by Jill Lepore
and abortion, 649
atomic bomb decision of, 522
atomic bomb dropped by, 515–16, 517
communism as viewed by, 552
and creation of United Nations, 514–15
as Democratic leader, 531, 541–46, 552
domestic policies of, 535, 537, 541
foreign policy of, 535, 537–39
health insurance program of, 532–34, 533, 541, 546–48, 553–54, 560, 561
learning about atomic bomb, 514
made president, 511
presidential campaign of (1948), 541–46, 560, 563
racial policies of, 531–32, 576–77, 578, 581
recording system, 640
scientific research supported by, 525
vetoes by, 551
as vice president, 523, 531
see also Truman administration
Truman Doctrine, 537–39
Trumbull, Lyman, 326
Trump, Donald J., 567, 727–29, 731, 762, 765, 773
background of, 713–14
and Clinton ethics investigations, 714
and judiciary, 678
1990s campaign plans, 714–16
and presidential election (2016), 692, 773–74
and Schlafly, 668
truth:
as determined by evidence, 41–42, 61
freedom and, 49–50
nature of, 15
truther movement, 725, 727, 762
Tubman, Harriet, 261
Tumblr, 724
Turing, Alan, 523–24
Turkey, 537
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 353–55, 374
Turner, Nat, 205, 206
Twain, Mark, 273, 368, 369
Tweed, William Magear, 342
Twelfth Amendment, 164
Twenty-Fifth Infantry, 369
two-party system, 165
election of 1800 and, 154
Federalist/Anti-Federalists factions and, 129, 129, 145
newspapers and, 145
Two Treatises on Civil Government (Locke), 52, 53–54
Tydings, Millard, 551
Tyler, John, 178, 229, 232–34
and annexation of Texas, 234–35, 237
in election of 1844, 236–38
Tyler, Julia, 236, 238
Ugly American, The (Burdick and Lederer), 598, 603
unconscious, Freud’s theory of, 413
Unconstitutionality of Slavery, The (Spooner), 241
“under God” phrase, 569
Underground Railroad, 261, 279
Union Labor Party, 342–43
Union Leagues, 318
Union Party, 461–62
unions, 371, 379
of tenant farmers, 439
in World War II, 488
United Airlines Flight 93, 720–21, 725
United Airlines Flight 175, 720
United Farm Workers, 675
United Fruit Co., 574
United Mine Workers, 416
United Nations, 517
charter of, 483
creation of, 491–92, 514–15
plan for, 502–3
United Negro Improvement Association, 440
United States:
anticommunism in, 534–41, 548–57, 565–68, 571, 581
British recognition of, 107
budget of, 527, 539
Columbus’s voyage as origin of, 10
as democracy, 525, 536, 537, 543–46, 565–66, 575, 578, 583
division between industrial North and agricultural South in, 169–70
economic prosperity of, 527–28
federal government of, 526, 527, 531, 545
and fiction of common ancestry, 9–10
foreign policy of, 535, 537–39, 574, 578–79
founding principles of, see founding principles, U.S. free blacks in, 108
growing population of, 250
isolationism in, 537
mass society in, 566
military spending by, 538–40
mixed heritage of, xv–xvi
national security of, 538–39, 574
population of, 168
public opinion in, 542–46, 557, 560, 565–66, 579, 584
religious morality in, 568–69
slavery in, see slaves, slavery, in U.S.
southern states of, 531, 539–40, 546, 575–88
in space race, 586–87, 587
taxation in, 527, 532, 542, 570
technological progress in, 522, 525–26, 554, 557–59, 566, 586, 587
violent beginnings of, 10
as welfare state, 538
westward expansion of, 10
United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 326
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), 557–59, 563–65, 564
Universalists, 201
universal truths, 554
universities, 348, 354
see also see academia
university research, 526
Updike, John, 528
“Uppie and Downie,” 549
Upshur, Abel, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236
uranium, 475
U.S. v. Miller, 446
Utah, 260–61
irrigated land in, 409
women’s voting rights in, 386
Utes, 222
Utopia (More), 54
Vallee, Rudy, 491
Van Buren, Martin, 225, 227, 253
in election of 1832, 219
in election of 1836, 225
in election of 1840, 226–27
in election of 1848, 254
and nullification issue, 217
Tyler’s criticism of, 233
Vandenberg, Arthur, 460
vegetarian societies, 207
Verdun, Battle of, 390
Vermont:
constitution of, 113
slavery outlawed in, 113, 114
Versailles, Treaty of, 400–401, 466, 491
Vesey, Denmark, 203
Vespucci, Amerigo, 14
Vetal, Albert H., 409–10
Veterans Administration (VA), U.S., 6
“Vices of the Political System of the United States” (Madison), 118
Vicksburg, Battle of, 297
Vietnam War, 740, 741, 742
and academia, 635–36
end of, 642
and Johnson administration, 619
and Kennedy administration, 602–4
and liberalism, 610
peace movement, 628–29, 633
Pentagon Papers, 640–41
and political polarization, 643
and presidential election (1968), 629, 632
Viguerie, Richard, 663, 665, 666
Vinson, Fred, 579–80
Virginia:
black voting in, 323
constitution of, 112
1800 slave rebellion in, 159
gun laws in, 445
income tax in, 301
Nat Turner’s rebellion in, 205, 206
ratification debate in, 130–31
secession of, 292–93
slaves sold downriver from, 202
Virginia charter, 32–33, 34
Virginia colony:
founding of, 36–37
House of Burgesses of, see House of Burgesses
slavery in, 38
starvation in, 37
tobacco and, 37
Virginia Company, 33, 35, 35, 36, 37
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 99
Virginia Declaration of Rights and Form of Government, 96
Virginia Plan, 120
Virginia Resolves, 217
Voice to the Married, A, 196–97
“Voluntary Health Insurance Week,” 534
von Ranke, Leopold, 254
Voorhis, Jerry, 535, 536–37
voter eligibility, in election of 1800, 163
voters, 545–46, 565, 573, 574
voter turnout, in 1828 election, 185, 186
voting rights, 333
on black people, 320, 326, 330, 353, 501
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of blacks, 163
Constitution and, 122
after Panic of 1819, 207
property and, 56, 112–13, 122, 182–83
and property qualifications, 206
of white men, 191, 209
of women, 163, 206, 315, 324, 328, 339–40, 342, 346, 353, 364, 385–86, 387, 393, 402
Voting Rights Act (1965), 622, 623
Waco siege (1993), 702
Wade-Davis Bill (1864), 318
wage limits, 537
wage workers, 343
Walden, A. T., 581
Walden Pond, 230–31, 247
Waldseemüller, Martin, 14
Walker, David, 202, 203–5, 215, 218, 256
Walker, Timothy, 198
Wallace, George, 608, 613–14, 621, 632
and ERA, 658
and presidential election (1968), 629, 630
Wallace, Henry, 474, 526, 541
Wallace, Mike, 606
Wall Street Journal, 406, 423, 487, 743
war, causes of, 274–75
“War Aims and Peace Terms It Suggests, The” (Lippman), 396–97
war bonds, 335
War Department, U.S., 134, 523, 524
War of the Worlds, The (radio play; Welles), 468–71, 468, 474, 475
War on Drugs, 699
War of 1812, 172–73, 190, 217
War on Poverty, 611–12, 619, 623
war on terror, 730–31, 738–47
War Production Board, 487
War Relocation Authority (WRA), 494–95
Warren, Earl, 532–34, 546, 561, 579–81, 582, 644, 674, 678, 684
War Room, The (film), 708
war veterans, 530–31
War without Violence (Murray), 497
Washington, 242, 324, 494
women’s voting rights in, 386
Washington, August, 279, 280
Washington, Bushrod, 176
Washington, DC, 569, 582
British burning of, 172–73
Davis’s Hotel in, 176
founding of, 139–40
Jefferson’s inauguration in, 164–65
slavery abolished in, 260
Washington, George, 86, 90, 105, 108, 116, 134, 148, 233
as commander of Continental army, 93
at constitutional convention, 109, 119, 120
death of, 147–48
in decision not to seek third term, 145–46
in failure to emancipate his slaves, 133–34
Farewell Address of, 146, 148
in first skirmish with French, 76–77
inaugural address of, 133
inauguration of, 132, 133
slaves owned by, 94, 104
will of, and freeing of slaves, 147
Washington, Harry (former slave), 94, 100, 104, 107
as leader of Sierra Leone rebels, 147–48
in move to Sierra Leone, 135–36
Washington, Martha, 146–47
Washington Bee, 389
Washington for Jesus rally (1976), 664
Washington Giving the Laws to America, 148, 149
Washington Post, 455, 546–47, 572, 722
Waste in Industry (Hoover), 406
Watchtower Over Tomorrow (film), 516–17
water cure, 368
Watergate scandal, 641–42, 643–45, 688, 708–9, 744
water wheels, 192
Watson, Thomas, 404
Watt, James, 192–93
Wattenberg, Ben J., 636–37
Watts riots (1965), 623
WAVES, 486
Wealth and Poverty (Gilder), 670–71
Wealth of Nations (Smith), 17, 82, 115–16
weapons trajectories, 523, 525
Weaver, James, 346
Weaver, Richard, 136
Weaver, Richard M., 554
Webster, Daniel, 230, 234, 239, 242
and Compromise of 1850, 261
in election of 1848, 254
on labor, 255
Weddington, Sarah, 653–54, 660
Weekly Standard, 707, 743
We Hold These Truths (Corwin), 491
Weisenberger, Walter W., 446–47
Welch, Joseph, 567, 567
welfare, 618–19
and Clinton administration, 700
and Nixon administration, 638–39
and Reagan administration, 671
welfare program, 377
in Civil War, 301
in Confederacy, 302–3
welfare state, 378
in the Depression, 438–39
Welles, Orson, 444, 449, 468–71, 468, 474, 475, 491
Wells, H. G., 400, 515–16
Wells, Ida B., 356, 357, 371
Weltrundfunksender, 456
West:
movement of people to, 221, 255
populist movement in, 332
Republican expansion of, 332–33
slavery in, 221, 267
U.S. economy transformed by, 333–34
West, Benjamin, 103
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 465
West Indies, see Caribbean
Westinghouse, 473–74
West Virginia, creation of, 293
West Wing (TV show), 708
Weyrich, Paul, 648, 663, 712
“What’s Cooking in Washington,” 557
“What the Railroad Will Bring Us” (George), 341
Wheaton College, 461
Wheeler, Harvey, 598
Wheeling, W. Virg., 550, 556
Whig Party, 226, 264, 282
collapse of, 267
in election of 1836, 224, 225
in election of 1840, 227, 228, 257
in election of 1844, 257
rise of, 211
Whitaker, Clem, 448, 449, 450, 451–52, 456, 478, 532–34, 533, 546–48, 553–54, 560, 561, 572
Whitaker and Baxter, see Campaigns, Inc. White, Byron, 686–87
White, E. B., 473
White, John, 29–30
White, Theodore, 574
White, Walter, 458
White Collar (Mills), 558–59
white-collar employees, 558–59
Whitefield, George, 67–69, 68
White House, 173, 187
public admitted to, 188
White Lion, 38
White Power movement, 673–74, 702
Whitewater, 709, 710
Whitman, Walt, 228
Whitney, Eli, 198
Whittier College, 534
Whole Earth Catalog (Brand), 695
Wichita, Kans., 445
Wilkeson, Samuel, 295
Wilkinson, Moses, 107, 136
Will, George, 762
Willard, Frances, 339–40
William Jennings Bryan University, 461
Williams, Roger, 44
religious and political freedom espoused by, 49–50
Willkie, Wendell, 478–79, 480, 481, 482, 492, 551
Wills, Garry, 679
Wilmington, N.C., 202, 204
Wilmot, David, 244, 246
Wilmot Proviso, 244–46, 245, 263
Wilson, Alex, 585
Wilson, Edith, 400, 401
Wilson, James, 119, 122, 124, 131, 141, 156, 167
Wilson, William B., 377, 384
Wilson, Woodrow, 348, 491
books on American democracy by, 373–74
desire to stay out of World War I, 393
in election of 1912, 385, 387
in election of 1916, 393
on evolution of Constitution, 373
Fourteen Points proposed by, 396–97
Geneva sculpture of, 474
good relationship with press, 388
inauguration of, 387–88
on industrialization, 378
at Paris Peace Conference, 398–400, 414
on Progressives, 365
racial inequality endorsed by, 389
strokes of, 401
tax bill of, 397
windmills, 192
Wi
nning of the West, The (Roosevelt), 374
Winslow, Edward, 45
Winthrop, John, 20, 43, 44, 45
Wired, 730, 730, 731–32
Wisconsin, immigrants recruited to, 208
Wise, Henry, 292
WOKO, 428
Wolfe, Tom, 669
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Fuller), 252
Woman of Destiny, 444
Woman Rebel, The, 386
Woman’s Crusade, 339–40
Woman’s Independent Political Party, 340
women, 190, 252–53
citizenship of, 314, 315, 321–22
as computer programmers, 524–25
in Confederacy, 301–3, 302
as consumers, 380–81
education of, 529–30
and election of 1912, 387
in electoral politics, 615, 616–17
equal rights and, 402–3
equal rights for, 529
as housewives, 529, 555–57, 556, 573
lack of property rights of, 196
in manufacturing jobs, 380
in munitions manufacturing, 485–86, 486
political influence of, 529, 551, 555–57, 573
political party desired by, 340–41
in populist movement, 332, 339–40
Radical Republicans supported by, 320–21
in reform societies, 195–96, 206–7, 228
as Republicans, 529, 551, 555–57
in revival movement, 196, 196, 197
in temperance movement, 339–40
tilted toward Democratic Party, 433
voting rights of, 163, 206, 315, 324, 328, 339–40, 342, 346, 353, 364, 385–86, 387, 393, 402
at Whig conventions, 228
see also specific people
women, equality of, 86–87
Abigail Adams on, 96–97
Women’s Army Corps, 486
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 339–40
Women’s League for Equal Opportunity, 402
Women’s National Republican Association, 341
Women’s Peace Parade, 393
women’s rights:
Betty Ford on, 646–47, 654
Gilder on, 670
and hippies, 695
National Women’s Conference (1977), 659–62
and political polarization, 691–92
Schlafly activism, 646
see also culture wars; ERA; feminism
women’s studies, 635
Woodhull, Victoria, 328
Woodville, Richard Caton, 232
Worcester Town Meeting, 88
Worcester v. Georgia, 215
workingmen, 207–8
Working Men’s Party, 207
Workingmen’s Party of California, 336
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 441, 443–44, 465, 497, 504
World of Tomorrow, 472–73, 514
World’s Christian Fundamentals Association, 392–93
World’s Fair (1939), 472–74, 514, 526
World Trade Center, 719–20, 721
World War I, 362, 389–90, 393, 394, 531, 536, 745
Armistice, 398–99
Jim Crow in, 496
power of government expanded by, 397
U.S. entry into, 394–95
World War II, 523–24, 525, 527, 536, 537, 538, 586, 745
