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Cortés, Hernán, 18

Cosby, Bill, 508

Cosby, William, 59

Cosway, Maria, 151

Cotton, John, 36

Coughlin, Father Charles, 363

Council on Foreign Relations, 592, 596–97

Cox, Archibald, 504

Cox, James M., 338, 662

Craft, William and Ellen, 203

Crane, Stephen, 300

Crawford, William H., 164–65, 659

Crazy Horse, 259–61

Crédit Mobilier scandal, 267, 338

Creek Indians, 158, 168–70, 178, 275

Crippen, Robert L., 519

Crockett, Davy, 178

Crook, General, 260

Cuba, 4, 10, 16, 189; Bay of Pigs, 449–52, 502; missile crisis, 452–53; Spanish-American War, 286–94

Curtis, Charles, 663

Custer, George A., 259–61

Czolgosz, Leon, 293

Dabney, Virginius, 151

Dadullah, Mullah, 600

Dallas, George M., 660

Darrow, Clarence, 337

Daugherty, Harry, 338

Davis, Benjamin O., 377–78

Davis, Jefferson, 192, 217–19, 227, 239, 240, 244

Davis, John W., 663

Dawes, Billy, 70

Dawes, Charles G., 663

Dayton, Jonathan, 113

Dayton Accord, 555

D-Day, xviii, 383, 550

Dean, John, III, 282, 503, 510

Debs, Eugene V., 277–78, 301, 304, 316, 320, 338, 662

Decatur, Stephen, 148, 156

Declaration of Independence, xviii, xx, xxiv, 52, 72, 78–82, 95–97, 111, 115, 117, 119, 120, 124, 126, 156, 162, 176, 189, 220, 637

Decoration Day, 248–49

Deerfield raid, 56–57

Defense of Marriage Act, 613, 614

de Gaulle, Charles, 373, 385

Deism, 120–21

DeLancey, James, 59

De las Casas, Bartolomé, 5

Delaware, 46, 128, 163, 221, 425

Delaware Indians, 21, 63, 273

Delaware River, Washington crosses, xvii, 73

Democratic Party, 119, 138, 167, 175, 190–92, 201, 206–9, 212–13, 215, 280–82; Civil War and, 242, 246–47; Convention of 1912, 303–4; Convention of 1968, 472, 477; elections of 2000 and, 568–75; elections of 2008, and first black president, 622–25; FDR and, 351–53, 355, 357; Iran-Contra and, 523; National Committee break-in, 480–81, 497, 501–4, 507; post-Civil War, 250–52; Southern, 206–7, 209, 212, 215, 251–52, 271, 280, 336, 431, 515; Vietnam War and, 477, 481, 497

Democratic Republican Party, 82, 138, 141–44, 164

De Soto, Hernando, 19

Dessalines, 145

Dewey, Rear Admiral, 289–91

Dewey, Thomas, 386, 426, 663

Dias, Bartholomew, 6

Dickenson, Susanna, 178

Diem, Ngo Dinh, 466, 469–70, 497, 508

Dienbienphu, 468–69, 475

DiIulio, John J., Jr., 573–74

Dinwiddie, Governor, 61–62

Displaced Persons Plan, 404

Dixiecrats, 431

Dodd, Samuel C. T., 271

Dole, Robert, 551, 652, 664

Dominican Republic, 4, 16, 145, 173, 298

Doniphan, Alexander, 193

Donovan, William, 379

Doolittle, James, 378

Dos Passos, John, 323

Douglas, Stephen, 207, 213–15, 661

Douglass, Frederick, xxv, 196–200, 216, 229, 234, 284, 334

Douglass, Helen Pitts, 198

Douglass, Lewis, 233–34

Downing Street memo, 605

Drake, Sir Francis, 19, 22

Dred Scott
case, 210–15, 218, 282, 574, 641

DuBois, W. E. B., 124, 302–3, 324

Dukakis, Michael, 66–67, 654, 664

Dulles, Allen, 407, 423, 449–50, 461

Dulles, John Foster, 407, 423, 449

Duong Van Minh, General, 470, 471

Dustin, Hannah, 51

Dutch West India Company, 37.
See also
Netherlands

Dylan, Bob, 443

Earhart, Amelia, 359–60, 455

Early, Jubal, 236, 238

Eastern Europe, 320, 290, 392, 401–2, 406, 510, 534–35, 555

Easter Uprising, 313

economics and finance: bonds, 559, 560–61; budget deficits and surplus, 515, 517, 533, 539, 544, 547, 559–60, 566, 651; coins, motto on, 126–27; consumer price index, 560; credit, easing or tightening of, 516, 561; crisis of 1980s, 539, 544; crisis of 2007–9, xii, xiv, 617–23, 625–26; discount rate, 559, 560; dollar bill, 123, 127; financial reform and, 626–27; first paper “greenbacks,” 230; fiscal policy, 561; gross domestic product, 561; growth, 557–58; inflation, 348, 396, 512–16, 543, 557–58, 560–63, 565; interest rates, 345, 516, 543, 546, 559–63, 565–66; junk bonds, 539, 559; monetary policy, 557, 560, 562; producer price index (PPI), 560; productivity, 562; recession, xii, xxv, 516, 543, 545, 557, 561–62, 566, 618–19, 621, 624–28; stagflation, 513; stocks, 562; Treasury bills, bonds, notes, 559; unemployment, 347, 355–56, 516, 543, 558, 563, 589, 621, 635.
See also
Great Depression; Great Recession; panic; stock market

education, 435; colleges founded, 58; school desegregation, 424–32; reform of, 626; school segregation, 282, 284–85

Edwards, Jonathan, 57, 58, 124

Egypt, 381, 423, 511, 513, 541, 591

Ehrlichman, John, 482, 501, 503, 505, 507, 510

Einstein, Albert, 372, 396

Eisenhower, Dwight, xx, 350, 382, 385, 388, 392, 401, 407, 412, 414, 418–22, 426, 431–32, 436–37, 445–46, 449, 450, 468–69, 663

elections, xxiii, xxv; caucuses, 655–56; Constitution and, 116; first, 130; of first black president, 622–27; primaries, 556; process, 142, 638–39, 652–57; turnout, 176, 338, 652–53; of 2000, 447, 567–75, 603, 614, 624.
See also specific candidates

Electoral College, xxiii, 82, 129–30, 568–70, 572–75, 586, 639, 646, 648, 652–55, 661, 662

Elizabeth, queen of England, 17, 20, 22, 30

Ellison, Ralph, 424

Ellsberg, Daniel, 480, 496–98, 503, 505, 507

Ellsworth, Elmer, 225

Emancipation Proclamation, 228–30, 242, 249

Embargo Act, 153–54

Emerson, Dr. John, 210–11

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 183, 196, 217

England.
See
Britain

Enlightenment, 64, 96, 115, 120–23, 146

Enron scandal, xxiv

environmental movement, 454, 512, 546, 569

Environmental Protection Agency, 572

E pluribus unum,
126–27

Eriksson, Leif, 8–9

Ervin, Sam, 502–3

Espionage Act, 316

Essex Junto, 148

Evers, Medgar, 484

Fairbanks, Charles Warren, 662

Fall, Albert B., 339

Falwell, Jerry, 515

Fannie Mae, 617, 619–20, 622

Farmer, John, 592–93, 595

Farragut, David, 227, 237

fascism, 361–64, 371

Faubus, Orville, 432

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), xiii, xx, xxii, 327, 329, 369, 409, 461–62, 464–66, 484, 494–96, 498, 501–3, 506, 509, 510, 548, 551, 552, 576–85, 591, 593

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 620

Federal Emergency Management Agency, 615–16

federal government: growth of, 355–56; states vs., 113–16, 117–19, 133, 136–39, 223–24

Federalist Papers,
86, 127–29, 553

Federalist Party, 82, 87–88, 125, 127–30, 138, 141–44, 148–50, 160, 164, 175

Federal Open Market Committee, 559–61

Federal Reserve, 304, 345, 516, 543, 546, 556–67, 617, 620, 621; Board of Governors, 555, 558–60

Feith, Douglas, 603

Ferdinand, Archduke, 306, 310, 346

Ferdinand, king of Spain, 4, 16

Ferguson, Charles, 603, 610

Feynman, Richard P., 519

Field, Noel, 409

Fiers, Alan, Jr., 526

54th Massachusetts Volunteers, 231, 233–34

Fillmore, Millard, 202–3, 205, 209, 660

Fisk, James, 268

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 323, 332

Five Civilized Tribes, 169–70, 275

Fleming, Thomas, xxiii

Florida, xiii, 10, 18, 19, 40, 46, 63, 145, 164, 169–70, 217, 325–27, 567–74, 586, 615, 661

Flynt, Larry, 552

Foch, Ferdinand, 317

Fonda, Jane, 508

Ford, Gerald, 444, 482–83, 503, 505–7, 510, 513, 553, 564, 663–64

Ford, Henry, 339–42, 347–48, 363, 628

Foreman, George, 490

Fort Caroline, 19, 40

Fort Sumter, 195, 217, 224

Foster, Vincent, 548

Fourteen Points, 316–17, 318

Fox, George, 43, 44

Fracastoro, Girolamo, 8

Frame of Government, Penn’s, 45

France (French), 4, 7, 11, 19, 29, 36, 39–43, 49, 56–57, 140, 142, 144–46, 229; American Revolution and, 72, 74, 78, 82–84, 87–88, 90, 102–3; and Indian War, 60–64, 84–85, 88–89, 91, 168; Indochina War, 320, 468–69; Iraq War, 597; Revolution, 82, 124, 135, 142, 145, 171; WW I and, 306–8, 310, 316, 318–19; WW II and, 364–65, 371–73, 385, 388–90, 392, 404

Franco, Francisco, 362, 363, 371

Frank, Barney, 209, 622

Franklin, Benjamin, 58, 74, 79–80, 83, 93–96, 99, 103, 113, 120–23, 125, 126, 128, 129, 653

Franklin, Temple, 80

Franklin, William, 80

Frazier, Joe, 490

Freddie Mac, 617, 619–20, 622

Frederick II, king of Prussia, 122

Freedmen’s Bureau, 247

Freemasons (or Masons), 122–24, 250

Free Soil Party, 201, 206, 209

Frémont, John C., 208, 226, 238, 660

Frick, Henry Clay, 270

Friedan, Betty, 454–47

Frobisher, Martin, 21

Fuchs, Klaus, 398, 409–10

Fugitive Slave Act, 202–3

Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act, 557

Gage, Thomas, 68–71

Gall, Chief, 258, 260

Gallo, Dr. Robert, 530

Galloway, Joseph, 69

Gama, Vasco da, 6

Gandhi, Mahatma, 196, 429

Garay, Juan de, 18

Garfield, James A., 267, 662

Garner, Jay, 606

Garner, John Nance, 351, 663

Garrison, William Lloyd, 174, 194, 197, 219, 229, 334

Garrow, David J., 430, 457–58

Garvey, Marcus, 458

Gary, Romain, 495

Gaspee
arsonists, 67

Gates, Gary Paul, 521

Gates, Horatio, 76, 85–86, 92, 98

Gates, Robert, 608, 609

gay rights, xiii, 209, 531–32, 546–47, 627–28; same-sex marriage, xii, xiii, 611–15

Geithner, Tim, 621

General Motors, xii, 341, 344, 421, 487, 620, 626

George II, king of England, 62

George III, king of England, 63, 64, 68, 93, 94, 99, 102

George, Clair, 526

Georgia, 46, 69, 74, 128, 163, 170, 217, 235, 236, 586, 644

Gephardt, Richard, 656

Germany, 597; East, 434; West, 404; WW I and, 307–20; WW II and, 358–66, 371–76, 378–93, 396, 398; reunification, 534, 539

Geronimo, 260

Gerry, Elbridge, 115, 156–57, 659

Gettysburg Address, 234–35, 241

Ghost Dance, 261–62

Giancana, Sam, 447, 450

Giap, General, 469

Gibbon, Edward, 628

GI Bill, 384

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 21, 22

Gingrich, Newt, 548–49, 552

Ginsberg, Allen, 475

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 573

Goering, Hermann, 342

Goethals, George W., 295

gold, 4–6, 16–18, 20; market, 268–69; rush, 194, 259–60; silver vs., 280–82

Gold, Harry, 409–10

Goldman, Emma, 270, 329

Goldwater, Barry, 464, 466–67, 472, 546, 663

Gompers, Samuel, 277–78

Good, Sarah, 53

Goodman, Andrew, 464, 484