Authors: Kenneth C. Davis
North Carolina, 46, 75, 76, 89, 163, 218, 219, 225, 586
Northern Alliance, 597, 598
Northwest Ordinance, 211
Northwest Passage, 21–22, 37
Nova Scotia, 41, 77
Obama, Barack, xi, xii, 601, 602, 609, 612, 620–27, 664
Objectivism, 564
Occaneechee Indians, 52
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 573
Oglethorpe, James, 46
O’Higgins, Bernardo, 161
Ohio, 163, 572–73, 586, 624
oil, xiv, xx, 269–71, 363, 422, 540, 542, 604, 606; crisis, 444, 510–13, 516
Oklahoma, 170, 325–26, 586; Land Rush, 275
Oklahoma City bombing, 580–81, 585
Olney, Richard, 277
Olson, Barbara, 614
Olson, Ted, 614–15
Olympics: (1960), 489; (1968) 490; (1980), 596; (1996), 581–82
O’Neill, Tip, 569
Onizuka, Ellison S., 518
OPEC, 444, 510–13, 516
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 396
Oregon, 221, 661: Territory, 159, 164, 179–80, 190–91, 201; Trail, 179
Osburn, Sarah, 53
Osceola Indians, 170–71
O’Sullivan, John L., 179
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 460–73, 499
Otis, James, 64, 82–83
Ovnard, Chester, 469
Oxbow Route, 180
Pacific coastal route theory, 12
Pacific Ocean: sighted, 17; route to, 43
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza , 422–24, 444, 450, 513
Paine, Thomas, 72, 83, 94, 127, 205
Pakistan, 591, 596, 598
Palestine, 319; Arabs, 425, 510–11
Palin, Sarah, 624, 692
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 328; Raids, 329
Panama, 161, 543; Canal, 293–95, 305
Panama, Isthmus of, 16, 17
panic: (1837), 176; (1869), 268–69; (1873), 253
Pankhurst, Emmeline, 336
Paris peace talks, 477, 479, 481
Parker, Alton B., 662
Parkinson, Kenneth, 507
Parks, Rosa, 428–30
Parris, Betty, 53
Parris, Samuel, 53
Patterson, Orlando, 152
Patton, George, 350, 380–81, 385, 386, 392
Paul, Alice, 336
Paulson, Henry, 617, 620, 621
Paxton Boys, 52, 110
Peace Corps, 448–49
Peace Democrats, 242
Peale, Norman Vincent, 401
Pearl Harbor attack, 365–70, 375–76, 393
Pelham, Henry, 66
Peninsular Campaign, 227–28
Penn, William, 43–45
Pennsylvania, 12, 43–46, 52, 72–74, 128, 130, 163, 164, 188, 232, 586
Pentagon Papers, 480, 496–98, 503, 507, 508
Pequot Indians, 49–50; War, 34
Perkins, Anthony, 532
Perkins, Frances, 455
Perot, H. Ross, xxv, 545–46, 551, 566, 569, 571, 652, 664
Perry, Matthew C., 205
Perry, Oliver, 157
Pershing, John J., 306, 316–17
Petraeus, David, 601, 609
Phelps, Rev. Fred, 627–28
Philadelphia, Mississippi, 465
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 43–45, 70–74, 79, 101, 112–13, 134, 137, 558
Philbrick, Nathaniel, xxiii
Philip II, king of Spain, 20
Philippines, 289–90, 292, 298, 370, 375–78, 386, 387, 389, 415, 474
Phips, William, 53, 54
Pierce, Franklin, 206, 208, 660
Pierce, Samuel, 522
Pilgrims, xiii, 29–35, 49–51, 119
Pinckney, Charles C., 142, 659
Pinckney, Thomas, 141–42
Piñeda, Domenico de, 18
Pine Ridge reservation, 262, 263
Pitcher, Molly, 89
Pitt, William, 63
Pizarro, Francisco, 18
Plame, Valerie, 607
Pledge of Allegiance, 263–64
Plessy v. Ferguson,
282–84, 425–27, 574
Plunkitt, George Washington, 274–75
Plymouth, 32–34, 45, 49; Company, 23
Pocahontas, 3, 25–27
Poe, Edgar Allan, 182–83
Poindexter, John M., 525–27
Poland, 319, 364, 371–72, 381, 390–92, 555
political parties, 130, 138, 140, 205–6, 639, 655–57
Polk, James K., 190–92, 205, 660
Polo, Marco, 6, 7
Ponce de León, Juan, 10, 17–18
Pope, John, 228
Populists, 279–82, 337
Port Bill, 68
Portugal, 4–6, 14, 15, 17, 29, 37, 40
Posner, Gerald, 462–63
Potsdam Conference, 396–98
Potts, Larry, 577
Powell, Colin, 535, 542, 588, 606
Powhatan, 23–27
Prescott, Samuel, 70
president(s): accidental, 176; Confederate constitution and, 223; Constitution and, 115, 116; disability and succession, 649–50; limited term, 153, 414–15, 647; list of, 658–64; oath of office, 131; powers of, 118, 175, 510; rules of assuming office, 644–46; rules of choosing, 638–40.
See also
Electoral College; impeachment
Presley, Elvis, 439
Prince Hall Masons, 124
Princip, Gavrilo, 306, 310
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, 235
Progressive Party, xxv, 303
Prohibition, 323, 330–33, 343, 351–52, 643–44, 646–47
Prosser, Gabriel, 173
Protestantism, xvi, 19, 20, 30, 33–34, 46, 57–58, 119–20
Pueblo Indians, 259
Puerto Rico, 10, 18, 290–92, 626
Pulitzer, Joseph, 287, 288
Pullman strike, 277
Pumpkin Papers, 406–8
Pure Food and Drug Act, 298, 300
Puritans, 30, 33, 36, 44, 49–51, 53–58, 85, 119, 196
Putnam, Ann, 53
Putnam, George, 359
Putnam, Israel, 90
Quakers, 36, 43–45, 120, 199, 203
Quantrill, William C., 234
Quartering Act, 68, 132
Quayle, J. Danforth, 664
Quebec, 40, 97, 98
Quebec Act, 68
Queen Anne’s War, 61
Quigley, Joan, 520
race: -baiting, 218; capital punishment and, 635–36; census and, 587–88; riots, 325–27, 485–86.
See also
Jim Crow; segregation
Radical Republicans, 242, 244, 246–51
railroads, 221, 222, 252, 257–59, 266–72, 277, 279; segregation, 282–84, 426; strikes, 276
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 22–23
Rand, Ayn, 564
Rankin, Jeannette, 336, 376
Ray, James Earl, 486
Ray, Robert, 554
Reagan, Ronald, 143, 153, 209, 252, 264, 442, 444, 487, 499, 504, 514–27, 533–35, 539, 543, 548, 550, 563–64, 650, 664
Reconstruction, 239, 243, 246–48, 250–53, 271, 283, 285; Acts, 247–48, 253; Amendments, 640–42; end of, 661
Red Cloud, Chief, 259
Redpath, James, 248
Red Scares, 55, 328–29, 332, 406, 410–14
Reform Party, xxv, 546, 551, 569, 571
Regan, Donald, 520
Regulator Rebellion, 52
Rehnquist, William H., 554, 573, 631
religion, xxii; Confederate Constitution and, 223; Founding Fathers and, 119–26; freedom of, 124; “In God We Trust” and, xxiv, 230; separation of church and state, 35, 58, 132.
See also
specific religions
Remington, Frederic, 287
Reno, Janet, 579
Republican Party: Clinton and, 547–56; elections of 2000 and, 568–75; FDR and, 356–58; Lincoln and, 213–15, 218, 242; Obama and, 621–27; origin of, 205–9, 212–13, 215; Reconstruction and, 244, 246–47, 250–53
Resnik, Judith A., 518
Revere, Paul, 49, 66, 70, 84, 122
Revolution of 1800, 141–43, 659
Reynolds, James, 139
Reynolds, Maria, 139
Rhee, Syngman, 416
Rhode Island, 34–36, 44, 46, 67, 75–77, 86, 112, 163, 331, 644, 658
Riboud, Barbara Chase, 151
Rice, Condoleezza, 588, 604, 605
Rice, Thomas Dartmouth, 283
Richardson, Elliot, 504
Richmond, Virginia, 99, 227–28, 239
Rickey, Branch, 405
Ricks, Thomas E., 604
Ride, Sally, 519
Ridenhour, Ronald, 491
Ridgway, Matthew B., 418
Riesman, David, 402
Riis, Jacob, 299
Riot Act, 110
Roanoke Island lost colony, 22–23
robber barons, 266–73
Robertson, Rev. Pat, 57, 123
Robinson, Jackie, 405–6
Rochambeau, Comte, 76, 90
Rockefeller, John D., 258, 270–71, 301, 328
Rockefeller, Nelson, 506, 664
Rockingham, Lord, 77
Rockwell, Norman, 381–82
Rodino, Peter, 504
Roe v. Wade,
499, 637
Rogers, William P., 519
Rolfe, John, 27
Rommel, Erwin, 380–81
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 352, 357, 393–94, 455
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 33, 123, 143, 153, 262, 324, 338, 342, 351–61, 363–78, 380–84, 386–89, 391–94, 396, 406–7, 423, 647, 663
Roosevelt, Kermit, 423
Roosevelt, Theodore, xxiv, 38, 161, 230, 258, 262, 264, 274, 286–95, 297–304, 313, 444, 662
Rosecrans, William, 234
Roselli, John, 447, 450
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 409–10, 413, 418
Rosewood race riots, 325–27
Ross, Elizabeth Griscom “Betsy,” 100–101
Rostow, Walt, 467, 470
Rowland, Dick, 325
Rubin, Jerry, 479
Ruby, Jack, 460–63
Ruby Ridge, 576–78
Ruckelshaus, William D., 504
Rudolph, Eric Robert, 582
Rumsfeld, Donald, 599, 603, 606, 608
Russell, Richard B., 461
Russia, xx, 12, 166, 173, 306, 310, 319, 341; Japanese War of 1905, 298; post-Soviet, 536, 565; Revolution, 301, 306–7, 317, 328.
See also
Soviet Union
Russo, Anthony J., 503
Rutherford, Lucy, 393
Rutledge, John, 113
Sacagawea, 147, 148
Sacco, Nicola, 327–28
Sachs, Alexander, 372
Sac tribes, 169
Sadr, Moktada al-, 610
St. Augustine, 19
St. Brendan, 9
St. Mary’s colony, 33
Saipan, 359, 384
Salem, 33, 35; witch trials, 53–57
Salinger, J. D., 402
Samana Cay, 4
Samarra mosque bombing, 608
Samoset, 32
Sampson, Deborah “Robert Shurtleff,” 90
Sánchez, José María, 176–77
Sandinistas, 523
Sanger, Margaret, 333, 455
San Martín, José de, 161
San Salvador, 4
Santa Anna, 178, 192–93
Santa Fe, 19; Trail, 179
Santo Domingo, 16
Saudi Arabia, 511–12, 519, 523, 540–41, 554, 591–92, 596
Scalawags, 251
Scalia, Antonin, 573, 631
Schechter v. United States,
358
Schine, David, 412
Schorr, Daniel, 508
Schuyler, Philip, 86, 98, 139
Schwerner, Michael, 464, 484
Scobee, Francis R. “Dick,” 518
Scopes trial, 337–38
Scott, Dred, 210–15, 218
Scott, Winfield, 157–58, 170, 192–93, 206, 225–26, 660
Scowcroft, Brent, 525
Scripps, John G., 241
Seberg, Jean, 495
secession, 202, 209, 218–20, 246, 253
Secord, Richard, 524, 525
Securities and Exchange Act, 354, 358
segregation, 282–84, 304, 330, 484, 588; armed forces and, 322–25, 377–78, 393, 416, 424–25; FDR and, 393; Robinson and, 405–6; struck down, 424–30, 433–34