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Walzer, Michael.
Exodus and Revolution
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Walworth, Walter.
Woodrow Wilson
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Weinstein, Simcha.
Up, Up, and Oy Vey!: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
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West, Cornel.
Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture
. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1993.
Wiesel, Elie.
Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends
. New York: Summit Books, 1976.
Wildavsky, Aaron.
Moses as Political Leader
. Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2005.
Williams, Juan, and Quinton Dixie.
This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience
. New York: Amistad, 2003.
Wills, Garry.
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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Winslow, Edward.
Good Newes from New England: A True Relation of Things Very Remarkable at the Plantation of Plimoth in New England
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Wisse, Ruth. “The Hebrew Imperative.”
Commentary,
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Wolf, William J.
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Wood, Gordon S.
The American Revolution: A History
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
Wood, Michael.
America in the Movies: “Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind.”
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Wright, Melanie J.
Moses in America: The Cultural Uses of Biblical Narrative
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim.
Freud’s Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
Young, Andrew.
An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America
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A Way Out of No Way
:
The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young
. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994.
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Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Aaron, 20, 229
Abernathy, Ralph,
258
, 260, 261, 266, 269, 270, 272
Abiff, Hiram, 87
abolitionists, 48–49, 114, 115, 141, 150–51, 153–57, 169
Abraham, 15, 191, 279
Action Comics,
221, 223
Adamic, Louis, 193
Adams, John, 60, 61, 62, 63 and Book of Common Prayer, 56
and Great Seal, 4, 35, 64, 66, 67, 213, 296
as vice president, 79
Adams, Samuel, 55, 88
African Americans:
activism of, 243, 247, 250–53;
see also
civil rights cultural tradition of, 124–32, 247
Exodus story for, 249–53, 256–59
and Jews, 128, 255–57
and March on Washington, 51, 248, 250–53
Moses figure for, 248, 253, 259
slaves,
see
slavery
Alexander II, Czar, 189
Allen, Ethan, 88
America,
see
United States
American Bible Society, 146, 159
American dream, 162, 225, 296, 297
American Negro, 268
American Revolution, 28, 33, 36
and Deuteronomy, 59–60, 93
and Exodus, 59–60, 62–63, 74, 76, 96, 98, 151
Jewish soldiers in, 197
and language of dissent, 38
postwar disarray, 75–76, 90, 92
and Puritans, 61
sources of, 92, 98
and Washington, 52, 58, 75
Anderson, Marian, 250
Angelou, Maya, 269
Anglican Church, 24, 38
Applegate, Debby, 151
Arbella,
8, 25, 60, 194, 278
Aristotle, 298
Ark of the Covenant, 87, 186
Arnold, Benedict, 79
Articles of Confederation, 75, 93
Augustine, Saint, 79
Auschwitz, 127
Bacall, Lauren, 208
Bacon, Francis, 61
Baker, Jim, 19, 23, 26
Baldwin, James, 251
Banks, Lynne Reid,
Moses in Egypt,
210
Barralet, John James,
The Apotheosis of Washington,
100
Bartholdi, Frédéric, 180–81, 183, 184, 186
Barton, Bernard, 48–49
Barton, Bruce,
The Man Nobody Knows,
212
Baskett, Mark, 57, 80
Baxter, Anne, 216, 230
Beecher, Catharine, 203
Beecher, Harriet,
see
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Beecher, Henry Ward, 141–42,
142,
159, 168–70, 172–73, 203
Beecher, James, 169
Beecher, Lyman, 141, 144, 146, 148–49, 152–53, 161, 203
Beecher family, 141–44, 148–52, 203
Berlin, Irving, 193
Bible:
American Bible Society, 146, 159
and American exceptionalism, 33
and American Revolution, 59–60, 93, 151
authors of, 178, 270
and Civil War, 143, 158–59, 166
ebbing prominence of, 93–94, 209
emotional influence of, 47, 61
English translations of, 30
and evolution, 177–78
Five Books of Moses, 13, 70, 91, 93, 173, 266, 269–70, 282, 301, 306
Geneva,
23
as God’s word, 153
and Great Awakening, 37–38
individual interpretation of, 144, 157, 183, 202
King James, 42, 80
in Latin, 21
as living book, 234
living by, 62–63
New Testament, 20
oath taking on, 79–80, 282
Old Testament,
see
Hebrew Bible
and Pilgrims, 27, 29, 30–31, 62
and printing processes, 21–22, 146
and rebirth, 37
relevance today, 276–77, 282, 286
and slavery, 122, 153–57
for social change, 212
in vernacular, 22, 47, 51
Big Ben, 85
Bingham, George Caleb,
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap, 147,
148
black nationalism, 127, 128–29
Blanchard, Jonathan, 155–57
Bogart, Humphrey, 208
Boone, Daniel, 119, 147–48,
147
, 197
Borglum, Gutzon, 203
Born in East L.A.
(film), 277
Boston Tea Party, 90
Boughdadly, Abbas El, 233
Boyer, Harold, 25
Bradford, Sarah, 137
Bradford, William,
11
, 13, 43
Hebrew studies of, 32, 170
as Moses, 9, 32, 33, 62, 134, 151, 266
Of Plymouth Plantation,
12, 19, 32
as Pilgrim leader, 8, 9, 28, 31–32, 61, 151, 167
Branch, Taylor, 265
Brewer, Bessie, 272
Brewster, William, 26–27, 203
Brigham Young
(film), 220–21
Britt, Brian, 210
Brooklyn Bridge, 192, 205
Brooks, Phillips, 244
Brown, Charles Reynolds,
The Social Message of the Modern Pulpit,
213
Brown, John, 136
Brown v. Board of Education,
243, 245
Brueggemann, Walter, 298–99, 301
Brynner, Yul, 211, 230, 235
Bullock, Steven,
Revolutionary Brotherhood,
87
Burrell, Captain Jabez, 133
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 221
Bush, Barbara, 281–82
Bush, George H. W., 80
Bush, George W., 80, 278–82, 283
Bushnell, Horace, 38
Campbell, Alexander, 109, 116
Campbell, Betty, 116
Canaan, land of, 17, 61, 151, 152
Canada, and Underground Railroad, 138
Captain America,
224–25
Carter, Jimmy, 80, 295
Carver, George Washington, 248
Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York City, 241, 242, 243, 245, 251
Catholic Emancipation Act (Britain, 1829), 46
Charles II, king of England, 54
Chicago Conference on Religion and Race (1963), 257
Christ Church, Philadelphia, 53–59, 55, 71
Churchill, Winston, 239
Church of England, 24, 38
Church of God in Christ, 259
Cicero, 92
Cincinnati, Ohio, 140–41, 152, 153, 155–57
civil rights, 255, 272
and Exodus, 256–57
and Jews, 256, 257, 295
and King,
see
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
March on Washington, 51, 248, 250–53
and Mason Temple, Memphis, 260
and Moses, 247, 254, 257
Civil Rights Act (1964), 256
Civil War, U.S., 33, 142–43, 293
battle of Gettysburg, 157, 158
and Bible, 143, 158–59, 166
debates about, 153–57, 160
and Lincoln, 159–61, 164, 165, 168
and slavery, 142, 153–57, 162
surrender at Appomattox, 169
Clark’s Island, 7, 9, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 30
Clay, Joseph, 110
Clinton, Bill, 278
Clinton, Hillary, 5
Coca-Cola, 293
Cohen, Helen, 210–11, 215, 219
Cold War, 51, 227, 228, 295
Colossus of Rhodes, 181
Columbia University, 95
Columbus, Christopher, 4, 21, 61, 151, 241, 296
Communist Party, 212–13, 234–35
Confucius, 283
Conrad, Robert, 49
Constantine, emperor of Rome, 183
Constitution, U.S., 28, 49, 75, 95, 129, 187, 251
and church-state separation, 145, 167
First Amendment to, 94, 145, 197, 284–85
ratification of, 94, 98
Constitutional Convention, 75, 76, 93
Continental Congress, 35,
55,
55, 63, 75
Cooper, Rev. Samuel, 92
Corley, D. B., 152
Cotton, John, 28, 60
Craig, Rev. Mark, 281
Daley, Richard, 249
Darfur, genocide in, 295
Dartmouth University, 95
Darwin, Charles, 298
The Origin of Species,
177–78
Darwinism, 209
Deaver, Mike, 280
Declaration of Independence, 35, 36
anniversaries of, 48, 180
and Duché, 56, 58
and equal rights, 155, 251
and Gettysburg Address, 164, 165
and Liberty Bell, 45, 49, 50, 53
signers of, 40, 67, 90
and Statue of Liberty, 187, 194
Deists, 47, 60
DeMille, Cecil B., 4, 209
birth and early years of, 211, 212
casting books of, 215–16
and Churchill, 239
and interfaith relations, 236, 237–38
memorabilia in storage, 215–16
and Moses, 239–40, 296
screen appearance of, 227–28
scripts of, 216–17, 238
and social message, 214–15, 227, 229, 238
and
Ten Commandments,
209, 212, 214–19, 218, 226–31, 234–40
DeMille, Henry, 211, 214, 237
DeMille, Matilda Samuel, 211
Depew, Chauncey, 193
Derek, John, 216
Deuteronomy:
and American Revolution, 59–60, 93
Moses story in, 93, 173, 206, 308
and Passover, 139
and Ten Commandments, 28
Diethorn, Karie, 36, 39, 43, 44, 46–47, 52–53
Douglas, Stephen, 156, 160
Douglass, Frederick, 124, 136, 162–63, 248
Du Bois, W. E. B., 299
Duché, Jacob, 54–59, 55, 62, 80
Duffield, Rev. George, 61
Dylan, Bob, 250
Edison, Thomas A., 167
Edwards, Jonathan, 38, 167, 203
Einstein, Albert, 96, 298
Eisendrath, Maurice, 258
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 80, 236, 237, 279, 295
Eizenstat, Stuart, 295
Elijah, 292
Eliot, George, “The Death of Moses,” 308
Eliza (slave girl), 116,
117
, 118–19, 150–51
Ellis, Joseph, 79
Emancipation Proclamation, 161, 162, 169, 251
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 189
Enlightenment, 166, 285
as about transformation, 144, 161–62
European thinkers, 61, 92
and Founders, 47, 87, 92, 93, 167
E Pluribus Unum,
66
Everett, Edward, 163
Exodus:
and African American identity, 249–53, 256–59
and American identity, 95, 98, 195, 196, 296, 298
and American Revolution, 59–60, 62–63, 74, 76, 96, 98, 151
biblical story of, 5–6, 8, 24, 27, 30, 65, 70, 93, 94, 130, 131, 184, 253, 293, 300–301
and Civil War, 158–59, 164
commemoration of, 139
and freedom, 71, 129–32, 249, 300
and immigration to U.S., 184, 188–92, 193–94
and Underground Railroad, 124, 128, 134, 136, 151–52
and U.S. western expansion, 148
Exodus, Book of, 13, 233, 300
King’s sermons on, 243, 246
language of, 37–38, 67, 146
Farrakhan, Louis, 255
Feiler, Bruce:
Abraham,
278–79
meeting with Bush, 279–81
Filson, John, 146–48
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 208
Forefathers Day, 19
Fosdick, Rev. Harry Emerson, 245
Fox, Richard W.,
Jesus in America,
297
Frank, Anne, 291
Franklin, Aretha, 248
Franklin, Benjamin, 42–43, 49, 63, 141, 151, 167, 279
as abolitionist, 111
books published by, 39, 88
and the Constitution, 95
and faith, 47, 62
and Great Seal, 4, 36, 64–68, 202, 213, 296
Franklin, C. L., 248, 253, 259
Franklin, Robert, 249–50, 252–53
Fraternal Order of Eagles, 235
Fraunces Tavern, New York, 86
Freedom Riders, 256
“Free at last!,” 247–48, 252
Freemasons,
see
Masons
Freud, Sigmund, 298
Moses and Monotheism,
210, 288
Frieden, Betty, 277
Friends of Freedom, 48
Fugitive Slave Law, 137, 150
fundamentalism, 209
Furr, Barbara, 143, 149, 152
Gable, Clark, 208
Gabler, Neal,
An Empire of Their Own,
223, 225
Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma), 254
Garbo, Greta, 208
Gardner, Tom, 204–5
Garrison, William Lloyd, 114
Gates, Bill, 277
gay rights, 51
Geffen, Rabbi David, 293
Genesis, book of, 27, 83–85, 269
Geneva Bible,
23
George III, king of England, 31, 60, 61
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 157–58
Gettysburg Address (Lincoln), 158, 161, 163–65, 166, 241, 296
Glaude, Eddie, 129, 301
“Go Down, Moses,” 125, 251, 295
Goebbels, Joseph, 225
Goldberg, Arthur, 295
Goldberg, Dorothy, 295