Authors: Kenneth C. Davis
Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de, 17–18, 293
Bamford, James, 595
Bamiyan statues, 597
banks, 558–67; crisis of 1980s, 544; crisis of 2007–9, 618–22
Bank of the United States, 137, 175
Barkley, Alben W., 663
Barton, William, 126
Baruch, Bernard, 318
Bataan Death March, 377, 378, 395
Batista, Fulgencio, 450
battles: Alamo, 177–79; Antietam, 228–29, 243; Britain, 360, 373; Bulge, 386, 390; Bull Run, 225–26, 228; Bunker (Breed’s) Hill, 71, 84, 90, 93; Chancellorsville, 231–32; Chickamauga, 234; Coral Sea, 378; Fort Ticonderoga, 71, 72, 73, 85, 87, 93, 97; Gettysburg, 195, 232–33, 243, 269; Kasserine Pass, 380; Khe Sanh, 475–76; Little Bighorn, 258–61; Long Island, 72, 86, 102; Marne, 307, 308, 311, 317; New Orleans, 156, 159–60; San Juan Hill, 290–91; Saratoga, 73, 85, 89, 98; Shiloh, 227; Spotsylvania, 236; Tarawa, 382–83; Tora Bora, 598; Wilderness, 235; Yorktown, 77, 86, 88, 90, 92, 99
Bay of Pigs invasion, 448–53, 502
Bear Stearns, 621–22
Beaumont, Gustave de, 171
Beauregard, Pierre T., 195, 224, 225
Beirut hostages, 522–23
Belin, David W., 462
Bell, John, 661
Bellamy, Edward, 434
Bellamy, Francis, 264
Bellow, Saul, 402
Benton, Thomas Hart, 208–9
Bentsen, Lloyd, 654
Bering “land bridge,” 12, 13
Berkeley, Lord John, 39, 51–52
Berkman, Alexander, 270, 329
Berlin, 383, 386, 388–90, 392, 452; airlift, 406; Wall, 534, 539
Bermudez, Juan, 17
Bernanke, Ben, 558, 621
Berry, Halle, 589
Bible Riots, xiii, 181
Biden, Joseph, 664
Bill of Rights, 56, 60, 111–12, 115, 128–29, 131–33, 211, 629–37, 651
bin Laden, Osama, 554–55, 589, 592–93, 596–98, 600, 603
Birmingham church bombings, 484
Bismarck, Chancellor, 304
Black, Hugo, 358
Black Codes, 247
Black Coyote, 262
Black Elk, 263
Black Hawk, Chief, 169, 213
Blackmun, Harry A., 499–500
Black Panthers, 494–95
blacks: American Revolution and, 66, 104–5, 110; black power movement, 486, 490; Constitution and, 113–14, 116; corporations and, 588–89; farmers’ alliance and, 279; FDR and, 357, 378, 381, 393; first black president, xii, 622–27; free, 114, 116, 124, 202–3; interracial marriage and, 611–13; Korean War and, 416, 424–25; labor movement and, 276; Lee on, 209–10; lynching and, 233, 252–53, 284–85, 325–27, 330; Masons and, 123–24; Panama Canal and, 295; progress of, 588–89.
See also
civil rights movement; race; racism; segregation; slaves and slavery; voting rights;
and specific court cases and individuals
Blackwater, 607
Blaine, James G., 662
Blanco, Kathleen, 616
Bloomer, Amelia, 335
Boggs, Lilburn, 181
Boggs, T. Hale, 461
Boies, David, 614
Bolívar, Simon, 161
Bonus Army, 349–52
Booth, John Wilkes, 239, 244
Booz, E. C., 176
Bork, Robert, 504, 547, 551
Bosnia, 555–56, 568
Boston, 33, 34, 70–72; Massacre, 65–66, 78, 84, 87; Tea Party, 66–68, 79
Bowie, Jim, 178
Bozeman Trail, 259
Bradbury, Ray, 434
Braddock, Edward, 63, 88, 89
Bradford, William, 30, 32, 49
Bradley, Bill, 568
Brady Bill, 547
Bragg, Braxton, 234, 235
Breckinridge, John C., 660, 661
Bremer, L. Paul, 606–7
Brewster, William, 30
Breyer, Stephen, 573
Britain (England), 4, 5, 8, 10–11, 17–30, 33–44, 137, 140, 603, 604; American Revolution and, 49, 64–68, 70–79, 94–95, 99, 102–3; Civil War and, 229–30; French and Indian Wars and, 60–63; War of 1812 and, 153–61; women’s suffrage and, 335–36; WW I and, 306–14, 317–19; WW II and, 360–61, 364–65, 367, 369–77, 380–87, 390–92
British East India Company, 67
Brodie, Fawn, 151
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 425
Brooks, James, 267
Brooks, Van Wyck, 196
Brown, B. Gratz, 661
Brown, Dee, 263
Brown, Henry, 282
Brown, James, 489
Brown, John, 200, 208, 215–17
Brown, Michael, 615–17
Brown, Rev. Oliver, 426
Brown, Pat, 447
Brown v. Board of Education,
424–28, 430, 433, 641;
Brown II,
430
Bruno, Greg, 592
Bryan, William Jennings, 281, 303, 309, 312, 337, 662
Buchanan, James, 208–12, 216–17, 660
Buchanan, Patrick, 569–72
Buckley, William, 522–23
Buis, Dale, 469
Bull Moose Party, 303–4
Bunche, Ralph J., 425
Bunyan, John, 299
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, 576, 578–80
Bureau of Indian Affairs, 260, 268
Burgoyne, John, 73, 98
Burnside, Ambrose, 230, 231, 237
Burr, Aaron, 57, 82, 87, 124–25, 141–42, 148–50, 273, 654, 659
Burr, Aaron, Sr., 57
Bush, George H. W., 66–67, 515, 521, 523–24, 526–27, 533, 534, 539–46, 557, 566, 603, 604, 616, 626, 650, 664
Bush, George W. , xii, xiv, 447, 527, 568–75, 585, 588, 589, 592–93, 597, 599–609, 613–17, 620–21, 623–24, 631, 639, 650, 652, 664
Bush, Jeb, 570
Bush, Neil, 544
Bush v. Gore,
571, 573–75, 614
Butler, Pierce, 115
Butterfield, Alexander, 503
Cabot, John, 10, 40
Cabot, Sebastian, 21
Calhoun, John C., 164–65, 200–202, 205, 224, 659, 660
California, 103, 145, 180–81, 191–94, 201–2, 206, 208, 221, 259, 313, 324, 350–51, 426, 484, 586; Proposition 8, 613–15
Callender, James Thomson, 139, 150, 151
Calley, William L., 480, 491–93
Calvert, Cecil, Lord Baltimore, 33
Cambodia, 469, 477, 479, 482–83, 509
Cameron, Simon, 226
Campbell, Judith, 447, 450, 461
Canada, 21, 61, 63, 68, 85, 97, 99, 155, 156, 159, 191, 199, 203, 547, 597, 602
Canby, Edward R.S., 101, 240
capital punishment, 330, 410, 635–36
Capone, Al, 332
Caporeal, Linda, 55
Carlyle, Thomas, 628
Carmichael, Stokely, 484
Carnegie, Andrew, 258, 267, 269–73
carpetbaggers, 250–53
Carranza, Venustiano, 305
Carroll, Charles, 120
Carson, Rachel, 454
Carter, Jimmy, 424, 444, 483, 507, 510, 513–16, 522, 524, 550, 563, 655–56, 664
Carter, Robert, III, 134–35
Carter, Robert “King,” 134
Carteret, George, 39
Cartier, Jacques, 39–40
Carver, John, 30
Casablanca Conference, 380, 391
Casement, Sir Roger, 313
Casey, William, 522, 524
Cass, Lewis, 201
Castro, Fidel, 161, 447, 449–52, 459–61, 502
Catholics, xiii, xv, 181
Cavis, John W., 663
census: (1624), 28; (1790), 134, 189; (1820), 164; (1860), 189, 221–22; (1980), 263; (2000), 585–88, 648
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), xx, 369, 379, 422–23, 447, 449–52, 461–62, 466, 470, 497, 498, 501–2, 509, 510, 513, 522–26, 576, 583–85, 593, 596–98, 607, 627, 610
Cervera, Admiral, 291
Challenger
disaster, 517–20
Chamberlain, Neville, 371, 373
Chambers, Whittaker, 407–9
Champlain, Samuel de, 40–41
Chaney, James, 464, 484
Charbonneau (trapper), 147
Charles I, king of England, 33–35
Charles II, king of England, 38, 39, 44
Charles VIII, king of France, 7
Chase, Salmon P., 230, 250, 253
Chauncey, Isaac, 157
checks and balances, 117–19, 144, 250, 358, 527
Cheney, Dick, 552, 607, 650, 664
Chernow, Ron, xxiii, 269
Cherokee Indians, 169–70, 265, 275
Cheyenne Indians, 259, 260
Chiang Kai-shek, 390, 392, 396, 417
Chibcha Indians, 18
Chicago Seven, 479
Chickasaw Indians, 169–70, 275
China: Communist, 390, 406, 413–19, 480, 534; Nationalist, 366, 390, 392, 406, 415, 417, 418; westward route to, 5–7, 10, 21, 36, 40; WW II and, 361, 364, 366–67, 375, 384, 392, 396
Chinese, in pre-Columbus America, 10
Chisholm Trail, 265
Choctaw Indians, 169–71, 275
Chouart, Medard, 41
Christianity, 23, 41, 54, 119–24, 429, 576
Chrysler rescue, 620
Church, Angelica Schuyler, 139
Church, Dr. Benjamin, 79
Churchill, Winston, 368, 369, 371, 373, 375, 380, 383, 386, 390–92, 396, 402
Citigroup rescue, xii, 620
Civil Rights Act: (1866), 247; (1964), 456, 458, 464, 641, 649
civil rights movement, 302, 304, 424–32, 455–56, 464–66, 483–84, 486, 495, 612, 622
Civil War, 109, 188–90, 195, 197–98, 200, 207, 208, 220–43, 245, 248, 269, 275, 287, 334, 641, 642
Clark, George Rogers, 75, 81, 85
Clark, William, 146–48
Clarke, Richard, 603
Clarridge, Duane, 526
Clay, Henry, 155, 163–65, 175, 190, 201, 205, 206, 659–60
Clayton, Will, 404
Clayton Antitrust Act, 304
Cleveland, Grover, 271, 277, 280–81, 287, 568, 640, 654, 662
Clifford, Clark, 476
Clines, Thomas G., 526
Clinton, Bill, xviii, 223, 509, 545–56, 566, 568, 572–73, 578–79, 589, 592, 593, 613, 626, 652, 664
Clinton, DeWitt, 659
Clinton, George, 127–28, 149, 659
Clinton, Henry, 74, 76–77, 98–99
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 509, 548, 549, 551, 553, 554, 623, 625
Clinton, James, 75
Coelho, Tony, 543
Coercive Acts, 68, 69
Cohn, Roy, 412
COINTELPRO, xx, 494–96
Cold War, xxi, 390, 398, 402–4, 406–10, 423, 425, 434–37, 443, 510; end of, xii, 534–35, 539, 563, 628
Cole
attack, 592
Colfax, Schuyler, 267, 661
Collier, John, 263
Colson, Charles, 498, 507
Columbia
space shuttle, 519
Columbus, Christopher, xxii, 3–10, 13–18, 145, 168, 258
Comanche Indians, 259
Committees of Correspondence, 67
communism, 55, 278, 301–2, 328, 348–49, 358, 361–63, 392, 402–4, 406–10; demise of, 533–35, 539, 555
Compromise of 1850, 201–3, 205–7, 211
Concord, 70, 71, 80, 84, 93
Confederacy, 187, 200, 209, 217–40, 242–44, 247–48, 252, 275, 283, 290, 425; Army, 210, 224–40, 242, 244; Constitution of, xxii, 222–24
Confiscation Act, 228
Connally, John, 460
Connecticut, 34, 46, 128, 163, 586, 613, 644
Connecticut (Great) Compromise, 114
Conscription Act, 229, 231; Confederate, 227
Constitutional Convention, 86, 111–17, 133.
See also
Bill of Rights; U.S. Constitution
containment, xxi, 403–4, 413, 417, 423, 437
Continental Army, 71–78, 81, 83, 88, 91–93, 101–3, 105, 110
Continental Congresses, 113; First, 68–69, 78, 91, 93; Second, 70–75, 78, 80–84, 87, 90–93, 95–103, 105, 109, 124
Coolidge, Calvin, 323, 324, 338, 339, 343, 662, 663
Cooper, John S., 461
Copley, John, 66
Copperheads, 242, 244
Cornwallis, Charles, 76–77, 86, 88–89
Coronado, 19
corporations, xxiii–xxv, 269–72, 278, 282–283, 338, 345, 349, 357, 421, 456, 457, 487, 505, 543, 558–59, 562–63, 567, 588–89, 602; bailouts, xii, xxv, 619–22