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Authors: Hugh Brogan
in Second World War,
571-2
,
573
,
575
,
58
o and postwar settlement,
577
,
578-82
,
590
in cold war,
584-5
,
587
,
590-94
,
595-7
,
600
,
601
,
609
,
630-31
,
646
,
647
,
651
and nuclear weapons,
586
and detente,
611
and Vietnam War,
653
invasion of Afghanistan,
681
,
690
,
692
and Nicaragua,
691
disarmament negotiations,
692
Space exploration,
612
Spain, Spanish (
see also
Spanish-American War
),
5
,
6
,
7
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
34
,
52
,
53
,
55
,
63
,
66
,
85
,
110-11
,
156
,
203
,
204
,
219
,
225
,
241
,
250
,
251
,
394
and A. Revolution,
133
,
165
,
168
,
181
,
185
,
1793-1820,
186-7
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
408
,
456
,
618
,
667
Spice-trade,
4–5
Spindletop, Texas,
392
Spoils system (
see also
Patronage
),
265
,
267–9
,
278
,
301
,
354
,
399
,
408
,
410
,
426
Spotsylvania Court-House, Battle of,
340
Spruance, Admiral Raymond,
571
Squatters, land,
112
Stalin, Josef,
549
,
556
,
561
,
571
,
575
,
579–82
,
586
,
589
,
590
,
591
,
593
,
604
,
605
,
648
passage through Parliament,
115–16
colonial objections to,
116–17
Stamp Act crisis,
80
,
114–34
,
136
,
137
,
143
,
144
,
146
,
148
,
303
Standard Oil,
389
,
390
,
391
,
411
,
424
,
431
,
453
,
455
Standard Oil New Jersey,
558
Standing army, distrust of,
119
,
146
,
150
,
152
,
154
,
193
Stanford, Leiand,
423
Stanton, Edwin,
313
,
314
,
321
,
326
,
347
,
355
‘Star-spangled banner’,
619
Stassen, Gov. Harold,
608
State Department,
553
,
554
,
556
,
563
,
581
,
594
,
598
,
599
,
602
,
603
,
608
,
611
State, Secretaries of,
249
,
255
,
271
,
300
,
305
,
553
,
651
,
663
State sovereignty,
315
States’ rights,
205
,
243
,
317
,
335
,
348
,
35
O,
615
,
628
r. to secede (
see also
Secession
),
314
Steamboats,
229
,
250
,
378
,
379
,
453
Steel industry,
385
,
390–91
,
420
,
445
,
567
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton,
335
Stevens, Cong. Thaddeus,
350
,
355
,
358
,
359
Stevenson, Gov. Adlai Ewing,
608
,
612
Stewart, James,
220
Stilwell, Gen. Joseph Warren,
650
Stock market,
387
,
390
,
446
,
464
,
495
,
514
,
688
‘water’,
387n
Stone, Chief Justice Harlan Fiske,
546
,
548
Stonewall riots (1969),
677
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
285
,
293
,
300
,
332
Strategic Air Command,
587
Stuart, Gen. James Ewell Brown (‘Jeb’),
336
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),
630
Submarine warfare,
471
,
473–7
passim
,
474
,
555
Suffolk Resolves,
163
Suffrage, black,
363
provisions of,
124
and price of rum,
129
Sumner, Sen. Charles,
285
,
301
,
350
,
351
beaten up,
305
Sun Yat-sen,
597
Sunbelt,
672
Supreme Court of the United States (
see also
Judicial Supremacy
),
211–13
,
306
,
308
,
409
,
414
,
429
,
455
,
476
,
532–4
,
538
,
541
,
545
,
568
,
569
,
623
,
644
,
665
,
676
,
678
F. D. Roosevelt’s attack on,
546–8
,
550
and racial discrimination,
620
,
621
,
623
,
624–5
,
628
Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery
,
18
Sutherland, Mr Justice George,
546
Sweden, Swedes,
12
,
95n
,
108
,
246
,
395
,
402
Swedenborg, Emanuel,
232
Symington, Sen. Stuart,
613
Taft, Sen. Robert Alonso,
575
,
592
,
594
,
600
,
608
,
609
,
686
Taft, William Howard (Pres. 1909–
31
),
455
,
459
,
460
,
463
,
468
,
483
,
575
Taft–Hartley Act,
594
Tallmadge, Cong. James,
294
Tallulah, Louisiana,
404
Tammany Hall,
399–400
,
410
,
412
,
414
,
502
Tammany, Saint,
399n
Taney, Chief Justice Roger,
306
Tariffs,
264
,
271
,
278
,
298
,
308
,
340
,
381
,
443
,
456
,
492
,
535–6
,
553
state,
188
of Abominations,
295
and the parties,
429
McKinley,
429
Smoot-Hawley,
512
and New Deal,
529
and Japan,
562
Tarleton, Banastre,
183
Taxation (
see also
Stamp Act
Crisis),
45
,
78
,
112
,
113
,
142–3
,
169
,
358
,
359
,
394
,
401
,
402n
,
423
,
492
,
493
,
515
,
670
,
687
customs,
193
and US Constitution,
199
,
203
,
205
,
214
,
430
income tax, federal,
212
,
426
,
429
,
477
New Deal and t.,
528
,
541
1920s,
492
,
505
as political issue,
193
,
427
,
429
processing t.,
537
tax–revolt,
675
unpopularity of in A.,
189
,
265
,
322
Taylor, Frederick Winslow,
447
Taylor, Gen. Zachary (Pres. 1849–50),
297
,
298–9
Tea duty (
see also
Townshend laws
),
147
,
158
,
192
Teapot Dome affair,
500
Technology (
see also
Industrial Revolution
),
5
,
220
,
385
,
404
,
405
,
423
,
437
,
438
,
494
,
554
,
586
,
587
,
637
,
655
,
663
and Civil War,
322
Teenagers,
679
Tehran hostages,
682–3
Telegraph, electric,
246
,
301
,
378
,
394
,
427
,
500
Television,
268
,
595–6
,
598
,
603
,
656–7
,
659
Temperance movement (
see also
Prohibition
),
292
,
304
,
465
Tenancy, Southern,
365–6
,
396
,
422
,
539
,
617
,
618
,
622
‘Tenement Trail’,
401
Tennessee,
223
,
226
,
229
,
232
,
270
,
271
,
275
,
303
,
319
,
349
,
355
,
418
,
432
,
504
in Civil War,
245
,
316
,
325
,
333
,
340
,
342
Tennessee Iron and Coal Co.,
445
valley,
226
Muscle Shoals,
526
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),
526
,
544
,
558
,
570
,
618
,
621
Tenure of Office Act (1820),
268
Territories
see
Government
,
territorial
Texas,
40
,
240
,
241
,
246
,
247
,
279
,
296–7
,
299
,
305
,
310
,
311
,
379
,
380
,
392
,
422
,
425
,
433
,
504
,
513
,
538
,
587
,
634
,
661
,
672