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relevance today, 276–77, 282, 286
and slavery, 122, 153–57
for social change, 212
in vernacular, 22, 47, 51
Big Ben, 85
Bingham, George Caleb, Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap, 147, 148
black nationalism, 127, 128–29
Blanchard, Jonathan, 155–57
Bogart, Humphrey, 208
Boone, Daniel, 119, 147–48, 147, 197
Borglum, Gutzon, 203
Born in East L.A. (film), 277
Boston Tea Party, 90
Boughdadly, Abbas El, 233
Boyer, Harold, 25
Bradford, Sarah, 137
Bradford, William, 11, 13, 43
Hebrew studies of, 32, 170
as Moses, 9, 32, 33, 62, 134, 151, 266
Of Plymouth Plantation, 12, 19, 32
as Pilgrim leader, 8, 9, 28, 31–32, 61, 151, 167
Branch, Taylor, 265
Brewer, Bessie, 272
Brewster, William, 26–27, 203
Brigham Young (film), 220–21
Britt, Brian, 210
Brooklyn Bridge, 192, 205
Brooks, Phillips, 244
Brown, Charles Reynolds, The Social Message of the Modern Pulpit, 213
Brown, John, 136
Brown v. Board of Education, 243, 245
Brueggemann, Walter, 298–99, 301
Brynner, Yul, 211, 230, 235
Bullock, Steven, Revolutionary Brotherhood, 87
Burrell, Captain Jabez, 133
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 221
Bush, Barbara, 281–82
Bush, George H. W., 80
Bush, George W., 80, 278–82, 283
Bushnell, Horace, 38
Campbell, Alexander, 109, 116
Campbell, Betty, 116
Canaan, land of, 17, 61, 151, 152
Canada, and Underground Railroad, 138
Captain America, 224–25
Carter, Jimmy, 80, 295
Carver, George Washington, 248
Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York City, 241, 242, 243, 245, 251
Catholic Emancipation Act (Britain, 1829), 46
Charles II, king of England, 54
Chicago Conference on Religion and Race (1963), 257
Christ Church, Philadelphia, 53–59, 55, 71
Churchill, Winston, 239
Church of England, 24, 38
Church of God in Christ, 259
Cicero, 92
Cincinnati, Ohio, 140–41, 152, 153, 155–57
civil rights, 255, 272
and Exodus, 256–57
and Jews, 256, 257, 295
and King, see King, Martin Luther, Jr.
March on Washington, 51, 248, 250–53
and Mason Temple, Memphis, 260
and Moses, 247, 254, 257
Civil Rights Act (1964), 256
Civil War, U.S., 33, 142–43, 293
battle of Gettysburg, 157, 158
and Bible, 143, 158–59, 166
debates about, 153–57, 160
and Lincoln, 159–61, 164, 165, 168
and slavery, 142, 153–57, 162
surrender at Appomattox, 169
Clark’s Island, 7, 9, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 30
Clay, Joseph, 110
Clinton, Bill, 278
Clinton, Hillary, 5
Coca-Cola, 293
Cohen, Helen, 210–11, 215, 219
Cold War, 51, 227, 228, 295
Colossus of Rhodes, 181
Columbia University, 95
Columbus, Christopher, 4, 21, 61, 151, 241, 296
Communist Party, 212–13, 234–35
Confucius, 283
Conrad, Robert, 49
Constantine, emperor of Rome, 183
Constitution, U.S., 28, 49, 75, 95, 129, 187, 251
and church-state separation, 145, 167
First Amendment to, 94, 145, 197, 284–85
ratification of, 94, 98
Constitutional Convention, 75, 76, 93
Continental Congress, 35, 55, 55, 63, 75
Cooper, Rev. Samuel, 92
Corley, D. B., 152
Cotton, John, 28, 60
Craig, Rev. Mark, 281
Daley, Richard, 249
Darfur, genocide in, 295
Dartmouth University, 95
Darwin, Charles, 298
The Origin of Species, 177–78
Darwinism, 209
Deaver, Mike, 280
Declaration of Independence, 35, 36
anniversaries of, 48, 180
and Duché, 56, 58
and equal rights, 155, 251
and Gettysburg Address, 164, 165
and Liberty Bell, 45, 49, 50, 53
signers of, 40, 67, 90
and Statue of Liberty, 187, 194
Deists, 47, 60
DeMille, Cecil B., 4, 209
birth and early years of, 211, 212
casting books of, 215–16
and Churchill, 239
and interfaith relations, 236, 237–38
memorabilia in storage, 215–16
and Moses, 239–40, 296
screen appearance of, 227–28
scripts of, 216–17, 238
and social message, 214–15, 227, 229, 238
and Ten Commandments, 209, 212, 214–19, 218, 226–31, 234–40
DeMille, Henry, 211, 214, 237
DeMille, Matilda Samuel, 211
Depew, Chauncey, 193
Derek, John, 216
Deuteronomy:
and American Revolution, 59–60, 93
Moses story in, 93, 173, 206, 308
and Passover, 139
and Ten Commandments, 28
Diethorn, Karie, 36, 39, 43, 44, 46–47, 52–53
Douglas, Stephen, 156, 160
Douglass, Frederick, 124, 136, 162–63, 248
Du Bois, W. E. B., 299
Duché, Jacob, 54–59, 55, 62, 80
Duffield, Rev. George, 61
Dylan, Bob, 250
Edison, Thomas A., 167
Edwards, Jonathan, 38, 167, 203
Einstein, Albert, 96, 298
Eisendrath, Maurice, 258
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 80, 236, 237, 279, 295
Eizenstat, Stuart, 295
Elijah, 292
Eliot, George, “The Death of Moses,” 308
Eliza (slave girl), 116, 117, 118–19, 150–51
Ellis, Joseph, 79
Emancipation Proclamation, 161, 162, 169, 251
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 189
Enlightenment, 166, 285
as about transformation, 144, 161–62
European thinkers, 61, 92
and Founders, 47, 87, 92, 93, 167
E Pluribus Unum, 66
Everett, Edward, 163
Exodus:
and African American identity, 249–53, 256–59
and American identity, 95, 98, 195, 196, 296, 298
and American Revolution, 59–60, 62–63, 74, 76, 96, 98, 151
biblical story of, 5–6, 8, 24, 27, 30, 65, 70, 93, 94, 130, 131, 184, 253, 293, 300–301
and Civil War, 158–59, 164
commemoration of, 139
and freedom, 71, 129–32, 249, 300
and immigration to U.S., 184, 188–92, 193–94
and Underground Railroad, 124, 128, 134, 136, 151–52
and U.S. western expansion, 148
Exodus, Book of, 13, 233, 300
King’s sermons on, 243, 246
language of, 37–38, 67, 146
Farrakhan, Louis, 255
Feiler, Bruce:
Abraham, 278–79
meeting with Bush, 279–81
Filson, John, 146–48
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 208
Forefathers Day, 19
Fosdick, Rev. Harry Emerson, 245
Fox, Richard W., Jesus in America, 297
Frank, Anne, 291
Franklin, Aretha, 248
Franklin, Benjamin, 42–43, 49, 63, 141, 151, 167, 279
as abolitionist, 111
books published by, 39, 88
and the Constitution, 95
and faith, 47, 62
and Great Seal, 4, 36, 64–68, 202, 213, 296
Franklin, C. L., 248, 253, 259
Franklin, Robert, 249–50, 252–53
Fraternal Order of Eagles, 235
Fraunces Tavern, New York, 86
Freedom Riders, 256
“Free at last!,” 247–48, 252
Freemasons, see Masons
Freud, Sigmund, 298
Moses and Monotheism, 210, 288
Frieden, Betty, 277
Friends of Freedom, 48
Fugitive Slave Law, 137, 150
fundamentalism, 209
Furr, Barbara, 143, 149, 152
Gable, Clark, 208
Gabler, Neal, An Empire of Their Own, 223, 225
Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma), 254
Garbo, Greta, 208
Gardner, Tom, 204–5
Garrison, William Lloyd, 114
Gates, Bill, 277
gay rights, 51
Geffen, Rabbi David, 293
Genesis, book of, 27, 83–85, 269
Geneva Bible, 23
George III, king of England, 31, 60, 61
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 157–58
Gettysburg Address (Lincoln), 158, 161, 163–65, 166, 241, 296
Glaude, Eddie, 129, 301
“Go Down, Moses,” 125, 251, 295
Goebbels, Joseph, 225
Goldberg, Arthur, 295
Goldberg, Dorothy, 295
Goldwyn, Sam, 212
Gollar, Walter, 153
Gomes, Rev. Peter, 29–34, 134, 195
Gore, Jerry, 120–23, 126–27, 139
Graham, Billy, 234
Graham’s Magazine, 50
Graves, Robert, 210
Great Awakening, 4, 37–38, 56, 144–45, 146, 165, 203
Guelzo, Allen, 161, 162, 166, 171, 174
Hancock, John, 88
Harding, Warren G., 80
Harlem Renaissance, 246
Harlow, Jean, 208
Harvard University, 95
Hay, Robert, 102
Hayne, Donald, 229
Hebrew Bible:
and America’s moral foundations, 51
freedom in, 70
laws in, 28
Moses in, 22
as source of knowledge, 88
see also Bible
Heine, Heinrich, 71
Helios (sun god), 183
Hemings, Sally, 111
Hepburn, Audrey, 216
Herberg, Will, Protestant-Catholic-Jew, 236
Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 256–59, 258, 291
Heschel, Susannah, 256–58, 259
Heston, Charlton, 197, 235
in DeMille’s casting book, 216
at March on Washington, 251
in Ten Commandments, 6, 218, 219, 229, 230, 239
Hitchcock, Alfred, 193
Hitler, Adolf, 224–25, 224, 255, 295
Hobbes, Thomas, 92, 93, 298
Hoderath, Geoffrey, 73, 75, 76, 80, 82–83
Hollywood:
blacklist in, 227
early film industry in, 212
European Jewish immigrants in, 223
revivals in, 227
special effects in, 230, 231
Sunset Boulevard, 208–9
Holocaust, 227
Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 125
Hughes, Howard, 208
Hughes, Langston, 299
Hume, David, 92
Hurston, Zora Neale, 210, 246–48, 252
Moses, Man of the Mountain, 247
Huxley, Thomas, 22
Hyneman, Charles, 92, 93
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 36, 63
bell for, see Liberty Bell
bell tower of, 43–44, 45, 48
Centennial Bell in, 52
construction of, 39–40
as State House, 40, 44, 45
visitors to, 70
Ingraham, J. H., The Pillar of Fire, 210
Islam, 20
Israel:
creation of, 20
identity of, 191
Jackson, Andrew, 80
Jackson, Jacob, 136
Jackson, Jesse, 272
Jackson, Mahalia, 251
James I, king of England, 8
Jamestown colony, 8, 110
Jefferson, Thomas:
and Declaration of Independence, 63
and Great Seal, 4, 36, 64, 66–68, 202, 213, 296
influence of, 89
and religion, 145
and slavery, 110–11
Jerusalem, Solomon’s Temple in, 86, 87, 89
Jesus of Nazareth, 274, 296–97
and Lincoln, 171, 174
as new Moses, 20
in popular culture, 212, 250
Jet, 269
Jewkes, Delow, 229
Jews:
and African Americans, 128, 255–57
in America, 195–203
in American Revolution, 197
and anti-Semitism, 197–98, 202, 258
and civil rights movement, 256, 257, 295
comic books created by, 223, 224
early settlements of, 196–97
hagadahs of, 291–93, 294, 95, 304
in Hollywood, 223
Holocaust, 227
immigrants to U.S., 189, 191, 193, 194, 196, 198, 201, 223
importance of Moses to, 196, 199–202
and melting pot, 201
and Passover, 2, 41, 98, 139, 200–201, 231–33, 275, 292–93, 295–96, 303–4
seders, 291–93, 295, 302–5
Soviet, 295 and Torah, 13, 98, 196, 203–4
and Yom Kippur, 203–4
Jobs, Steve, 277
Joel, Joseph, 293
Johnson, Lyndon B., 4, 277, 282
Jones, Rev. Absalom, 128
Jones, Christopher, 11
Josephus, 299
Judeo-Christian tradition, 237
Kemp, John, 26–27, 28
Kennedy, John F., 264, 277
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 243–48
assassination of, 254, 259, 267, 272–73
and civil rights movement, 255, 258, 268, 291
and Exodus, 256–57
and Heschel, 256–59
legacy of, 269, 270, 274
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” 251
and Liberty Bell, 51, 251–52
and March on Washington, 51, 248, 252
in Memphis, 260–66, 278
as Moses, 4, 25, 33, 58, 245, 246, 248, 253, 259, 262, 268–69, 274, 291, 296
preaching, 242, 243, 261–66, 267, 271
woman’s attack on, 263–64
King, Rev. Martin Luther, Sr., 246
Koran, Moses mentioned in, 20
Kraft, Bob, 287
Kushner, Harold, 289, 290
Overcoming Life’s Disappointments, 288
When Bad Things Happen to Good People, 287–88
Kyles, Rev. Samuel “Billy,” 261, 271–74
Laboulaye, Édouard de, 180
Lafayette, Marquis de, 46, 48
Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, 141, 153
Langdon, Samuel, 60, 94
Lasky, Jesse, 212
Lazarus, Emma, 188–92, 199
and Moses, 191–92
“The New Colossus,” 189–91, 192, 193–94, 199
Lazarus, Moses, 188
League of Nations, 220
Lee, Henry, 101
Lee, Robert E., 169
“Let my people go,” 15, 61, 107, 125–26, 136, 192, 255
Leviticus, Book of, 40–43
Holiness Code in, 41
Liberty Bell quotation (Verse 25), 4, 40, 41–43, 44, 47, 51, 71–72, 165, 296
name of, 41
and slavery, 156
and Ten Co
mmandments film, 238, 239
on Yom Kippur, 203
Lewis, John, 269
Lewis and Clark, 119
Liberator, 114, 137
Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, 36–53, 63, 239
author’s visit to, 43–44, 48, 52–53
cracks in, 44, 46
E-flat tone of, 44, 46
and Friends of Freedom, 48
in King’s speech, 51, 251–52
Leviticus 25
quotation on face of, 4, 40, 41–43, 44, 47, 51, 71–72, 165, 296
military swearing-in at site of, 52–53
poetry inspired by, 48–49, 51
procurement of, 40, 44, 85
recasting of, 44–45
replicas of, 70
ringing of, 45, 46, 50
and Sister Bell, 45, 46
