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Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, 295, 296–97

Forrest, General Nathan Bedford, 210–11

Fort Jefferson, Florida, 69–70, 71, 73, 76

Fort Pickens, Santa Rosa Island, 71, 76, 77, 78, 79

Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 71, 76, 77, 79

Fort Taylor, Florida, 76

Fort Wayne, Indiana, 61, 62

Fothergill, Dr. John, 312

France, 42, 47–49, 50, 51–52, 225–26, 227, 283;
see also
French Revolution

Franklin, Benjamin, 54, 225, 239–40, 241, 263, 304, 305;
Information to Those Who Would Remove to America,
305–6;
Observations
Concerning the Natural Increase of Mankind,
240–41

Fredericksburg, Virginia, 97–99

Fredonia, Republic of, 249

Frelinghuysen, Senator Theodore, 326

French Revolution, 46, 51, 236–37, 336

Frontinus, Sextus Julius, 65, 66

Fugitive Slave Act (1850), 196, 267

 

Galician immigrants, 292, 293

Galveston, Texas, 253, 254

Gardner, Albert, 119

Garrison, William Lloyd, 253

Geary, Thomas, 281

Genet, Edmond, 51

George III, 52

George, Henry, 276

Georgetown, South Carolina, 104, 199

Georgetown University, 109, 135

Georgia, 37, 71–72, 79, 96–97, 193, 197, 203; Cherokees, 71, 312, 316–30, 333; gold rush, 325, 330;
see also
Midway; Woodstock

German immigrants, 239–41, 252, 254, 262–64, 265, 266

Gettysburg, battle of (1863), v, 86, 98, 123, 201

Gettysburg Address, 27

Gilmore, Patrick: “Johnny Comes Marching Home Again,” 30–31

Gist, George, 324

Giuliani, Rudy, 18

Gladstone, W. E., 200

“Glorious Revolution” (1688), 265

gold mining, 270–71, 325, 330

Goldberg, Benny, 348

Goldwater, Senator Barry, 132, 133, 137, 138

Goode, Virgil, 300

Goodman, Andrew, 133, 139

Gore, Al, 309, 310

Goss, Angela, 207, 208, 209

Goss, Fred, 207, 209

Graham, Billy, 210

Graham, Franklin, 210

Grant, Madison, 290;
The Passing of the Great Race,
284, 288

Grant, President Ulysses S., 89, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 201

Great Awakenings, 129, 168–69, 177–78, 211

Great Plains/High Plains, 345–50

Greek immigrants, 295

Greeley, Horace, 81, 327; “Prayer of Twenty Millions,” 92

Green, Reverend Beriah, 177–78

Green, Mark Anthony, 207–8

Gretna, Louisiana: police, 4

Griffith, D. W.:
The Birth of a Nation,
211

Grimké, Angelina, 182

Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of (1848), 259–60, 270

Guantánamo Bay, 6

Guthrie, Woody, 351

 

Hagel, Senator Chuck, 5–6

Hale, Edward Everett, 267

Hall, Prescott Farnsworth, 285

Hamer, Fannie Lou, 130, 134, 136, 137, 138–39, 182, 209, 213–15

Hamilton, Alexander, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45–48, 49, 50–51, 109, 110, 112, 115, 359

Hancock, Cornelia, 98, 99

Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 71, 101, 196

Harrison, President Benjamin, 115, 281

Harrison, Peter, 160

Harte, Bret, 276–77; “The Heathen Chinee,” 277–78;
The Luck of Roaring Camp,
277

Harvard and alumni, 5, 8, 203, 285, 289, 290, 307, 326

Haupt, Herman, 88

Havens, Benny, 40, 82

Hayes, President Rutherford B., 132–33, 203

Hazlitt, William, 229

Hearst, William Randolph, 116, 117, 120

Helvetia
(steamer), 284

Henry, Patrick, 171, 172, 173, 182

Henry, Richard “Babe,” 352–53

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 195–200, 203

High Plains,
see
Great Plains

Hill, Christopher, 151

Hitler, Adolf, 297

Hoar, Senator George Frisbie, 118, 119–20

Hooker, General Joe, 95, 96

Hoover Dam, 311, 343, 354

Hopkins, Mark, 273

Horsehoe Bend, battle of (1814), 326

Houdetot, Mme d', 234

Houston, Sam, 254

Huckabee, Mike, 13, 17, 18, 142–44, 145

Hudson River School, 94

Humphrey, Senator Hubert, 138, 139

Humphrey, Seth, 335

Hunt, Major Henry, 83, 85

Hunt, Pastor Johnny, 141–42, 144–45, 148, 206

Huntingdon, Collis P., 273

Huntingdon, Samuel P., 289

Hurricane Katrina, 4, 367

Hussein, Saddam, 109

 

immigrants, 6, 212, 222–23, 240–41, 242–43, 264, 284; restrictions and quota system, 284–90, 292–95, 353;
see also
Chinese, German, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Lithuanian, Mexican, Muslim, Polish
and
Syrian immigrants

Immigrants Protective League, 291

Immigration Restriction League 284–85, 286

Indian Removal Act (1830) 325, 326

Indians,
see
Native Americans

International Irrigation Congress, Los Angeles (1893), 336, 340–42

Iowa 14; caucuses (2008,) 1–22

Iraq war, 5–6, 7, 27, 55, 56, 57–59, 110, 111, 299

Irish immigrants, 238–39, 263, 265, 266, 267, 272, 274, 275, 285, 287

irrigation, 336–37, 338–44, 347, 353, 354

Irrigation Age
(journal), 340, 341

Irving, Washington:
Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus,
71

Italian immigrants, 285, 287, 291

 

Jackson, President Andrew, 251, 252, 253, 254–55, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327–29

Jackson, General Thomas (Stonewall), 210, 211

James, William, 203, 289

Jay, John, 242, 244

Jay Treaty (1794), 48–49

Jefferson, President Thomas, 59, 67, 244, 247, 252, 359, 367; and American Revolutionary War, 52, 230; drafts Declaration of Independence, 52, 73, 165, 166, 228; and Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, 165, 166, 168, 169, 171–74, 175, 177, 182; and French Revolution, 46, 47, 51–52, 236; in Newport, R.I. (1790), 165; inaugural speech, 21; appointment of Return Jonathan Meigs, 36, 316, 323; and Indians, 317, 318, 319, 320–21, 322, 325; philosophy of war, 109–10, 112, 115; and founding of West Point, 41, 42, 48, 51, 53–54, 59, 60, 110; and immigration, 243; religious views, 147, 165–66, 169–72, 174–76, 300; and University of Virginia, 54, 165, 176; and slavery, 176–77, 182,
296;
Notes on the State of Virginia,
170–71, 242

Jelinek, James, 348

Jenkin, William, 184

Jewish immigrants and communities, 150, 167, 184, 211, 285, 287, 288, 290, 291, 295; in Newport, R.I., 159–60, 162–65; and exclusion from public office, 165, 175; Ford's views on 297; on the High Plains, 348

Johnson, President Andrew, 107

Johnson, President Lyndon B., 21, 110, 131, 132, 135, 136, 137, 138, 290

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 232

Johnston, Joseph, 32, 78, 79, 80, 81, 87, 105

Jones, Anson, 254

Jones, Charles Colcock, 185, 194

Jones, Mary, 185

Joplin, Scott, 331

Judge, Jack, 2–5

 

Kahn, Samuel, 348

Kallen, Horace, 289, 291, 294, 298

Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 239; Franklin to, 304

Kansas, 332, 334, 345, 346, 348

Kearney, Dennis, 278, 284

Kennedy, Senator Edward (Teddy), 136

Kennedy, President John F., 2, 3, 131, 132, 136, 308;
A Nation of Immigrants,
290

Kennedy, Senator Robert, 132, 136

Kentucky, 226, 263–64

Kerouac, Jack:
On the Road,
303

Kerry, John, 360

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 129, 133, 138, 139, 203, 206, 207

Kipling, Rudyard: “The White Man's Burden,” 117

Kirkham, Lieutenant Ralph, 258

Klee, Paul:
Novus Angelus
, 363

Know-Nothings, the, 266–68

Knox, General Henry, 44, 45, 52, 316, 318

Knudsen, Gunnar, 112

Koopmanschap, Cornelius, 271

Ku Klux Klan, 133, 137, 139, 205, 210–11, 212

Kucinich, Dennis J., 15

Kyu-Chay, Sergeant, 27–29

 

Lafayette, marquis de, 43

La Haye, Tim:
Left Behind
books, 145

Landes, David, 8

Lange, Dorothea, 349, 352

La Rochefoucauld, François de, 225

Las Vegas, 354, 355–57

Las Vegas Springs Preserve, 355, 356

Laud, Archbishop William, 154

Lawrence, D. H., 229

Lawrence, Myrtle, 213

Lay, Kenneth, 310

Lazarus, Emma, 164, 222

League of Nations, 295

Lebanese immigrants, 298–99

Lee, Erika, 282

Lee, Jarena, 186–92, 193, 194, 209

Lee, Mary Ann (
née
Custis), 33, 92

Lee Quong, 282

Lee, General Robert E.: and Meigs, 33–35, 59, 60, 61, 93, 105; and John Brown's rebellion, 71; in Confederate army, 32, 78, 79, 86, 91, 93, 97, 98, 99; as hero 210, 211;
see also
Arlington House

Leland, John, 175

l'Enfant, Pierre, 64

Lewis, Mabel, 202

Lexington, battle of (1775), 42–43, 313

Lincoln, President Abraham, 359, 367; and Mexican-American War, 257, 259; elected president, 70, 71, 74; inaugural speech, 74–75, 129; and opening of Civil War,
76–77, 79; advised by Meigs, 79, 80, 81, 84, 89–90; and battle of Antietam, 91; and McClellan, 91, 92; issues slavery emancipation proclamation, 92, 197–98; and railroad, 272; inadequacies, 94; sends Meigs to Chattanooga, 95, and Fredericksburg, 98; and John Meigs, 99, 104; assassination, 105

Lithuanian immigrants, 294, 295, 348

Little, Lieutenant, 233, 235

Locke, John:
Letters on Toleration,
171

Lodge, Senator Henry Cabot, 117, 119, 120, 285, 287, 294–95

Logan, General John, 26, 27

Long, John, 116

Long, Stephen, 325

Longstreet, James, 32

Lookout Mountain, battle of (1863), 96, 97, 98, 123

Lorentz, Pare:
The Plow That Broke the Plains,
349

Los Angeles: Chinese pogrom (1871), 278; International Irrigation Congress (1893), 336, 340–42

Los Angeles Times,
308

Loudin, Fred, 200, 202

Louisiana Purchase (1803), 244

Louisville, Kentucky: riot (1855), 263–64

Lowell, A. Lawrence, 289

Lowery, Joseph, 139

Lyon, The
(ship), 154

 

MacArthur, General Arthur, 119

MacArthur, General Douglas, 41, 110

Macaulay, Lord, 265

McCain, Senator John, 6, 17, 40, 56, 221, 310–11, 369

McCallum, Daniel, 88, 95

McClellan, General George, 84, 91–92, 93

McCray, Mary, 192

McDowell, Irvin, 81, 83, 84

McGlashan, Charles, 279

McHenry, James, 50

McKim, Charles, 331

McKinley, President William, 116, 117, 118, 119, 122

McLaurin, Charles, 214, 215

MacLeish, Archibald, 349

McLoughlin, William:
Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic,
319

Madison, President James, 52, 165, 168, 169, 173, 174, 243, 244, 321, 322

Maginot Line, 123–24

Mahan, Alfred Thayer:
The Influence of Sea Power on World History,
115

Mahan, Dennis Hart, 59, 62, 115

Maine
, USS, 116

Malcolm X, 139

“manifest destiny,” 256

Marion, Indiana, 368

Marlowe, W. D., 214

Marquis, Samuel, 297

Marshall, Andrew, 193

Marshall, General George C., 58

Marshall, James, 270

Marshall, Chief Justice John, 327

Martin, George, 105

Masham, Sir William, 154

Mason, John Mitchell, 174

Massachusetts, 152–53, 156, 175, 239; constitution, 166–68, 172

Maxey, Fred, 212

Mead, Lake (Nevada), 343, 354, 356

Meade, General George, 86, 97

Medina Ridge, battle of (1991), 109

Meigs, Charles, 37, 38, 59, 65, 72, 81, 82, 85, 96, 97, 108; Montgomery

Meigs to, 75

Meigs, Elizabeth, 35

Meigs, Emlen, 103

Meigs, Grace, 320

Meigs, Henrietta Hargreaves Stewart, 72

Meigs, Henry Vincent 71, 72, 73, 76, 80, 97

Meigs, John Rodgers: admission to West Point obstructed, 69; at West Point, 81; his “Trouble,” 82; his father's letters to, 82–83, 94; at Bull Run, 83–85; graduates from West Point, 99; in army, 99–101; character, 101–3; death, 103–5, 106–7; tomb, 31–32, 106

Meigs, Josiah, 37, 96, 108

Meigs, Louisa Rodgers, 31, 61, 63, 77, 78, 82, 83, 84, 85; John Meigs's letters to 100, 101, 103; and his death 106–7

Meigs, Mary Montgomery, 37, 38, 59, 61, 72, 99, 125; Montgomery Meigs to 90

Meigs, Montgomery C.: birth and childhood, 37–38; at West Point, 38, 39, 42, 60; in Corps of Engineers with Lee, 33–35, 59, 60; character, 60–61, 62–63; marriage and children, 61, 63; fort building, 61–62; provides water supply to Washington, 64–67; supervises work on Capitol, 67–68, 74, 88; clashes with Floyd, 68–69; banished to Fort Jefferson, 69–70, 71; has horror of slavery, 71–74, 92; and opening of Civil War, 71, 73, 77, 78; impressed by Lincoln, 74–75; garrisons Santa Rosa, 77; disgusted by Confederate West Point graduates, 32–33, 78–79; as quartermaster general, 80–81, 85–89, 90, 94–95; and his son, 81–83, 93–94, 100, 101; and battle of Bull Run, 84–85; scornful of generals, 89–90, 91–92; recruits black soldiers, 93; at Chattanooga, 95–96, 201; in Georgia with Sherman's army, 96–97; at Fredericksburg, 97–99; and son's death, 32, 103–5, 106, 107; and Lincoln's assassination, 105; inauguration of Arlington National Cemetery, 31, 32, 33, 106; commissions son's tomb, 31; death and burial, 31, 114

Meigs, Montgomery, Jr., 103, 104

Meigs, Montgomery (d. 1944), 123–25

Meigs, Montgomery C. (b. 1945), 108–11, 125