Authors: Bruce Feiler
uplifting the downtrodden, 300–301
as voodoo figure, 246–47
Moses and the Exodus from Egypt
(film), 213
Mount Sinai, 16–17, 27, 60, 94, 96, 97, 185–86, 191, 196, 267, 300
Muir, Rev. James, 101
NAACP, 256
Napoléon Bonaparte, 104
Napoléon III, emperor of France, 180
National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, 269
Ndungane, Archbishop
Njongonkulu, 71–72
New Israel, America as, 24, 89
New Republic,
235
New York City:
Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in, 241,
242
, 243, 245, 251
Federal Hall in, 77,
78
, 81–82
as nation’s capital, 77
population of, 77
September 11 attacks on, 73, 81–82, 85, 192
and Washington’s inauguration, 73, 76, 78, 82–83
New York Harbor, 176–77
Ninety-five Theses (Luther), 22
Noerdlinger, Henry, 216, 219, 239
Noll, Mark, 38
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis,
153, 154, 157
Norris, Isaac, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45
North Star, navigation by, 134
Novak, Michael, 79
Obama, Barack, 5–6, 282
Oberlin College, Ohio, 133, 153
Ohio River, 106–9,
108
, 114,
117
, 119
Old Colony Club, 7, 9, 18–19, 24–25, 29
“Onward, Christian Soldiers,” 236–37
Oregon Trail, 119
Orrison, Katherine, 226, 231–33
Owens, Jesse, 255
Paine, Thomas, 47, 173
Common Sense,
4, 35, 60, 63
Palmer, Rev. Benjamin, 158–59
Paramount Pictures, 214, 227, 235
Parker, John, 131–32
Parks, Rosa, 243, 269
Pass, John, 44–45
Passover, 2, 41, 98, 139, 200–201, 231–33, 275, 292–93, 295–96, 303–4
Pathé Films, 213
Penn, William, 39
Pennsylvania:
Charter of Privileges in, 39, 42, 43
jubilee year in, 42, 43
State-house (now Independence Hall) in, 39–40, 44, 45, 48
Pentateuch, 13, 70, 91, 93, 173, 266, 269–70, 282, 301, 306
Philadelphia:
British capture of, 40, 58
Christ Church in, 53–59,
55
, 71
see also
Independence Hall
Pilgrims, 8–10, 11
and the Bible, 27, 29, 30–31, 62
and covenant, 28
and first Thanksgiving, 12–13, 19
and Mayflower Compact,
11
, 28
and Moses, 12, 22, 29–33, 151, 296, 299
perpetuating the memory of, 25, 34, 146, 203, 251
in Plymouth, 9–10, 19, 26
punishments inflicted by, 28
Pilgrim Society, 29, 34
Plato, 88, 298
Pledge of Allegiance, 236, 285
Plimouth Plantation, Massachusetts, 26, 28
Plutarch, 92
Plymouth, Massachusetts, tourism in, 3, 7, 19
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 168–69, 172, 203, 241
Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts:
peace with Indians, 32
Pilgrims in, 9–10, 19, 26
Polk, James K., 149
Poor People’s Campaign, 260
Powell, Colin, 269
pragmatism, 62
Presley, Cecilia, 210, 211, 233–34, 236, 237, 239
Presley, Elvis, 260
Presley, Lisa Marie, 260
Presley, Priscilla, 260
Prince of Egyp
t (film), 289
Promised Land, 17–18
America as, 51, 148, 197,
198
blessings of, 93
Middle Class as, 130, 252
Moses’ failure to reach, 31, 33, 266, 268, 274
quest for, 298–99, 300
redefining, 289
Promise Keepers, 289
Protestants:
and biblical time, 23–24
evangelical, 144, 145, 146, 162, 166
and Great Awakening, 4, 37–38, 56, 144–45, 146, 165, 203
importance of Moses to, 22, 195, 200
and language of dissent, 38
and rebirth, 37, 144, 162
and Scripture, 22
Prothero, Stephen,
American Jesus,
297
Provoyeur, Pierre, 186
Puck,
198, 199
Pulitzer, Joseph, 181
Puritans, 31, 37, 61, 194
America as Promised Land to, 148
and Exodus, 24, 27, 30, 129
and Jews, 202
see also
Pilgrims
Putin, Vladimir, 280
Quakers, as abolitionists, 111
Rabin, Yitzhak, 269
Randall, Roger, 10, 12
Rankin, Rev. John, 110, 112–16,
113
, 118
Rankin family,
113
Rankin House, 111–16, 126
rationalism, 62, 63
Reagan, Ronald, 26, 194–95, 204, 278, 282, 296
Revere, Paul, 88
Rice, Nathaniel, 155–57
Ripley, Ohio, 106–9,
108
, 112–16
Riverside Church, New York City, 245
Robben Island, South Africa, 71
Robinson, John, 203
Rockefeller, John D., 213
Roman Catholic Church:
in Middle Ages, 21
and Reformation, 22, 24
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 4, 220
Rosemary Miller
(Coast Guard vessel), 177
Ross, Betsy, 55
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 61, 97
Ruegemer, E. J., 235
Rush, Benjamin, 144
Rustin, Bayard, 264
Saboteur
(film), 193
Sacks, Jonathan, 22, 292, 306
Safford, Tim, 54, 56–59, 61–62, 71
Saint Catherine’s Island, Georgia, 124
Saperstein, Rabbi David, 284–87
Sapp, William, 230, 231
Sarna, Jonathan, 196, 199–202, 302
Sarna, Nahum, 196
Savini, Tom, 86–90
Sekulow, Jay, 284–87
September 11 attacks:
and Bell of Hope, 85
and Statue of Liberty, 192
and Trinity Church, 73, 81, 85
and Washington Bible, 81–82
Shaw, Chancey, 118
Sheinson, Yosef Dov,
A Survivors’ Haggadah, 294
Sherwood, Samuel, 35
The Church’s Flight into the Wilderness,
60
Shuster, Joe, 221, 223
Siegel, Jerry, 221, 223, 225
Simitière, Pierre Eugène du, 66
slavery, 68, 110
abolitionists vs., 48–49, 114, 115, 141, 150–51, 153–57, 169
African traditions of, 122, 124
and the Bible, 122, 153–57
and black nationalism, 127, 128–29
and Civil War, 142, 153–57, 162
and Emancipation Proclamation, 161, 162, 169, 251
and freedom, 97, 129
Fugitive Slave Law, 137, 150
and Moses, 126, 296
slave pen, 127
and spirituals, 106–7, 123–27, 130, 136, 247
stories of, 122, 245, 246–48
and Underground Railroad,
see
Underground Railroad
and voodoo, 246–47
Smith, Joseph, 220, 221
Solon of Athens, 283
Sousa, John Philip, 51
Southgate, Joan, 132–34, 137–38, 139
Soviet Jews, 295
Speedwell,
10, 203
spirituals, 252, 255
first use of term, 124
and Moses, 107, 124–26, 136, 151, 251, 295
and slavery, 106–7, 123–27, 130, 136, 247
and Underground Railroad, 107, 120–21, 123, 130, 136
Standard Oil of New Jersey, 213
Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, 177, 178–95,
182
, 205, 239
centennial celebration, 26, 81, 194–95
chains at feet of, 183
creation of, 180–81, 183
crown of, 183–84
dedication of, 193
and
Miss Liberty
(Berlin), 193
and Moses, 4, 134, 185–87, 188, 191–92, 195, 296
and “New Colossus” (Lazarus), 189–91, 192, 193–94, 199
pedestal of, 187–88
staircase of, 188
as symbol of immigration, 188–92, 193–95
tablet of, 184–87, 194
tension-flex system of, 188
and Uncle Sam, 198
Whittier’s poem to, 193
Steffens, Lincoln, 213
Stewart, Fran, 133
Stewart, James, 215
Stiles, Ezra, 59
Stockton, Rev. Thomas, 163
Stow, Charles, 44–45
Stowe, Calvin, 118, 143–44, 149
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 125, 134,
142
, 143–44, 149–52, 203
and abolition, 150–51, 154
family background of, 141–42
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 117
, 118–19, 141, 150–52
Street, Rev. Nicholas, 92
Suffragettes, 51
Sunset Boulevard
(film), 208–9
Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, 208–9
Superman, 221–26, 224, 296
Supreme Court, U.S., 243, 245, 252, 283–87,
284
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” 107
Taylor, Zachary, 81
Ten Commandments, 70
and covenant, 27, 97, 300
modern depictions of, 234–35
and Moses, 17, 22, 27, 87, 96, 155, 185, 300
and rule of law, 28, 235
and U.S. Supreme Court, 283–85
Ten Commandments, The
(1923 film), 209, 212, 214–15, 220
Ten Commandments, The
(1956 film), 6, 209, 216–19,
218
, 226–31, 234–40
final scene of, 238–39,
238
robe worn in,
218
, 219
Thanksgiving:
celebrations of, 1, 3, 7, 12, 19, 79, 159, 199, 200–201, 285, 303
Old Colony Club as Keepers of, 7
and Pilgrims, 12–13, 19
Thoreau, Henry David, 18
Thornton, Brother, 129
Thornwell, James, 154
Time,
233
Titanic,
241
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 145
Torah, 13, 98, 196, 203–4
Trachtenberg, Marvin, 186
Transcontinental Railroad, 119
Trinity Church, New York City, 73–74, 75, 76, 85
Tubman, Harriet, 4, 134, 135, 136–38
biography of, 137
“Moses” as alias of, 135, 137
Tubman, John, 134
Twain, Mark, 159
Uncle Sam, 197–99, 198
Underground Railroad, 4, 31, 115–16, 132–34, 138, 139
and Exodus, 124, 128, 134, 136, 151–52
Moses as metaphor for, 107
and North Star as navigation aid, 134
and Ohio River, 106–9, 119
and spirituals, 107, 120–21, 123, 130, 136
Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 127
United States:
and discipline of freedom, 97
and exceptionalism, 33, 301
Great Seal of, 4, 36, 63–69,
64
, 85, 202, 213, 239, 296
and manifest destiny, 148
pluralism in, 203
presidency of, 277–78, 281–83
religion in, 79, 144–46, 153, 160–62, 164–65, 167–68, 237, 276–77, 285–86
Supreme Court cases in, 243, 245, 284–87
Vesey, Denmark, 125
Villanova University, 46
Virginia:
Jamestown colony in, 8
slavery in, 110
Vitagraph Company, 213
Voltaire, 61
Voting Rights Act (1965), 256
Wallace, George, 249
Walzer, Michael, 95–98, 134, 300, 307
Exodus and Revolution,
96
War of Independence,
see
American Revolution
Warwick, Charles, 51
Washington, George, 4, 19, 49
and American Revolution, 52, 58, 75
and biblical quotations, 82–84, 160
death of, 99,
100,
101–5, 172
inauguration of, 73, 76–80,
78,
82–83, 85, 199, 241, 282, 293
leadership of, 75, 76
as Mason, 76, 86, 90, 101
memorials to, 101–5, 171, 173, 266, 274
as Moses, 33, 58, 59, 74, 76, 85, 102–4, 199, 266, 282, 296
portraits of, 279, 282
as president, 63, 69, 75–76, 84
and religion, 79
retirement of, 98
slaves held by, 99
Washington, Martha, 99
Washington Bible, 80–85
Washington Monument, 81
Washington’s Birthday, 46
water, 205–7
Watson, John, 18
Wayne, John, 208
Weinstein, Rabbi Simcha, 222–23, 224–26
West, Rev. Samuel, 61
Westmoreland, Carl, 127–28, 130–32, 139
White, Theodore,
The Making of the President,
277
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 44, 45, 85
Whitefield, George, 4, 38, 39, 54, 62, 134, 165
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 193
Wilcoxon, Henry, 226
Wildavsky, Aaron,
Moses as Political Leader,
282