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Republicans, 3–5, 31, 161, 190
Reséndez, Andrés, 90
Resor, Stanley, 135
Revolutionary War, 24–25, 30, 40, 95, 96, 103–5, 114, 128
Rice, Condoleezza, 372
Riggs, Bobby, 308, 314–17
Ripken, Cal, Jr., 405 on baseball, 322–37
Ripken Foundation, 336
Roberts, Ed, 221
Roberts, John, 352
Robinson, Jackie, 307, 309
Rock, Arthur, 217–18
Rockefeller, John D., 206
Rockefeller, Laurance, 218
rocketry, 249–51
Rogers, William, 124
Rolfe, John, 96
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 32, 170–71
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 28, 76, 120, 171, 256
Roosevelt, Theodore, 171, 175, 201, 242
rule of law, 9–10
Russell, Richard, 120
Ruth, Babe, 328
Sacagawea, 96
St. Louis, MS, 364
Sampras, Pete, 311
Schlafly, Phyllis, 30–31
science, 216–17, 382 religion and, 260, 265–66
research in, 259–69
see also technology and innovation
school prayer, 58–59
Scott, Dred, 160, 203
Scott, Walter, 157–58
Scully, Vin, 257
Seigenthaler, John, 189
Selfridge, Thomas, 239
Selma, Ala., 186 Edmund Pettus Bridge in, 182, 183, 189–92
Seneca Falls Convention, 165–66, 167, 169, 174
separation of powers, 10
September 11 attacks, 2, 4, 81, 245, 356
Seven Years’ War, 38, 94–95
Shepard, Alan, 243, 253
Sherman, Roger, 41, 42
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 145
Shockley, William, 219
Silicon Valley, 213, 216, 218, 219, 242
Simons, Howard, 70
Singleton, Ken, 335
Sitting Bull, 100
slavery, 2, 8, 12, 14, 21, 23–25, 32, 40, 87, 147–48, 161, 167, 203–5 abolitionists and, 26, 27, 57, 142, 149, 150, 152, 156, 158, 160, 161, 171–72
Declaration of Independence and, 27, 36, 43–46
Douglass and, 150–58, 161–63
Emancipation Proclamation and, 109, 145, 161
freeing of slaves, 141–42, 163
religion and, 54, 60
smartphones, 211, 224
Smith, Al, 49
Smith, Kelly Miller, 186
Smithsonian Institution, 233–34, 241 Hirshhorn Museum, 298, 305
socialism, 11, 197
social media, 33, 73, 216, 225–26
software, 210, 221–22
Sorensen, Ted, 254
Sotomayor, Sonia, 405–6 on civics and civic education, 380–92
Soviet Union, 65–66, 117, 118, 345, 365, 371 missiles and nuclear weapons of, 251, 252
space program of, 243, 247, 251–55, 257, 382
Spanish-American War, 114
Speakes, Larry, 349
speech, freedom of, 8–9, 14 press and, 61–73
Sputnik, 243, 251–52, 382
Srinivasan, Bhu, 406 on capitalism, 197–212
Stamp Act, 38
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 166, 168, 172, 174
start-ups, 210
Steele, Alfred, 288
Stone, Lucy, 168, 172
Stonewall riots, 342, 347–48, 354
Stony the Road (Gates), 142, 147, 149
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 192
Sullivan, Kathryn, 256
Sulzberger, Punch, 69
Sumner, Charles, 143
Supreme Court, 9, 58, 178, 387–88, 390, 391 Brown v. Board of Education, 185
Bush v. Gore, 77–78
Civil Rights Cases, 143
Dred Scott decision of, 160, 203
First Amendment and, 62, 66, 69
gay rights and, 342, 345, 346, 351–52, 355
Gibbons v. Ogden, 203
income tax and, 207
Marbury v. Madison, 10
Plessy v. Ferguson, 143, 148
Reconstruction and, 143–44
“separate but equal” and, 146
Sotomayor on, 380–83, 391
2020 election fraud claims and, 3
women’s voting rights and, 174–75
Talbert, Billy, 313–14
Tang, 256
taxes on colonies, 24, 38, 39, 95
on income, 207
Native Americans and, 95
Taylor, Charlie, 236
Taylor, Elizabeth, 291, 292
technology and innovation, 32–33, 213–27, 242, 382 spin-offs from space program, 255–56
World War II and, 213, 216–19, 232, 249, 250, 253, 254
telegraph, 200
television, 33, 208–9
tennis, 307–21
Thanksgiving, 93
These Truths (Lepore), 20, 25
Thieu, Nguyen Van, 122
This Republic of Suffering (Faust), 103–4
Tho, Le Duc, 124
Thomas, Albert, 256
Tilden, Samuel, 78
Till, Emmett, 185
Time, 116–17, 223, 254
transgender individuals, 352–53
transistors, 219–20, 254
Truman, Harry, 59, 62, 117, 120, 242, 363, 364, 367
Trump, Donald, 33, 83, 144, 260 Capitol attack and, 4–5, 74, 75, 80–82
COVID-19 pandemic and, 3
immigration and, 49, 357, 369, 370
impeachment of, 5, 81–82
Twitter and, 72–73
2020 election results contested by, 3–5, 9–10, 74–76, 78–80, 82
Truth, Sojourner, 168, 174
Turing, Alan, 218
Twitter, 72–73
United Nations, 378
Valdez, Juan, 125
Venter, Craig, 260
venture capital industry, 218
Verdesio, Gustavo, 91
Verne, Jules, 249
Vespucci, Amerigo, 23
Vietnam Memorial, 123
Vietnam War, 2, 29, 62, 65–68, 128, 246, 348, 366 Burns on, 114–26
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in, 121–22
Jacobs on his service in, 127–37
Pentagon Papers and, 62, 67–69
Tet Offensive in, 120–21
Vietnam War, The, 115
Virginia Company, 199
visual arts, 297–306
von Braun, Magnus, 251
von Braun, Wernher, 250–51, 254, 255
voting, 6, 7, 14 2020 election fraud claims, 3–4
women’s participation in, 172–73
voting rights, 7 for African Americans, 7, 144–46, 148, 156, 165, 171, 172, 174, 182, 189–92
for women, see women’s suffrage
Waiwaiole, Ainsley, 132
Waldseemüller, Martin, 23
Wallace, George, 78, 122, 143, 149, 191, 192
Walton, Sam, 209
Warnock, Raphael, 147
War of 1812, 114, 128
Washington, George, 24–25, 35, 60, 200, 385
Washington Post, 62–73, 254
Watergate, 2, 62, 67, 69–72, 76–77, 83
Watson, James, 259–60
Watson, Tom, Sr., 209
wealth, 11
Weaver, Earl, 324, 327, 329
Webb, James, 253
Weiss, Elaine, 406 on women’s suffrage, 167–80
Wharton, Edith, 230
Whig Party, 203
White, Ed, 247
Whitefield, George, 60
white supremacy, 143
Whitman, Walt, 107
Whitney, Eli, 200
Whitten, Jack, 304
Williams, Esther, 292, 293
Williams, Hosea, 191
Williams, Roger, 48
Wilson, Elwin, 188
Wilson, James, 37
Wilson, Woodrow, 28, 176, 250
Windsor,
Edith, 351
Woman’s Hour, The (Weiss), 168
women, 2, 8, 30–32, 171–72, 174 Declaration of Independence and, 36, 46
religion and, 57
voting participation by, 172–73
in World War I effort, 176
women’s suffrage, 2, 7, 31–32, 165–66, 339 Black women and, 168, 171
Weiss on, 167–80
Woodward, Bob, 62, 65, 69–71
World War I, 11, 28, 29, 114, 128, 173, 175, 176, 199, 207, 359 rocket technology and, 249–50
women’s participation in, 176
World War II, 2, 114, 117, 128, 129, 136, 199, 207–8, 254, 366, 367, 371, 373 Jewish refugees in, 363–66
technological innovation and, 213, 216–19, 232, 249, 250, 253, 254
World Wide Web, 208, 223–24
Wounded Knee, 100
Wovoka, 100
Wozniak, Steve, 218, 221
Wright, Katharine, 234, 238–40
Wright brothers, 228–42, 249
Yang, Jia Lynn, 406 on immigration, 356–70
Y Combinator, 210
Young, Andy, 191
Zanuck, Darryl, 294
Zenger, John Peter, 61
Zuckerberg, Mark, 214, 226
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