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Searchable Terms
Note: Entries in this index, carried over verbatim from the print edition of this title, are unlikely to correspond to the pagination of any given e-book reader. However, entries in this index, and other terms, may be easily located by using the search feature of your e-book reader.
Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Aaron, 20, 229
Abernathy, Ralph, 258, 260, 261, 266, 269, 270, 272
Abiff, Hiram, 87
abolitionists, 48–49, 114, 115, 141, 150–51, 153–57, 169
Abraham, 15, 191, 279
Action Comics, 221, 223
Adamic, Louis, 193
Adams, John, 60, 61, 62, 63 and Book of Common Prayer, 56
and Great Seal, 4, 35, 64, 66, 67, 213, 296
as vice president, 79
Adams, Samuel, 55, 88
African Americans:
activism of, 243, 247, 250–53; see also civil rights cultural tradition of, 124–32, 247
Exodus story for, 249–53, 256–59
and Jews, 128, 255–57
and March on Washington, 51, 248, 250–53
Moses figure for, 248, 253, 259
slaves, see slavery
Alexander II, Czar, 189
Allen, Ethan, 88
America, see United States
American Bible Society, 146, 159
American dream, 162, 225, 296, 297
American Negro, 268
American Revolution, 28, 33, 36
and Deuteronomy, 59–60, 93
and Exodus, 59–60, 62–63, 74, 76, 96, 98, 151
Jewish soldiers in, 197
and language of dissent, 38
postwar disarray, 75–76, 90, 92
and Puritans, 61
sources of, 92, 98
and Washington, 52, 58, 75
Anderson, Marian, 250
Angelou, Maya, 269
Anglican Church, 24, 38
Applegate, Debby, 151
Arbella, 8, 25, 60, 194, 278
Aristotle, 298
Ark of the Covenant, 87, 186
Arnold, Benedict, 79
Articles of Confederation, 75, 93
Augustine, Saint, 79
Auschwitz, 127
B
acall, Lauren, 208
Bacon, Francis, 61
Baker, Jim, 19, 23, 26
Baldwin, James, 251
Banks, Lynne Reid, Moses in Egypt, 210
Barralet, John James, The Apotheosis of Washington, 100
Bartholdi, Frédéric, 180–81, 183, 184, 186
Barton, Bernard, 48–49
Barton, Bruce, The Man Nobody Knows, 212
Baskett, Mark, 57, 80
Baxter, Anne, 216, 230
Beecher, Catharine, 203
Beecher, Harriet, see Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Beecher, Henry Ward, 141–42, 142, 159, 168–70, 172–73, 203
Beecher, James, 169
Beecher, Lyman, 141, 144, 146, 148–49, 152–53, 161, 203
Beecher family, 141–44, 148–52, 203
Berlin, Irving, 193
Bible:
American Bible Society, 146, 159
and American exceptionalism, 33
and American Revolution, 59–60, 93, 151
authors of, 178, 270
and Civil War, 143, 158–59, 166
ebbing prominence of, 93–94, 209
emotional influence of, 47, 61
English translations of, 30
and evolution, 177–78
Five Books of Moses, 13, 70, 91, 93, 173, 266, 269–70, 282, 301, 306
Geneva, 23
as God’s word, 153
and Great Awakening, 37–38
individual interpretation of, 144, 157, 183, 202
King James, 42, 80
in Latin, 21
as living book, 234
living by, 62–63
New Testament, 20
oath taking on, 79–80, 282
Old Testament, see Hebrew Bible
and Pilgrims, 27, 29, 30–31, 62
and printing processes, 21–22, 146
and rebirth, 37
