American Experiment (279 page)

Goldman, Emma,
275
,
283–4

Goldman, Eric,
346

gold mining,
97

gold rush,
218
,
259

golf,
529

Gompers, Samuel,
179–80
,
280
,
282

and Pullman boycott (1894),
227

on unemployment insurance,
551

Gooch, Frank Austin,
289

Goodwyn, Lawrence,
180
,
187

Gore, Thomas,
417

Gould, Jay,
177
,
182
,
211
,
214

and “Erie War,”
92
,
93

Gould, Lewis,
287

government:

influence of, on daily lives,
19

laissez-faire policy of (economic),
91
,
154–6
,
159
; and labor unions,
180
; Spencer on,
157–8

role of, in Depression,
548–9
; direct relief by,
549
,
551

government, urban,
265

Graham, Otis,
553

“Grangers,”
209

Grant, Ulysses Simpson:

and black rights,
66

in Civil War,
8–10
,
13–14

and Johnson,
51
,
56

and Lee,
13–14
,
28–9
,
35

and Lincoln,
13

as President: election of,
58–9
; foreign policy of,
220
; nomination of,
194–5

and Reconstruction,
58–9

world tour by,
220

Gray, Harold,
519

Great Britain:

and Civil War (U.S.),
31–2
,
220

and Washington Conference (1921),
493–5

and World War I,
408

Great Southwest Strike (1886),
182

“Great White Fleet,”
34

Greeley, Horace,
207
,
210

Green, William,
534
,
552

green areas, urban,
254

Greenback (or Greenback Labor) party,
208

Greene, Theodore,
160

Greenleaf, Halbert,
81

Greenwich Village, New York City,
306–8

Grey, Sir Edward,
409
,
422

Griffith, D. W.,
518
,
524
,
525

Grimké, Sarah and Angelina,
204

Guam,
240

Guest, Edgar,
482

Gutman, Herbert,
111
,
143

Hague Conference (1907),
342

Haig, Gen. Sir Douglas,
426

Haiti,
403
,
418

Hall, Asaph,
81

Hall-Mills murder trial,
518

Hallowell, Col. James,
185

Hamilton, Alice,
275
,
276

Hammond, Bray,
18

Hammond, William A.,
27

Hancock, Winfield,
210

Handlin, Oscar,
503

Hanna, Mark,
198
,
229
,
231–2
,
234

and Roosevelt (T.),
330
,
334

Harbaugh, William,
334

Harding, Warren Gamaliel,
363
,
459

on America as “business country,”
486

character and personality of,
471
,
484

death of,
491–2

as President,
484–5
; and blacks,
490–1
; economic policy of,
491
; and farmers,
490
; foreign policy of,
492–5
; nomination of,
471–3
; and Supreme Court,
488

Harriman, Edward H.,
350
,
401

Harrison, Benjamin,
216
,
217
,
226

harrow,
81

Harte, Bret,
96
,
101

Hartt, Rollin,
195
,
197

Haupt, Herman,
17

Havighurst, Walter,
196

Hawaii,
221
,
240
,
400

Hay, John,
170
,
198
,
337–8

Hayes, Rutherford B.,
198
,
199–200

election of,
67
,
201–2

Haymarket Massacre (1886),
177

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty,
338

Hays, Will H.,
527

Haywood, William D. (“Big Bill”),
282–3
,
323–4
,
397–8

Hearn, Lafcadio,
221

Hearst, William Randolph,
235–6
,
369
,
507

against League of Nations,
458

and Roosevelt’s nomination (1932),
554–5

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
76

Henri, Robert,
310
,
311

Henry, Joseph,
83

Henry, O. (William Sidney Porter),
346

Hepburn Act (1906),
335–6

heroes, athletic,
528–30

Hicks, Granville,
536

Higginson, Henry Lee,
87
,
385

high-rise buildings,
251–2

high schools,
511–12

Hillquit, Morris,
397

Hitchcock, Gilbert,
461

Hoar, George,
68
,
240

hobos and vagabonds,
556–7
,
558–9

Hobson, John Atkinson,
409

Hofstadter, Richard,
158
,
245
,
298
,
390

Holli, Melvin,
273

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
168

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.,
295–6

as Supreme Court justice,
489
,
504–5
; appointment as,
331
,
335

Homer, Winslow,
309

Homestead Act (1862),
19
,
37
,
128

Homestead (Pa.) steel works,
224–6

Hood, Gen. John Bell,
29
,
35

Hooker, Isabella Beecher,
443

Hooker, Gen. Joseph,
10
,
11

Hoover, Herbert,
485

and business,
487

in Food Administration,
428

as President,
485
; and Depression,
549–51
; economic policy of,
496
,
498–9
; election of (1928),
487
; foreign policy of,
496
,
497–8
; and stock market crash,
541
,
543
,
544

Hopkins, Mark (of Big Four),
95

Hopkins, Mark (Williams College president),
159

House, Col. Edward Mandell,
386

and Wilson,
386
,
423
,
456

and World War I,
410
,
413
,
416
; diplomatic activities of,
422–3
,
448

House-Grey Memorandum (World War I),
422–3

housekeeping manuals,
121

House of Mirth
(Wharton),
321
,
323

House of Morgan,
see
Morgan (J. P.) & Co.

housing:

construction methods for,
253

mass-produced,
253

Pullman’s model city,
142

Riis on,
141

urban,
255–6
: tenements,
137–8
,
141

of the wealthy,
114
,
118–19
,
141

Houston, David,
386–7

Howe, Irving,
146
,
257

Howe, Julia Ward,
169
,
209

“Battle Hymn of the Republic,”
28

Howells, William Dean,
118
,
170

Howland, Eliza,
27

Huber, Richard,
160

Huckleberry Finn
(Twain),
170–1
,
172

Hudson, Winthrop,
515

Huerta, Gen. Victoriano,
404

Hughes, Charles Evans,
419–20
,
492
,
493–4
,
495

as Supreme Court justice,
498

Hull-House, Chicago,
270
,
275–6

Huntington, Collis P.,
95
,
203
,
215–16

Imagism,
316

immigrants,
246–9

arrival rate of,
147

in Civil War period,
19

competition and suspicion among,
260

as domestic servants,
121

Ford and,
481–2

holidays and festivals of,
259

labor unions and,
101
,
176
,
179
,
283

as steel workers,
141
,
144

as stockyard workers,
111

suffragists and,
443

urban life of,
138
,
146–7
,
247
,
256–8

see also
aliens, deportation and repression of; Chinese immigrants; Irish immigrants; Italian immigrants; Japanese immigrants; Jews in New York; workers

Immigration Act (1924),
495

impeachment (of Pres. Johnson),
54–8

imperialism, American,
239–41
,
341

incandescent lamp,
84–5

income:

disparities in,
140
,
142–3
,
192

wages: in Civil War period,
19
; in Depression,
556
; in manufacturing (1860s–1890s),
140
; Ricardo’s “iron law” of,
155
; of women,
19
,
140
,
429
,
431
,
489
; of wealthy,
140

income tax:

1861,
18

Knights of Labor on,
176

1920s,
491

under Wilson,
387

during World War I,
439

Indians,
149–51
,
217–19

Cheyennes,
149–50

civil rights of,
49
,
443

newspapers of,
522

Sioux,
150

stereotyping of,
151

individualism:

economic,
154–9
,
162
,
207
,
390

as “liberty,”
153

see also
Algerism

industrialism:

protest against,
172–3
; socialist,
173–5

urban,
247–9
; implacability of,
271–2
,
274
,
289
; specialized,
248

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, “Wobblies”),
283
,
397–8

and silk workers’ strike,
323

suppression of (in World War I),
440

industry:

in Civil War period,
15–16
,
19

machinery for,
74
,
77–85
,
108
,
289
,
290–1
,
381–2
; for automobile manufacture,
479–80
; for shoe manufacture,
15

in Ohio,
196–7

workers in,
see
workers

in World War I,
428–9

see also
production;
and
specific industries

inflation, in Civil War period,
20

Ingham, John,
143

Innocents Abroad, The
(Twain),
221

“Inquiry, The” (on peace terms, World

War I),
434
,
448–9
,
453

intellectual leadership:

in Boston,
169–70

with moral leadership,
274

and Reconstruction, failure of,
69–70

International Workingmen’s Association,
174

Interstate Commerce Act (1887),
214
,
216

Interstate Commerce Commission,
214–15
,
335
,
336
,
358

inventors and inventions,
see
agriculture: machinery and tools for; industry: machinery for; technology: innovation in

investors:

from Boston,
85–8

and innovation,
90–1

personal bankers,
88–90

Irish immigrants,
259–60

as railroad workers,
94
,
96
,
97

iron industry,
74
,
78
,
79–80

Italian immigrants,
257–8

IWW,
see
Industrial Workers of the World

Jackson, Helen Hunt,
217

Jackson, Gen. Thomas Jonathan (“Stonewall’),
10

Jacoby, Robin Miller,
281

Jaher, Frederic C,
87
,
115

James, Alice,
123–4

James, Henry,
169–70
,
221
,
306

Bostonians, The,
170

Roosevelt (T.) and,
326
,
327

James, William,
158
,
170
,
291–4
,
394

Japan:

and U.S.,
344
,
495
; on Russo-Japanese War,
341–2
; trade relations,
497–8

and Washington Conference (1921),
493–5

Japanese immigrants:

and Immigration Act (1924),
495

segregation of, in California,
343–4

jazz,
509
,
523

Jefferson, Thomas,
82
,
156