Read The Whites of their Eyes Online
Authors: Matt Braun
Mecom, Jane,
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–48,
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–57,
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122
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138
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141
Christianity of,
148
–49
death of,
143
death of her husband,
49
–50
despair of,
54
–55
marriage of,
49
plundering of her home by the British,
131
on poverty and lack of education,
153
–54
insanity and death of,
138
–39
Mecom, Polly,
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media, old/mainstream/“liberal,”
40
–41
Melvill, Thomas,
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,
86
–87,
187
n25
“Memorial Remon
strance against Religious Assessments”
(Madison),
122
Mencken, H. L.,
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–17
Mineau, Kris,
5
Minutemen Bicycle Path,
155
Montgomery, Hugh,
61
Moorhead, Scipio,
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Moral Majority,
13
Moses,
13
National Center for Constitutional Studies,
112
–13
National Organization for Women (NOW),
82
Nell, William Cooper,
114
–15,
115
–16
New-England Courant
,
30
–31,
32
,
144
New Left, the,
73
New York Constitution,
107
Newspaper Death Watch,
41
newspapers: decline of in contemporary times,
41
history of,
30
–31
Newsweek
,
67
Nixon, Richard,
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,
7
,
65
,
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–72,
81
–83,
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,
187
n27
Nixon’s Bicentennial Commission.
See
American Revolution Bicentennial Commission
the Right’s view of,
8
–9
the Tea Party’s view of,
136
Old South Meeting House,
78
–79
O’Neil, Jim,
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“On the Affray in King Street” (P. Wheatley),
62
“On the Arrival of the Ships of War, and the Landing of the Troops” (P. Wheatley),
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O’Reilly, Bill,
157
Organization of American Historians,
157
–58
originalism,
118
–125
in the courts,
123
–25
“Origin & Progress of the Americ
an Revolution” (Oliver),
21
Origin of Evil, The
(R. Tyler),
148
Otis, James, Jr.,
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,
34
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36
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58
,
64
,
133
,
141
Otis, James, Sr.,
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Our Country Deserves Better,
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Paine, Thomas,
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–30,
137
–38,
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147
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arrest of,
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–43
dementia and death of,
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–46
statement of concerning his belief in God but not creeds,
143
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196
n59
Palin, Sarah,
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135
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–37,
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Parker, Theodore,
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Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (2010),
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passage of,
90
.
See also
health care reform
Patriot’s Day,
155
Paul, Rand,
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“Paul Revere’s Ride” (Longfellow),
6
–7
Pennsylvania Gazette
,
32
Pennsylvania Journal
,
39
Peoples Bicentennial Committee,
65
,
72
,
82
,
84
,
96
,
134
People’s History of the United States
(Zinn),
66
Perry, Jeff,
156
Peters, John,
139
Philadelphia Hospital,
131
Phillis
,
26
–27
Pledge of Allegiance,
127
–28
Plessy v. Ferguson
(1896),
114
Plymouth Rock Foundation,
5
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
(P. Wheatley),
76
Poindexter, Leon,
89
Poor Richard’s Almanack
(B. Franklin),
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Price, Richard,
153
–54
Problem of Slavery in
the Age of Revolution, The
(Davis),
73
Publick Occurrences
,
30
Putnam, Israel,
103
Quartering Act (1764),
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Reagan, Ronald,
147
Real George Washington, The
(Allison and Parry),
157
Rebels, The
(Child),
86
Reconstruction Act (1867),
110
–11
Reed, Ralph,
147
Remick, Christian,
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Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, A: With a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes
(Hewes),
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Revere, Paul,
34
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42
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57
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63
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,
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“Revere America,”
152
–53
Ridpath, John,
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Rifkin, Jeremy,
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,
72
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–96,
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147
Rights of Man, The
(Paine),
142
,
146
Rights of Man, The, Part the Second
(Paine),
142
Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, The
(J. Otis, Jr.),
29
Roberts v. City of Boston
(1850),
114
Roe v. Wade
(1973),
119
same-sex marriage,
42
Sartor, Caesar,
76
“Saturday Night Massacre,”
81
–82
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.,
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,
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nn56–57
Sedition Act (1798),
144
Seven Years’ War.
See
French and Indian War
Shabazz, Betty,
134
Shaw, Lemuel,
114
Shaw, Robert Gould,
135
Shay’s Rebellion,
22
Sherman, Roger,
131
Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, A
(S. Adams),
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“silent majority,”
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–5
Sims, Thomas,
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–15
slavery/slaves,
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–29,
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–76,
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–94,
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n20
abolishment of in Massachusetts,
154
American sailors held as slaves by Barbary Coast states,
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banning of as a detriment to colonial unity,
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escape from slavery during the American Revolution,
139
–40
as an issue during the American Revolution,
113
–16
outlawing of in Vermont,
141
punishments for slave rebellion,
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slave rebellion,
57
–58.
See also
Declaration of Independence, Jefferson’s initial attack against slavery in; liberty, and slavery
Sleepy Hollow,
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Sons of Harvard,
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Sons of Liberty,
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origins of,
34
Sousa, John Philip, IV,
136
Spirit of Seventy-Six, The
,
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“Squabble of the Sea Nymphs, The” (M. O. Warren),
85
repeal of (1766),
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riots as a result of,
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–34
Stamp Act Congress,
39
Stark, Joseph Andrew,
10
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
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Sugar and Currency Acts (1764),
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,
29
Sumner, Charles,
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Taxation No Tyranny
(S. Johnson),
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taxation/taxes,
7
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15
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53
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84
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190
n20
on tea,
77
–78.
See also
Townshend Duties (1767)
Tax Day (April 15), Tea Party protests held on,
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–4,
8
,
20
,
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Taylor, Earl,
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Tea Act (1773),
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Chicago Tea Party,
3
chief political asset of,
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gathering of on the Boston Common (2010),
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–29,
135
–37
message of as antihistory,
8
as a product of a reactionary view of American history,
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rumors concerning,
37
–38
“TEA” acronym of (“Taxed Enough Already”),
37
.
See also
Boston Tea Party (2009); Tax Day (April 15), Tea Party protests held on; Tea Party Express; “Tea Party Weekend”
Tea Party Express,
37
,
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,
127
,
136
,
152
“Tea Party Weekend,”
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–83
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS),
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Texas School Board,
12
–15,
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–60
Thoreau, Henry David,
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Tibbels, Jean Paul,
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Touchstone, The; Or a Humble Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Religious Intolerance
(R. Tyler),
150
–51,
196
n63
repeal of (1770),
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Treaty of Tripoli (1797),
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“Tree of Liberty” statement: as part of Tea Party paraphernalia,
22
popularity of among 1990s militia groups,
22
Trenchard, John,
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–60
True Uses of American Revolutionary History, The
(Curtis),
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–8
Tuerck, David,
4
Twain, Mark,
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Tyler, Mary,
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as a lay preacher,
148
on religious intolerance,
150
–51
United States, as a Christian nation,
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5
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–59
U.S. Constitution,
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,
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–23,
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–7,
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Article VI of,
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bicentennial of,
119
–20
First Amendment of,
122
.
See also
originalism
Varley, Christen,
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99
,
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beliefs concerning global warming,
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–42
involvement in politics,
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War,
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,
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,
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voting, history of,
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–6
literacy tests,
110
paper/ticket balloting in the colonies,
107
–11
and the U.S. Constitution,
106
–7
women’s suffrage,
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Voting Rights Act (1965),
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,
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Wagner, Edward,
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–38
Warner, John,
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