The Whites of their Eyes (29 page)

Mecom, Edward,
49
,
50

Mecom, Jane,
47
–48,
51
,
56
–57,
102
,
122
,
138
,
141

Christianity of,
148
–49

death of,
143

death of her children,
49
,
55

death of her husband,
49
–50

despair of,
54
–55

marriage of,
49

plundering of her home by the British,
131

on poverty and lack of education,
153
–54

Mecom, Peter,
50
,
59

insanity and death of,
138
–39

Mecom, Polly,
55

media, old/mainstream/“liberal,”
40
–41

Melvill, Thomas,
81
,
86
–87,
187
n25

Melville, Herman,
87
,
114

“Memorial Remon
strance against Religious Assessments”
(Madison),
122

Mencken, H. L.,
16
–17

Mineau, Kris,
5

minutemen,
66
,
93
,
101
–2

Minutemen Bicycle Path,
155

Montgomery, Hugh,
61

Moorhead, Scipio,
75

Moral Majority,
13

Morgan, Edmund S.,
73
,
74
,
96

Moses,
13

National Center for Constitutional Studies,
112
–13

National Organization for Women (NOW),
82

Nell, William Cooper,
114
–15,
115
–16

New-England Courant
,
30
–31,
32
,
144

New-Hampshire Gazette
,
39
,
40

New Left, the,
73

New York Constitution,
107

Newspaper Death Watch,
41

newspapers: decline of in contemporary times,
41

history of,
30
–31

Newsweek
,
67

Nixon, Richard,
5
,
7
,
65
,
71
–72,
81
–83,
117
,
187
n27

Nixon’s Bicentennial Commission.
See
American Revolution Bicentennial Commission

Obama, Barack,
3
,
91
,
98
–99,
112

the Right’s view of,
8
–9

the Tea Party’s view of,
136

Obamacare,
43
,
64
,
152

Old South Meeting House,
78
–79

Oliver, Andrew,
33
,
36

Oliver, Peter,
21
,
24
,
25
,
33
,
36

O’Neil, Jim,
83

“On the Affray in King Street” (P. Wheatley),
62

“On the Arrival of the Ships of War, and the Landing of the Troops” (P. Wheatley),
57

O’Reilly, Bill,
157

Organization of American Historians,
157
–58

originalism,
118
–125

in the courts,
123
–25

“Origin & Progress of the Americ
an Revolution” (Oliver),
21

Origin of Evil, The
(R. Tyler),
148

Otis, James, Jr.,
25
,
34
,
36
,
58
,
64
,
133
,
141

insanity of,
59
,
74
–75,
182
n38

Otis, James, Sr.,
25

Our Country Deserves Better,
37

Paine, Thomas,
46
,
92
,
129
–30,
137
–38,
141
,
147
,
148
,
149

arrest of,
142
–43

dementia and death of,
145
–46

statement of concerning his belief in God but not creeds,
143
,
196
n59

Palin, Sarah,
37
,
97
,
99
,
111
,
135
,
136
–37,
156
,
157

Parker, Theodore,
115

Pataki, George,
152
–53,
155

Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (2010),
83

passage of,
90
.
See also
health care reform

Patriot’s Day,
155

Paul, Rand,
159

Paul, Ron,
79
,
159

“Paul Revere’s Ride” (Longfellow),
6
–7

Pelham, Henry,
34
,
63
,
75
,
102

Pelosi, Nancy,
91
,
112

Pennsylvania Gazette
,
32

Pennsylvania Journal
,
39

Peoples Bicentennial Committee,
65
,
72
,
82
,
84
,
96
,
134

People’s History of the United States
(Zinn),
66

Perry, Jeff,
156

Peters, John,
139

Philadelphia Hospital,
131

Phillis
,
26
–27

Pledge of Allegiance,
127
–28

Plessy v. Ferguson
(1896),
114

Plymouth Rock Foundation,
5

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
(P. Wheatley),
76

Poindexter, Leon,
89

Poor Richard’s Almanack
(B. Franklin),
52

Preston, Thomas,
11
–12,
61

Price, Richard,
153
–54

Problem of Slavery in
the Age of Revolution, The
(Davis),
73

Publick Occurrences
,
30

Putnam, Israel,
103

Quartering Act (1764),
56

Quincy, Josiah,
79
,
93

Ramsey, David,
21
–22,
28
,
39
,
146

Reagan, Ronald,
147

Real George Washington, The
(Allison and Parry),
157

Rebels, The
(Child),
86

Reconstruction Act (1867),
110
–11

Reed, Ralph,
147

Remick, Christian,
63

Republican Party,
9
,
41
,
95

Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, A: With a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes
(Hewes),
87

Revere, Paul,
34
,
42
,
57
,
63
,
91
,
101
,
116
,
146

equestrian statue of,
152
,
153

“Revere America,”
152
–53

Ridpath, John,
8

Rifkin, Jeremy,
65
,
72
,
84
,
95
–96,
134
,
147

Rights of Man, The
(Paine),
142
,
146

Rights of Man, The, Part the Second
(Paine),
142

Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, The
(J. Otis, Jr.),
29

Roberts v. City of Boston
(1850),
114

Roe v. Wade
(1973),
119

Romney, Mitt,
100
,
122

same-sex marriage,
42

Santelli, Rick,
3
,
20
,
51

Sartor, Caesar,
76

“Saturday Night Massacre,”
81
–82

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.,
38
,
67
,
69
,
117
,
184
nn56–57

Sedition Act (1798),
144

Seven Years’ War.
See
French and Indian War

Shabazz, Betty,
134

Shaw, Lemuel,
114

Shaw, Robert Gould,
135

Shay’s Rebellion,
22

Sherman, Roger,
131

Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, A
(S. Adams),
63

“silent majority,”
4
–5

Sims, Thomas,
114
–15

slavery/slaves,
27
,
28
–29,
54
,
75
–76,
93
–94,
96
,
106
,
133
,
190
n20

abolishment of in Massachusetts,
154

American sailors held as slaves by Barbary Coast states,
149

banning of as a detriment to colonial unity,
74

escape from slavery during the American Revolution,
139
–40

as an issue during the American Revolution,
113
–16

outlawing of in Vermont,
141

punishments for slave rebellion,
58

slave rebellion,
57
–58.
See also
Declaration of Independence, Jefferson’s initial attack against slavery in; liberty, and slavery

Sleepy Hollow,
17

Sons of Harvard,
54

Sons of Liberty,
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,
42
,
58
,
63
,
77
,
81

origins of,
34

Sousa, John Philip, IV,
136

Spirit of Seventy-Six, The
,
17

“Squabble of the Sea Nymphs, The” (M. O. Warren),
85

Stamp Act (1765),
29
–30,
39

repeal of (1766),
54

riots as a result of,
33
–34

Stamp Act Congress,
39

Stark, Joseph Andrew,
10

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
116

Sugar and Currency Acts (1764),
28
,
29

Sumner, Charles,
114

Taxation No Tyranny
(S. Johnson),
93

taxation/taxes,
7
,
15
,
53
,
84
,
106
,
190
n20

on tea,
77
–78.
See also
Townshend Duties (1767)

Tax Day (April 15), Tea Party protests held on,
3
–4,
8
,
20
,
98

Taylor, Earl,
157

Tea Act (1773),
77

Tea Party,
2
–3,
7
,
64
,
97

Chicago Tea Party,
3

chief political asset of,
14

gathering of on the Boston Common (2010),
126
–29,
135
–37

message of as antihistory,
8

as a product of a reactionary view of American history,
68

rumors concerning,
37
–38

“TEA” acronym of (“Taxed Enough Already”),
37
.
See also
Boston Tea Party (2009); Tax Day (April 15), Tea Party protests held on; Tea Party Express; “Tea Party Weekend”

Tea Party Express,
37
,
126
,
127
,
136
,
152

“Tea Party Weekend,”
82
–83

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS),
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Texas School Board,
12
–15,
158
–60

Thoreau, Henry David,
54

Tibbels, Jean Paul,
42

Touchstone, The; Or a Humble Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Religious Intolerance
(R. Tyler),
150
–51,
196
n63

Townshend Duties (1767),
54
,
55

repeal of (1770),
77

Treaty of Paris (1783),
17
,
149

Treaty of Tripoli (1797),
150

“Tree of Liberty” statement: as part of Tea Party paraphernalia,
22

popularity of among 1990s militia groups,
22

Trenchard, John,
59
–60

True Uses of American Revolutionary History, The
(Curtis),
7
–8

Tuerck, David,
4

Twain, Mark,
142

Tyler, Mary,
148

Tyler, Royall,
147
–48,
149

as a lay preacher,
148

on religious intolerance,
150
–51

United States, as a Christian nation,
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,
5
,
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,
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,
99
,
120
,
150
,
157
,
158
–59

U.S. Constitution,
13
,
22
–23,
106
–7,
112

Article VI of,
122

bicentennial of,
119
–20

First Amendment of,
122
.
See also
originalism

Varley, Christen,
35
,
43
,
64
,
94
,
98
,
99
,
126

beliefs concerning global warming,
41
–42

involvement in politics,
41

Vietnam Veterans Against the War,
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,
78
,
136

voting, history of,
104
–6

literacy tests,
110

paper/ticket balloting in the colonies,
107
–11

and the U.S. Constitution,
106
–7

women’s suffrage,
110

Voting Rights Act (1965),
23
,
111

Wagner, Edward,
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–38

Warner, John,
133

Warren, James,
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,
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Warren, Joseph,
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,
91
,
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,
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