Authors: Kenneth C. Davis
Korea, 298, 367, 389, 391, 474; North, 413–19, 476, 586, 602–3; South, 413–417, 474, 535; War, 401, 410, 413–20, 422, 424–25
Koresh, David, 548, 578–79
Kosovo, 555–56
Kotouc, Eugene, 493
Krakauer, Jon, 599–600
Krock, Arthur, 447
Krogh, Egil, Jr., 497, 505
Krstic, Radislav, 556
Krueger, Ivar, 344, 347
Ku Klux Klan, 252, 325, 329–30, 332, 464
Kurlansky, Mark, xxiii, 9, 10
Kuwait, 512, 540–43, 603
Ky, Nguyen Cao, 472, 473
labor movement, 258, 270, 276–80, 297, 328, 340, 354–55, 362, 419
Lafayette, Marquis de, 73, 77, 88, 122
Lafayette Escadrille, 310
Lafitte, Jean, 159
Laird, Melvin, 481
Landon, Alf, 357, 663
Lane, Harriet, 209
Langguth, A. J., xvii, 493
Laos, 469, 470, 476, 479
La Salle, 42
Laud, William, 35
Lawrence, James, 157
League of Nations, 317, 318, 320, 338, 361
Leary, Timothy, 501
Lease, Mary Elizabeth, 280
Lebanon, 319; hostages, 522, 591
LeClerc, General, 385
Lee, Anne Carter, 210
Lee, Charles, 72, 88–89, 92
Lee, Henry “Light-Horse Harry,” 75, 210
Lee, Mary Custis, 209–10
Lee, Mother Ann, 180
Lee, Richard Henry, 67, 82, 95
Lee, Robert E., 195, 209–10, 216, 225, 228–30, 232–33, 238–39, 243
Lee, Wen Ho, 582
Legal Tender Act, 230
Lehman bankruptcy, 622, 624
Leisler’s Rebellion, 52
Lend-Lease Act, 360–61, 365, 374–75
Leno, Jay, xviii
Leonhardt, David, 626
Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 293
Levitt, William J., 401
Lewinsky, Monica, 549–52, 554
Lewis, John L., 355
Lewis, Meriwether, 146–48
Lewis, Michael, 620
Lewis, Sinclair, 323–24
Lexington, 70, 80, 84, 93
Libby, Lewis “Scooter,” 607
Liberty Party, 190
Liddy, G. Gordon, 481, 498, 501–4, 509
Lieberman, Joseph, 569
Lincoln, Abraham, xxvi, 33, 147, 172, 187–88, 190, 195, 197, 205, 213–18, 220, 222–43, 249, 661; assassination of, xv, 239, 243–47
Lincoln, Benjamin, 110
Lindbergh, Anne Spencer Morrow, 342
Lindbergh, Charles A., 339, 341–43, 361, 363
Lindbergh, Charles, Jr., kidnapping, 342
Lippmann, Walter, 351
Little Rock school crisis, 431–32
Liuzzo, Viola, 484
Livingston, Robert, 95, 145, 549
Locke, John, 116, 120
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 286–88, 291–92, 446
Logan, John, 248
Longstreet, James, 195, 228, 243
Long Term Capital Management, 565
Lon Nol, 479
Lott, Trent, 555
Louisiana, 46, 163, 217, 615, 644, 661; Hurricane Katrina, 615–17; Purchase, 144–46, 160, 161, 163, 190; Territory, 42, 145
Louis XIV, king of France, 41
Louis XVI, king of France, 72, 102
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 145, 173
Loving, Mildred, 611–12
Loving v. Virginia,
611–14
Luce, Henry, 401, 414, 447
Lusitania,
sinking of, 308–9, 311–12
Lynch, Jessica, 606
Lynn shoe strike, 276, 334
MacArthur, Douglas, 316, 350, 368, 376–78, 386, 389–91, 395, 413–19
Madison, Dolley, xix, 158–59
Madison, James, 57, 114, 124, 126–29, 131, 136, 138, 143–44, 154–60, 651, 659
Mafia, 447, 450, 462
Magellan, 7
Mahan, Alfred, 286
Mailer, Norman, 402, 475
Maine, 163, 614
Maine,
sinking of, 288
Malcolm X, 458–59, 484, 489
Maliki, Nouri al-, 608–10
Malone, Dumas, 135
Manchuria, 361, 389, 417
Manhattan, sold by Indians, 37–38
Manhattan Project, 372, 389, 391, 396, 409, 519
Manifest Destiny, 179–80, 190, 194, 206, 208, 259, 287
Mao Zedong, 390, 406, 414, 480
Marbury v. Madison,
143–44
Mardian, Robert, 507
Mariana Islands, 359–60, 384, 385
Marion, Francis “Swamp Fox,” 89
Marquette, Jacques, 41–43
Marshall, George C., 317, 369, 397, 403–4
Marshall, James, 194
Marshall, John, 143–44, 149
Marshall, Thomas R., 662
Marshall, Thurgood, 124, 425–26, 544
Marshall Plan, 403–4
Mary, Queen of Scots, 20
Maryland, 33, 46, 120, 128, 163, 221
Mason, George, 111–13, 115, 553
Mason, James Murray, 202
Massachusetts, 45, 67–71, 109–10, 128, 134, 156, 163, 613, 635; Bay Colony, 33–36, 44–45, 51, 53, 55–57, 61; Regulating Act, 68
Massasoit, 32, 50
Massoud, Ahmed Shah, 597
Mather, Cotton, 56
Mather, Increase, 54
Mayas, 13
Mayflower Compact, xviii, 31–32
McAuliffe, Anthony, 386
McAuliffe, Christa, 518–20
McCain, John, 568, 622–25, 664
McCarthy, Eugene, 476, 656
McCarthy, Joseph, 55, 328, 410–14
McChrystal, Stanley A., 601
McClellan, George, 195, 226–30, 238, 243, 661
McCloy, John J., 461
McCord, James W., 502
McCormick, Cyrus, 187
McCormick Reaper strike, 277
McCorvey, Norma, 499
McCullough, David, xxiii, 295
McFarlane, Robert, 518–22
McGovern, George, 481, 502, 663
McHenry, William “Jerry,” 203
McKinley, William, 281–82, 286–95, 303, 662; assassination of, 293
McKissick, Floyd, 484
McLaurin
decision, 426
McNair, Ronald E., 513
McNamara, Robert S., xix, 473, 476, 496
McNeill, William H., 7, 8
McPherson, James M., xxiii, 219, 240
McVeigh, Timothy, 580–81, 636
Meade, George, 232, 233
Medicaid and Medicare, 464
Medici, Lorenzo, 14
Medina, Ernest, 491, 493
Mello, Sergio Vieira de, 607
Mellon, Andrew, 349
Melville, Herman, 183
Memorial Day, 248–49
Menand, Louis, 220
Mencken, H. L., 323, 337, 351
Menéndez de Aviles, Pedro, 19, 40
Mennonites, 45
Metacom (King Philip), 50–51
Mexico, 10, 13–14, 18, 19, 149, 161, 302–3, 562; War, 176–79, 191–94, 196, 201, 206
Michigan, 179, 586; Territory, 164
Middle East, xx, 306–7, 319, 423, 510–14, 524, 539–40
military draft, 222, 227, 229, 231, 233, 242, 269, 316, 380, 415, 473, 475, 477, 478, 481, 483, 640, 651
Miller, Arthur, 55
Miller, Merle, 419
Milosevic, Slobodan, 556
Minuit, Peter, 37, 39
Minutemen, 69, 70, 71, 84
Miranda, Ernesto, 488
Miranda v. Arizona,
488
Mississippi, 163, 217, 464–65, 586, 615
Mississippi River, 19, 42–43
Missouri, 163, 219, 226; Territory, 164
Missouri Compromise, 161–63, 179, 207, 211
Mitchell, John (attorney general), 497, 502, 505, 507, 508, 510
Mitchell, John (labor leader), 297
Mitchell, Margaret, 188
Modoc myth, 9–10
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh (KSM), 591
Mohawk Indians, 57
Mohegan Indians, 34
Mohican Indians, 21, 50
Moley, Raymond, 357
Molly Maguires, 276
Mondale, Walter, 664
Monitor
(ship), 226, 227
Monroe, James, 128, 139, 145, 160–62, 164, 659; Doctrine, 160–61, 298
Monroe, Marilyn, 438
Montezuma, emperor of Aztecs, 18
Montgomery, Bernard, 380–81
Montgomery bus boycott, 428–30
moon landing, 494
Morgan, Daniel, 76, 89, 97, 98
Morgan, J. P., Jr., 269, 345, 348
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 258, 266, 269, 271, 281, 287, 297, 312, 328
Morin, Relman, 431
Mormons, 180–81; Trail, 179–80
Morris, Dick, 549
Morris, Errol, xix
Morris, Gouverneur, 115, 116
Morris, Lewis, 59
Morris, Robert, 104, 113
Morristown mutiny, 76
Morse, Samuel, 187
Morse, Wayne, 467
Morton, Levi P., 662
Morton, Nathaniel, 34–35
Moscoso, Luis de, 19
Mossadegh, Mohammad, 422–23
Mott, Lucretia, 334
Moulitsas Zuniga, Markos, 625
muckrakers, 150, 298–301
Murrow, Edward R., 412
Muskie, Edmund, 477, 508, 524
Mussolini, Benito, 324, 361–63, 372, 381–82, 394
My Lai massacre, xxvii, 476–77, 478, 480, 491–93
Nader, Ralph, 300, 486–87, 569, 571–73, 624
NAFTA, 547
Nagin, Ray, 165, 616
Napoleon, 144–45, 150, 153, 156, 158–60, 173
Narragansett Indians, 34, 35, 50
NASA, 517–20
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 423
Nast, Thomas, 274
Natick Indians, 66
Nation, Carrie, 331–32
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 124, 302, 425–26, 429, 484
National Industrial Recovery Act, 354–55
National Organization for Women, 456
National Recovery Administration, 354–58
National Rifle Association, 631
National Security Agency, 409, 595
National Security Council, 593, 603
Nation of Islam, 458–59, 489
Nativists, 181, 207, 209, 325
Navajo Indians, 259
Netherlands (Dutch), 20–21, 29, 36–39, 45, 46, 49–51, 61, 77, 102–3, 136, 364, 373, 404, 602
Neutrality Act, 363–64, 372
Nevada, 193, 586
New Amsterdam, 37–39, 46, 49–50
New Deal, xxv, 324, 353–59, 455
New England, 26, 33–37, 41, 50–57, 61, 124; Confederation, 34
Newfoundland, 9–10, 22, 40
New France, 41
New Hampshire, 46, 85, 128, 163, 573, 613, 656
New Jersey, 39, 46, 72–73, 75, 128, 130, 163, 613, 614
New Jersey Plan, 114
New Mexico, 19, 192, 193, 202, 305
New Orleans, 145, 159, 227, 284, 615–18
Newport, John, 23
New Sweden, 39, 45, 46
Newton, Sir Isaac, 120
New World, named, 15, 17
New York, 36–39, 46, 72, 74, 75, 85, 88, 127–31, 134, 163; draft riots, 233, 269
Nez Perce Indians, 260
Nicaragua, 161, 287, 294, 305; Contras, 522–27
Nichols, Terry, 580
Nimitz, Chester, 376, 383
Nixon, Richard, 252, 406–8, 419–21, 442–47, 450, 477–82, 492–93, 496–98, 500–510, 513, 525, 546, 553, 568, 663–64
Noonan, Fred, 359
Noriega, Manuel, 543
Norris, Frank, 300
Norris, George W., 315
Norse sailors, 8–9
North, 187–89, 218–22
North, Lord, 68, 77
North, Oliver, 523–27
North Atlantic route, 12–13
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 403, 536, 555–56, 598–600, 602