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Lee, Richard Henry,
174
,
178

Lee, Gen. Robert Edward,
25n
,
69
,
309
,
317
,
322
,
326–7
,
330
,
333
,
335–7
,
340–41
,
343–5
,
348–9
,
368

Leflore, Greenwood,
67

Lehman, Gov. Herbert,
531

Leifthe Lucky (Leif Eriksson),
4

Lend–Lease Act,
560

Leo X, Pope,
quoted
,
685

Levittown, Pennsylvania,
641

Lewis, John L.,
531–2
,
534
,
547

Lewis and Clark expedition,
192
,
237

Lexington, Batde of,
135
,
165
,
172
,
173
,
190
,
193
,
581

Leyden, Holland,
34–6
,
39
,
40n

Leyte Gulf, Battle of,
574

Liberator, The
,
323

Liddy, Gordon,
665
,
666

Life
magazine,
588
,
598

Lincoln, Abraham (Pres. 1861–5),
166
,
170
,
179n
,
209
,
228
,
230
,
268
,
293
,
298
,
303
,
304
,
307
,
309
,
310
,
325
,
342
,
357
,
362–3
,
378
,
407
,
444
,
460
,
477
,
479
,
491
,
499
,
545
,
549
,
587
,
616
,
684

Congressman,
297

and slavery,
297
,
314
,
328–9

elected Pres.,
311

in secession crisis,
312–13

and outbreak of Civil War,
315–16

as Commander–in–Chief,
316
,
321
,
326
,
327
,
336
,
337
,
340
,
341

as war leader,
317
,
318
,
323–4
,
326
,
327–8
,
330
,
331
,
334
,
335
,
341
,
342
,
344
,
409

as party leader,
347
,
349
,
354

and Reconstruction,
337
,
349

assassination,
345
,
346–7
,
348
,
449
,
581
,
634

quoted
, First Inaugural,
213n
,
312
,
313–14
,
414
; Gettysburg Address,
337–8
,
425
; on labour and capital,
383–4
; on nativism,
304
; on his Presidency,
298
; Second Inaugural,
343–7
,
479
; on slavery,
100
,
243
,
479

Lincoln–Douglas debates,
304
,
307

Lindbergh, Charles

Augustus,
491
,
503n

Lindsay, Vachel, ‘Bryan, Bryan, Bryan’
quoted
,
433

Lippmann, Walter,
487

Literary Digest
,
544
,
545

Lithuanians,
394

Little Big Horn, Battle of the,
68
,
246

Little Rock, Arkansas,
628
,
630

Liverpool,
101

Livingston, Robert R.,
174

Lloyd George, David,
481
,
482
,
483
,
486
,
527

Lloyd, Henry Demarest,
410–11

Lobbying
see
Pressure

Groups

Locke, John,
6
o,
146
,
209

Lodge, Sen. Henry Cabot,

Jr,
650

Lodge, Sen. Henry Cabot,

Sr,
460
,
483
,
486–8
,
495

London,
15
,
23
,
24
,
37
,
42
,
96n
,
108
,
122
,
187
,
276
,
291

City of,
391
,
430

and A. Civil War,
335

mob,
126

and Stamp Act repeal,
132–3

London Economic

Conference,
528
,
553

Long Drive,
379–80
,
401–2

Long Island, NY,
179–80
,
638

Long, Sen. Huey Pierce,
243
,
503
,
544

Longstreet, Gen. James,
336

Lookout Mountain,

Colorado,
248

Los Alamos, New Mexico,
570

Los Angeles, Calif.,
511
,
588
,
624

Watts district of,
639

Los Angeles Times
,
459

Louis XIV, King of France,
12
,
52
,
76
,
93
,
104

Louis XV,
111

Louis XVI,
74
,
180
,
181n
,
250

Louisbourg,
119

Louisiana

French colony
,
52
,
53
,
310n

Spanish colony
,
66
,
168
,
187
,
226
,
237

state
,
243
,
294
,
311
,
404
,
503
,
617
,
635
,
661
; in Civil War,
331
,
339
; under Reconstruction,
352
–3,
361
,
362–3
,
369

Louisiana Purchase,
237
,
251
,
263
,
294
,
310n

Lovejoy, Elijah,
293
Loving Unity
,
94

Lowell, Mass.,
381
‘Loyal Nine’,
130

Loyalists in A. Revolution,
165
,
168n
,
172
,
179
,
180
,
183

Southern, in Civil War,
311

Luce, Henry,
588
,
597

Lusitania
, SS,
471
,
555

Lutherans, German,
95

Lynching,
108
,
131
,
254
,
366
,
368
,
404
,
444
,
479
,
536
,
596
,
615
,
627
,
630

MacArthur, Gen. Douglas,
517
,
564
,
571
,
573
,
574
,
580
,
589
,
605–8

McBride, John,
421

McCarthy, Sen. Eugene,
659–60

McCarthy, Sen. Joseph

Raymond,
598–600
,
609
,
611
,
627
,
659

quoted
,
599

McCarthyism,
597–603
,
651

McClellan, Gen. George

Brinton,
316
,
321
,
322
,
324
,
326
,
327

McCormick Reaper Co.,
419

McDougall, Alexander,
136

McDowell, Gen. Irvin,
319
,
321

McGillivray, Alexander,
67
,
190

McGovern, Sen. George,
664

McGready, Rev. James,
231

Machines, political,
236
,
243
,
399–401
,
412
,
459
,
464
,
638

Macintosh, Ebenezer,
130

McKinley, William (Pres. 1897–1900,
429
,
431
,
433
,
438
,
440
,
441
,
444
,
449
,
450
,
492
,
634

McManes, James,
412

McNamara, Robert S.,
649
,
651

McNary–Haugen bill,
503

Madison, James (Pres. 1809–17),
105n
,
205
,
206
,
212
,
227
,
257
,
260
,
262
,
263
,
271

character,
193–4

and Articles of Confederation,
208

at Constitutional

Convention,
197
,
207
,
214

and ratification,
200
,
203

as Pres.,
209
,
254
,
255
,
263
,
270

quoted, on
Revolution,
163

Madoc, Prince,
4
,
14

Maine,
18
,
108
,
198n

colonial
,
49
,
137

state
,
294
,
413
,
545

Maine
, USS,
440

Maize (corn),
21
,
305
,
422

Malaya,
649
,
651

Manassas Junction, Virginia,
321

Manchuria,
513
,
552
,
563
,
566
,
607

Manhattan island
(see also
New York city
),
7
,
35
,
170
,
180
,
398
,
490
,
494

Manhattan Project,
570

‘Manifest Destiny’,
297

Manila,
440
,
571

Battle of M. Bay,
441

Mansfield, William, Earl of,
134

Manufacturers
see
Industrialists

Mao Tse–tung,
562
,
578
,
592
,
597
,
604
,
652

Marblehead, Mass.,
47
,
176

Marbury
v.
Madison
,
211–12

Marcy, William E.,
267

Marijuana,
679

Marines, US Corps of,
442
,
468
,
574
,
653

Marne, Battles of the,
467
,
479

Marshall, Gen. George

Catlett,
564
,
609
,
656

as Secretary of State,
592
,
602

as Secretary of Defense,
606

quoted
,
540n
,
592
,
606

Marshall, Chief Justice John,
104
,
203
,
211–12

Marshall, Mr Justice Thurgood,
676

quoted
,
644

Marshall Plan,
593–4
,
607

Martin, Luther,
196
,
200
,
202

Maryland,
40
,
108n

colony
,
28
,
52
,
84
,
95
,
101
,
108–9

in Revolution,
13
m,
159

state
,
194
,
196
,
202
,
207
,
260
,
283
,
293
,
306
,
661

in the Civil War,
317
,
327
,
329
,
336

Mason, George,
189
,
195
,
199–200
,
203
,
213

Mason, James Murray,
324–5

Massachusetts,

Commonwealth of

colony of M. Bay
,
42
,
45–9
,
51–2
,
88
,
89
,
91–3
,
155
,
234
,
273
,
418
,
425
;

Adams–Hutchinson feud,
139–40
; in A. Revolution,
158—61
,
162
,
164
; disputes with New York,
136
; radicals in,
137
,
141n
,
153
; in Revolutionary war,
171n
; and Seven Years War,
93
,
114
,
119
; and Stamp Act,
129–31
; tidewater ascendancy in,
145
; and Townshend duties,
146–50
passim
; and White Pine Acts,
118n
; and writs of assistance,
123

state
,
208
,
230
,
259
,
287
,
291
,
303
.
489
,
500
; and abolitionism,
293
,
300
,
304
; ratification of Constitution,
202
; Sacco and Vanzetti case,
497
; Shays’s rebellion,
189–91
,
193

Massachusetts Bay,

Company of,
41–2
,
45
,
66n

charter,
41
,
88
,
90
,
138
,
144
,
160

Massachusetts
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