by Matt Braun
6 State of Arizona Senate, Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act of 2010, State of Arizona Senate Resolution 1070, 49th legislature, 2nd reg. sess., April 23, 2010; Randal C. Archibold, “Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration,” New York Times, April 24, 2010.
7 Christen Varley, “MA House Vote on Perry’s Illegal Immigration Amendment,” Greater Boston Tea Party, May 2, 2010, http://greaterbostonteaparty.com /2010/05/ma-house-vote-on-perrys-illegal-immigration-amendment/; Christen Varley, “ ‘Pass the Perry Amendment’ Rally,” Greater Boston Tea Party, May 19, 2010, http://greaterbostonteaparty.com/2010/05/pass-the-perry-amendment-rally/; Maria Sacchetti, “Tea Party Rally Calls for Senate Amendment on Illegal Immigrants,” Boston Globe, May 21, 2010.
8 Massachusetts State Congress, Massachusetts State Congress Journal, 186th sess., April 28, 2010, 3–6; Massachusetts State Congress, An Act Relative to Public Benefits, H.R. 3387, 186th sess., January 7, 2009.
9 Glenn Beck, The Glenn Beck Show, Fox News, New York, April 30, 2010.
10 Glenn Beck, The Glenn Beck Show, Fox News, New York, May 7, 2010.
11 Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News, New York, May 7, 2010.
12 Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again,” in The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, ed. Arnold Rampersad (New York: Knopf, 1998), 189.
13 Organization of American Historians Executive Board of Directors, “Texas Textbook Resolution,” Organization of American Historians, May 12, 2010, http://www.oah.org/news/20100512_texas_textbook_resolution.html.
14 E.g., letter from Fritz Fischer, chair, National Council for History Education, to the Texas State Board of Education, National Council for History Education, Inc., March 30, 2010, http://www.nche.net/includes/downloads/nchelettertotexas.pdf.
15 Jonathan J. Cooper, “Arizona Governor Signs Bill Targeting Ethnic Studies,” Associated Press, May 12, 2010.
16 Cynthia Dunbar, “A Christian Land Governed by Christian Principles,” Texas State Board of Education meeting, video clip, Texas Freedom Network, YouTube, May 21, 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdhGK9aYjDY.
17 Michael Brick, “Texas School Board Set to Vote Textbook Revisions,” New York Times, May 21, 2010; “Benjamin Todd Jealous Testimony Before Texas Board of Education,” video clip, NAACP Videos, YouTube, May 20, 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ_T3Z3y4n8.
18 Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, New York, May 19, 2010; Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse, “Tea Party Pick Causes Uproar on Civil Rights,” New York Times, May 20, 2010; “Tea Party Candidate Causes Civil Rights Stir,” New York Times, May 21, 2010.
INDEX
Adams, Abigail, 93, 95, 129, 132, 147
Adams, John, 15, 21, 25, 34, 36, 47, 85, 86, 91, 92, 103, 122, 131, 141, 147
on the authorship of Common Sense, 129, 130
on the Boston Massacre, 60
on the effects of the Stamp Act, 29–30
fear that his role in the American Revolution would be forgotten, 44–45
growing hatred of Paine, 145
on the meaning of the American Revolution, 24
opinion of how the American Revolution would be viewed historically, 44
as president, 144
reply to Mercy Otis Warren’s depiction of him in her history of the American Revolution, 45
support of patriot printers, 39
Adams, Samuel, 20, 22, 34, 36, 57, 80, 91, 92, 101, 103, 122, 156
death of, 145
irritation of with Paine, 143, 146, 148
report on the Boston Massacre, 62–63
statue of, 20
Adams, Thomas Boylston, 82
Adulateur, The (M. O. Warren), 75
“Advice to a Young Tradesman from an Old One” (B. Franklin), 50
Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation, 73
Age of Reason, The (Paine), 142–43
neglect of in contemporary times, 146–47
Algerine Captive, The (R. Tyler), 149–50
Allison, Andrew, 157
American Crisis (Paine), 138
American Political Tradition, The (Hofstadter), 69
American Revolution, the, 14, 17, 18, 164–65
heritage of claimed by both the Union and the Confederacy, 23
historiography of, 21–23, 46–47
importance of to the Tea Party, 20–21
meaning of, 24
and the slavery issue, 113–16
use of for varying political purposes, 23–24
American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, 133
American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 24, 72–73, 187n27
American Slavery, American Freedom (Morgan), 73
American Weekly Mercury, 30
America’s Birthday: A Planning and Activity Guide for Citizens’ Participation During the Bicentennial Year (Peoples Bicentennial Committee), 84
antibusing, 117, 118, 128, 135
Anti-Federalists, 23
Antigua, 58
antihistory, 8, 15, 96
“Apology for Printers, An” (B. Franklin), 41
Appleton, Nathaniel, 54, 58
Aquinas, Thomas, 13
Argument, Shewing that a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, An (Trenchard), 59–60
Arizona, 156, 158
Armey, Dick, 85
Articles of Confederation, 13
“Attempt to Steal the Bicentennial, The,” Senate Judiciary Committee hearings concerning, 133–34
Attucks, Crispus, 61–62, 114, 116
memorial to on the Boston Common, 135
Aurora, 144
Australia, election law in, 110–11
Avruch, Frank, 71
Ayn Rand Institute, 8
Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 144
Baker, Charlie, 127
Baker, Russell, 133
“Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party” (Holmes), 36–37
Barbary Coast nations, 149
Barlow, Joel, 142, 196n59
Barrett, Richard, 65
Beaver (original), 2, 77
Beaver (replica), 2–3, 14, 19, 71, 81, 82–83, 85, 89, 90, 164
Beck, Glenn, 9, 15, 38, 64, 95, 97, 112
“Indoctrination in America” lecture, 10–11. See also Founders’ Fridays
Becker, Carl, 113
Bellamy, Edward, 127
Bellamy, Francis, 127–28
Bennett, Doug, 36
Bernard, Francis, 24, 25, 55–56
Bicentennial, the, 15, 18, 65, 133–35
Thurgood Marshall’s view of, 119–20. See also American Revolution Bicentennial Commission
Peoples Bicentennial Committee
Bicentennial Ethnic Racial Forum, 128
Bielat, Sean, 100, 104
Bill of Rights, 64
“Birthers,” 98
Bloody Massacre Perpetrated on King Street, The (Revere), 63
Boorstein, Daniel, 67
Bork, Robert, 81, 119
Boston, 24–25
boycott of British imports by Bostonians, 55
celebration of the Bicentennial in, 134–35
material dumped into Boston Harbor over the years, 84–85
response of to British troops stationed in, 58–60
siege of, 102–3, 130–31. See also Boston Common; Patriot’s Day
“Boston” (Emerson), 78–79
Boston 200, 72, 82
Boston Common, 1, 3, 20, 37, 55, 126, 135
Boston Evening Post, 48
Boston Gazette, 30, 33, 38, 75, 77, 80, 103, 138
last issue of, 144
motto of, 34
the Tories’ name for (“Weekly Dung Barge”), 39
Boston Globe, 38, 136
“The Boston Tea Party . . . and this Generation” editorial of, 81–82
Boston Herald, 136, 137
Boston Massacre, 6, 9–10, 23, 60–64, 65, 74, 116
commemoration of, 86
depositions concerning, 81
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John Adams’s opinion of, 60
protest meetings of, 78
reenactment of, 11, 117, 171n21
Boston News-Letter, 31
Boston Phoenix, 98
Boston Port Act (1774), 91
Boston Red Sox, 155, 164
Boston Tea Party (1773), 80–81
Boston Tea Party (2009), 20
Anti-Obamacare rally, 43
Boston Tea Party Ship. See Beaver
Boy with a Squirrel (Copley), 34
Bozo the Clown, 71
Bradstreet, Anne, 48
Brewer, Jan, 156
Brown, Scott, 9–10, 35, 37, 91, 112, 126–27
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 119
Bunker Hill, 67
Bunker Hill, Battle of, 60, 87, 90, 103
monument of, 86
reenactment of, 118
Burdick, Benjamin, 61
Burke, Edmund, 62
Burns, Anthony, 115
Bush, George H. W., 128
busing, forced, 80, 117
Caldwell, James, 62
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 6, 11, 54, 56, 57, 58, 93, 102, 103, 136, 155
bridge to, 153
as the “Republic of Cambridge,” 100, 161
as Washington’s headquarters, 130
Carmichael, Stokely, 23–24
Carr, Howie, 137
Carr, Patrick, 62, 64
Christian nation. See United States, as a Christian nation
chronology, 16
church/state separation, 150
Civil Rights Act (1964), 23, 159
Civil War, the, 103, 114, 116, 135
Coakley, Martha, 9
Coalition for Marriage and Family, 42, 94, 126
Coburn, John, 62
Colonial Times Today, 160–64
Colored Patriots of the American Revolution (Nell), 116
Common Sense (Paine), 129–30, 146
John Adams’s opinion of, 145
profits from sale of donated to the Continental Army, 137–38
Common Sense II: The Case Against Corporate Tyranny (Peoples Bicentennial Commission), 147
Connecticut charter, the, 123
Connecticut Courant, 39
Considerations on Slavery (Appleton), 54
Constitutional Convention (1787), 113, 119, 123
Continental Congress: First (1774), 21, 92
Second (1775), 46, 103, 131
Contract with America, 13
Contrast, The (R. Tyler), 147
Copley, John Singleton, 34, 42, 56, 75, 91–92
Cox, Archibald, 81
creationism, 12, 124
Cronkite, Walter, 134
Curran, Emily, 78, 88–89
Curtis, George Ticknor, 7–8
Dartmouth, 77, 89, 90
Davis, Benjamin, 60
Davis, David Brion, 73, 74
Dawes, William, 101
debtors’ prison, 22, 49, 50, 55, 139
Declaration of Independence, 13, 23
committee for the drafting of, 131
first public reading of, 133
Jefferson’s initial attack against slavery in, 131–32
Defeat, The (M. O. Warren), 75
Democratic Party, the, 23
Dickinson, John, 106
Dig, 99
Douglas, Stephen, 116, 121
Douglass, Frederick, 73
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), 116
Drudge Report, 38
Dukakis, Michael, 128
Dunbar, Asa, 54
Dunbar, Cynthia, 158–59
Dunmore, Lord, 94
Eastland, James, 23, 134
Edes, Benjamin, 27, 33, 38–39, 56, 57, 63, 102–3, 138, 141
death of, 144–45
escape of from the British, 101
refusal to abide by the Stamp Act, 34
Edes, Peter, 103
Egan, George, 37, 99–100, 126
Egan, Joe, 99–100
Egan, John, 99–100, 126
Eleanor, 77, 89, 90
Eliot, Andrew, 33, 56, 60, 76, 102, 103, 131, 138
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 3, 17, 18, 78, 139, 152
Emerson, William, 139
environmentalism, 10
“Essay against Hypocrites” (J. Franklin), 31
evangelicals, 120–21
Faith of Our Founding Fathers, The (LaHaye), 121
Falwell, Jerry, 120, 121
Faneuil Hall, 20, 34, 43, 61, 70, 78, 82, 87, 115, 135
Federalists, 23
Flynn, Ray, 117
Ford, Gerald, 117, 118
Ford, Shawn, 70, 88, 89
Forefathers Day, 1
Founders’ Fridays, 156–57
Founding Fathers, 17, 112
contemporary books concerning, 35–36
evocation of by politicians of all stripes, 14–15, 23
faith/religion of, 120–23
Frank, Barney, 100, 136
Franklin, Benjamin, 32, 47, 48, 77, 92, 102, 106, 107, 121, 122, 123, 131
aid given to his nephews, 50–51, 138
death and funeral of, 141–42
escape of from the poverty of his childhood, 154–55
view of the Stamp Act’s effect on printers, 38
writing of under the pseudonym “Mrs. Silence Dogood,” 31–32, 52
writing of under the pseudonym “Richard Saunders,” 52
Franklin, James, 30, 31, 32, 144
Franklin, Jane. See Mecom, Jane
Freedom Trail, 34, 65, 78, 88
French and Indian War, 24, 27–28
Fugitive Slave Act (1850), 114, 115
fundamentalism, historical, 15–16, 125
Gage, Thomas, 91, 93, 103
Garrison, William Lloyd, 115
Garrity, W. Arthur, 117
Genovese, Eugene, 67
Gill, John, 27, 33, 39, 101
Gingrich, Newt, 5
Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against Out-of-Control Government (Beck), 147
global warming, 41–42
Gray, Samuel, 60, 62
Green Dragon Tavern, 34–35, 80, 101
as the “Headquarters of the Revolution,” 34
Tea Party meetings and gatherings at, 35–38, 83–84, 98–99
Greer, Jim, 9
Grenville, George, 28
Gwin, Peter, 26–27
Hacker, Andrew, 67
Haley, Alex, 134
Hancock, 88
Hancock, John, 1, 2, 14–15, 34, 63, 75, 86, 88, 91, 101, 103
death of, 143
demolition of his mansion, 79
Hannity, Sean, 5–6, 8, 9, 15
Harding, Warren G., 16, 17, 172n29
Harvard College, 6, 28, 32, 35, 36, 69, 103, 136, 137, 153
Harvard Hall, 56, 57
Harvard Yard, 103
health care reform, 9, 14–15. See also Obamacare; Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (2010)
Hedlund, Robert, 3–4
Helms, Jesse, 147
Hemings, Sally, 5
Henry, Patrick, 94
Henshaw, David, 108–9
Heritage Foundation, 4
Hess, Austin, 20, 21, 35, 38, 90–91, 104, 137, 152, 183
occupation of, 64, 183n47
opinion of Sarah Palin, 111
political beliefs of, 43–44, 94–95
views on taxation, 84
Hewes, R. T., 87–88
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 115
Historic Tours of America, 70–71, 88–89, 90
history, American: attempts to remove slavery from the study of, 73–74
belief that teaching of is being corrupted by the Left, 95–96
contemporary scholarship concerning, 96–97
controversy concerning textbooks of, 12–16
and “presentism,” 68–69
History of Massachusetts (Hutchinson), 33
History of the American Revolution, The (Ramsey), 22, 28, 39
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story of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution (M. O. Warren), 28, 47
Hofstadter, Richard, 67–68
opinion of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., 184n56
on “presentism,” 68–69
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 36, 86
Hopkins, Stephen, 28
How to Commit Revolution American Style (Rifkin), 72
Hughes, Langston, 157
Hume, David, 122
Humphries, Patrick, 38, 111–12, 126
Hutchinson, Thomas, 33, 36, 56, 75, 77, 91
Imperial Presidency, The (Schlesinger), 117
insanity/madness, 50, 75, 95
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 10
Intolerable Acts (1774), 91
Irving, Washington, 17
Israel Potter (Melville), 87
Jackson, Andrew, 23, 108
Jackson, Jesse, 65
Jakub, Zerah, 80
Jealous, Benjamin, 159
Jefferson, Thomas, 5, 13, 21, 24, 86, 88, 121, 122
defeat of John Adams in the 1800 presidential election, 144
drafting of the Declaration of Independence by, 131–32
enthusiasm of for revolution, 22
on the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, 113
Jehle, Paul, 5
John Adams (HBO special), 46
Johns, Michael, 4
Johnson, Lyndon, 23, 24, 65, 119, 134
Johnson, Samuel, 93
Jones, James Earl, 73
Journal of the Times, 57
on the stationing of British troops in Boston, 58–59
Kennedy, John F., 65
Kennedy, Robert F., 65
Kennedy, Ted, 9, 37
Kent State, shootings at, 65–66, 67
Kerry, John, 66
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 23, 24, 65
Knox, Henry, 61, 130
Kopechne, Mary Jo, 37
LaHaye, Tim, 120–21
Landing of the British Troops in Boston, The (Revere), 57
Landrieu, Mary, 112
“Last Leaf, The” (Holmes), 86
Lee, Debbie, 136
“Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” (Irving), 17–18
Lexington and Concord, Battle of, 22, 100–102
reenactment of, 155
liberals, 12, 127, 152
as “moon-bats,” 137
liberty, 4, 8, 29, 39, 54, 56, 64, 66, 73, 107, 128, 132, 134, 141
civil, 59
endangered, 59, 112
religious, 122, 123, 148, 149, 150
and slavery, 18, 74, 76, 93–94
Liberty, 40
Liberty Tree, 8, 33, 40, 57, 102
Lincoln, Abraham, 116, 121
Littlehale, Shawni, 4
Livingston, Robert, 131
London Gazette, 30
Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (E. Bellamy), 127
Lost Cause of the Confederacy, 96
Lowell, James Russell, 102, 104
Lowell, Robert, 1, 135
