Authors: Kenneth C. Davis
Goodwin children, 55
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 534, 539
Gordon-Reed, Annette, 151–52
Gore, Al, 447, 545–46, 568–75, 614, 624–25, 652, 664
Gorgas, Dr. William, 295
Gosnold, Bartholomew, 11, 26
Gould, Jay, 258, 268, 276–77
Granger, Gordon, 249
Granges, 279
Grant, Ulysses S., 190, 195, 227, 231–36, 239, 242–43, 250, 267–68, 271, 293, 338, 661
Grasse, Admiral de, 77, 90
Gray, L. Patrick, 503, 509
Great Awakening, 57–58, 120, 124
Great Depression, xiv, 262, 324, 340, 342, 344, 346–59, 361–62, 391, 393, 394, 512, 515, 618–20
Great Recession, xii, xxv, 618–19, 621, 625–27
Great Seal of the United States, 123, 126–27
Great Society, 463, 516
Greece, 347, 374, 402, 404
Greeley, Horace, 194, 219, 661
Greene, Nathanael, 71, 76, 86
Greenglass, David and Ruth, 409–10
Greenhow, Mrs. Rose, 209
Green Party, 569, 571, 573
Greenspan, Alan, 546, 556–58, 562–67, 617–18
Gregory, Dick, 485
Grenada, 524
Grew, Joseph, 367, 375
Grier, Robert, 211
Guam, 292, 359, 370, 376, 384, 385
Guantánamo, 591, 626, 627
Guatemala, 423, 450
Guevara, Che, 450
Guinier, Lani, 547
Gulf of Mexico oil spill, xiv
Gulf War, first, xii, xxi, 105, 540–42, 555, 592, 603.
See also
Iraq War
gun control, xxii, 132, 547–48, 630–31
Haig, Alexander, 474
Haiti, 145, 173, 302
Hakim, Albert, 525
Haldeman, H. R., 482, 503, 506–7, 510
Hale, Nathan, 72, 80
Hall, Prince, 124
Halleck, Henry W., 227, 235
Halperin, Mark, 624
Halsey, Adm. William, 380
Hamilton, Alexander, xxiii, 82, 86–87, 103, 115–16, 121, 127–30, 135–42, 145, 148–50, 257, 553, 637
Hamilton, Andrew, 58–59
Hamilton, Lee, 591
Hamlin, Hannibal, 661
Hancock, John, 67, 69–70, 81, 84, 96, 122
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 195, 662
Handler, Ruth, 437
Hanna, Mark, 281–82, 292, 294
Hanson, John, 112
Hanssen, Robert, 583–84
Harding, Warren G., 316, 323, 338–39, 662, 663
Harlan, John Marshall, 283
Harpers Ferry, 200, 216
Harris, Dr., 104
Harrison, Benjamin, 272, 280, 568, 654, 662
Harrison, William Henry, 154, 157, 175–76, 640, 660
Haun’s Mill Massacre, 181
Hauptmann, Bruno, 342
Hawaii, 287, 292, 365, 370, 375, 393
Hawkins, John, 29
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill, 348
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 183, 196
Hayes, Rutherford B., 271, 293, 640, 654, 661
Haymarket Square riot, 276–77
Hays, Mary McCauley, 89
Haywood, “Big Bill,” 301, 328
Hazard, Oliver, 157
health-care reform, 544, 548, 626–27
Hearst, William Randolph, 287–88, 351, 447
Hefner, Hugh, 438
Heilemann, John, 624
Hein, Piet, 37
Heller, Joseph, 443
Hemings, Eston, 151
Hemings, Sally, xiii, xxii, 150–52
Hemingway, Ernest, 310, 323
Henderson
decision, 426
Hendricks, Thomas A., 662
Henry, Patrick, 67, 69, 81–82, 113, 127
Henry VII, king of England, 10
Henry the Navigator, 6
Herjolfsson, Bjarni, 9
Hersey, John, 446–47, 454
Hersh, Seymour, 492, 611
Heyerdahl, Thor, 13
Hickok, James B. “Wild Bill,” 265
Hill, Anita, 544
Hill, Frances, 55, 56
Hill, Joe, 301
Hirohito, Emperor, 375
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 389, 395–98
Hispanics, 3, 588, 625, 626
Hispaniola, 4, 5, 15–16, 145
Hiss, Alger, 407–10
Hitler, Adolf, 14, 324, 342, 358, 360–64, 369, 371–72, 375–76, 379, 381, 385, 388, 390, 393–96, 569
Hobart, Garret, 662
Ho Chi Minh, 319, 468, 478
Hoffman, Abbie, 479
Hojeda, Alonso, 15, 17
Holmes, Larry, 490
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 407
Holmes, Steven, 619
Holocaust, 390, 393, 404, 511, 589, 590
Homestead Act, 246
Homestead steel strike, 270
Hood, John B., 236–38
Hooker, Joseph, 231, 232
Hooker, Rev. Thomas, 34
Hoover, Herbert, 324, 331, 343, 345, 347–52, 356, 361, 515, 663
Hoover, J. Edgar, xxii, 328–30, 409–10, 458, 461, 465, 494–96
Hopkins, Harry, 356
Hopkinson, Francis, 101
House, Edward M., 311
Houston, Sam, 178, 219
Howe, Robert, 74
Howe, Sir William, 71–74
Howells, William Dean, 300
Hudson, Henry, 21–22, 36
Hudson, John, 22
Hudson, Rock, 530–31
Hudson Bay Company, 22, 41
Huerta, Victoriano, 305
Hughes, Charles Evans, 313, 662
Huguenots, xiii, 19, 40, 84
Hull, Cordell, 375
Hull, William, 156
Humphrey, Hubert, 472, 477, 663
Hungary, 319, 390
Hunt, E. Howard, 451, 481, 498, 500–504, 508–10
Huron Indians, 39–41
Hussein, Saddam, 539–42, 603–8
Hutchinson, Anne, 34
Hutchinson, Thomas, 65, 67
Icelandic sagas, 9
Illinois, 163
immigration, 172, 188–89, 207, 222, 257–58, 266, 272, 274, 299, 327–30, 586, 598
Immigration and Nationalization Service, 576
impeachment, 118, 119, 523, 525; Clinton and, 509, 550–56; Johnson and, 249–50, 553; Nixon and, 504, 506–9, 553
impressment, 153–55, 159
Incas, 13, 18, 19
Indiana, 163
Indians, xxix, 588: arrival of, 11–14; colonies and, 31–32, 34–38, 40–44, 49–52, 56–57, 61–63; early nation and, 112, 116, 133; Europeans and, 4–5, 7–8, 10–11, 14–18, 21–28; land taken from, 275; legal rights for, 116, 248, 262–63; Lewis and Clark and, 146–48; massacres of, 146, 154–55, 157–58, 162, 167–71, 175, 258–63
Industrial Revolution, 160, 188, 257
Insull, Samuel, 344, 347
Interstate Commerce Commission, 271, 279, 297
Intolerable Acts, 68
Iowa, 613, 635, 655–56
Iran, xx, 422–24, 590, 602–3, 608; -Contra affair, 522–27, 533, 546; hostage crisis, 423–24, 444, 512–14, 517
Iraq, xii, xiv, xxvii, 319, 512, 523, 539–43, 592; War, 599, 601–11, 620, 623, 627.
See also
Gulf War, first
Iraq Study Group, 608
Irish, 9, 181, 188, 276, 308–10, 313
Iroquois Indians, 14, 40–41
Isabella, queen of Spain, 4, 15, 16
Islam: fundamentalists, 424, 513, 533, 584, 590–92, 596–97, 608; Shiite vs. Sunni, 608; Wahhabism, 596
isolationism, 308, 325, 340, 342, 360–61, 363–64, 366, 368, 374
Israel, 510–11, 513, 522, 541, 592
Italian immigrants, 3, 276
Italy, 10–11, 15, 317–18, 324, 327, 359, 362–66, 371–72, 374–76, 381–83, 404, 602, 604
Iwo Jima, 387–88
Jackson, Andrew, 138, 158–60, 164–72, 174–79, 192, 209, 211, 259, 304, 654, 659, 660
Jackson, Henry, 508
Jackson, James T., 225
Jackson, Rachel Robards, 166
Jackson, “Stonewall,” 226–28, 232, 242
Jackson State killings, 479
Jamaica, 16, 18
James, Jesse, 234, 265
James I, king of England, 23
Jamestown, xii–xiii, xxi, 17, 20, 23–29, 45
Japan, 7, 205, 298, 311, 317, 435, 511, 512, 534; WW II and, 359–62, 364–70, 374–98, 416, 447, 468
Japanese-Americans, internment of, 376, 393, 426, 589
Jarvis, Gregory B., 518
Jaworski, Leon, 504, 505
Jay, John, 69, 103, 128, 129, 135
Jefferson, Maria, 151
Jefferson, Martha Wayles Skelton, 151
Jefferson, Thomas, xiii, xxii, xxvii, 49, 67, 69, 78, 82, 93, 96–97, 110–11, 113, 120, 124–26, 128, 135–39, 141–55, 162–64, 167, 187, 189, 654, 658, 659
Jemmy (slave revolt leader), 173
Jesuit missionaries, 19, 41, 57, 63
Jewell, Richard, 581–82
Jews, 8, 14, 231, 329, 341, 342, 510–11, 569; WW II and, 362–63, 381, 390, 393, 404
Jim Crow, 283–85, 295, 304, 432
Jimenez de Quesada, Gonzalo, 18
John Paul II, Pope, 535
Johnson, Andrew, 239, 240, 243, 246–47, 249–50, 271, 550, 553, 661
Johnson, Eliza, 246
Johnson, Lyndon B., 264, 447, 458, 460–61, 463–64, 466–47, 470–77, 497, 505, 624, 626, 647, 656, 663
Johnson, Magic, 531
Johnson, Richard M., 660
Johnson, Samuel, 152
Johnston, Albert S., 227
Johnston, Joseph E., 225, 232, 236, 239
Jolliet, Louis, 41–43
Jolson, Al, 324
Jones, Christopher, 29
Jones, Jennifer, 531
Jones, Jim, 579
Jones, John Paul, 73–75, 87
Jones, Mary Harris “Mother,” 301
Jones, Paula Corbin, 551, 554
Jones, Thomas K., 517
Jordan, Michael, 406
Joseph, Chief, 260
Josephson, Matthew, 266
Judiciary Act, 144
Juneteenth, 249
Kaczynski, Ted, 581
Kagan, Elena, 626
Kansas, “Bloody” wars, 207–9, 234
Kaplan, Lewis A., 627
Karlsefni, Thorfinn, 9
Karzai, Hamid, 598, 600, 601
Katrina, Hurricane, xii, xiv, 595, 615–18, 620
Kaufman, Irving R., 410
Kean, Thomas, 591
Kearney, Stephen Watts, 192
Keller, Helen, 301, 320
Kennan, George F., xxi, 403
Kennedy, Anthony, 573
Kennedy, Edward, 626
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 447, 460, 462
Kennedy, John F., 394, 435–36, 443–54, 455, 464, 466, 470, 484, 496, 505, 508, 515, 551, 568, 647, 663; assassination, 459–63, 470, 484
Kennedy, Joseph P., 344, 354, 446–47
Kennedy, Randall, 406
Kennedy, Robert F., 446, 448, 452, 465, 476, 477, 656
Kennewick man, 12
Kent State killings, 479
Kentucky, 85, 163, 221, 231
Kerensky, Aleksandr, 314, 316
Kerouac, Jack, 402
Kerry, John, 608, 613, 625, 664
Key, Francis Scott, 159
Khadaffy, Muammar, 522
Khanh, General Nguyen, 471
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 424, 513, 524
Khrushchev, Nikita, 445, 452–53
Kimmel, Admiral, 376
King, Coretta Scott, 446, 478
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 196, 429–30, 446, 457–58, 465–66, 477, 478, 483–84, 486; assassination of, 477, 485, 489
King, Martin Luther, Sr., 446
King, Rodney, 544, 588
King, Rufus, 659
King, William R., 659
King George’s War, 61
King Philip’s War, 36, 49–51
King William’s War, 61
Kissinger, Henry, 479, 480–82, 496–97, 563
Kleindienst, Richard, 505–6
Knapp, Elizabeth, 55
Knights of Labor, 276–77, 279
Know-Nothings, 207–9
Knox, Henry “Ox,” xvii, 87–88, 135
Kohl, Helmut, 534