Connors, Jimmy, 311
conservatism, 30, 33
Constitution, 11, 19, 36, 37, 41, 43, 121, 167, 169, 181, 319, 346 immigration and, 358, 359, 371
Native Americans and, 88, 95
rule of law and, 9
separation of powers and, 10
Constitutional amendments, 177, 280, 283 Bill of Rights, 49, 55, 61, 167
First, 8–9, 49, 55, 58, 61–73
Thirteenth, 141, 163
Fourteenth, 142, 143, 174
Fifteenth, 7, 142–44, 146, 165–66, 172, 174
Sixteenth, 207
Seventeenth, 6
Nineteenth, 7, 168, 169, 172, 175–80
Constitutional Convention, 1, 8, 10, 15, 37, 95
Continental Congress, 25, 35–37, 39, 40, 43, 45–46
Cooper, Gordon, 257
Cortés, Hernan, 96
Costanza, Midge, 348–49
cotton, 200, 205
cotton gin, 200
Court, Margaret, 316
Covey, Edward, 153–54
COVID-19 pandemic, 2–3, 5–6, 14, 83, 104, 260, 274, 275, 283
Crawford, Joan, 288
Crazy Horse, 100
Crick, Francis, 259
Cronkite, Walter, 121
Cruz, Ted, 4
Cuban Missile Crisis, 29
culture, 12–13
Custer, George Armstrong, 99–100
Daniels, John T., 235
Daughters of Bilitis, 345, 354
Davis, Jefferson, 191
Davis, Miles, 277
death, 103–13
Declaration of Independence, 8, 11, 17, 19, 21, 25–27, 95, 167 African Americans and, 27, 36, 43–46, 181, 193
Allen on, 35–47
de Gaulle, Charles, 117
Deists, 53, 55
Deloria, Philip J., 399–400 on Native American history, 87–102
democracy, 3–7, 15, 25, 47, 80–83, 361, 385
Democratic National Convention, 190
Democrats, 4, 33
Devil You Know, The (Blow), 146–47
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 346–47
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 118–19
digital revolution, 219–20
Dillehay, Tom, 91
DiMaggio, Joe, 325
Dirksen, Everett, 122
diversity, 12
DNA, 259, 261, 264, 265, 268
Doolittle, Jimmy, 136
Doudna, Jennifer, 214
Douglas, Stephen, 27
Douglass, Anna Murray, 155, 157, 159, 164–65
Douglass, Frederick, 27 Blight on, 150–66
name of, 157–58
“What to the slave is the Fourth of July?,” 139
Douglass, Helen Pitts, 165
Downie, Len, 64
drones, 212
Du Bois, W. E. B., 148
Dunlap, John, 44–45
Dyer, Mary, 51
Eastland, James, 366–67
e-commerce, 225
economy, 27–28
Edison, Sweets, 284
Edison, Thomas, 207
Edmund Pettus Bridge, 182, 183, 189–92
Ehrlichman, John, 248
Einstein, Albert, 214, 215
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 29, 76, 149, 256 space program and, 243, 248, 252
Vietnam and, 62, 117, 118
Electoral College, 3, 4, 6, 9, 75, 144
electricity, 207
Eliot, John, 54
Ellington, Duke, 282
Ellsberg, Daniel, 62, 67–68
Emancipation Proclamation, 109, 145, 161
Enlightenment, 26, 53, 56
entrepreneurship, 11, 197, 198, 218
equality, 8, 26, 27
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 30–32, 319
Erie Canal, 203
Evers, Medgar, 191
Evert, Chris, 310, 311
executive branch, 10
Facebook, 226
Faderman, Lillian, 400 on gay rights, 341–55
Faubus, Orval, 143, 149
Fauci, Anthony, 260
Faust, Drew Gilpin, 400–401 on death and the Civil War, 103–13
Federer, Roger, 311
Floyd, George, 193
Ford, Gerald, 118, 125, 371
Ford, Henry, 201–2, 208
foreign policy decision, 29
Founding Fathers, 6, 8, 14, 15
Franklin, Benjamin, 1, 36, 41, 42, 214, 215, 238, 358
Frederick Douglass (Blight), 151
Freedom Rides, 181, 188–89
Freedom Summer, 144, 189
Freeland, William, 154
French and Indian War, 24, 38, 94–95
From the Earth to the Moon (Verne), 249
Gable, Clark, 292
Gagarin, Yuri, 243, 252, 253
Gaines, Charles, 304
Gallatin, Albert, 203
Gandhi, Mahatma, 186
Garland, Judy, 287
Garrison, William Lloyd, 156
Gates, Bill, 202, 214, 221–22, 225
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 401 on Reconstruction, 141–49
Gay Liberation Front, 354
gay rights, 2, 341–55
Gehrig, Lou, 323–26
George III, King, 6, 26, 35, 38–40, 45
Georgia, 7, 147
Gettysburg Address, 27, 85, 109, 110, 127
Ghost Dance, 100
Gibbons v. Ogden, 203
Gibson, Althea, 309
Gillespie, Dizzy, 282
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 380
Gittings, Barbara, 347
Glenn, John, 243
Goddard, Robert, 249
Goldwater, Barry, 31, 119, 190
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 271
Google, 219, 226
Gordon, Leonard, 286
Gore, Al Internet and, 222, 225
in 2000 election, 77–78
Gorsuch, Neil, 352
Grady, Bill, 293
Graham, Billy, 59–60
Graham, Donald E., 401–2 on the First Amendment and freedom of the press, 61–73
Graham, Katharine, 62–65, 68–71
Graham, Philip, 63
Grant, Ulysses S., 108, 144
Great Depression, 2
Great Migration, 146, 147
Great Panic of 1873, 144
Griffey, Ken, Jr., 333
Griffiths, Julia, 159
Grissom, Gus, 247
Hamilton, Alexander, 202–4
Hancock, John, 45
Harlow, Bryce, 248
Harpers Ferry, 160–61
Harris, Kamala, 3
Harrison, William Henry, 99
Harris Poll, 13–14 results of, 427–37
Hart, Phil, 367
Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act, 357, 367–68
Hawley, Josh, 4
Hayes, Rutherford B., 78, 151, 164
Hayworth, Rita, 290
health care, 14
Hearst, William Randolph, 59
heart disease, 267
Helms, Jesse, 349
Henderson, Rick, 330
Hicks, Angie, 353
Hillel, 130
Hillsman, Roger, 118
Hirshhorn Museum, 298, 305
Hirt, Al, 277
Hitler, Adolf, 250
Ho Chi Minh, 118
Hollerith, Herman, 209
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 108
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 108
Holocaust, 367 Jewish refugees from, 363–66
Hooker, Evelyn, 347
Hopper, Grace, 222
House Un-American Activities Committee, 345
Howard, Otis, 145
Howe, Julia Ward, 168
Hudson, Rock, 288, 349
Human Genome Project, 259–62
Humphrey, Hubert, 77, 78, 122
Hunt, Howard, 70
Hurston, Zora Neale, 147
IBM, 209, 213, 221, 222
iCivics, 381, 383, 392
If Not Now, When? (Jac
obs), 128, 130
immigration, 11–12, 58, 197 Albright on being an immigrant, 371–79
culture and, 12–13
Trump administration and, 49, 357, 369, 370
Yang on, 356–70
income inequality, 11
India, 211
Industrial Revolution, 200, 202, 219
influenza pandemic, 104
innovation, see technology and innovation
Intel, 218, 220–21
International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 173
Internet, 33, 211, 216, 222–25, 304 World Wide Web, 208, 223–24
Iraq war, 2, 29
Isaacson, Walter, 402 on innovation, 213–27
It Didn’t Start with Watergate (Leaky), 77
Jackson, Andrew, 32–33, 97
Jackson, Mahalia, 296
Jacobs, Jack, 402 on military service, 127–37
Jay, John, 385
jazz, 273–84
Jefferson, Thomas, 25, 26, 36, 37, 41–42, 44, 46, 49, 53–55, 96, 97, 99, 118, 167, 203
Jennings, Dale, 345
Jeter, Derek, 326
Jewish refugees, 363–66
Jim Crow laws, 2, 7, 27, 75, 142, 145, 146, 366
Jobs, Steve, 211, 214, 215, 218, 221, 224, 225
Johnson, Andrew, 27, 142, 145 Douglass and, 163
Johnson, Frank, 192
Johnson, Lyndon, 119, 121 civil rights and, 189–90, 192
immigration and, 357, 366
space program and, 252, 253, 257
Vietnam and, 62, 65, 67, 114, 118–22, 366
Johnson-Reed Act, 357, 362
Jordan, Vernon, 149
judicial branch, 10
Justice Department, 73, 188, 256
Kameny, Frank, 343, 346–48, 353, 354
Kelly, Gene, 294
Kennan, George, 117–18
Kennedy, Anthony, 351–52
Kennedy, Joe, 254
Kennedy, John F., 4, 29, 49, 76, 77, 118, 190, 191, 252–53, 257, 366–68 assassination of, 119, 189, 257
in election against Nixon, 208, 252
immigration and, 357, 364–66
space program and, 195, 243–44, 248, 252–57
Vietnam and, 62, 67, 117–19
Kennedy, Robert F., 29, 193
Kennedy, Ted, 367
Khrushchev, Nikita, 118, 252
Kilby, Jack, 254
King, Billie Jean, 402–3 on tennis and activism, 307–21
King, Larry, 313
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 149, 150, 185–87, 191–93, 296
Kissinger, Henry, 123, 124, 214, 371, 378
Kloss, Ilana, 319
Koch, Ed, 352, 355
Korean War, 114, 128, 245, 251, 255
Koufax, Sandy, 336
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 27, 49, 55–56, 142, 188
Lady of the Lake, The (Scott), 157
Laird, Melvin, 135
Langley, Samuel, 233–36
Lanza, Mario, 292
Laver, Rod, 311
Lawson, James, 185–87
Leadership Initiative, 319
League of Nations, 28, 359
League of Women Voters, 171
Leaky, Victor, 77
Lear, Norman, 287
Le Duan, 120
Lee, Richard Henry, 40, 41
Lee, Robert E., 111–12, 305
legislative branch, 10
Lem, Nguyen Van, 121
Leonardo da Vinci, 214, 215, 216, 228, 233, 300
Lepore, Jill, 403 on American history, 19–34
Lewis, John, 181–93
Lewis and Clark, 96
LGBTQ community gay rights, 2, 341–55
transgender individuals, 352–53
liberalism, 30
Liberator, 156
Life, 294
“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” 149
Lincoln, Abraham, 141–43, 145–46 assassination of, 141, 163
in debates with Stephen Douglas, 27
Douglass and, 151, 161–63
Emancipation Proclamation of, 109, 145, 161
Gettysburg Address of, 27, 85, 109, 110, 127
Lincoln Center, 274, 276–77, 282–83
Lindbergh, Charles, 245
Little Rock Central High School, 149
Livingston, Robert, 41, 42
Locke, John, 56–57
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 118
Lopez, Irene, 290
Louisiana Purchase, 96–97, 200, 203
Lovelace, Ada, 213
Lucy, Autherine, 185
Lyon, Phyllis, 345
Madison, James, 37, 49, 53, 61
Malinche, La, 96
Mao Zedong, 211–12
Marbury v. Madison, 10
March on Washington, 181, 295–96
marriage, same-sex, 342, 350, 351
Marsalis, Ellis, Jr., 274, 275, 277–79
Marsalis, Wynton, 117, 403 on jazz, 273–84
Marshall Plan, 29
Martin, Del, 345
Martinez, Ceci, 313
Mason, George, 42, 53
Mather, Cotton, 57
Mattachine Society, 345, 346, 354
Mayer, Louis B., 291, 293
Mayflower, 199, 204, 253
McCarthy, Eugene, 121
McCarthyism, 31, 376
McCord, James, 70–71
McCullough, David, 404 on the Wright brothers, 228–42
McEnroe, John, 311, 312
McKinley, William, 201
Meacham, Jon, 404 on John Lewis and civil rights, 181–93
Meigs, Montgomery, 112
Mendel, Gregor, 259
Meredith, James, 256
Mexican-American War, 203
Meyer, Eugene, 73
microchips, 220, 254
microprocessors, 220–21
Microsoft, 222, 226
military civilian control of, 10
foreign policy decisions and, 29
gays in, 350
Jacobs on service in, 127–37
Milk, Harvey, 353–54
Minitel, 222
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 190
Missouri, USS, 118
Mitchell, John, 71
Moon, Wally, 257
moon landing, 195, 241, 243–58
Moreno, Rita, 404–5 on the actor’s life, 285–96
Morgan, J. P., 202
Morgenthau, Robert, 385–86
Morse, Samuel, 200
Mosaic, 223
Mott, Lucretia, 172
movies, 285–96
Moyers, Bill, 248
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 248, 389
Muskie, Edmund, 372
Muslims, 49, 50, 54, 58, 357
Nadal, Rafael, 311
NASA, 243, 245, 246, 248, 252–57
National Institutes of Health (NIH), 260, 262, 266, 268
National Science Foundation (NSF), 264
Native Americans, 12, 21–23 Deloria on, 87–102
religion and, 48, 54, 94
Navratilova, Martina, 310, 311
Nazi Germany, 250–51, 373 Jewish refugees from, 363–66
Negroponte, John, 124
New Deal, 28, 33
New Yorker, 20
New York Times, 62, 67–69, 146, 276, 357
Nhu, Ngo Dinh, 119
Nichols, Jack, 347
9/11 attacks, 2, 4, 81, 245, 356
Nixon, Richard, 31, 65, 76, 78, 122, 267, 367, 371 in election against Kennedy, 208, 252
Jacobs awarded Medal of Honor by, 128, 135
moon landing and, 246, 248
Vietnam and, 62, 67, 114, 118, 122–24
Watergate and, 2, 62, 67, 69–72, 76–77, 83
Nolan, John, 132
North Star, 158–59
Novick, Lynn, 114, 116
Noyce, Robert, 214, 218
nuclear weapons, 251
Obama, Barack, 33, 144, 188, 193, 260, 343, 380, 390 Goodwin’s exit interview with, 271
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 380, 382–83, 392
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ONE, 346
One Day at a Time, 287
Ostler, Jeff, 90
Other Slavery, The (Reséndez), 90
Otis, James, 38
Our Declaration (Allen), 36
Page, Larry, 214, 219
Parker, Annise, 352–53
Parks, Rosa, 149
patents, 220, 227
Patterson, Gene, 69
Paul, Alice, 168
Pelton, Ronald, 66
Pence, Mike, 5, 80, 353
Penn, William, 52–53
Pentagon Papers, 62, 67–69
Perot, Ross, 209
Perry, Gaylord, 333–34
Peurifoy, John, 345
Philadelphia Negro, The (Du Bois), 148
Pickett’s Charge (Bradford), 298, 305–6
Pilgrims, 51, 93, 199, 204
Planned Parenthood, 31
Plessy v. Ferguson, 143, 148
Pocahontas, 96
Poitier, Sidney, 285
Powel, Elizabeth Willing, 1
power, peaceful transfer of, 10
presidency, 10
presidential election of 2000, 77–78
presidential election of 2020, 7, 10 Beschloss on, 74–83
Trump’s contesting of results of, 3–5, 9–10, 74–76, 78, 80, 82
Presley, Elvis, 295
press, freedom of, 61–73
Priest, Dana, 66
private equity, 210–11, 269
Puritans, 50–52, 54, 55
Purvis, Robert, 164
Quakers, 51, 52
racism, 14, 276 white supremacy, 143
see also African Americans
radar, 253, 255
railroads, 172, 179, 205, 206
Reagan, Ronald, 65, 209, 349, 351
Reconstruction, 2, 27, 55, 56, 78, 163 Gates on, 141–49
religion Civil War and, 110–11
death and, 106
Declaration of Independence and, 42, 44
evangelical, 26, 32, 56–57, 59, 60
Native Americans and, 48, 54, 94
same-sex relationships and, 344
science and, 260, 265–66
religious freedom, 9, 204 Brekus on, 48–60
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