, 174
Pearl Harbor, 251, 252, 301, 302
Penn, William, 7, 8
Pennington, William, 102
Pennsylvania, 21, 22, 41, 52, 85, 90, 96, 164, 169, 175, 219, 249
Père-Lachaise Cemetery, 105
Peyton, Philip, 166
Philadelphia, 21, 22, 41, 52, 85, 164, 175, 219
Philippines, 191
Phillips, Wendell, 84
phonograph, 152
Piaf, Edith, 105
Pierce, Franklin, 83, 91, 92, 292
Piggly Wiggly, 182
Pilgrims, 3, 4
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 34
Pinkerton, Allan, 100
Pittsburgh, 90, 249
plumbers (Watergate), 260
Plunkitt, George, 144
Plymouth, 2, 3, 4
Plymouth Rock, 3
Point Four Program, 260, 261, 262
Polk, James, 56, 73, 74, 79, 91
pollution, 197
polygamy, 139
Polynesia, 309
Pompidou, Georges, 288
Ponzi, Charles, 226
Poor Richard, 15–16
Pope, John, 107
Porter, Noah, 136
Post Office, 81
Powell, Colin, 291
presidential pardons, 292
presidential seal, 262
press, 176, 177, 178, 186, 192, 220, 221, 231, 289, 290
Prohibition, 226
prostitutes, 2, 75, 114, 139
Proust, Marcel, 105
Puritans, 1, 5, 6, 9
quackery, 45, 46, 86, 87, 88
Quakers, 7
racism, 213
Radford, Arthur, 270, 271
Raleigh, North Carolina, 77, 96
Rall, Johann, 23
Rand, Ayn, 266
Randolph, John, 50, 51, 58
Raney, Samuel, 265, 266
Rayburn, Sam, 276
Reagan, Ronald, 291, 292, 294, 295, 296
Reagan Alumni Association, 291
rebel yell, 263, 264, 265, 266
red barn, 47, 48
Reed, Thomas B., 190, 191
Reedy, George, 286
Reese, David, 128
Remington, Frederic, 186
reporters, 296, 297
Reporting Live, 295
Revels, Hiram, 85
Revolution, American, 13, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 84, 123, 256
Reynolds, James, 37
Rhode Island, 51, 180
Ricara, 45
Rich, Denise, 292
Rich, Marc, 292
Richmond, Virginia, 88, 107, 117, 121
Ricket, 10
Riddle, Thomas E., 264
Riegels, Roy, 227
Riis, Jacob, 177, 178
Ritty, James, 138
Robertson, Morgan, 215
Robeson, Paul, 267, 268, 269
Rockefeller, John D., 183, 196
Rockefeller, Nelson, 289
Rockefeller, William, 196, 209
Rodham, Hugh, 292
Rogers, Henry, 196
Rogers, Will, 236
Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, 295, 296
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, 296
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 241, 246, 252
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 139, 227, 240, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 255, 275
Roosevelt, Theodore, 177, 178, 182, 187, 188, 189, 190, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 211, 212, 213, 229, 246
Root, Elihu, 199
Rose, Moses, 65
Rosenman, Samuel, 249
Rosenthal, Andrew, 296, 297
Rough Riders, 189, 198, 201, 213
Ruffin, Edmund, 84
Russia, 73, 217, 253, 254, 266, 267, 268
Ruth, Babe, 225
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 79
St. Louis, Missouri, 113
Salem, Massachusetts, 8, 9
Saltis, Joe, 239
San Antonio, Texas, 63, 67
San Francisco, 85
San Jacinto, Texas, 65, 67
San Juan Hill, 187, 190
Santa Anna, 64, 65, 66, 67, 127
Santa Claus, 124, 125, 126
Saturday Evening Post, 173
Saxbe, William, 259
Scherer, Gordan, 267, 268
Schiff, Jacob, 201
Scopes, John T., 225
Scott, Winfield, 58
Seattle, Washington, 308
Sears catalogue, 181, 182, 185, 225
Secret Service, 203, 204, 215, 216, 234, 287
Sedition Act, 38
Senate. See Congress
Seneca, 95
senility, 295
September 11 terrorist attack, 293
Seventeenth Amendment, 178, 179
Sewall, Samuel, 6, 12
Seward, William, 100, 101
sex transplants, 236, 237, 238
sexual harassment, 299
Shaw, Judge, 147
Shawnee County, Kansas, 243
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 117
Shields, James, 77
shopping center, 225
Shelby, Joseph, 264
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 81, 82
Sickles, Dan, 84
sideburns, 111
Simmons, Joseph, 217
Simon, Joseph, 105
Sioux, 147, 164
Sitting Bull, 164, 165
60 Minutes, 298
slaves (and slavery), 12, 14, 22, 40, 41, 44, 45, 52, 53, 58, 59, 67, 71, 72, 76, 77, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 104, 105, 124
Smith, Al, 236
Smith, Bernard E., 240
Smith, John, 3
Smith, William A., 96
Smithson, James, 56
Smithsonian Institution, 56, 307
Smyth, Alexander, 70
soap, 149
Social Darwinism, 135, 136
Social Security, 294, 304
sodomy, 4, 5
solar energy, 209, 210
Soule, John L., 91
South Carolina, 104, 137
Southerners, 42
Spain, 14, 36, 63, 141, 142
Spanish-American War, 124, 181, 187, 188, 193, 256
Sparks, Jared, 31
Speakes, Larry, 295
spelling, simplified, 202
Spencer, Herbert, 135
Spirit Cave Mummy, 308
Stahl, Lesley, 295
Stalin, Joseph, 253
stamps, 81
Standard Oil Company, 173, 201, 209
Stanford, 241
Stanton, Edwin, 112
Starr, Kenneth, 299, 300
State Department, 253, 254, 260, 261, 262
Staten Island, 303
Steffens, Lincoln, 176, 177, 178
Stephanopoulos, George, 300, 301
Stephens, Alexander, 100
Stevens, Mr., 86
Stevens, Thaddeus, 115, 128
Stevenson, Coke R., 263
Story, Joseph, 39
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 83, 149
Straus, Oscar, 201
Stuyvesant, Peter, 1
submarine, 22
Sumner, Charles, 134, 135
supermarket scanners, 296, 297, 298
Supreme Court, 36, 39, 49, 249, 250, 259, 272, 273, 281, 288, 309
“Swanee River,” 90
Swartwout, Samuel, 55
Symington, Stuart, 278
Taft, William Howard, 246
Tammany Hall, 139, 140, 141, 143, 144, 174
Taney, Roger, 116
tariff, 74
taxes, 1, 294, 299
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