Authors: Kenneth C. Davis
Cortés, Hernán, 18
Cosby, Bill, 508
Cosby, William, 59
Cosway, Maria, 151
Cotton, John, 36
Coughlin, Father Charles, 363
Council on Foreign Relations, 592, 596–97
Cox, Archibald, 504
Cox, James M., 338, 662
Craft, William and Ellen, 203
Crane, Stephen, 300
Crawford, William H., 164–65, 659
Crazy Horse, 259–61
Crédit Mobilier scandal, 267, 338
Creek Indians, 158, 168–70, 178, 275
Crippen, Robert L., 519
Crockett, Davy, 178
Crook, General, 260
Cuba, 4, 10, 16, 189; Bay of Pigs, 449–52, 502; missile crisis, 452–53; Spanish-American War, 286–94
Curtis, Charles, 663
Custer, George A., 259–61
Czolgosz, Leon, 293
Dabney, Virginius, 151
Dadullah, Mullah, 600
Dallas, George M., 660
Darrow, Clarence, 337
Daugherty, Harry, 338
Davis, Benjamin O., 377–78
Davis, Jefferson, 192, 217–19, 227, 239, 240, 244
Davis, John W., 663
Dawes, Billy, 70
Dawes, Charles G., 663
Dayton, Jonathan, 113
Dayton Accord, 555
D-Day, xviii, 383, 550
Dean, John, III, 282, 503, 510
Debs, Eugene V., 277–78, 301, 304, 316, 320, 338, 662
Decatur, Stephen, 148, 156
Declaration of Independence, xviii, xx, xxiv, 52, 72, 78–82, 95–97, 111, 115, 117, 119, 120, 124, 126, 156, 162, 176, 189, 220, 637
Decoration Day, 248–49
Deerfield raid, 56–57
Defense of Marriage Act, 613, 614
de Gaulle, Charles, 373, 385
Deism, 120–21
DeLancey, James, 59
De las Casas, Bartolomé, 5
Delaware, 46, 128, 163, 221, 425
Delaware Indians, 21, 63, 273
Delaware River, Washington crosses, xvii, 73
Democratic Party, 119, 138, 167, 175, 190–92, 201, 206–9, 212–13, 215, 280–82; Civil War and, 242, 246–47; Convention of 1912, 303–4; Convention of 1968, 472, 477; elections of 2000 and, 568–75; elections of 2008, and first black president, 622–25; FDR and, 351–53, 355, 357; Iran-Contra and, 523; National Committee break-in, 480–81, 497, 501–4, 507; post-Civil War, 250–52; Southern, 206–7, 209, 212, 215, 251–52, 271, 280, 336, 431, 515; Vietnam War and, 477, 481, 497
Democratic Republican Party, 82, 138, 141–44, 164
De Soto, Hernando, 19
Dessalines, 145
Dewey, Rear Admiral, 289–91
Dewey, Thomas, 386, 426, 663
Dias, Bartholomew, 6
Dickenson, Susanna, 178
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 466, 469–70, 497, 508
Dienbienphu, 468–69, 475
DiIulio, John J., Jr., 573–74
Dinwiddie, Governor, 61–62
Displaced Persons Plan, 404
Dixiecrats, 431
Dodd, Samuel C. T., 271
Dole, Robert, 551, 652, 664
Dominican Republic, 4, 16, 145, 173, 298
Doniphan, Alexander, 193
Donovan, William, 379
Doolittle, James, 378
Dos Passos, John, 323
Douglas, Stephen, 207, 213–15, 661
Douglass, Frederick, xxv, 196–200, 216, 229, 234, 284, 334
Douglass, Helen Pitts, 198
Douglass, Lewis, 233–34
Downing Street memo, 605
Drake, Sir Francis, 19, 22
Dred Scott
case, 210–15, 218, 282, 574, 641
DuBois, W. E. B., 124, 302–3, 324
Dukakis, Michael, 66–67, 654, 664
Dulles, Allen, 407, 423, 449–50, 461
Dulles, John Foster, 407, 423, 449
Duong Van Minh, General, 470, 471
Dustin, Hannah, 51
Dutch West India Company, 37.
See also
Netherlands
Dylan, Bob, 443
Earhart, Amelia, 359–60, 455
Early, Jubal, 236, 238
Eastern Europe, 320, 290, 392, 401–2, 406, 510, 534–35, 555
Easter Uprising, 313
economics and finance: bonds, 559, 560–61; budget deficits and surplus, 515, 517, 533, 539, 544, 547, 559–60, 566, 651; coins, motto on, 126–27; consumer price index, 560; credit, easing or tightening of, 516, 561; crisis of 1980s, 539, 544; crisis of 2007–9, xii, xiv, 617–23, 625–26; discount rate, 559, 560; dollar bill, 123, 127; financial reform and, 626–27; first paper “greenbacks,” 230; fiscal policy, 561; gross domestic product, 561; growth, 557–58; inflation, 348, 396, 512–16, 543, 557–58, 560–63, 565; interest rates, 345, 516, 543, 546, 559–63, 565–66; junk bonds, 539, 559; monetary policy, 557, 560, 562; producer price index (PPI), 560; productivity, 562; recession, xii, xxv, 516, 543, 545, 557, 561–62, 566, 618–19, 621, 624–28; stagflation, 513; stocks, 562; Treasury bills, bonds, notes, 559; unemployment, 347, 355–56, 516, 543, 558, 563, 589, 621, 635.
See also
Great Depression; Great Recession; panic; stock market
education, 435; colleges founded, 58; school desegregation, 424–32; reform of, 626; school segregation, 282, 284–85
Edwards, Jonathan, 57, 58, 124
Egypt, 381, 423, 511, 513, 541, 591
Ehrlichman, John, 482, 501, 503, 505, 507, 510
Einstein, Albert, 372, 396
Eisenhower, Dwight, xx, 350, 382, 385, 388, 392, 401, 407, 412, 414, 418–22, 426, 431–32, 436–37, 445–46, 449, 450, 468–69, 663
elections, xxiii, xxv; caucuses, 655–56; Constitution and, 116; first, 130; of first black president, 622–27; primaries, 556; process, 142, 638–39, 652–57; turnout, 176, 338, 652–53; of 2000, 447, 567–75, 603, 614, 624.
See also specific candidates
Electoral College, xxiii, 82, 129–30, 568–70, 572–75, 586, 639, 646, 648, 652–55, 661, 662
Elizabeth, queen of England, 17, 20, 22, 30
Ellison, Ralph, 424
Ellsberg, Daniel, 480, 496–98, 503, 505, 507
Ellsworth, Elmer, 225
Emancipation Proclamation, 228–30, 242, 249
Embargo Act, 153–54
Emerson, Dr. John, 210–11
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 183, 196, 217
England.
See
Britain
Enlightenment, 64, 96, 115, 120–23, 146
Enron scandal, xxiv
environmental movement, 454, 512, 546, 569
Environmental Protection Agency, 572
E pluribus unum,
126–27
Eriksson, Leif, 8–9
Ervin, Sam, 502–3
Espionage Act, 316
Essex Junto, 148
Evers, Medgar, 484
Fairbanks, Charles Warren, 662
Fall, Albert B., 339
Falwell, Jerry, 515
Fannie Mae, 617, 619–20, 622
Farmer, John, 592–93, 595
Farragut, David, 227, 237
fascism, 361–64, 371
Faubus, Orville, 432
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), xiii, xx, xxii, 327, 329, 369, 409, 461–62, 464–66, 484, 494–96, 498, 501–3, 506, 509, 510, 548, 551, 552, 576–85, 591, 593
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 620
Federal Emergency Management Agency, 615–16
federal government: growth of, 355–56; states vs., 113–16, 117–19, 133, 136–39, 223–24
Federalist Papers,
86, 127–29, 553
Federalist Party, 82, 87–88, 125, 127–30, 138, 141–44, 148–50, 160, 164, 175
Federal Open Market Committee, 559–61
Federal Reserve, 304, 345, 516, 543, 546, 556–67, 617, 620, 621; Board of Governors, 555, 558–60
Feith, Douglas, 603
Ferdinand, Archduke, 306, 310, 346
Ferdinand, king of Spain, 4, 16
Ferguson, Charles, 603, 610
Feynman, Richard P., 519
Field, Noel, 409
Fiers, Alan, Jr., 526
54th Massachusetts Volunteers, 231, 233–34
Fillmore, Millard, 202–3, 205, 209, 660
Fisk, James, 268
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 323, 332
Five Civilized Tribes, 169–70, 275
Fleming, Thomas, xxiii
Florida, xiii, 10, 18, 19, 40, 46, 63, 145, 164, 169–70, 217, 325–27, 567–74, 586, 615, 661
Flynt, Larry, 552
Foch, Ferdinand, 317
Fonda, Jane, 508
Ford, Gerald, 444, 482–83, 503, 505–7, 510, 513, 553, 564, 663–64
Ford, Henry, 339–42, 347–48, 363, 628
Foreman, George, 490
Fort Caroline, 19, 40
Fort Sumter, 195, 217, 224
Foster, Vincent, 548
Fourteen Points, 316–17, 318
Fox, George, 43, 44
Fracastoro, Girolamo, 8
Frame of Government, Penn’s, 45
France (French), 4, 7, 11, 19, 29, 36, 39–43, 49, 56–57, 140, 142, 144–46, 229; American Revolution and, 72, 74, 78, 82–84, 87–88, 90, 102–3; and Indian War, 60–64, 84–85, 88–89, 91, 168; Indochina War, 320, 468–69; Iraq War, 597; Revolution, 82, 124, 135, 142, 145, 171; WW I and, 306–8, 310, 316, 318–19; WW II and, 364–65, 371–73, 385, 388–90, 392, 404
Franco, Francisco, 362, 363, 371
Frank, Barney, 209, 622
Franklin, Benjamin, 58, 74, 79–80, 83, 93–96, 99, 103, 113, 120–23, 125, 126, 128, 129, 653
Franklin, Temple, 80
Franklin, William, 80
Frazier, Joe, 490
Freddie Mac, 617, 619–20, 622
Frederick II, king of Prussia, 122
Freedmen’s Bureau, 247
Freemasons (or Masons), 122–24, 250
Free Soil Party, 201, 206, 209
Frémont, John C., 208, 226, 238, 660
Frick, Henry Clay, 270
Friedan, Betty, 454–47
Frobisher, Martin, 21
Fuchs, Klaus, 398, 409–10
Fugitive Slave Act, 202–3
Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act, 557
Gage, Thomas, 68–71
Gall, Chief, 258, 260
Gallo, Dr. Robert, 530
Galloway, Joseph, 69
Gama, Vasco da, 6
Gandhi, Mahatma, 196, 429
Garay, Juan de, 18
Garfield, James A., 267, 662
Garner, Jay, 606
Garner, John Nance, 351, 663
Garrison, William Lloyd, 174, 194, 197, 219, 229, 334
Garrow, David J., 430, 457–58
Garvey, Marcus, 458
Gary, Romain, 495
Gaspee
arsonists, 67
Gates, Gary Paul, 521
Gates, Horatio, 76, 85–86, 92, 98
Gates, Robert, 608, 609
gay rights, xiii, 209, 531–32, 546–47, 627–28; same-sex marriage, xii, xiii, 611–15
Geithner, Tim, 621
General Motors, xii, 341, 344, 421, 487, 620, 626
George II, king of England, 62
George III, king of England, 63, 64, 68, 93, 94, 99, 102
George, Clair, 526
Georgia, 46, 69, 74, 128, 163, 170, 217, 235, 236, 586, 644
Gephardt, Richard, 656
Germany, 597; East, 434; West, 404; WW I and, 307–20; WW II and, 358–66, 371–76, 378–93, 396, 398; reunification, 534, 539
Geronimo, 260
Gerry, Elbridge, 115, 156–57, 659
Gettysburg Address, 234–35, 241
Ghost Dance, 261–62
Giancana, Sam, 447, 450
Giap, General, 469
Gibbon, Edward, 628
GI Bill, 384
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 21, 22
Gingrich, Newt, 548–49, 552
Ginsberg, Allen, 475
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 573
Goering, Hermann, 342
Goethals, George W., 295
gold, 4–6, 16–18, 20; market, 268–69; rush, 194, 259–60; silver vs., 280–82
Gold, Harry, 409–10
Goldman, Emma, 270, 329
Goldwater, Barry, 464, 466–67, 472, 546, 663
Gompers, Samuel, 277–78
Good, Sarah, 53
Goodman, Andrew, 464, 484