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Dictionary of American History, 3

rd

Ed.

Contents

10/3/2002

Aachen
ABC Conference
Abenaki
Abilene
Abilene Trail
Ableman v. Booth
Abolition. See Antislavery.
Abortion
Abraham, Plains of
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Abscam Scandal
Abstract Expressionism
Academic Freedom
Acadia
Accidents
"Achille Lauro"
Acid Rain
Acquired Immune Deficiency

Syndrome

Act for the Impartial

Administration of Justice.
See Intolerable Acts.

ACT UP
ACTION
Adamson Act
Address of the Southern

Delegates

Addyston Pipe Company

Case

Adena
Adkins v. Children's Hospital
Administrative Discretion,

Delegation of

Administrative Justice
Admiralty Law and Courts
Adobe
Adolescence
Adoption
Adventist Churches
Adventurers. See Merchant

Adventurers.

Advertising
Aerobics
Affirmative Action
Afghanistan, Soviet Invasion

of

Africa, Relations with
African American Religions

and Sects

African American Studies
African Americans
African Methodist Episcopal

Church

Agency for International

Development

Agent Orange
Aging. See Old Age.
Agnosticism
Agrarianism
Agricultural Machinery
Agricultural Price Support
Agriculture
Agriculture, American Indian
Agriculture, Department of
Ague
AIDS. See Acquired Immune

Deficiency Syndrome.

AIDS Quilt
Air Cavalry
Air Conditioning
Air Defense
Air Force, United States
Air Force Academy
Air Pollution
Air Power, Strategic
Air Traffic Controllers Strike
Air Transportation and Travel
Airborne Units. See

Paratroops.

Aircraft, Bomber
Aircraft, Fighter
Aircraft Armament
Aircraft Carriers and Naval

Aircraft

Aircraft Industry
Airline Deregulation Act
Airline Industry. See Air

Transportation and Travel.

Airmail
Airports. See Air

Transportation and Travel.

Airports, Siting and Financing

of

Aisne-Marne Operation
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of
Akimel O'odham and Tohono

O'odham

Alabama
"Alabama"
"Alabama" Claims
Alabama Platform
Alamo, Siege of the
Alaska
Alaska Native Claims

Settlement Act

Alaskan Indians. See Tribes:

Alaskan.

Alaskan Pipeline
Albany

Albany Convention. See

Leisler Rebellion.

Albany Plan
Albany Regency
"Albatross"
Albemarle Settlements
Albuquerque
Alcaldes
Alcatraz
Alcohol, Regulation of
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholism
Alden v. Maine
Aldrich-Vreeland Act
Aleut
Aleutian Islands
Alexander v. Holmes County

Board of Education

Alexandria
Alexandria Conference
Algeciras Conference
Algonquin Round Table
Alien and Sedition Laws
Alien Landholding
Alien Registration Act. See

Smith Act.

Aliens, Rights of
"All in the Family"
Allegheny Mountains, Routes

Across

Allegheny River
Alliance For Progress
Allison Commission
Almanacs
Aluminum
Alvin Ailey American Dance

Theater

Alzheimer's Disease
Amalgamated Clothing

Workers of America

Amana Community
Amazon.com. See Electronic

Commerce.

Ambassadors
Amendments, Constitutional.

See Bill of Rights in U.S.
Constitution; Constitution of
the United States.

Amerasia Case
America, Discovery of. See

Exploration of America,
Early.

America, Naming of
America as Interpreted by

Foreign Observers

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America First Committee
"America the Beautiful"
American Academy of Arts

and Sciences

American Association for the

Advancement of Science

American Association of

Retired Persons

American Association of

University Professors

American Association of

University Women

American Automobile

Association

American Ballet Theatre
American Bar Association
American Bible Society
American Civil Liberties

Union

American Colonization

Society

"American Dilemma, An"
American Expeditionary

Forces

American Expeditionary

Forces In Italy

American Federation of

Labor-Congress of
Industrial Organizations

American Federation of State,

County, and Municipal
Employees

American Federation of

Teachers

American Fur Company
American Historical

Association

American Independent Party
American Indian Defense

Association

American Indian Gaming

Regulatory Act

American Indian Movement
American Indian Religious

Freedom Act

American Labor Party
American Legion
American Liberty League
American Mathematical

Society. See Learned
Societies.

American Medical

Association

American Museum of Natural

History

American Party
American Philosophical

Society

American Protective

Association

American Railway Union
American Republican Party

American Studies
American System
American Tobacco Case
Americans with Disabilities

Act

America's Cup
Americorps
Ames Espionage Case
Amish
"Amistad" Case
Amnesty
Amtrak
Amusement Parks
Anabaptists. See Baptist

Churches.

Anaconda Copper
Anarchists
Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)
Andersonville Prison
Anesthesia, Discovery of
Anglo-American Relations.

See Great Britain, Relations
with.

Animal Protective Societies
Animal Rights Movement
Animation. See Cartoons.
Annapolis Convention
Annexation of Territory
Answering Machines
"Antelope" Case
Anthracite Strike
Anthropology and Ethnology
Antiballistic Missile Treaty.

See Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks.

Antibank Movement
Anti-Catholicism
Anticommunism
Antietam, Battle of
Antifederalists
Anti-Imperialists
Anti-Masonic Movements
Antimonopoly Parties
Antinomian Controversy
Antiquities Act
Anti-Rent War
Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Semitism
Antislavery
Antitrust Laws
Antiwar Movements
Anzio
Apache
Apache Wars
Apalachee Massacre
Apalachin Conference
Apartment Houses
Appalachia
Appalachian Trail
Appeals from Colonial Courts
Appointing Power
Appomattox

Apportionment
Apprenticeship
Appropriations by Congress
Arab Americans
Arab Nations, Relations with
Arapaho
Arbitration
Arbor Day
Archaeology
Archaeology and Prehistory

of North America

Archangel Campaign
Architecture
Architecture, American Indian
Archives
Arizona
Arkansas
Arkansas River
Arlington National Cemetery
Arminianism
Armistice of November 1918
Armored Ships
Armored Vehicles
Armory Show
Arms Race and Disarmament
Army, Confederate
Army, Union
Army, United States
Army of Northern Virginia
Army of Occupation
Army of the James
Army of the Potomac
Army of Virginia
Army on the Frontier
Army Posts
Arnold's March to Quebec
Arnold's Raid in Virginia
Arnold's Treason
Aroostook War
Arrest
Arrest, Arbitrary, during the

Civil War

Art
Art: Decorative Arts
Art: Glass
Art: Interior Decoration
Art: Interior Design
Art: Painting
Art: Photography
Art: Pottery and Ceramics
Art: Sculpture
Art: Self-Taught Artists
Art: Stained Glass Windows
Art, Indian
Art Institute of Chicago
Articles of Confederation
Artificial Intelligence
Artillery
Artists' Colonies
Arts and Crafts Movement
Ashcan School
Asian Americans

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Asian Indian Americans
Asian Religions and Sects
Assassinations, Presidential
Assassinations and Political

Violence, Other

Assay Offices
Assemblies, Colonial
Assemblies of God
Assembly, Right of. See First

Amendment.

Assembly Line
Assimilation
Assistant
Assisted Suicide
Associated Press. See Press

Associations.

Association of Southern

Women for the Prevention
of Lynching

Association on American

Indian Affairs

Associations
Astor Place Riot
Astoria
Astronomy
AT&T
AT&T Divestiture
Atheism
Atlanta
Atlanta Campaign
"Atlantic, The"
Atlantic, Battle of the
Atlantic Charter
Atlantic City
Atrocities in War
Attainder
Attica
Auburn Prison System. See

Prisons and Prison Reform.

Auctions
Audio Technology Industry
Audubon Society
Augusta, Treaty of. See

Indian Land Cessions and
Indian Treaties.

"Aurora"
Austin
Australia and New Zealand,

Relations with

Auto Emission Testing and

Standards

"Autobiography of Benjamin

Franklin"

"Autobiography of Malcolm X"
Automated Teller Machines
Automation
Automobile
Automobile Industry
Automobile Racing
Automobile Safety
Automobile Workers v.

Johnson Controls, Inc.

Aviation. See Air

Transportation and Travel;
Aircraft; Aircraft Industry.

Awakening, Second
Baby Bells
Baby Boom. See

Demography and
Demographic Trends.

Backcountry and Backwoods
Backlash
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacteriology. See

Microbiology.

Badlands
Bahá'í
Bail
Baker Case
Baker v. Carr
Bakke v. Regents of the

University of California

Balance of Trade
Balanced Budget Amendment
Balkans. See Kosovo

Bombing; Yugoslavia,
Relations with.

Ballads
Ballet
Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
Balloons
Ballot
Baltimore
Baltimore Bell Teams
Baltimore Riot
Bank for International

Settlements

Bank of America
Bank of Augusta v. Earle
Bank of North America
Bank of the United States
Bankhead Cotton Act
Banking
Banking: Overview
Banking: Bank Failures
Banking: Banking Acts of

1933 and 1935

Banking: Banking Crisis of

1933

Banking: Export-Import Banks
Banking: Investment Banks
Banking: Private Banks
Banking: Savings Banks
Banking: State Banks
Bankruptcy Laws
Baptist Churches
Barbados
Barbary Wars
Barbecue
Barbed Wire
Barbie Doll
Bargemen
Barges. See Towboats and

Barges.

Barn Raising
Barnburners
Barnstorming
Barnum's American Museum
Barron v. Baltimore
"Bartlett's Familiar

Quotations"

Baseball
Baseball Union
Basketball
Bastogne
Bataan-Corregidor Campaign
Bathtubs and Bathing
Battery, Electric. See

Electricity and Electronics.

Battle Fleet Cruise Around

the World

"Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Bay of Pigs Invasion
"Bay Psalm Book"
Bayard v. Singleton
Bayard-Chamberlain Treaty
Baynton, Wharton, and

Morgan

Bayou
Bear Flag Revolt
Beat Generation
Beauty Contests
Beaver
Beaver Hats
Beecher's Bibles
Beef Trust Cases
Beekeeping
Bees
Behaviorism
Beirut Bombing
Belgian Relief
Belize, Relations with
Belknap Scandal
Bell Telephone Company.

See AT&T.

Bell Telephone Laboratories
Belleau Wood, Battle of
Benefit Concerts
"Benign Neglect"
Benning, Fort
Bennington, Battle of
Berea College v. Kentucky
Berlin, Treaty of
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Bermuda Conferences
Bermuda Islands
Bermuda Triangle
Beverage Industry. See

Brewing; Soft Drink
Industry; Wine and Spirits
Industry.

"Beyond the Melting Pot"
Bible
Bible Commonwealth

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Bicameralism. See

Legislatures.

Bicentennial
Bicycling
Big Brother Movement
Big Horn Mountains
Big Sisters
Bilingualism. See Education,

Bilingual.

Bill of Rights in State

Constitutions

Bill of Rights in U.S.

Constitution

Billeting
Billings
Bills of Credit
Bimetallism
Biochemistry
Bioethics
Biological Containment
Biological Warfare. See

Chemical and Biological
Warfare.

Bionics
Bioregionalism
Biosphere 2
Bioterrorism
Birds. See Ornithology.
Birds of Passage
Birmingham
Birth Control
Birth Control Movement
"Birth of a Nation, The"
Bismarck Archipelago

Campaign

Bismarck Sea, Battle of
Bitburg Controversy
Black Belt
Black Caucus, Congressional
Black Cavalry in the West
Black Codes
Black Friday
Black Hawk War
Black Hills
Black Hills War
Black Horse Cavalry
Black Infantry in the West
Black Laws
Black Monday Stock Market

Crash

Black Muslims. See Nation of

Islam.

Black Nationalism
Black Panthers
Black Power
Black Sox Scandal
Black Swamp
Blackfeet
Blacklisting
Blacksmithing
Bland-Allison Act
Blast Furnaces, Early

Blizzards
Blockade
Blockade Runners,

Confederate

Blocs
Bloody Shirt
Bloomers
Blount Conspiracy
Blue and Gray
Blue Eagle Emblem
Blue Laws
Blue Sky Laws
Bluegrass Country
Blues
Board of Indian

Commissioners

Board of Trade and

Plantations

Boeing Company
Boerne v. Flores
Boland Amendments. See

Iran-Contra Affair.

Boll Weevil
Bombing
Bonanza Kings
"Bonhomme Richard-Serapis"

Encounter

Bonus Army
Bonus Bill of 1816
Bonuses, Military
Booby Traps
Book Banning
Book-of-the-Month Club
Boomer Movement
Boomtowns
Boot and Shoe Manufacturing
Bootlegging
Borax
Border Ruffians
Border Slave State

Convention

Border War
Borderlands. See Spanish

Borderlands.

Bork Confirmation Hearings
Borough
Bosnia-Herzegovina. See

Yugoslavia, Relations with.

Bosses and Bossism, Political
Boston
Boston, Siege of
Boston Committee of

Correspondence

Boston Common
Boston Massacre
Boston Police Strike
Boston Tea Party
Botanical Gardens
Botany
Bougainville
Boundary Disputes Between

States

Bounties, Commercial
Bounties, Military
Bounty Jumper
Bourbons
Bowery
Bowie Knife
Bowles's Filibustering

Expeditions

Bowling
Boxer Rebellion
Boy Scouts of America
Boycotting
Braddock's Expedition
Brady Bill
Brady Photographs
Brain Trust
Brandeis Confirmation

Hearings

Brandywine Creek, Battle of
Brannan Plan
Breast Implants
Brethren
Bretton Woods Conference
Brewing
Bricker Amendment
Bridger, Fort
Bridges
Briscoe v. Bank of the

Commonwealth of Kentucky

British Debts
British Empire, Concept of
Broadsides
Broadway
Brokers
Bronson v. Rodes
Brook Farm
Brookings Institution
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bridge
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car

Porters

Brown University
Brown v. Board of Education

of Topeka

Brown v. Maryland
Brownists
Brownsville Affair
Bryan-Chamorro Treaty
Buccaneers
Buckboards
Buddhism
Budget, Federal
Buena Vista, Battle of
Buenos Aires Peace

Conference

Buffalo
Buffalo (Bison)
Buffalo Trails
Building and Loan

Associations

Building Materials
Bulge, Battle of the

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Bull Moose Party
Bull Run, First Battle of
Bull Run, Second Battle of
Bullboats
Bundling
Bungee Jumping
Bunker Hill, Battle of
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureaucracy
Burghers
Burgoyne's Invasion
Burke Act
Burlesque
Burlingame Treaty
Burlington Strike
Burma Road and Ledo Road
Burns Fugitive Slave Case
Burr-Hamilton Duel
Bus Industry. See

Transportation and Travel.

Bush v. Gore
Business, Big
Business, Minority
Business, Regulation of. See

Government Regulation of
Business.

Business Cycles
Business Forecasting
Business Machines
Business Unionism
Busing
Butler's Order No. 28
Cabeza de Vaca Expeditions
Cabinet
Cable News Network. See

Television.

Cables, Atlantic and Pacific
Cabot Voyages
Caddo
Cahokia Mounds
Cahuenga, Treaty of. See

Mexican-American War.

Cairo Conferences
Cajuns. See Acadia.
Calder v. Bull
California
California Alien Land Law
California Higher Educational

System

California Institute of

Technology

California Trail
Calvinism
Cambodia, Bombing of
Cambodia Incursion
Cambridge
Cambridge Agreement
Cambridge Platform
Camden, Battle of
Camels in the West
Camp David
Camp David Peace Accords

Camp Fire Girls
Camp Meetings
Campaign Financing and

Resources

Campaign Songs
Campaigns, Political. See

Elections.

Campaigns, Presidential. See

Elections, Presidential.

Canada, Confederate

Activities in

Canada, Relations with
Canadian-American

Reciprocity

Canadian-American

Waterways

Canals
Cancer
Candles
Canning Industry
Canoe
Canvass
Cape Cod
Cape Horn
Capital Punishment
Capitalism
Capitals
Capitation Taxes
Capitol at Washington
Capper-Volstead Act
Captivity Narratives
Cardiovascular Disease
Caribbean Policy
Carlisle Indian Industrial

School

Carnegie Corporation of New

York

Carnegie Foundation for the

Advancement of Teaching

Carnegie Institution of

Washington

Carolina, Fundamental

Constitutions of

"Caroline" Affair
Caroline Islands
Carpet Manufacture
Carpetbaggers
Carriage Making
Carter Doctrine
Carter v. Carter Coal

Company

Cartography
Cartoons
Casablanca Conference
Casinos. See Gambling.
Catawba
"Catch-22"
Catholicism
Catlin's Indian Paintings
Catskill Mountains
Cattle
Cattle Associations

Cattle Brands
Cattle Drives
Cattle Rustlers
Caucus
Caucuses, Congressional
Causa, La
Cavalry, Horse
Celebrity Culture
Cement
Cemeteries
Cemeteries, National
Censorship, Military
Censorship, Press and

Artistic

Census, U.S. Bureau of the
Centennial Exhibition
Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention

Central Europe, Relations

with

Central Intelligence Agency
Central Pacific<EN>Union

Pacific Race

Central Park
Centralia Mine Disaster
"Century of Dishonor"
Ceramics. See Art: Pottery

and Ceramics.

Cereal Grains
Cereals, Manufacture of
Chain Gangs
Chain Stores
"Challenger" Disaster
Chambers of Commerce
Champagne-Marne Operation
Champlain, Samuel de,

Explorations of

Chancellorsville, Battle of
Chanukah
Chapbooks
Chappaquiddick Incident
Chapultepec, Battle of
Charity Organization

Movement

Charity Schools
Charles River Bridge Case
Charleston
Charleston Harbor, Defense

of

Charleston Indian Trade
Charlotte
Charlotte Town Resolves
Charter of Liberties
Charter of Privileges
Charter Schools
Chartered Companies
Charters, Municipal
Château-Thierry Bridge,

Americans at

Chattanooga Campaign
Chautauqua Movement
Check Currency

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Checkers Speech
Checkoff
Checks and Balances
Chemical and Biological

Warfare

Chemical Industry
Chemistry
Chemotherapy
Cherbourg
Cherokee
Cherokee Language
Cherokee Nation Cases
Cherokee Strip
Cherokee Trail
Cherokee Wars
Chesapeake Colonies
Chesapeake-Leopard

Incident

Chess
Cheyenne
Chicago
Chicago Fire
Chicago, Milwaukee, and

Saint Paul Railway
Company v. Minnesota

Chicago Riots of 1919
Chicago Seven
Chicanos. See Hispanic

Americans.

Chickamauga, Battle of
Chickasaw-Creek War
"Chicken in Every Pot"
Child Abuse
Child Care
Child Labor
Child Labor Tax Case
Childbirth and Reproduction
Childhood
Children, Missing
Children's Bureau
Children's Rights
Chile, Relations with
China, Relations with
China, U.S. Armed Forces in
China Clipper
China Trade
Chinese Americans
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chippewa. See Ojibwe.
Chiropractic
Chisholm Trail
Chisholm v. Georgia
Choctaw
Cholera
Chosin Reservoir
Christian Coalition
Christian Science. See

Church of Christ, Scientist.

Christiana Fugitive Affair
Christianity
Christmas
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Church and State, Separation

of

Church of Christ, Scientist
Church of England in the

Colonies

Church of God in Christ
Cibola
Cimarron, Proposed Territory

of

Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Society of the
Cincinnati Riots
Cinema. See Film.
Circuit Riders
Circuits, Judicial
Circus and Carnival
Cities. See Urbanization.
"Citizen Kane"
Citizens' Alliances
Citizens Band (CB) Radio
Citizenship
Citrus Industry
City Councils
City Directories
City Manager Plan
"City on a Hill"
City Planning
City University of New York
Civil Aeronautics Act
Civil Aeronautics Board
Civil Defense
Civil Disobedience
Civil Religion
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1991
Civil Rights and Liberties
Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Restoration Act of

1987

Civil Service
Civil War
Civil War General Order No.

100

Civilian Conservation Corps
Civilized Tribes, Five
Claim Associations
Claims, Federal Court of
Clark's Northwest Campaign
Class
Class Conflict
Clayton Act, Labor Provisions
Clayton Compromise
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Clearing House, New York
Clearinghouses
"Clermont." See Fulton's

Folly.

Cleveland
Cleveland Democrats
Climate
Clinical Research
Clinton Impeachment. See

Impeachment Trial of Bill
Clinton.

Clinton Scandals
Clinton v. Jones
Clipper Ships
Clock and Watch Industry
Closed Shop
Clothing and Fashion
Clothing Industry
Cloture
Clubs, Exclusionary
Coal
Coal Mining and Organized

Labor

Coalition of Labor Union

Women

Coast and Geodetic Survey
Coast Guard, U.S.
Coasting Trade
Coastwise Steamship Lines
Coca-Cola
Cod Fisheries
Code, U.S.
Code Breaking. See

Cryptology.

Code Napoléon
Code Noir
Codes of Fair Competition
Coeducation
Coercive Acts
Coeur d'Alene Riots
Coffee
Cohens v. Virginia
Coinage. See Currency and

Coinage.

"Coin's Financial School"
COINTELPRO
Cold Harbor, Battle of
Cold Nuclear Fusion
Cold War
"Cole" Bombing
Collecting
Collective Bargaining
Collector v. Day
College Athletics
Colombia, Relations with.

See Latin America,
Relations with; Panama
Canal.

Colonial Administration,

Spanish

Colonial Agent
Colonial Assemblies
Colonial Charters
Colonial Commerce
Colonial Councils
Colonial Dames of America

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Colonial Policy, British
Colonial Settlements
Colonial Ships
Colonial Society
Colonial Wars
Colonization Movement
Colorado
Colorado Coal Strikes
Colorado River Explorations
Colored National Labor Union
Colt Six-Shooter
"Columbia"
Columbia, Burning of
Columbia River Exploration

and Settlement

Columbia River Treaty
Columbia University
Columbine School Massacre
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Quincentenary
Comanche
Comics
Commander in Chief of

British Forces

Commerce, Court of
Commerce, Department of
Commerce Clause
Commission Government
Commission Merchants And

Factors

Committee of Inspection
Committee on Public

Information

Committee on the Conduct of

the War

Committees of

Correspondence

Committees of Safety
Commodities Exchange Act
Commodity Exchanges
Common Law
Common Market. See

European Community.

"Common Sense"
"Common Sense Book of

Baby and Child Care"

Commonwealth v. Hunt
Communes. See Utopian

Communities.

Communication Satellites
Communications Industry
Communications Workers of

America

Communist Party, United

States of America

Community Action Program
Compact Discs
Company of One Hundred

Associates

Comparable Worth
Comprehensive Employment

and Training Act

Compromise of 1790
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1890
Comptroller General of the

United States

Comptroller of the Currency
Computers and Computer

Industry

Comstock Lode
Conciliation and Mediation,

Labor

Conciliation Courts, Domestic
Conestoga Wagon
Coney Island. See

Amusement Parks.

Confederate Agents
Confederate Expatriates in

Brazil

Confederate States of

America

Confederation
Confirmation by the Senate
Confiscation Acts
Confiscation of Property
Conglomerates
Congregationalism
Congress, United States
Congress of Industrial

Organizations. See
American Federation of
Labor<EN>Congress of
Industrial Organizations.

Congress of Racial Equality
Congressional Record
Connecticut
Connecticut Compromise
Connolly's Plot
Conquistadores
Conscience Whigs
Conscientious Objectors
Conscription and Recruitment
Conservation
Conservation Biology
Conservatism
Conspiracies Acts of 1861

and 1862

Conspiracy
"Constitution"
Constitution of the United

States

Constitutional Union Party
Consumer Protection
Consumer Purchasing Power
Consumerism
Consumers Leagues
Contempt of Congress
Continental Congress
Contra Aid
Contraband, Slaves as
Contraband of War
Contraception. See Birth

Control.

Contract Clause
Contract Labor, Foreign
Contract with America
Convention of 1800
Convention of 1818 with

England

Convention on the Elimination

of All Forms of
Discrimination Against
Women

Conventions, Party

Nominating

Convict Labor Systems
Convoys
Conway Cabal
Cook, James, Explorations of
Cooke, Jay, and Company
Cookery. See Food and

Cuisines.

Cooley v. Board of Wardens

of Port of Philadelphia

Cooper Union for the

Advancement of Science
And Art

Cooperatives, Consumers'
Cooperatives, Farmers'
Cooperatives, Tobacco
Coppage v. Kansas
Copper Industry
Copperheads
Copyright
Coral Sea, Battle of the
Corn
Corn Belt
Corn Borer, European
Cornell University
Coronado Expeditions
Corporations
Corrupt Bargain
Corruption, Political
Cosa Nostra. See Crime,

Organized.

Cosmetic Surgery
Cost of Living
Cost of Living Adjustment
Cotton
Cotton Gin
Cotton Kingdom
Cotton Money
Council for New England
Council of Economic Advisors
Council of National Defense
Council of Revision, New

York

Counterculture
Counterfeiting
Country Store
County and State Fairs
County Government
Courier Services
Court Packing. See Supreme

Court Packing Bills.

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Courts-Martial
Coutume de Paris
Covenant, Church
Covered Wagon
Cow Towns
Cowboy Songs
Cowboys
Cowboys and Skinners
Cowpens, Battle of
Coxey's Army
Coyote
Craig v. Boren
Craig v. State of Missouri
Creationism
Credibility Gap
Credit
Credit Cards
Crédit Mobilier of America
Credit Unions
Cree
Creek
Creek War
Creole Slave Case
Creoles and Creolization
Crime
Crime, Organized
Crime of 1873
Cripple Creek Mining Boom
Cripple Creek Strikes
Crittenden Compromise
Croatia. See Yugoslavia,

Relations with.

Cross of Gold Speech
Crow
Crown Heights Riots
Cryptology
Crystal Palace Exhibition
Cuba, Relations with
Cuban Americans
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cubism
Culpeper's Rebellion
Cults
Cultural Literacy
Cumberland, Army of the
Cumberland Gap
Cumberland River
Cumberland Road
Cumberland Settlements
Cummings v. Missouri
Currency and Coinage
Curriculum
Currier and Ives
Cushing's Treaty
"Custer Died for Your Sins"
Customs Service, U.S.
Cybernetics
Cyborgs
Cyclotron
Daguerreotype. See Art:

Photography; Photographic
Industry.

Dairy Industry
Dakota. See Sioux.
Dakota Expeditions of Sibley

and Sully

Dakota Territory
Dalkon Shield
Dallas
Dame School
"Damn the Torpedoes"
Dams. See Hydroelectric

Power.

Danbury Hatters' Case
Dance
Dance, Indian
"Dark and Bloody Ground"
Dark Horse
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College Case
Daughters of Bilitis
Daughters of the American

Revolution

Davis, Imprisonment and Trial

of

Davis-Johnston Controversy
Dawes Commission
Dawes General Allotment Act
Dawes Plan
Day Care. See Child Care.
Daylight Saving Time
D Day
De Soto. See Soto, Hernando

de, Explorations of.

Deaf in America
Dearborn, Fort
Dearborn Wagon
Death and Dying
"Death of a Salesman, The"
Death Valley
Debt, Imprisonment for
Debt, Public
Debt and Investment, Foreign
Debts, Colonial and

Continental

Debts, Revolutionary War
Debts, State
Decatur's Cruise to Algiers
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Rights
Declaration of Sentiments
Declaratory Act
Decorations, Military
Deerfield Massacre
Defense, Department of
Defense, National
Defense of Marriage Act
Defense Policy
Defiance, Fort
Deficit, Federal. See Debt,

Public.

Defoliation
Deism
Delaney Amendment

Delaware
Delaware, Washington

Crossing the

Delaware Indians
Delegation of Powers
De Lima v. Bidwell
Demobilization
Democracy
"Democracy in America"
Democratic Party
Demography and

Demographic Trends

Denominationalism
Dentistry
Denver
Department Stores
Depletion Allowances
Deportation
Deposit Act of 1836
Depression. See Great

Depression.

Depression of 1920
Deregulation
DES Action USA
Desegregation
Deseret
Desertion
Deserts
Detroit
Detroit, Surrender of
Detroit Riots
Devaluation
Dictionaries
Diets and Dieting
Digital Technology
Dime Novels
Dime Stores
Diplomacy. See Foreign

Policy; Foreign Service; and
individual nations and
treaties.

Diplomacy, Secret
Diplomatic Missions
Direct Mail
Dirigibles
Disability Rights Movement
Disabled, Education of the
Disasters
Disciples of Christ
Disco
Discount Stores. See

Retailing Industry.

Discovery
Discovery of America. See

Exploration of America,
Early.

Discrimination
Discrimination: Age
Discrimination: Disabled
Discrimination: Race
Discrimination: Religion
Discrimination: Sex

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Discrimination: Sexual

Orientation

Disfranchisement
Dismal Swamp
Disney Corporation
Displaced Homemakers Self-

Sufficiency Assistance Act

"Disquisition on Government."

See "South Carolina
Exposition and Protest."

Dissenters
Distilling
Distribution of Goods and

Services

District, Congressional
District of Columbia. See

Washington, D.C.

Divine Providences
Divorce and Marital

Separation

"Dixie"
DNA
Dodge City
Dodge City Trail
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Sign
Dollar-a-Year Man
Domestic Violence
Dominican Republic
Dominicans
Dominion of New England
Domino Theory
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
"Don't Fire Till You See the

White of Their Eyes"

"Don't Give Up the Ship"
Donelson, Fort, Capture of
Dongan Charters
Donner Party
Dorchester Company
Dorr's Rebellion
Dot-Com. See Electronic

Commerce.

Doubloon
Doughboy
Doughfaces
Doves and Hawks
Dow Jones
Downsizing
Draft. See Conscription and

Recruitment.

Draft Riots
Draper's Meadows
Dreadnought
Dred Scott Case
Dress. See Clothing.
Drogher Trade
Drug Addiction. See

Substance Abuse.

Drug Trafficking, Illegal
Dry Docks
Dry Farming

Ducking Stool
Due Process of Law
Dueling
Dugout
Duke of York's Laws
Duke of York's Proprietary
Dull Knife Campaign
Dumbarton Oaks Conference
Dunmore's War
Duquesne, Fort
Dust Bowl
Dutch Bankers' Loans
Dutch West India Company
Duties, Ad Valorem and

Specific

DVD
"E Pluribus Unum"
Eads Bridge
Eagle, American
Eagleton Affair
Earth Day
Earthquakes
East India Company, English
East Indies Trade
East Jersey
Eastern Europe. See Central

Europe, Relations with.

Eating Disorders
Eaton Affair
Ecology. See Conservation;

Environmental Movement.

E-Commerce. See Electronic

Commerce.

Economic Indicators
Economic Royalists
Economics
Education
Education, African American
Education, Bilingual
Education, Cooperative
Education, Department of
Education, Experimental
Education, Higher
Education, Higher: African

American Colleges

Education, Higher: Colleges

and Universities

Education, Higher:

Denominational Colleges

Education, Higher: Women's

Colleges

Education, Indian
Education, Parental Choice in
Education, Special. See

Disabled, Education of the.

Education, United States

Office of

Educational and Intelligence

Testing. See Intelligence
Tests.

Educational Technology
Educational Testing Service

Edwardsean Theology
Egypt, Relations with
Eisenhower Doctrine
El Paso
El Salvador, Relations with
Elbe River
Election Laws
Elections
Elections, Contested
Elections, Presidential
Elections, Presidential:

Overview

Elections, Presidential: 1789

and 1792

Elections, Presidential: 1796
Elections, Presidential: 1800

and 1804

Elections, Presidential: 1808

and 1812

Elections, Presidential: 1816

and 1820

Elections, Presidential: 1824
Elections, Presidential: 1828

and 1832

Elections, Presidential: 1836
Elections, Presidential: 1840
Elections, Presidential: 1844
Elections, Presidential: 1848
Elections, Presidential: 1852
Elections, Presidential: 1856
Elections, Presidential: 1860
Elections, Presidential: 1864
Elections, Presidential: 1868

and 1872

Elections, Presidential: 1876
Elections, Presidential: 1880
Elections, Presidential: 1884
Elections, Presidential: 1888
Elections, Presidential: 1892
Elections, Presidential: 1896
Elections, Presidential: 1900
Elections, Presidential: 1904
Elections, Presidential: 1908
Elections, Presidential: 1912
Elections, Presidential: 1916
Elections, Presidential: 1920
Elections, Presidential: 1924
Elections, Presidential: 1928
Elections, Presidential: 1932

and 1936

Elections, Presidential: 1940
Elections, Presidential: 1944
Elections, Presidential: 1948
Elections, Presidential: 1952
Elections, Presidential: 1956
Elections, Presidential: 1960
Elections, Presidential: 1964
Elections, Presidential: 1968
Elections, Presidential: 1972
Elections, Presidential: 1976
Elections, Presidential: 1980
Elections, Presidential: 1984

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Elections, Presidential: 1988
Elections, Presidential: 1992
Elections, Presidential: 1996
Elections, Presidential: 2000
Electoral College
Electric Power and Light

Industry

Electrical Workers
Electricity and Electronics
Electrification, Household
Electronic Commerce
Electronic Mail
Electronic Surveillance
Elevators
Elevators, Grain
Elizabethtown Associates
Elkins Act
Ellis Island
Elmira Prison
E-Mail. See Electronic Mail.
Emancipation, Compensated
Emancipation Proclamation
Embalmed Beef
Embargo Act
Embassies
Embassy Bombings
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Emerson's Essays
Emigrant Aid Movement
Emigration
Emily's List
Eminent Domain
Empire State Building
Employers' Liability Laws
Employment Act of 1946
Employment Retirement

Income Security Act

Employment Service, U.S.
Empresario System
Enabling Acts
Encomienda System
Encounter Groups
Encyclopedias
Endangered Species
Enemy Aliens in the World

Wars

Energy, Department of
Energy Industry
Energy, Renewable
Energy Research and

Development Administration

Enforcement Acts. See Force

Acts.

Engineering Education
Engineering Societies
Engineers, Corps of
England. See Great Britain,

Relations with.

English Language
Enlistment
Enron Scandal
Ensign

Entail of Estate
Entangling Alliances
Enterprise Zones
Enumerated Commodities
Enumerated Powers
Environmental Business
Environmental Movement
Environmental Protection

Agency

EPIC
Epidemics and Public Health
Episcopalianism
Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission

Equal Pay Act
Equal Protection of the Law
Equal Rights Amendment
Equal Rights Party
Equality, Concept of
Era of Good Feeling
Erector Sets
Erie Canal
Erie Railroad Company v.

Tompkins

Eskimo. See Inuit.
Espionage Act
Espionage, Industrial
Essex Junto
"Essex," Actions of the
Estate Tax Laws. See

Inheritance Tax Laws.

Ethical Culture, Society for
Ethnohistory
Ethnology, Bureau of

American

Eugenics
European Union
Eutaw Springs, Battle of
Euthanasia
Evangelical Alliance
Evangelicalism and

Revivalism

Everglades National Park
Evolutionism
Ex Parte Bollman
Ex Parte Crow Dog
Ex Parte Garland
Ex Parte McCardle
Ex Parte Merryman
Ex Parte Milligan
Excess Profits Tax
Exchange, Bills of
Exchange Students
Exchanges
Executive Agent
Executive Agreements
Executive Orders
Executive Privilege
Existentialism
Expatriation
Expenditures, Federal
Exploration of America, Early

Explorations and Expeditions
Explorations and Expeditions:

British

Explorations and Expeditions:

Dutch

Explorations and Expeditions:

French

Explorations and Expeditions:

Russian

Explorations and Expeditions:

Spanish

Explorations and Expeditions:

U.S.

Explosives
Export Debenture Plan
Export Taxes
Expositions. See World's

Fairs and individual
expositions.

Expunging Resolution
Extra Sessions
Extradition
Extraterritoriality, Right of
"Exxon Valdez"
Fair Deal
Fair Labor Standards Act
Fair-Trade Laws
Fairs. See County and State

Fairs; World's Fairs.

Fall Line
Fallen Timbers, Battle of
Family
Family and Medical Leave

Act

Family Education Rights and

Privacy Act

Family of Man Exhibition
Family Values
Faneuil Hall
Fannie Mae. See Savings

and Loan Associations.

Far West
Farm Security Administration
Farm Subsidies. See

Agricultural Price Support.

"Farmer's Letters"
Farmer-Labor Party of 1920
Farmer-Labor Party of

Minnesota

Farmers' Alliance
Farmers Institutes
Farmhand
Farms and Farming. See

Agriculture.

Fascism, American
Fashion. See Clothing and

Fashion.

Fast Days
Father's Day. See Mother's

Day and Father's Day.

Fax Machine
Federal Agencies

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Federal Aid
Federal-Aid Highway

Program

Federal Aviation

Administration

Federal Bureau of

Investigation

Federal Communications

Commission

Federal Government
Federal Mediation and

Conciliation Service

Federal Register
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
"Federalist Papers"
Federalist Party
Fee Patenting
"Feminine Mystique, The"
Fencing and Fencing Laws
Fenian Movement
Ferguson Impeachment
Ferries
Ferris Wheel
Fertility. See Childbirth and

Reproduction; Demography
and Demographic Trends.

Fertilizers
Feudalism
Feuds, Appalachian Mountain
Fiber Optics
Field v. Clark
"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight"
Filibuster, Congressional
Filibustering
Filipino Americans
Film
Financial Panics
Financial Services Industry
Finney Revivals
Fire-Eaters
Fire Fighting
Fires. See Disasters;

Wildfires.

First Amendment
First Lady
Fish and Marine Life, Study

of. See Marine Biology.

Fishing Bounties
Fisk Expeditions
Five-Power Naval Treaty
Flag Day
Flag of the United States
Flags
Flapper
Flatboatmen
Fletcher v. Peck
Flogging
Floods and Flood Control
Floor Leader
Florida
Florida, Straits of

Flour Milling
Flying the Hump
Flying Tigers
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folk Art. See Art: Self-Taught

Artists.

Folk Music. See Music: Early

American; Music: Folk
Revival.

Folklore
Food, Fast
Food and Cuisines
Food and Drug Administration
Food Preservation
Food Stamp Program
Football
Foraker Act
Force Acts
Ford Motor Company
Foreign Aid
Foreign Investment in the

United States

Foreign Policy
Foreign Service
Forest Service
Forestry
"Forgotten Man"
Fort Worth
Fortifications
"Forty Acres and a Mule"
Forty-Eighters
Forty-Mile Desert
Forty-Niners
Foster Care
Foundations, Endowed
401(k) Plans. See Retirement

Plans.

Four Freedoms
Four Hundred
4-H Clubs
Four-Power Treaty
Fourierism
Fourteen Points
Fourth of July. See

Independence Day.

Fox. See Mesquakie.
Fox War
Fox-Wisconsin Waterway
France, Quasi-War with
France, Relations with
Franchise. See Suffrage.
Franciscans
Frank, Leo, Lynching of
Frankfurt School
Franklin, State of
Franklin Institute
Franklin Stove
Fraternal and Service

Organizations

Fraternities and Sororities
Fraunces Tavern

Frazier-Lemke Farm

Bankruptcy Act

Freddie Mac. See Savings

and Loan Associations.

Fredericksburg, Battle of
Free Banking System
Free Silver
Free Society of Traders
Free Soil Party
Free Trade
Free Universities
Freedman's Savings Bank
Freedmen's Bureau
Freedom of Information Act
Freedom of the Press. See

First Amendment.

Freedom of Religion. See

First Amendment.

Freedom of the Seas
Freedom Riders
Freeholder
Freeman's Expedition
Freemasons
Freeport Doctrine
Frémont Explorations
French and Indian War
French Decrees
French Frontier Forts
French in the American

Revolution

Frick Collection
Friends, Society of. See

Quakers.

Friends of Domestic Industry
Fries' Rebellion
"From the Deep Woods to

Civilization"

Frontier
Frontier Defense
Frontier Thesis, Turner's
Frontiero v. Richardson
Fruit Growing
Fruitlands. See Utopian

Communities.

Fuel Administration
Fuels, Alternative
Fugitive-Agrarians
Fugitive Slave Acts
Fulbright Act and Grants
"Full Dinner Pail"
Fulton's Folly
Fundamentalism
Funerary Traditions
Fur Companies
Fur Trade and Trapping
Furniture
Gabriel's Insurrection
Gadsden Purchase
Gag Rule, Antislavery
Galápagos Islands
Galena-Dubuque Mining

District

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Gallatin's Report on

Manufactures

Gallatin's Report on Roads,

Canals, Harbors, and
Rivers

Gallaudet University
Galley Boats
Galloway's Plan of Union
Galvanized Yankees
Galveston
Gambling
Games. See Toys and

Games.

Gardening
Garfield Assassination. See

Assassinations,
Presidential.

Garment Industry. See

Clothing Industry.

Gasoline Taxes
"Gaspée," Burning of the
Gastonia Strike
Gateway Arch
Gay and Lesbian Movement
Gelpcké v. Dubuque
Gender and Gender Roles
Genealogy
General Accounting Office
General Agreement on Tariffs

and Trade

General Court, Colonial
General Electric Company v.

Gilbert

General Federation of

Women's Clubs

General Motors
General Order No. 38
General Welfare Clause
Generational Conflict
Genetic Engineering
Genetics
Geneva Accords of 1954
Geneva Conferences
Geneva Conventions
Genocide
Genre Painting
Gentrification
Geodesic Dome
Geographer's Line
Geography
Geological Survey, U.S.
Geological Surveys, State
Geology
Geophysical Explorations
George Washington Bridge
Georgia
Georgia Platform
Georgia v. Stanton
Georgiana
German Americans
German Mercenaries
German-American Bund

German-American Debt

Agreement

Germantown
Germany, American

Occupation of

Germany, Relations with
Gerrymander
Getty Museum
Gettysburg, Battle of
Gettysburg Address
Ghent, Treaty of
Ghost Dance
Ghost Towns
GI Bill of Rights
G.I. Joe
Gibbons v. Ogden
Gideon Bibles
Gideon v. Wainright
Gilbert Islands
Gilbert's Patent
Gilded Age
Ginseng, American
Girl Scouts of the United

States of America

"Give Me Liberty or Give Me

Death!"

Glaize, The
Glass Ceiling
Glassmaking
Glass-Steagall Act
Glebes
Gliders
Global Warming
"Go West, Young Man, Go

West"

"Godey's Lady's Book"
Gold Act
Gold Bugs
Gold Clause Cases
Gold Democrats
Gold Exchange
Gold Mines and Mining
Gold Purchase Plan
Gold Reserve Act
Gold Rush, California
Gold Standard
Golden Gate Bridge
"Golden Hind"
Golf
"Gone with the Wind"
González, Elián, Case
Good Neighbor Policy
Gothic Line
Government Ownership
Government Publications
Government Regulation of

Business

Governors
Graffiti
Grain Futures Act
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
Grand Army of the Republic

Grand Banks
Grand Canyon
Grand Central Terminal
Grand Ole Opry
Grand Portage
Grand Prairie
Grandfather Clause
Granger Cases
Granger Movement
Grants-in-Aid
Grasshoppers
Gray Panthers
Great Awakening
Great Basin
Great Books Programs
Great Britain, Relations with
Great Depression
"Great Gatsby, The"
Great Lakes
Great Lakes Naval

Campaigns of 1812

Great Lakes Steamships
Great Law of Pennsylvania
Great Meadows
Great Migration
Great Plains
Great Salt Lake
Great Smoky Mountains
Great Society
"Great Train Robbery, The"
Great Valley
Greece, Relations with
Greely's Arctic Expedition
Green Bay
Green Berets. See Special

Forces.

Green Card
Green Mountain Boys
Greenback Movement
Greenbacks
Greenbelt Communities
Greenfield Village. See Henry

Ford Museum and
Greenfield Village.

Greenville Treaty
Greenwich Village
Grenada Invasion
"Griffon"
Griggs v. Duke Power

Company

Gristmills
Griswold v. Connecticut
Grosjean v. American Press

Company

Group Libel Laws
Guadalcanal Campaign
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of
Guam
Guano
Guantánamo Bay
Guatemala, Relations with
Guerrilla Warfare

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Guffey Coal Acts
Guggenheim Museum
Guilford Courthouse, Battle of
Guinn and Beal v. United

States

Gulf of Sidra Shootdown
Gulf Stream
Gulf War of 1991. See

Persian Gulf War.

Gun Control
Gunboat Diplomacy
Gunboats
Gunpowder. See Explosives.
Gustav Line
Gypsies
Habeas Corpus, Writ of
Hague Peace Conferences
Hague v. Committee on

Industrial Organization

Hairstyles
Haiti, Relations with
Hakluyt's "Voyages"
"Half Moon"
Half-Breeds. See Indian

Intermarriage.

Halfway Covenant
Hamburg Riot
Hamilton's Economic Policies
Hampton Roads Conference
Handicapped, Education of

the. See Disabled,
Education of the.

Hanging
Hanssen Espionage Case
Hantavirus
Hard Money
Hardware Trade
Harlem
Harlem, Battle of
Harlem Renaissance
Harpers Ferry, Capture of
Harpers Ferry Raid
Harris v. McRae
Harrisburg Convention
Hartford Convention
Hartford Wits
Harvard University
Hat Manufacture, Colonial

Restriction on

Hatch Act
Hate Crimes
Hawaii
Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Hayburn's Case
Hay-Herrán Treaty
Haymarket Riot
Hay-Pauncefote Treaties
Hays, Fort
Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone

Case

Hazardous Waste
Head Start

Health and Human Services,

Department of

Health Care
Health Food Industry
Health Insurance
Health Maintenance

Organizations

Heart Disease. See

Cardiovascular Disease.

Heart Implants
Heating
Helena Mining Camp
Helicopters
"Hell on Wheels"
Hell's Angels
Helperites. See "Impending

Crisis of the South."

Helsinki Accords
Hemp
Hennepin, Louis, Narratives

of

Henry, Fort
Henry Ford Museum and

Greenfield Village

Hepburn Act
Hermitage
Herpetology
Hessians. See German

Mercenaries.

"Hidden Persuaders, The"
Hide and Tallow Trade
Higher Criticism
Higher Law
Highway Beautification Act
Highways. See Interstate

Highway System;
Roads;Transportation and
Travel.

Hijacking, Airplane
Hinduism
Hippies
Hispanic Americans
Hiss Case
Historiography, American
HIV. See Acquired Immune

Deficiency Syndrome.

Ho-Chunk. See

Winnebago/Ho-Chunk.

Hockey
Hogs
Hohokam
Holding Company
Holidays and Festivals
Hollywood
Holmes v. Walton
Holocaust Museum
Holy Cross, Priests of
Holy Experiment
Home Owners' Loan

Corporation

Home Rule
Home Schooling

Home Shopping Networks
Homeopathy
Homestead Movement
Homestead Strike
Homesteaders and the Cattle

Industry

Homework
Homosexuality. See Sexual

Orientation.

Honky-Tonk Girls
Honolulu
Hood's Tennessee Campaign
Hoosac Tunnel
Hoover Commissions
Hoover Dam
Hopedale Community. See

Utopian Communities.

Hopewell
Hopi
Horizontal Tariff Bill
Hornbook
Horse
Horse Marines
Horse Racing and Showing
Horse Stealing
Hospitals
Hostage Crises
Hotels and Hotel Industry
Houma
House Committee on Un-

American Activities

House Divided
"House Made of Dawn"
House of Burgesses
House of Representatives.

See Congress.

House-Grey Memorandum
Housing
Housing and Urban

Development, Department
of

Houston
"How to Win Friends and

Influence People"

Howard, Fort
Hubble Space Telescope
"Huckleberry Finn"
Hudson River
Hudson River School
Hudson's Bay Company
Huguenots
Human Experimentation. See

Clinical Research.

Human Genome Project
Human Resources. See

Industrial Relations.

Human Rights
Humphrey's Executor v.

United States

Hundred
Hunkers

14

Huntington Library and

Museum

Huron/Wyandot
Hurricanes
Hurtado v. California
Hutchinson Letters
Hydroelectric Power
Hydrogen Bomb
Hydroponics
Hygiene
Hylton v. United States
Hymns and Hymnody
"I Love Lucy"
Ice Skating
Iceland, U.S. Forces in
Idaho
Illinois
Illinois (Indians)
Illinois and Michigan Canal
Illinois Fur Brigade
Immediatism
Immigration
Immigration Act of 1965
Immigration Restriction
Impeachment
Impeachment Trial of Andrew

Johnson

Impeachment Trial of Bill

Clinton

Impeachment Trial of Samuel

Chase

"Impending Crisis of the

South"

Imperialism
Implied Powers
Impressment, Confederate
Impressment of Seamen
"In God We Trust"
In Re Debs
In Re Gault
In Re Neagle
Inauguration, Presidential
Income Tax. See Taxation.
Income Tax Cases
Indemnities
Indentured Servants
Independence
Independence, Mo.
Independence Day
Independence Hall
Independence Rock
Independent Counsel Law.

See Special Prosecutors.

Independent Treasury

System

India and Pakistan, Relations

with

Indian Agents
Indian Art. See Art, Indian.
Indian Bible, Eliot's
Indian Boarding Schools
Indian Brigade

Indian Child Welfare Act
Indian Citizenship
Indian Civil Rights Act
Indian Claims Commission
Indian Country
Indian Dance. See Dance,

Indian.

Indian Economic Life
Indian Education. See

Education, Indian.

Indian Intermarriage
Indian Land Cessions
Indian Languages
Indian Medicine. See

Medicine, Indian.

Indian Missions
Indian Mounds
Indian Music. See Music:

Indian.

Indian Oral Literature
Indian Oratory
Indian Policy, Colonial
Indian Policy, U.S.
Indian Policy, U.S.: 1775-

1830

Indian Policy, U.S.: 1830-

1900

Indian Policy, U.S.: 1900-

2000

Indian Political Life
Indian Religious Life
Indian Removal
Indian Reorganization Act
Indian Reservations
Indian Rights Association
Indian Self-Determination and

Education Assistance Act

Indian Sign Language. See

Sign Language, Indian.

Indian Social Life
Indian Technology
Indian Territory
Indian Trade and Intercourse

Act

Indian Trade and Traders
Indian Trading Houses
Indian Trails
Indian Treaties
Indian Treaties, Colonial
Indian Tribal Courts
Indian Tribes. See Tribes.
Indiana
Indiana Company
Indianapolis
Indians and Alcohol
Indians and Slavery
Indians and the Horse
Indians and Tobacco
Indians in the Civil War
Indians in the Military
Indians in the Revolution
Indigo Culture

Individual Retirement Account
Individualism
Industrial Management
Industrial Relations
Industrial Research
Industrial Revolution
Industrial Workers of the

World

Industries, Colonial
Inflation
Inflation in the Confederacy
Influenza
Infomercials
Infrastructure
Inherent Powers
Inheritance Tax Laws
Initiative
Injunctions, Labor
Inland Lock Navigation
Inland Waterways

Commission

Insecticides and Herbicides
Insider Trading
Inspection, Governmental
Installment Buying, Selling,

and Financing

Institute for Advanced Study
Instructions
Insular Cases
Insurance
Insurrections, Domestic
Integration
Intellectual Property
Intelligence, Military and

Strategic

Intelligence Tests
Interest Groups
Interest Laws
Interests
Interior, Department of the
Intermediate Credit Banks
International Brotherhood of

Teamsters

International Brotherhood of

Teamsters v. United States

International Court of Justice
International Geophysical

Year

International Harvester

Company

International Labor Defense
International Labor

Organization

International Ladies Garment

Workers Union

International Law
International Longshoremen's

and Warehousemen's
Union

International Monetary Fund
International Union of Mine,

Mill, and Smelter Workers

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Internet
Internment, Wartime
Interstate Commerce

Commission

Interstate Commerce Laws
Interstate Compacts
Interstate Highway System
Interstate Trade Barriers
Interurban Electric Railways.

See Railways, Interurban.

Intervention
Intolerable Acts
"Intrepid"
Inuit
Investigating Committees
Investment Companies
"Invisible Man"
Iowa
Iowa Band
Ipswich Protest
IRA. See Individual

Retirement Account.

Iran, Relations with
Iran-Contra Affair
Iran Hostage Crisis
Iranian Americans
Iraq-gate
Iraqi Americans
Ireland, Relations with
Irish Americans
Iron Act of 1750
Iron and Steel Industry
Iron Curtain
Ironclad Oath
Ironclad Warships
Iroquois
Irrepressible Conflict
Irrigation
Islam
Island Number Ten,

Operations at

Isolationism
Israel, Relations with
Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Accord

Italian Americans
Italy, Relations with
ITT Affair
Ivy League
Iwo Jima
Jacksonian Democracy
Jacksonville
Jacobin Clubs
James River and Kanawha

Company

Japan, Relations with
Japanese American

Incarceration

Japanese Americans
Japanese Cherry Trees
Java Sea, Battle of
Jay-Gardoqui Negotiations

Jayhawkers
Jay's Treaty
Jazz
Jazz Age
"Jazz Singer, The"
Jefferson Territory
Jeffersonian Democracy
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jenkins's Ear, War of
Jersey Prison Ship
Jesuit "Relations"
Jesuits
Jewish Defense League
Jews
Jim Crow Laws
Jingoism
Job Corps
John Birch Society
Johnny Appleseed
Johns Hopkins University
Johnson Impeachment. See

Impeachment Trial of
Andrew Johnson.

Johnstown Flood
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Commissions
Joint Committee on

Reconstruction

Joint Occupation
Joint-Stock Land Banks
Jolliet-Marquette Explorations
Jones Act
Jones v. Van Zandt
Jonestown Massacre
Journal of Congress
Judaism
Judicial Review
Judiciary
Judiciary Act of 1789
Judiciary Act of 1801
Juilliard v. Greenman
Jumping-Off Places
"Jungle, The"
Junior Leagues International,

Association of

Junk Bonds
Jury Trial
Justice, Department of
Justice of the Peace
Juvenile Courts
Kansas
Kansas City
Kansas Committee, National
Kansas Free-State Party
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kasserine Pass, Battle of
Kearneyites
Kearny's March to California
Kearny's Mission to China
Keelboat
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Kelly's Industrial Army

Kenesaw Mountain, Battle of
Kennebec River Settlements
Kennedy Assassination. See

Assassinations,
Presidential.

Kensington Stone
Kent State Protest
Kentucky
Kentucky Conventions
Keogh Plans. See Retirement

Plans.

Kerner Commission
Kerosine Oil
Keynesianism
Kickapoo
Kidnapping
"Kilroy Was Here"
"King Cotton"
King George's War
King Philip's War
King William's War
King's Province
King, Martin Luther,

Assassination

King, Rodney, Riots. See Los

Angeles Riots.

Kinsey Report
Kinship
Kiowa
"Kitchen Cabinet"
Kitchens
Klamath-Modoc
Klondike Rush
Knights of Labor
Knights of the Golden Circle
Know-Nothing Party
Knox, Fort
Korea, Relations with
Korea War of 1871
Korea-gate
Korean Airlines Flight 007
Korean Americans
Korean War
Korean War, Air Combat in
Kosovo Bombing
Ku Klux Klan
Kwanzaa
La Follette Civil Liberties

Committee Hearings

La Salle Explorations
Labor
Labor, Department of
Labor Day
Labor Legislation and

Administration

Labor Parties
Labor's Non-Partisan League
Laboratories
"Lafayette, We Are Here"
Lafayette Escadrille
Lafayette's Visit to America
Laffer Curve Theory

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Laissez-Faire
Lake Champlain
Lake Erie, Battle of
Lake Okeechobee
Lake Pontchartrain
Lakes-to-Gulf Deep

Waterway

Lakota. See Sioux.
Lakota Language
Lame-Duck Amendment
Lamp, Incandescent
Land Acts
Land Bounties
Land Claims
Land Companies
Land Grants
Land Grants: Overview
Land Grants: Land Grants for

Education

Land Grants: Land Grants for

Railways

Land Office, U.S. General

and Bureau Plans
Management

Land Patents
Land Policy
Land Scrip
Land Speculation
Landscape Architecture
Laramie, Fort
Laramie, Fort, Treaty of

(1851)

Laramie, Fort, Treaty of

(1868)

Las Vegas
Laser Technology
Latin America, Commerce

with

Latin America, Relations with
Latin American Wars of

Independence

Latin Schools
Latinos. See Hispanic

Americans.

Latitudinarians
Latrobe's Folly
Latter-day Saints, Church of

Jesus Christ of

Lausanne Agreement
Law. See Constitution of the

United States; Military Law;
and individual cases,
courts, and legislatures.

Law Schools
Lawrence, Sack of
Lawrence Scientific School
Lawrence Strike
Lead Industry
Leadville Mining District
League of Nations
League of Women Voters
Learned Societies

Leather and Leather Products

Industry

"Leatherstocking Tales"
Leavenworth Expedition
"Leaves of Grass"
Lebanese Americans
Lebanon, U.S. Landing in
Lecompton Constitution
Legal Profession
Legal Tender
Legal Tender Act
Legal Tender Cases
Legionnaires' Disease
Legislative Reorganization

Act

Legislatures, Bicameral and

Unicameral

Legislatures, State
Leisler Rebellion
Lend-Lease
Leopold-Loeb Case
Leprosy
"Let Us Now Praise Famous

Men"

Lever Act
Leveraged Buyouts
Levittown
Levy
Lewis and Clark Expedition
"Lexington"
Lexington and Concord,

Battles of

Leyte Gulf, Battle of
Libel
Liberal Republican Party
Liberalism
Liberation Theology
Liberia, Relations with
Libertarians. See Third

Parties.

Liberty, Concept of
Liberty Bell
"Liberty" Incident
Liberty Loans
Liberty Party
Liberty Poles
Liberty-Cap Cent
Libraries
Libraries, Presidential
Library of Congress
License Cases
Licenses to Trade
Life Expectancy
Life Stages. See Childhood,

Adolescence, Old Age.

Lifesaving Service
Lighthouse Board
Lighting
Lincoln Highway
"Lincoln Logs"
Lincoln Tunnel
Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Lincoln's Second Inaugural

Address

Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Lindbergh's Atlantic Flight
Line-Item Veto. See Veto,

Line-Item.

Linen Industry
Lingayen Gulf
Linguistics
Liquor Industry. See Spirits

Industry.

Liquor Laws. See Alcohol,

Regulation of.

Litchfield Law School
Literacy Test
Literature
Literature: Overview
Literature: African American

Literature

Literature: Children's

Literature

Literature: Native American

Literature

Literature: Popular Literature
Little Bighorn, Battle of
Little Bighorn National

Monument

Little League
Little Red Schoolhouse
Little Rock
Livestock Industry
Lobbies
Local Government
Lochner v. New York
Locke's Political Philosophy
Lockout
Locofoco Party
Locomotives
Log Cabin
Logistics
Logrolling
London, Declaration of
London, Treaty of
London Naval Treaties
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
"Lonely Crowd, The"
Long Beach
Long Drive
Long Island
Long Island, Battle of
Long, Stephen H.,

Explorations of

Long Telegram. See "X"

Article.

Lookout Mountain, Battle on
Lords of Trade and Plantation
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Riots
Lost Battalion
"Lost Cause"
Lost Generation
Lotteries

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Louisburg Expedition
Louisiana
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase

Exposition

Love Canal
"Love Medicine"
Lovejoy Riots
Loving v. Virginia
Lower East Side
Lower South
Loyalists
Loyalty Oaths
LSD
Ludlow Massacre
Ludlow Resolution
Ludlow's Code
Lumbee
Lumber Industry
"Lusitania," Sinking of the
Luther v. Borden
Lutheranism
Lyceum Movement
Lyme Disease
Lynching
Lyng v. Northwest Indian

Cemetery Association

MacArthur Foundation
McCarran-Walter Act
McCarthyism
McClellan Committee

Hearings

McCormick Reaper
McCray v. United States
McCulloch v. Maryland
McDonalds
McFadden Banking Act
McGuffey's Readers
McHenry, Fort
Machine Guns
Machine, Political
Mackerel Fisheries
Mackinac, Straits of, and

Mackinac Island

McKinley Assassination. See

Assassinations,
Presidential.

McNamara Case
McNary-Haugen Bill
Macon's Bill No. 2
Macy's
Madison Square Garden
Mafia. See Crime, Organized.
Mafia Incident
Magazines
Magazines, Men's
Magazines, Women's
Magazines and Newspapers,

African American

Magna Charta
Magnet Schools
Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Mahican
Mail, Overland, and

Stagecoaches

Mail, Southern Overland
Mail-Order Houses
Maine
"Maine," Sinking of the
Majority Rule
Makah
Malaria
Malls, Shopping
Malmédy Massacre
Mammalogy
Management. See Scientific

Management.

Manassas, Battle of. See Bull

Run, Battles of.

Manchuria and Manchukuo
Mandan, Fort
Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara
Mangeurs de Lard
Manhattan
Manhattan Project
Manifest Destiny
Manila Bay, Battle of
Mann Act
Manners and Etiquette
Manufacturing
Manufacturing, Household
Manumission
Maple Sugar
Maps and Mapmaking
Marathons
Marbury v. Madison
March of Dimes
"March of Time"
March on Washington
Marching Bands
Marcy, R. B., Exploration of
Mardi Gras
Maria Monk Controversy
Mariel Boatlift
Marietta
Marijuana
Marine Biology
Marine Corps, United States
Marine Sanctuaries
Marion, Battle at
Maritime Commission,

Federal

Marketing
Marketing Research
Markets, Public
Marque and Reprisal, Letters

of

Marriage
Married Women's Property

Act, New York State

Marshall Islands
Marshall Plan
Martha Graham Dance

Company

Martha's Vineyard
Martial Law
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee
Martin v. Mott
Maryland
Maryland, Invasion of
Mashpee
Mason-Dixon Line
Masons. See Freemasons.
Mass Media
Mass Production
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Ballot
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts Body of

Liberties

Massachusetts Circular Letter
Massachusetts Government

Act

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

Maternal and Child Health

Care

May Day
Mayaguez Incident
"Mayflower"
Mayflower Compact
Mayo Foundation
Maysville Veto
Mazzei Letter
Meat Inspection Laws
Meatpacking
Mechanics' Institutes
Mecklenburg Resolves

(Mecklenburg Declaration of
Independence). See
Charlotte Town Resolves.

Medals, Military. See

Decorations, Military.

Medical Education
Medical Insurance. See

Health Insurance.

Medical Profession
Medical Research
Medical Societies
Medicare and Medicaid
Medicine, Alternative
Medicine, Indian
Medicine, Military
Medicine, Occupational
Medicine and Surgery
Medicine Show
Meetinghouse
Megan's Law
Melting Pot
Memorial Day
Memorial Day Massacre
Memphis
Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro,

Colonization Efforts of

Mennonites
Menominee

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Menominee Iron Range
Mental Illness
Mercantilism
Merchant Adventurers
Merchant Marine
Merchantmen, Armed
Mergers and Acquisitions
Meriam Report
Meritor Savings Bank v.

Mechelle Vinson

Merrill's Marauders
"Merrimac," Sinking of
Mesa
Mesa Verde, Prehistoric

Ruins of

Mesabi Iron Range
Mesquakie
Mesquite
Metalwork
Meteorology
Methodism
Metropolitan Government
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Mexican-American War
Mexican-American War

Claims

Mexican American Women's

National Association

Mexican Americans
Mexico, Confederate

Migration to

Mexico, French in
Mexico, Gulf of
Mexico, Punitive Expedition

into

Mexico, Relations with
Mexico City, Capture of
Miami
Miami (Indians)
Miami Purchase
Michigan
Michigan, Upper Peninsula of
Microbiology
Microsoft
Microwave Technology
Midcontinent Oil Region
Middle Colonies
Middle Passage
Middlebrow Culture
Middle-of-the-Road Populists
Midnight Judges
Midway, Battle of
Midway Islands
Midwest
Migration, African American
Migration, Internal
Military Academy
Military Base Closings
Military-Industrial Complex
Military Law

Military Medals. See

Decorations, Military.

Military Medicine. See

Medicine, Military.

Military Order of the Loyal

Legion of the U.S.A.

Military Photography. See

Photography, Military.

Military Service and Minorities
Military Service and

Minorities: African
Americans

Military Service and

Minorities: Hispanics

Military Service and

Minorities: Homosexuals

Militia Movement
Militias
Millennialism
Mills. See Flour Milling;

Gristmills; Sawmills;
Textiles.

Milwaukee
Mims, Fort, Massacre at
Mineral Patent Law
Mineral Springs
Mineralogy
Mines, U.S. Bureau of
Minesweeping
Miniature
Minimum-Wage Legislation
Mining Industry. See Coal

Mining and individual
metals.

Mining Towns
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Minnesota
Minnesota Moratorium Case
Minor v. Happersett
Minstrel Shows
Mint, Federal
Mints, Private
Minutemen
Miranda v. Arizona
Miscegenation
Miss America Pageant
Missile Defense. See

Strategic Defense Initiative.

Missile Gap
Missiles, Military
Missing in Action

Controversy. See Prisoners
of War.

Mission Indians of California
Missionary Societies, Home
Missions. See Indian

Missions.

Missions, Foreign
Mississippi
Mississippi Bubble
Mississippi Plan
Mississippi River

Mississippi v. Johnson
Mississippi Valley
Missouri
Missouri Compromise
Missouri ex rel Gaines v.

Canada

Missouri River
Missouri River Fur Trade
Missouri v. Holland
Mixed Commissions
Mobile Bay, Battle of
Mobilization
"Moby-Dick"
Modernists, Protestant
Modoc War
Mohave
Mohawk Valley
Mohegan
Molasses Act
Molasses Trade
Molecular Biology
Molly Maguires
Money
"Monitor" and "Merrimack,"

Battle of

Monmouth, Battle of
Monongahela, Battle of the
Monongahela River
Monopoly
"Monopoly"
Monroe, Fortress
Monroe Doctrine
Monroe-Pinkney Treaty
Montana
Monte Cassino
Monterrey, Battles of
Montgomery Convention
Monticello
Montreal, Capture of (1760)
Montreal, Capture of (1775)
Moody's
Moon Landing
Mooney Case
Moonshine
Moral Majority
Moral Societies
Moratorium, Hoover
Moravian Brethren
Morgan-Belmont Agreement
Morgan's Raids
Mormon Battalion
Mormon Expedition
Mormon Handcart

Companies

Mormon Trail
Mormon War
Mormons. See Latter-day

Saints, Church of Jesus
Christ of.

Morrill Act
Morse, Jedidiah,

Geographies of

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Mortars, Civil War Naval
Mortgage Relief Legislation
Mosby's Rangers
Most-Favored-Nation

Principle

Motels
Mother's Day and Father's

Day

Motion Pictures. See

Cartoons; Film.

Motor Carrier Act
Moultrie, Fort, Battle of
Mounds and Mound Builders.

See Indian Mounds.

Mount Holyoke College
Mount Hope
Mount Rushmore
Mount St. Helens
Mount Vernon
Mountain Climbing
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Mountain Men
Mourt's Relation
MRI. See Magnetic

Resonance Imaging.

"Ms. Magazine"
Muckrakers
Mugler v. Kansas
Mugwumps
Mule
Mule Skinner
Muller v. Oregon
Mulligan Letters
Multiculturalism
Municipal Government
Municipal Ownership
Municipal Reform
Munitions
Munn v. Illinois
Murals
Murmansk
Muscle Shoals Speculation
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Science and

Industry (Chicago)

Museums
Music
Music: African American
Music: Bluegrass
Music: Classical
Music: Country and Western
Music: Early American
Music: Folk Revival
Music: Gospel
Music: Indian
Music: Popular
Music: Theater and Film
Music Festivals
Music Industry
Music Television
Mussel Slough Incident
Mustangs

Muster Day
Mutiny Act
"My Country, Tis of Thee"
My Lai Incident
Myers v. United States
Mysticism
Myths. See Folklore.
Nader's Raiders
NAFTA. See North American

Free Trade Agreement.

Naming
Nantucket
Narcotics Trade and

Legislation

Narragansett
Narragansett Bay
Narragansett Planters
Narrows
NASA. See National

Aeronautics and Space
Administration.

Nashville
Nashville, Battle of
Nashville Convention
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Natchez
Natchez Campaign of 1813
Natchez Trace
Nation of Islam
"Nation, The"
National Academy of

Sciences

National Aeronautics and

Space Administration

National Archives
National Association for the

Advancement of Colored
People

National Association of

Colored Women

National Association of

Manufacturers

National Bank Notes
National Bureau of Economic

Research

National Bureau of Standards
National Civic Federation
National Collegiate Athletic

Association

National Conference of

Puerto Rican Women

National Congress of

American Indians

National Council of Churches
National Council of Jewish

Women

National Council of Negro

Women

National Education

Association

National Endowment for the

Arts

National Endowment for the

Humanities

National Federation of

Business and Professional
Women's Clubs

National Gallery
National Geographic Society
National Guard
National Indian Youth Council
National Institute for the

Promotion of Science. See
American Association for
the Advancement of
Science.

National Institutes of Health
National Labor Relations Act
National Labor Relations

Board v. Jones and
Laughlin Steel Corporation

National Labor Union
National Lawyers Guild
National Monetary

Commission

National Museum of the

American Indian

National Organization for

Women

National Park System
National Public Radio
National Recovery

Administration

National Republican Party
"National Review"
National Rifle Association
National Road. See

Cumberland Road.

National Science Foundation
National Security Agency
National Security Council
National Trades' and

Workers' Association

National Trades' Union
National Traffic and Motor

Vehicle Safety Act

National Trust for Historic

Preservation

National Union (Arm-in-Arm)

Convention

National Union for Social

Justice

National Urban League
National War Labor Board,

World War I

National War Labor Board,

World War II

National Waterways

Commission

National Woman's Party
National Women's Political

Caucus

Nationalism
Native American Church

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Native American Graves

Protection and Repatriation
Act

Native American Rights Fund
Native American Studies
Native Americans
Nativism
Nativist Movements

(American Indian Revival
Movements)

NATO. See North Atlantic

Treaty Organization.

Natural Gas Industry
Natural Rights
Naturalism
Naturalization
"Nautilus"
Nauvoo, Mormons at
Navajo
Navajo Code Talkers
Navajo Language
Navajo War
Naval Academy
Naval Oil Reserves
Naval Operations, Chief of
Naval Stores
Navigation Act of 1817
Navigation Acts
Navy, Confederate
Navy, Department of the
Navy, United States
Nazarene, Church of the
Near v. Minnesota
Nebbia v. New York
Nebraska
Negative Income Tax
Neoconservatism
"Nesters." See Homesteaders

and the Cattle Industry.

Neutral Rights
Neutrality
Nevada
New Age Movement
New Albion Colony
New Amsterdam
New Castle
New Deal
New England
New England Antislavery

Society

New England Colonies
New England Company
New England Confederation
New England Emigrant Aid

Company

New England Indians. See

Tribes: Northeastern.

"New England Primer"
New England Way
New Era
New France
New Freedom

New Frontier
New Hampshire
New Haven Colony
New Jersey
New Lights
New Mexico
New Nationalism
New Netherland
New Orleans
"New Orleans"
New Orleans, Battle of
New Orleans, Capture of
New Orleans Riots
"New Republic, The"
New Smyrna Colony
New South. See South, the.
New Sweden Colony
New York City
New York City Ballet
New York City, Capture of
New York City, Plot to Burn
New York Colony
New York Intellectuals
New York Slave Conspiracy

of 1741

New York State
"New York Times"
New York Times v. Sullivan
"New Yorker, The"
Newark
Newberry Library
Newburgh Addresses
Newport, French Army at
Newspapers
Nez Perce
Nez Perce War
Niagara, Carrying Place of
Niagara Campaigns
Niagara Falls
Niagara Movement
Niblo's Garden
Nicaragua, Relations with
Nicaraguan Canal Project
Nickelodeon
Nicolet, Explorations of
Nicolls' Commission
Nightclubs
9/11 Attack
9 to 5, National Association of

Working Women

Nisei. See Japanese

Americans.

Nitrates
Nixon, Resignation of
Nixon Impeachment. See

Impeachment.

Nixon Tapes
Nobel Prizes. See Prizes and

Awards.

Noise Pollution
Nominating System
Nonferrous Metals

Nonimportation Agreements
Nonintercourse Act
Nonintervention Policy
Nonpartisan League, National
Nonrecognition Policy. See

Recognition Policy.

Normalcy
Normandy Invasion
Norris-LaGuardia Act
Norsemen in America
North African Campaign
North American Free Trade

Agreement

North Atlantic Treaty

Organization

North Carolina
North Dakota
North Sea Mine Barrage
North West Company
Northern Securities Company

v. United States

Northfield Bank Robbery
Northwest Angle
Northwest Conspiracy
Northwest Passage
Northwest Territory
Norwegian Churches
Nuclear Non-Proliferation

Treaty

Nuclear Power
Nuclear Regulatory

Commission

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Nuclear Weapons
Nullification
Nursing
Nutrition and Vitamins
Oakland
Oats
Oberlin College
Oberlin Movement
Oberlin-Wellington Rescue

Case

Obesity
Objectivism
Obscenity. See Censorship,

Press and Artistic;
Pornography.

Observatories, Astronomical
Ocala Platform
Occupational Safety and

Health Act

Oceanographic Survey
Oceanography
Office of Economic

Opportunity

Office of Management and

Budget

Office of Price Administration
Office of Price Stabilization
Office of Scientific Research

and Development

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Office of Strategic Services
Office Technology
Officers' Reserve Corps
Offshore Oil
Ogden v. Saunders
Ohio
Ohio Company of Virginia
Ohio Idea
Ohio River
Ohio Valley
Ohio Wars
Oil Crises
Oil Fields
Ojibwe
Ojibwe Language
Okinawa
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Bombing
Old Age
Old Hickory
"Old Ironsides." See

"Constitution."

Old North Church
Old Northwest. See

Northwest Territory.

Olive Branch Petition
Olney Corollary
Olney-Pauncefote Treaty
Olympic Games, American

Participation in

Omnibus Bill
Oñate Explorations and

Settlements

Oneida Colony
Onions
Onondaga
Open Door Policy
Open-Market Operations
Opera
Operation Dixie
Operation Rescue
Options Exchanges
Oratory
Order of American Knights.

See Knights of the Golden
Circle.

Ordinances of 1784, 1785,

and 1787

Ordnance
Oregon
Oregon System
Oregon Trail
Oregon Treaty of 1846
Organic Farming
Organization for Economic

Cooperation and
Development

Organization of Afro-

American Unity

Organization of American

States

Organized Crime. See Crime,

Organized.

Organized Crime Control Act
Original Package Doctrine
Oriskany, Battle of
Orleans, Territory of
Ornithology
Orthodox Chuches
Osage
Osage Orange
Osborn v. Bank of the United

States

Oslo Accords. See Israeli-

Palestinian Peace Accord.

Ostend Manifesto
Osteopathy
Ottawa
"Our Federal Union! It Must

Be Preserved!"

Overland Companies
Overland Trail
Overseer and Driver
Oxen
Oxford Movement
Ozette
Ozone Depletion
Pacific Fur Company
Pacific Islanders
Pacific Northwest
Pacific Rim
Pacifism
Pack Trains
Packaging
Packers and Stockyards Act
Packers' Agreement
Packets, Sailing
Painting. See Art: Painting.
Pairing
Paiute
Pakistan. See India and

Pakistan, Relations with.

Palestinian Americans. See

Arab Americans.

Palimony
Palmer Raids
Palsgraff v. Long Island
Pamphleteering
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan-Africanism
Pan-American Exposition
Pan-American Union
Panama Canal
Panama Canal Treaty
Panama Invasion
Panama Refining Company v.

Ryan

Panama Revolution
"Panay" Incident
Panhandle
Panics. See Financial Panics.
Panton, Leslie and Company

Papal States, Diplomatic

Service to

Paper and Pulp Industry
Paramilitary Groups. See

Militia Movement;
Minutemen.

Parapsychology
Paratroops
Paris Conferences
Paris, Treaty of (1763)
Paris, Treaty of (1783)
Paris, Treaty of (1898)
"Parity" in Naval Defense
Parliament, British
Parson's Cause
Passamaquoddy/Penobscot
Passes, Mountain
Passports
PATCO Strike. See Air Traffic

Controllers Strike.

Patents and U.S. Patent

Office

Paterson Silk Strike
Patients' Rights
Patronage, Political
Patrons of Husbandry
Patroons
"Patterns of Culture"
Paving
Pawnee
Paxton Boys
Peabody Fund
Peace Commission (1867)
Peace Conferences
Peace Corps
Peace Movement of 1864
Peace Movements
Peacekeeping Missions
Pearl Harbor
Peculiar Institution
Peddlers
Peleliu
Pendergast Machine
Pendleton Act
Peninsular Campaign
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Germans
Pennsylvania, Invasion of
Pennsylvania Troops,

Mutinies of

Penobscot. See

Passamaquoddy/Penobscot
.

Penobscot Expedition
Penobscot Region
Pension Act, Arrears of
Pension Plans
Pensions, Military and Naval
Pentagon
Pentagon Papers
Pentecostal Churches
Peonage

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Pequot War
Pequots
Permanent Court of

Arbitration. See
International Court of
Justice.

Perry-Elliott Controversy
Perry's Expedition to Japan
Perryville, Battle of
Persian Gulf Syndrome
Persian Gulf War
Personal Ads
Personal Liberty Laws
Personnel Administrator of

Massachusetts v. Feeney

Pesticides. See Insecticides

and Herbicides.

Pet Banks
"Peter Principle"
Petersburg, Siege of
Petition and Remonstrance of

New Netherland

Petition, Right of
Petrochemical Industry
Petrography
Petroleum Industry
Petroleum Prospecting and

Technology

Pew Memorial Trust
Pewter. See Metalwork.
Pharmaceutical Industry
Pharmacy
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Cordwainers'

Case

Philadelphia Plan
Philadelphia Riots
Philanthropy
Philippine Insurrection
Philippine Sea, Battle of the
Philippines
Philosophy
Phoenix
Photographic Industry
Photography. See Art:

Photography.

Photography, Military
Phrenology
Physician Assistants
Physics
Physics: Overview
Physics: High-Energy Physics
Physics: Nuclear Physics
Physics: Solid-State Physics
Physiology
Picketing
Pickett's Charge
Pieces of Eight
Piecework
Piedmont Region
Pierce v. Society of Sisters

Pietism
Pigs. See Hogs; Livestock

Industry.

Pike, Zebulon, Expeditions of
Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak Gold Rush
Pilgrims
Pillory
Pillow, Fort, Massacre at
Pima. See Akimel O'odham

and Tohono O'odham.

Pinckney Plan
Pinckney's Treaty
Pine Tree Flag
Pine Tree Shilling
Pinkerton Agency
Pioneers
Pipelines, Early
Piracy
Pit
Pithole
Pittsburgh
Plan of 1776
Plank Roads
Planned Parenthood of

Southeastern Pennsylvania
v. Casey

Plans of Union, Colonial
Plantation System of the

South

Plastics
Platform, Party
Platt Amendment
Plea Bargain
Pledge of Allegiance
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ploesti Oil Fields, Air Raids

on

Plumb Plan
Plumbing
Pluralism
Plymouth Colony
Plymouth Rock
Plymouth, Virginia Company

of

Pocket Veto
Poet Laureate
Point Four
Polar Exploration
Police
Police Brutality
Police Power
Poliomyelitis
Polish Americans
Political Action Committees
Political Cartoons
Political Correctness
Political Exiles to the United

States

Political Parties
Political Scandals
Political Science

Political Subdivisions
Political Theory
Polk Doctrine
Poll Tax
Polling
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and

Trust Company

Pollution. See Air Pollution;

Noise Pollution; Water
Pollution.

Polygamy
Pontiac's War
Pony Express
Pools, Railroad
"Poor Richard's Almanac"
Poor Whites
Pop Art
Popham Colony. See

Sagadahoc, Colony at.

Popular Sovereignty
Population. See Demography

and Demographic Trends.

Populism
Porcelain
Pork Barrel
Pornography
Pornography Commission
Port Authorities
Port Authority of New York

And New Jersey

Port Royal
Portages and Water Routes
Portland
Portsmouth, Treaty of
Positivism
Post Roads
Postal Service, U.S.
Postmodernism
Post-structuralism
Post-Traumatic Stress

Disorder

Potash
Potatoes
Potawatomi
Potomac River
Potsdam Conference
Pottawatomie Massacre
Poverty
Poverty Point
Powell Case
Powell Expeditions. See

Colorado River
Explorations.

"Power of Positive Thinking,

The"

Powhatan Confederacy
"Powhatan" Incident
Powwow
Pragmatism
Prairie
Prairie du Chien, Indian

Treaty at

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Prairie Schooner
Praying Towns
Preferential Voting
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Preparedness
Presbyterianism
Preservation Movement
President, U.S.
Presidents and Subpoenas
Presidents, Interment of
Presidio
Press Associations
Press Gang
Pribilof Islands
Price and Wage Controls
Prices
Prigg v. Commonwealth of

Pennsylvania

Primal Therapy
Primary, Direct
Primary, White
Primogeniture
Princeton, Battle of
"Princeton," Explosion on the
Princeton University
Printer's Devil
Printing Industry
Printmaking
Prisoners of War
Prisoners of War: Overview
Prisoners of War: Exchange

of Prisoners

Prisoners of War: Prison

Camps, Confederate

Prisoners of War: Prison

Camps, Union

Prisoners of War: Prison

Camps, World War II

Prisoners of War: Prison

Ships

Prisoners of War: POW/MIA

Controversy, Vietnam War

Prisons and Prison Reform
Privacy
Privateers and Privateering
Privatization
Privileges and Immunities of

Citizens

Privy Council
Prize Cases, Civil War
Prize Courts
Prizefighting
Prizes and Awards
Prizes and Awards: Academy

Awards

Prizes and Awards:

Guggenheim Awards

Prizes and Awards:

MacArthur Foundation
"Genius" Awards

Prizes and Awards: Nobel

Prizes

Prizes and Awards: Pulitzer

Prizes

Pro-Choice Movement
Pro-Life Movement
Proclamation Money
Proclamation of 1763
Proclamations
Procter and Gamble
Product Tampering
Productivity, Concept of
Professions. See Legal

Profession; Medical
Profession.

Profit Sharing
Profiteering
"Progress and Poverty"
Progressive Movement
Progressive Party, 1924
Progressive Party, 1948
Progressive Party, Wisconsin
Prohibition
Prohibition Party
Promontory Point
Propaganda
Property
Property Qualifications
Proportional Representation
Proposition 13
Proposition 187
Proposition 209
Proprietary Agent
Proprietary Colonies
Prospectors
Prostitution
Protectionism. See Tariff.
Protestantism
Providence Island Company
Providence Plantations,

Rhode Island and

Provincetown Players
Provincial Congresses
Prozac
Psychiatry
Psychological Warfare
Psychology
"Public Be Damned"
Public Credit Act
Public Domain
Public Health. See Epidemics

and Public Health.

Public Interest Law
Public Land Commissions
Public Lands, Fencing of
Public Opinion
Public Ownership. See

Government Ownership.

Public Schools. See

Education.

Public Utilities
Publishing Industry
Pueblo
"Pueblo" Incident

Pueblo Revolt
Puerto Ricans in the United

States

Puerto Rico
Puget Sound
Pugwash Conferences
Pujo Committee
Pulitzer Prizes. See Prizes

and Awards.

Pullman Strike
Pullmans
Pump-Priming
Punishment
Pure and Simple Unionism
Pure Food and Drug

Movement

Puritans and Puritanism
Purple Heart. See

Decorations, Military.

Pyramid Schemes
Quakers
Quality Circles
Quantrill's Raid
Quartering Act
Quasi-War. See France,

Quasi-War with.

Quebec, Capture of
Quids
Quilting
Quiz Show Scandals
Rabaul Campaign
Race Relations
Race Riots. See Riots.
Racial Science
Radar
Radical Republicans
Radical Right
Radicals and Radicalism
Radio
Radiocarbon Dating
Rafts and Rafting
Ragtime
Rail Splitter
Railroad Administration, U.S.
Railroad Brotherhoods
Railroad Conventions
Railroad Mediation Acts
Railroad Rate Law
Railroad Rate Wars
Railroad Retirement Acts
Railroad Retirement Board v.

Alton Railroad Company

Railroad Strike of 1877
Railroad Strike of 1886
Railroad Surveys,

Government

Railroads
Railroads in the Civil War
Railway Shopmen's Strike
Railways, Interurban
Railways, Urban, and Rapid

Transit

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Rainbow Coalition
Raleigh
Raleigh Colonies
Rams, Confederate
Ranching. See Cattle;

Livestock Industry.

Randolph Commission
Rangers
Rape
Rape Crisis Centers
Rapid Transit. See Railways,

Urban, and Rapid Transit.

"Reader's Digest"
Readjuster Movement
Reaganomics
Real Estate Industry
Recall
Recessions. See Business

Cycles.

Reciprocal Trade Agreements
Reclamation
Recognition, Policy of
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Finance

Corporation

Recreation
Recycling
Red Cross, American
Red Power
Red River Campaign
Red River Cart Traffic
Red River Indian War
Red Shirts
Redlining
Redwood. See Sequoia.
Reed Rules
Reed v. Reed
Referendum
Reformatories
Reformed Churches
Refrigeration
Refugee Act of 1980
Refugees
Regulators
Reitman v. Mulkey
Relief. See Welfare System.
Religion and Religious

Affiliation

Religious Liberty
Religious Thought and

Writings

Relocation, Italian-American
"Remember the Alamo"
Remington and Indian and

Western Images

Removal, Executive Power of
Removal Act of 1830
Removal of Deposits
Reorganized Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints

Reparation Commission
Representation

Representative Government
Reptiles. See Herpetology.
Republic
Republican Party
Republicanism
Republicans, Jeffersonian
Repudiation of Public Debt
Repudiation of State Debts
Reserve Officers' Training

Corps

Resettlement Administration
Resolutions, Congressional
Resorts and Spas
Restraint of Trade
Resumption Act
Retailing Industry
Retaliation in International

Law

Retirement
Retirement Plans
Revenue, Public
Revenue Sharing
Revere's Ride
Revivalism. See

Evangelicalism and
Revivalism.

Revolution, American
Revolution, American:

Political History

Revolution, American: Military

History

Revolution, American:

Diplomatic Aspects

Revolution, American:

Financial Aspects

Revolution, American:

Profiteering

Revolution, Right of
Revolutionary Committees
Reykjavik Summit
Reynolds v. United States
Rhode Island
Rhodes Scholarships
Rice Culture and Trade
Richmond
Richmond Campaigns
Richmond Junto
Richmond v. J. A. Croson

Company

RICO
Riders, Legislative
Rifle
Rifle, Recoilless
"Right to Die" Cases
Right Wing. See Radical

Right.

Right-to-Work Laws
Rights. See Human Rights;

Natural Rights.

Rights of Englishmen
"Rights of Man"

Rights of the British Colonies

Asserted and Proved

Rings, Political
Rio de Janeiro Conference
Rio Grande
Riots
Riots, Urban
Riots, Urban, of 1967
"Ripley's Believe It or Not"
Ripper Legislation
River and Harbor

Improvements

River Navigation
Rivers
Roads
Roads, Military
Robber Barons
Robberies
Roberts et al. v. United States

Jaycees

Robinson-Patman Act
Robotics
Rock and Roll
Rockefeller Commission

Report

Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller University
Rockets
Rocky Mountains
Rodeos
Roe v. Wade
Rogers' Rangers
Rollerblading
Roma. See Gypsies.
Romanticism
Romer v. Evans
Roosevelt Corollary
Root Arbitration Treaties
Root Mission
Root-Takahira Agreement
"Roots"
Rosenberg Case
Rotary International v. Rotary

Club of Duarte

Rotation in Office
ROTC. See Reserve Officers'

Training Corps.

Rough Riders
Royal Colonies
Royal Disallowance
Rubber
Ruby Ridge
Rule of Reason
Rules of the House
Rum Trade
Running
Rural Free Delivery
Rural Life
Russia, Relations with
Russian and Soviet

Americans

Russian Claims

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Rust Belt
Rust v. Sullivan
Rustler War
Rutgers University
Ryswick, Peace of
Sabotage
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Sachem
Sacramento
Saddles
Saenz v. Roe
Safety First Movement
Safety Fund System
Sagadahoc, Colony at
Sailing and Yacht Racing
Saint Albans Raid
Saint Augustine
Saint Lawrence River
Saint Lawrence Seaway
Saint Louis
Saint-Lô
Saint-Mihiel, Campaigns at
Saipan
Salem
Salem Witch Trials
Salerno
Sales Taxes
Salmon Fisheries
Saloons. See Taverns and

Saloons.

Salt
SALT I and II. See Strategic

Arms Limitation Talks.

Salt Lake City
Salton Sea
Salvation Army
Samoa, American
Samplers
Sampson-Schley Controversy
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Francisco Earthquakes
San Jacinto, Battle of
San José
San Juan Hill and El Caney,

Battles of

San Juan Islands
San Lorenzo, Treaty of. See

Pinckney's Treaty.

San Quentin
San Simeon
Sand Creek Massacre
Sanitary Commission, United

States

Sanitation, Environmental
Santa Clara Pueblo v.

Martinez

Santa Fe
Santa Fe Trail
"Santa Maria"
Santeria

Saratoga Campaign
Saratoga Springs
SAT
"Saturday Evening Post"
"Saturday Night Live"
Sauk
Sauk Prairie
Savannah
"Savannah"
Savannah, Siege of (1779)
Savannah, Siege of (1864)
Savings and Loan

Associations

Savings Bonds
Sawmills
Saybrook Platform
Scab
Scalawag
Scalping
Scandals
Scandinavian Americans
"Scarlet Letter, The"
Schechter Poultry

Corporation v. United
States

Schenck v. United States
Scholastic Aptitude Test. See

SAT.

School Choice Movement.

See Education, Parental
Choice in.

School, District
School Lands
School Prayer
School Vouchers
Schools, Community
Schools, Desegregation of.

See Desegregation.

Schools, For-Profit
Schools, Magnet. See

Magnet Schools.

Schools, Private
Schools, Single-Sex
Schooner
Science and Religion,

Relations of

Science Education
Science Journalism and

Television

Science Museums
Scientific Fraud
Scientific Information

Retrieval

Scientific Management
Scientific Societies. See

Learned Societies.

Scientology
Scopes Trial
Scotch-Irish
Scottsboro Case
Scouting on the Plains
"Scrabble"

Sculpture. See Art: Sculpture.
Scurvy
Sea Otter Trade
Seal of the Confederate

States of America

Seal of the United States
Sealing
SEALS. See Special Forces.
Seamen's Act
Search and Seizure,

Unreasonable

Sears Roebuck Catalog
Sears Tower
Seattle
Secession
Secret Service
Secret Societies
Sectionalism
Secularization
Sedition Acts
Segregation
Selden Patent
Selectmen
Self-Help Movement
Self-Service Stores. See

Retailing Industry.

Semiconductors
Seminole
Seminole Tribe v. Florida
Seminole Wars
Senate. See Congress,

United States.

Seneca Falls Convention
Seniority Rights
Separation of Powers
Separatists, Puritan
Sequoia
Sequoyah, Proposed State of
Serbia. See Yugoslavia,

Relations with.

Serial Killings
"Sesame Street"
Set-Asides
Settlement House Movement
Seven Days' Battles
Seven Sisters Colleges
Seven Years' War. See

French and Indian War.

Sewing Machine
Sex Discrimination. See

Discrimination: Sex.

Sex Education
Sexual Harassment
Sexual Orientation
Sexuality
Sexually Transmitted

Diseases

Shakers
Shanty Towns
Share-the-Wealth Movements
Sharecroppers
Shawnee

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Shays's Rebellion
Sheep
Sheep Wars
Sheffield Scientific School
Shelby's Mexican Expedition
Shenandoah Campaign
Shenandoah Valley
Sheppard-Towner Maternity

and Infancy Protection Act

Sheridan's Ride
Sherman Antitrust Act
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Sherman's March to the Sea
Shiloh, Battle of
Shipbuilding
Shipping. See Merchant

Marine.

Shipping, Ocean
Shipping Board, U.S.
Ships of the Line
Shoshone
Showboats
Shreveport Rate Case
Siberian Expedition
Sicilian Campaign
Siegfried Line
Sierra Club
Sign Language, American
Sign Language, Indian
Signal Corps, U.S. Army
"Silent Spring"
Silhouettes
Silicon Valley
Silicone Breast Implants. See

Breast Implants.

Silk Culture and Manufacture
Silver. See Metalwork.
Silver Democrats
Silver Legislation
Silver Prospecting and Mining
Silver Republican Party
Simpson Murder Trials
Sing Sing
Singing Schools
Single Tax
Singleton Peace Plan
Sinking Fund, National
Sino-Japanese War
Sioux
Sioux Uprising in Minnesota
Sioux Wars
Sit-down Strikes
"60 Minutes"
Skateboarding
Skid Row
Skiing
Skyscrapers
Slang
Slaughterhouse Cases
Slave Insurrections
Slave Rescue Cases
Slave Ships

Slave Trade
Slavery
Sleepy Hollow
Slidell's Mission to Mexico
Slums. See Tenements.
Small Business

Administration

Smallpox
Smelters
Smith v. Oregon Employment
Smith Act
Smith-Hughes Act
Smith-Lever Act
Smithsonian Institution
Smog. See Air Pollution.
Smoke-Filled Room
Smoking
Smuggling, Colonial
Smuggling of Slaves
Snake River
Snakes. See Herpetology.
Snelling, Fort
Soap and Detergent Industry
Soap Operas
Soccer
Social Darwinism
Social Democratic Party
Social Gospel
Social Legislation
Social Register
Social Security
Social Settlements. See

Settlement House
Movement.

Social Work
Socialist Labor Party
Socialist Movement
Socialist Party of America
Society for Ethical Culture.

See Ethical Culture, Society
for.

Society for the Prevention of

Cruelty to Animals

Society for the Prevention of

Cruelty to Children

Society for the Propagation of

the Gospel in Foreign Parts

Society for Women's Health

Research

Society of American Indians
Sociology
Soda Fountains
Soft Drink Industry
Soft Money
Software Industry
Soil
Soldiers' Home
Solid South
Somalia, Relations with
Somme Offensive
"Son of the Forest, A"
Son-of-Sam Law

Sons of Liberty (American

Revolution)

Sons of Liberty (Civil War)
Sons of the South
Sooners
Sorghum
Soto, Hernando de,

Explorations of

"Souls of Black Folk, The"
South Africa, Relations with
South America, Relations

with. See Latin America,
Relations with.

South Carolina
"South Carolina Exposition

and Protest"

South Dakota
South Pass
South, the
South, the: The Antebellum

South

South, the: The New South
Southeast Asia Treaty

Organization

Southeast Asian Americans
Southern Campaigns
Southern Christian

Leadership Conference

Southern Commercial

Conventions

Southern Rights Movement
Southern Tenant Farmers'

Union

Southern Unionists
Southwest
Southwest Territory
Sovereigns of Industry
Sovereignty, Doctrine of
Soviet Union. See Russia,

Relations with.

Sow Case
Soybeans
Space Program
Space Shuttle
Spain, Relations with
Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War, Navy

in

Spanish Borderlands
Spanish Conspiracy
Spanish Dollar. See Pieces of

Eight.

Spanish Language
Speakeasy
Speaker of the House of

Representatives

Special Forces
Special Interest Groups. See

Interest Groups.

Special Prosecutors
Specie Circular

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Specie Payments,

Suspension and
Resumption of

Species, Introduced
Speech Codes. See Group

Libel Laws.

Speed Limits
Spelling Bee
Spies
Spirit Lake Massacre
Spirits Industry
Spiritualism
Spiro
Spoils System
Sports
Spotsylvania Courthouse,

Battle of

Springer v. United States
Square Deal
Stafford v. Wallace
Stagecoach Travel
Stagflation
Staggers Rail Act
Stalwarts
Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
Stamp Act Riot
Stampedes
Standard & Poor's
Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil Company of

New Jersey v. United
States

Standards of Living
Stanford University
"Star of the West"
Star Route Frauds
"Star Wars"
"Star-Spangled Banner"
Stare Decisis
Starr Report. See Clinton

Scandals; Impeachment
Trial of Bill Clinton.

Starving Time
State Constitutions
State, Department of
State Emblems, Nicknames,

Mottos, and Songs

State Fairs. See County and

State Fairs.

State Laws, Uniform
State Sovereignty
State University of New York
States' Rights
States' Rights in the

Confederacy

Statistics
Statue of Liberty
"Statutes at Large, United

States"

Statutes of Limitations
Statutory Law

Steam Power and Engines
Steamboats
Steel Strikes
Steering Committees
Stem Cell Research. See

Bioethics; Genetic
Engineering.

Stevens, Isaac, Mission
Stock Market
Stockbridge Indian

Settlement

Stocks
Stockton-Kearny Quarrel
Stockyards
Stonewall Riot. See Gay and

Lesbian Movement.

Stoney Creek, Battle of
Stores, General
Strategic Arms Limitation

Talks

Strategic Defense Initiative
Strauder v. West Virginia
Street Railways. See

Railways, Urban, and Rapid
Transit.

Strikes
Strontium 90
Stuart's Ride
Student Nonviolent

Coordinating Committee

Students for a Democratic

Society

Sturges v. Crowninshield
Submarines
Subpoena. See Presidents

and Subpoenas.

Subsidies
Subsistence Homesteads
Substance Abuse
Substitutes, Civil War
Subtreasuries
Suburbanization
Subversion, Communist
Subways. See Railways,

Urban, and Rapid Transit.

Sudden Infant Death

Syndrome

Suez Crisis
Suffolk Banking System
Suffolk Resolves
Suffrage
Suffrage: Overview
Suffrage: Exclusion from the

Suffrage

Suffrage: Colonial Suffrage
Suffrage: African American

Suffrage

Suffrage: Woman's Suffrage
Sugar Acts
Sugar Industry
Summit Conferences, U.S.

and Russian

Sumptuary Laws and Taxes,

Colonial

Sumter, Fort
Sun Belt
Sun Dance
Sunday Schools
Superconducting Super

Collider

Superfund
Supermarkets and

Superstores. See Retailing
Industry.

Supersonic Transport
Supply-Side Economics
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Packing Bills
Surfing
Surplus, Federal
Surrogate Motherhood
"Surrounded, The"
Survey Act
Surveying
Susquehanna Company. See

Wyoming Valley, Settlement
of.

"Sussex" Case
Sutter's Fort
Swarthmore College
Sweatshop
Swedenborgian Churches
Swift v. Tyson
Swimming
Symbionese Liberation Army
Symphony Orchestras
Syndicalism
Tabernacle, Mormon
Taft Commission
Taft-Hartley Act
Taft-Katsura Memorandum
Taft-Roosevelt Split
Tailhook Incident
Talk Shows, Radio and

Television

Tall Stories
Tallmadge Amendment
Tammany Hall
Tammany Societies
Tampa-St. Petersburg
Taos
Tar
Tar and Feathers
Tarawa
Tariff
Task Force 58
Taverns and Saloons
Tax in Kind, Confederate.

See Tithes, Southern
Agricultural.

Taxation
"Taxation without

Representation"

Taylor v. Louisiana

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Tea, Duty on
Tea Trade, Prerevolutionary
Teacher Corps
Teacher Training
Teachers' Loyalty Oath
Teamsters. See International

Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Teapot Dome Oil Scandal
Technocracy Movement
Technology. See Industrial

Research and individual
industries.

Tecumseh's Crusade
Teepee. See Tipi.
Teheran Conference
Telecommunications
Telecommunications Act
Telegraph
Telephone
Telephone Cases
Televangelism
Television
Television: Programming and

Influence

Television: Technology
Teller Amendment
Temperance Movement
Ten-Forties
Tenements
Tennessee
Tennessee, Army of
Tennessee River
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennis
Tenure of Office Act
Termination Policy
Territorial Governments
Territorial Sea
Territories of the United

States

Terrorism
Test Laws
Tet Offensive
Texan Emigration and Land

Company

Texas
Texas Navy
Texas Public Lands
Texas Rangers
Texas v. White
Textbooks
Textbooks, Early
Textiles
Thames, Battle of the
Thanksgiving Day
Theater
Theme Parks. See

Amusement Parks.

Theocracy in New England
Theosophy
Think Tanks
Third Parties

Thirty-eighth Parallel
Thirty-Hour Week
Thomas Confirmation

Hearings

Three Mile Island
"Thresher" Disaster
Thrift Stamps
Tiananmen Square Protest
Ticonderoga, Capture of
Tidelands
Tidewater
Till, Emmett, Lynching of
Tillmanism
Timber Culture Act
"Time"
Times Beach
Times Square
Timucua
Tin Pan Alley
Tinian
Tipi
Tippecanoe, Battle of
"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"
"Titanic," Sinking of the
Tithes, Southern Agricultural
Titles of Nobility
Tobacco as Money
Tobacco Industry
Tocqueville. See "Democracy

in America."

"Today"
Tohono O'odham. See Akimel

O'odham and Tohono
O'odham.

Toledo
Toleration Acts
Toll Bridges and Roads
Tolls Exemption Act
Tomahawk
Tombstone
"Tonight"
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Topeka Constitution
Tories. See Loyalists.
Tornadoes
Torpedo Warfare
Tourism
Towboats and Barges
Tower Commission
Town Government
Townsend Plan
Townshend Acts
Toxic Shock Syndrome
Toxic Substance Control Act
Toys and Games
Track and Field
Trade Agreements
Trade Dollar
Trade, Domestic
Trade, Foreign
Trade Union Educational

League

Trade Union Unity League
Trade Unions
Trade with the Enemy Acts
Trademarks
Trading Companies
Trading Posts, Frontier
Trading Stamps. See Thrift

Stamps.

Trail Drivers
"Trail of Broken Treaties"
Trail of Tears
Trailer Parks
Train Robberies
Trans-Appalachian West
Transcendentalism
Transcontinental Railroad,

Building of

Transplants and Organ

Donation

Transportation, Department

of

Transportation Act of 1920
Transportation and Travel
Traveling Salesmen
Treason
Treasury, Department of the
Treaties, Commercial
Treaties with Foreign Nations
Treaties with Indians. See

Indian Treaties.

Treaties, Negotiation and

Ratification of

Treaty Councils (Indian

Treatymaking)

Treaty of Peace, 1783. See

Paris, Treaty of (1783).

Trenches in American

Warfare

"Trent" Affair
Trenton, Battle of
Trevett v. Weeden
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Triangular Trade
Tribal Colleges
Tribes
Tribes: Alaskan
Tribes: California
Tribes: Great Basin
Tribes: Great Plains
Tribes: Northeastern
Tribes: Northwestern
Tribes: Prairie
Tribes: Southeastern
Tribes: Southwestern
Tribute
Trickle-Down Economics
Tripartite Agreement
Trolleys. See Railways,

Urban, and Rapid Transit..

Truax v. Corrigan
Trucking Industry
Truman Doctrine

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Trust Territory of the Pacific
Trust-Busting
Trusts
Tuberculosis
Tucson
Tulsa
Tulsa Race Riot
Tunnels
Tuskegee University
TWA Flight 800
Tweed Ring
Twenty-One Gun Salute
Two Penny Act
Two-Party System
Two-Thirds Rule
Tydings-McDuffie Act
Typewriter
U-2 Incident
UFOs. See Unidentified

Flying Objects.

Unabomber
Uncle Sam
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Unconditional Surrender
Underground Railroad
Underwater Demolition

Teams

Unemployment
Unidentified Flying Objects
Uniform Code of Military

Justice

Uniforms, Military
Union Colony
Union, Fort
Union Labor Party
Union Party
Union Sentiment in Border

States

Union Sentiment in the South
Unions. See Labor; Trade

Unions.

Unit Rule
United Americans, Order of
United Automobile Workers of

America

United Brotherhood of

Carpenters and Joiners

United Church of Christ
United Colonies of New

England. See New England
Confederation.

United Confederate Veterans
United Daughters of the

Confederacy

United Empire Loyalists
United Farm Workers of

America

United Kingdom. See Great

Britain, Relations with.

United Mine Workers of

America

United Nations

United Nations Conference
United Nations Declaration
United Press International.

See Press Associations.

United States v. Butler
United States v. Cruikshank
United States v. E. C. Knight

Company

United States v. Harris
United States v. Lee
United States v. Lopez
United States v. Reese
United States v. Sioux Nation
United States v. Trans-

Missouri Freight Association

United States v. Virginia
United States v. Wong Kim

Ark

United States-Canada Free

Trade Agreement

United Steelworkers of

America

United Textile Workers
"United We Stand, Divided

We Fall"

Universities, State
University of California. See

California Higher
Educational System.

University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin
Unknown Soldier, Tomb of

the

"Unsafe at Any Speed"
Urban League. See National

Urban League.

Urban Redevelopment
Urbanization
Ursuline Convent, Burning of
U.S. Steel
Usury. See Interest Laws.
Utah
Ute
Utopian Communities
Vacation and Leisure
Vallandigham Incident
Valley Forge
Vancouver Explorations
Vandalia Colony
Vanhorne's Lessee v.

Dorrance

Vatican II
Vaudeville
VCR. See Videocassette

Recorder.

Veazie Bank v. Fenno
Vegetarianism

Venereal Disease. See

Sexually Transmitted
Diseases.

Veracruz Incident
Vermont
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Versailles, Treaty of
Vesey Rebellion
Veterans Affairs, Department

of

Veterans' Organizations
Veterinary Medicine
Veto, Line-Item
Veto Power of the President
Viagra
Vice President, U.S.
Vicksburg in the Civil War
Vicksburg Riots
Victorianism
Victory Loan of 1919
Video Games
Videocassette Recorder
Vietnam, Relations with
Vietnam Syndrome
Vietnam War
Vietnam War Memorial
Vietnamization
Vieux Carré
Vigilantes
Villa Raid at Columbus
Vinland
Violence
Violence Against Women Act
Violence Commission
Virgin Islands
Virginia
Virginia Beach
Virginia City
Virginia Company of London
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Virginia Dynasty
Virginia Indian Company
Virginia Resolves
Virginia v. West Virginia
Virology. See Microbiology.
Virtual Reality
Voice of America
Volcanoes
Volstead Act
Volunteer Army
Volunteerism
Volunteers. See Conscription

and Recruitment;
Enlistment.

Voter Registration
Voter Residency

Requirements

Voting
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Voyageurs
Waco Siege
Wade-Davis Bill

30

Wages and Hours of Labor,

Regulation of

Wages and Salaries
Wagon Manufacture
Wagon Trains
Wagoners of the Alleghenies
Wake, Defense of
"Walden"
Walking Delegate
Wall Street Explosion
"Wall Street Journal"
Walla Walla Settlements
Walloons
Wal-Mart
Walsh-Healey Act
Wampanoag
Wampum
War, Laws of
War and Ordnance, Board of
War and the Constitution
War Casualties
War Costs
War Crimes Trials
War Democrats
War Department
War Finance Corporation
War Hawks
War Industries Board
War Labor Board. See

National War Labor Board.

War Memorials
War of 1812
War on Poverty
War Powers
War Powers Act
War Trade Board
Ward's Cove Packing Co.,

Inc., v. Atonio

Ware v. Hylton
Warfare, Indian
Warren Commission
Wars with Indian Nations
Wars with Indian Nations:

Colonial Era to 1783

Wars with Indian Nations:

Early Nineteenth Century
(1783-1840)

Wars with Indian Nations:

Later Nineteenth Century
(1840-1900)

Warships
Washington, D.C.
Washington, State of
Washington, Treaty of
Washington Burned
Washington Monument
Washington Naval

Conference

Washington v. Glucksberg
Washington's Farewell

Address

Waste Disposal

Water Law
Water Pollution
Water Supply and

Conservation

Watergate
Waterpower
Waterways, Inland
Watts Riots
Wax Portraits
Wayne, Fort
Ways and Means, Committee

on

"We Have Met the Enemy,

and They Are Ours"

Weather Satellites
Weather Service, National
Webster v. Reproductive

Health Services

Webster's Blue-Backed

Speller

Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Webster-Hayne Debate
Webster-Parkman Murder

Case

Wedding Traditions
Weeds
Weeks Act
Welfare Capitalism
Welfare System
Wells, Fargo and Company
West, American
West Coast Hotel Company

v. Parrish

West Indies, British and

French

West Point
West Virginia
Western Exploration
Western Federation of Miners
Western Lands
Western Reserve
Western Union Telegraph

Company

Westerns
Westward Migration
Wetlands
Whaling
Wheat
Whig Party
Whip, Party
Whiskey
Whiskey Rebellion
Whiskey Ring
White Caps
White Citizens Councils
White House
White House of the

Confederacy

White League
White Plains, Battle of
"White Squadron"
White Supremacy

Whitewater Scandal. See

Clinton Scandals.

Whitney Museum
Wickersham Commission
Wigwam
Wild West Show
Wildcat Money
Wildcat Oil Drilling
Wilderness, Battles of the
Wilderness Road
Wildfires
Wildlife Preservation
Wilkes Expedition
William and Mary, College of
Williams v. Mississippi
Williamsburg, Colonial
Williamson v. Lee Optical
Wilmington Riot
Wilmot Proviso
Windmills
Wine Industry
Winnebago/Ho-Chunk
Winterthur
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Idea
Wisconsin Railroad

Commission v. Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy
Railroad

Wise Men
Witchcraft
Wobblies. See Industrial

Workers of the World.

Wolff Packing Company v.

Court of Industrial Relations

Wolves
Woman's Christian

Temperance Union

Woman's Exchange

Movement

Woman's Suffrage. See

Suffrage.

Women, Citizenship of

Married

Women, President's

Commission on the Status
of

Women and the Peace

Movement

Women in Churches
Women in Military Service
Women in Public Life,

Business, and Professions

Women's Bureau
Women's Clubs
Women's Educational Equity

Act

Women's Equity Action

League

Women's Health
Women's Rights Movement

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Women's Rights Movement:

The Nineteenth Century

Women's Rights Movement:

The Twentieth Century

Women's Studies
Women's Trade Union

League

Wood Engraving
Woodstock
Wool Growing and

Manufacture

Work
Workers' Compensation
Workingmen's Party
Works Progress

Administration

World Bank
World Court. See

International Court of
Justice.

World Economic Conference
World Trade Center
World Trade Center Bombing,

1993

World War I
World War I, Economic

Mobilization for

World War I, Navy in
World War I Training Camps
World War I, U.S. Relief in
World War I War Debts

World War II
World War II, Air War against

Germany

World War II, Air War against

Japan

World War II, Navy in
World Wide Web. See

Internet.

World's Fairs
Wormley Conference
Wounded Knee (1973)
Wounded Knee Massacre
Writs of Assistance
Wyandotte Constitution
Wyoming
Wyoming Massacre
Wyoming Valley, Settlement

of

"X" Article
X-1 Plane
XYZ Affair
Yaddo
Yakama
Yakima Indian Wars
Yale University
Yalta Conference
Yankee
"Yankee"
"Yankee Doodle"
Yap Mandate
Yazoo Fraud

Yellow Fever
Yellow Journalism
"Yellow Peril"
Yellow-Dog Contract
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone River

Expeditions

Yorktown Campaign
Yosemite National Park
"Young America"
Young Men's and Young

Women's Hebrew
Association

Young Men's Christian

Association

Young Plan
Young Women's Christian

Association

Youth Administration,

National

Youth Movements
Yugoslavia, Relations with
Yukon Region
Zenger Trial
Zimmermann Telegram
Zinc Industry
Zionism
Zoning Ordinances
Zoological Parks
Zoology
Zuni