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Christen Varley, “MA House Vote on Perry’s Illegal Immigration Amendment,” Greater Boston Tea Party, May 2, 2010, http://greaterbostonteaparty.com /2010/05/ma-house-vote-on-perrys-illegal-immigration-amendment/; Christen Varley, “ ‘Pass the Perry Amendment’ Rally,” Greater Boston Tea Party, May 19, 2010, http://greaterbostonteaparty.com/2010/05/pass-the-perry-amendment-rally/; Maria Sacchetti, “Tea Party Rally Calls for Senate Amendment on Illegal Immigrants,”
Boston Globe
, May 21, 2010.

8
Massachusetts State Congress,
Massachusetts State Congress Journal
, 186th sess., April 28, 2010, 3–6; Massachusetts State Congress,
An Act Relative to Public Benefits
, H.R. 3387, 186th sess., January 7, 2009.

9
Glenn Beck,
The Glenn Beck Show
, Fox News, New York, April 30, 2010.

10
Glenn Beck,
The Glenn Beck Show
, Fox News, New York, May 7, 2010.

11
Bill O’Reilly,
The O’Reilly Factor
, Fox News, New York, May 7, 2010.

12
Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again,” in
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
, ed. Arnold Rampersad (New York: Knopf, 1998), 189.

13
Organization of American Historians Executive Board of Directors, “Texas Textbook Resolution,” Organization of American Historians, May 12, 2010,
http://www.oah.org/news/20100512_texas_textbook_resolution.html
.

14
E.g., letter from Fritz Fischer, chair, National Council for History Education, to the Texas State Board of Education, National Council for History Education, Inc., March 30, 2010,
http://www.nche.net/includes/downloads/nchelettertotexas.pdf
.

15
Jonathan J. Cooper, “Arizona Governor Signs Bill Targeting Ethnic Studies,” Associated Press, May 12, 2010.

16
Cynthia Dunbar, “A Christian Land Governed by Christian Principles,” Texas State Board of Education meeting, video clip, Texas Freedom Network, YouTube, May 21, 2010,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdhGK9aYjDY
.

17
Michael Brick, “Texas School Board Set to Vote Textbook Revisions,”
New York Times
, May 21, 2010; “Benjamin Todd Jealous Testimony Before Texas Board of Education,” video clip, NAACP Videos, YouTube, May 20, 2010,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ_T3Z3y4n8
.

18
Rachel Maddow,
The Rachel Maddow Show
, MSNBC, New York, May 19, 2010; Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse, “Tea Party Pick Causes Uproar on Civil Rights,”
New York Times
, May 20, 2010; “Tea Party Candidate Causes Civil Rights Stir,”
New York Times
, May 21, 2010.

INDEX

Adams, Abigail,
93
,
95
,
129
,
132
,
147

Adams, John,
15
,
21
,
25
,
34
,
36
,
47
,
85
,
86
,
91
,
92
,
103
,
122
,
131
,
141
,
147

on the authorship of
Common Sense
,
129
,
130

on the Boston Massacre,
60

on the effects of the Stamp Act,
29
–30

fear that his role in the American Revolution would be forgotten,
44
–45

growing hatred of Paine,
145

on the meaning of the American Revolution,
24

opinion of how the American Revolution would be viewed historically,
44

as president,
144

reply to Mercy Otis Warren’s depiction of him in her history of the American Revolution,
45

support of patriot printers,
39

Adams, Samuel,
20
,
22
,
34
,
36
,
57
,
80
,
91
,
92
,
101
,
103
,
122
,
156

death of,
145

irritation of with Paine,
143
,
146
,
148

report on the Boston Massacre,
62
–63

statue of,
20

Adams, Thomas Boylston,
82

Adulateur, The
(M. O. Warren),
75

“Advice to a Yo
ung Tradesman from an Old One” (B. Franklin),
50

Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation,
73

Age of Reason, The
(Paine),
142
–43

neglect of in contemporary times,
146
–47

Algerine Captive, The
(R. Tyler),
149
–50

Allison, Andrew,
157

American Crisis
(Paine),
138

American Political Tradition, The
(Hofstadter),
69

American Revolution, the,
14
,
17
,
18
,
164
–65

heritage of claimed by both the Union and the Confederacy,
23

historiography of,
21
–23,
46
–47

importance of to the Tea Party,
20
–21

meaning of,
24

and the slavery issue,
113
–16

use of for varying political purposes,
23
–24

American Revolution Bicentennial Administration,
133

American Revolution Bicentennial Commission,
24
,
72
–73,
187
n27

American Slavery, American Freedom
(Morgan),
73

American Weekly Mercury
,
30

America’s Birthday: A Planning and Activity Guide for Citizens’ Participation During the Bicentennial Year
(Peoples Bicentennial Committee),
84

antibusing,
117
,
118
,
128
,
135

Anti-Federalists,
23

Antigua,
58

antihistory,
8
,
15
,
96

“Apology for Printers, An” (B. Franklin),
41

Appleton, Nathaniel,
54
,
58

Aquinas, Thomas,
13

Argument, Shewing that a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, An
(Trenchard),
59
–60

Arizona,
156
,
158

Armey, Dick,
85

Articles of Confederation,
13

“Attempt to Steal the Bicentennial, The,” Senate Judiciary Committee hearings concerning,
133
–34

Attucks, Crispus,
61
–62,
114
,
116

memorial to on the Boston Common,
135

Aurora
,
144

Australia, election law in,
110
–11

Avruch, Frank,
71

Ayn Rand Institute,
8

Bache, Benjamin Franklin,
144

Baker, Charlie,
127

Baker, Russell,
133

“Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party” (Holmes),
36
–37

Barbary Coast nations,
149

Barlow, Joel,
142
,
196
n59

Barrett, Richard,
65

Beaver
(original),
2
,
77

Beaver
(replica),
2
–3,
14
,
19
,
71
,
81
,
82
–83,
85
,
89
,
90
,
164

Beck, Glenn,
9
,
15
,
38
,
64
,
95
,
97
,
112

“Indoctrination in America” lecture,
10
–11.
See also
Founders’ Fridays

Becker, Carl,
113

Bellamy, Edward,
127

Bellamy, Francis,
127
–28

Bennett, Doug,
36

Bernard, Francis,
24
,
25
,
55
–56

Bicentennial, the,
15
,
18
,
65
,
133
–35

Thurgood Marshall’s view of,
119
–20.
See also
American Revolution Bicentennial Commission

Peoples Bicentennial Committee

Bicentennial Ethnic Racial Forum,
128

Bielat, Sean,
100
,
104

Bill of Rights,
64

“Birthers,”
98

Bloody Massacre Perpetrated on King Street, The
(Revere),
63

Boorstein, Daniel,
67

Bork, Robert,
81
,
119

Boston,
24
–25

boycott of British imports by Bostonians,
55

celebration of the Bi
centennial in,
134
–35

material dumped into Boston Harbor over the years,
84
–85

response of to British troops stationed in,
58
–60

siege of,
102
–3,
130
–31.
See also
Boston Common; Patriot’s Day

“Boston” (Emerson),
78
–79

Boston 200,
72
,
82

Boston Common,
1
,
3
,
20
,
37
,
55
,
126
,
135

Boston Evening Post
,
48

Boston Gazette
,
30
,
33
,
38
,
75
,
77
,
80
,
103
,
138

last issue of,
144

motto of,
34

the Tories’ name for (“Weekly Dung Barge”),
39

Boston Globe
,
38
,
136

“The Boston Tea Party . . . and this Generation” editorial of,
81
–82

Boston Herald
,
136
,
137

Boston Massacre,
6
,
9
–10,
23
,
60
–64,
65
,
74
,
116

commemoration of,
86

depositions concerning,
81

John Adams’s opinion of,
60

protest meetings of,
78

reenactment of,
11
,
117
,
171
n21

Boston News-Letter
,
31

Boston Phoenix
,
98

Boston Port Act (1774),
91

Boston Red Sox,
155
,
164

Boston Tea Party (1773),
80
–81

Boston Tea Party (2009),
20

Anti-Obamacare rally,
43

Boston Tea Party Ship. See
Beaver

Boy with a Squirrel
(Copley),
34

Bozo the Clown,
71

Bradstreet, Anne,
48

Brewer, Jan,
156

Brown, Scott,
9
–10,
35
,
37
,
91
,
112
,
126
–27

Brown v. Board of Education
(1954),
119

Bunker Hill,
67

Bunker Hill, Battle of,
60
,
87
,
90
,
103

monument of,
86

reenactment of,
118

Burdick, Benjamin,
61

Burke, Edmund,
62

Burns, Anthony,
115

Bush, George H. W.,
128

busing, forced,
80
,
117

Caldwell, James,
62

Cambridge, Massachusetts,
6
,
11
,
54
,
56
,
57
,
58
,
93
,
102
,
103
,
136
,
155

bridge to,
153

as the “Republic of Cambridge,”
100
,
161

as Washington’s headquarters,
130

Carmichael, Stokely,
23
–24

Carr, Howie,
137

Carr, Patrick,
62
,
64

Christian nation.
See
United States, as a Christian nation

chronology,
16

church/state separation,
150

Civil Rights Act (1964),
23
,
159

Civil War, the,
103
,
114
,
116
,
135

Coakley, Martha,
9

Coalition for Marriage and Family,
42
,
94
,
126

Coburn, John,
62

Colonial Times Today
,
160
–64

Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
(Nell),
116

Common Sense
(Paine),
129
–30,
146

John Adams’s opinion of,
145

profits from sale of donated to the Continental Army,
137
–38

Common Sense II: The Case Against Corporate Tyranny
(Peoples Bicentennial Commission),
147

Connecticut charter, the,
123

Connecticut Courant
,
39

Considerations on Slavery
(Appleton),
54

Constitutional Convention (1787),
113
,
119
,
123

Continental Congress: First (1774),
21
,
92

Second (1775),
46
,
103
,
131

Contract with America,
13

Contrast, The
(R. Tyler),
147

Copley, John Singleton,
34
,
42
,
56
,
75
,
91
–92

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