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Aa
Aaron, Hank 61, 644
Abalone 470
Abbott, Berenice 570
Abbott, Sir John 598
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem 63
Abernathy, Ralph David 1, 77
Abilene 375, 375
Abolitionists 1-2, 1, 239
Brown, John 93-94
Douglass, Frederick 207
Garrison, William Lloyd 273
Howe, Julia Ward 329
Lowell, James Russell 416, 416
Mott, Lucretia 482
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 690
Truth, Sojourner 719
Whittier, John Greenleaf 760
Academy Awards 2-3, 2
Acadia l09, 414, 509, 534
Acheson, Dean 3, 3
Acid rain 586
Acoma 603
Acorns 536
Actors and actresses:
Academy Awards 2-3, 2
Hollywood 320-321
Motion pictures 480-481, 480-481
see also individual actors and actresses
Adams, Abigail 4
Adams, Ansel 3, 3, 570, 571
Adams, John 4, 4, 5, 6, 190, 236, 597
Adams, John Quincy 4, 5, 5, 111,
142, 597
Adams, Samuel 6, 6, 303
Addams, Jane 6
Adena culture 483
Adirondack Mountains 6-7, 7, 330,
518, 518, 519
Adobe see Pueblos
Adventists 134, 135
Advertising 7-8, 7-8
Aerospace Industry 8-9, 8, 80
see also Aviation
Afghanistan 124, 617
African-Americans 77
Agassiz, Louis 9
Agave 10, 10
Agnew, Spiro 256, 597
Agriculture 10-12, 10-12, Volume 1
frontispiece
alfalfa 22
Carver, George Washington 125, 125
corn 172-173, 173
cotton 16, 175, 175
dairy industry 185, 185, 766
fruit 266, 266
grains 290
Homestead Act 322
McCormick, Cyrus 439, 439
peanuts 563, 563
pigs and hogs 573, 573
potatoes 592, 592
prairies 294, 295, 593-594, 593
ranching 614-615, 614
sheep 662-663, 663
sugar 693
sweet potatoes 695, 695
see also individual state's entries
AIDS 313
Aiken, Conrad 581
Ailey, Alvin 12, 12
Aircraft carriers 501
Air Force, United States 8, 13, 13,
192-193, 468
Air pollution 586
Airports 14, 15
Air transportation 14, 14-15
see also Aviation
Akron, Ohio 540, 672
Alabama 16-17, 16-17, 417
Alamo 86, 181, 461, 650, 650, 709
Alaska 18-19, 18-79, 69, 526, 583,
725, 727
air transport, 14
climate 145-146
local government 408
lumber industry 417
manifest destiny 424
mountains 484
National Park 496, 496
plant life 579
volcanoes 740
Albany, New York 518
Albee, Edward 405
Alberta 20, 20, 78, 111, 114, 217
Albuquerque 21, 21, 514-515
Alcohol, Prohibition 171, 304, 600, 600
Alcott, Louisa May 21, 405, 405
Aldrin, Edwin E., Jr. ('Buzz') 21, 21,
151, 151, 678
Aleutian Islands 18, 22, 740
Aleuts 18, 22, 228, 526
Alfalfa 22
Algae 431
Alger, Horatio 22
Algonquian languages 78, 450
Algonquins 22-23, 22, 128, 142, 251
Allegheny Mountains 33, 81
Allegheny River 566, 576
Ali, Muhammed 23, 23
Allen, Ethan 23, 23, 734
Alligator 24, 24, 543, 620
Alvarez, Luis 24-25
America 25-27
America (yacht) 28, 183
American Ballet Theater 55, 56
American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
568, 769, 769
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
284, 389, 399, 442
American Indians see Indians, American
American Legion 28
American Red Cross 619, 695
American Revolution see
Revolution, American
American Samoa 556
America's Cup 28, 28, 749
Amish 135, 444, 566
Amphibians 28-29, 29
frogs and toads 264-265, 265
prehistoric 595
Amundsen, Roald 532
Anchorage 18, 214, 591
Anderson, Charles 353
Anderson, Marian 29, 29, 77, 548
Androscoggin River 423, 510
Angelou, Maya 77
Animal life of North America 30, 30
circuses 135-136, 136
deserts 199
endangered 224-225
folklore 251
marine life 430,430-431
myths 492
poisonous 582, 582
prehistoric 595, 595
reptiles 620, 620
rodents 636, 636
swamps 694
zoos 776, 776
see also individual types of animals,
e.g. prairie dogs; skunks
Annapolis 31, 31, 83, 130, 434,
435
Antarctica 104, 583
Anthem, national 494, 494
Anthony, Earl 86
Anthony, Susan B. 31, 31, 685-686
Antietam, Battle of (1862) 140, 403,
434
Ants 31-32, 32, 350, 582
Apaches 32, 32, 39, 147, 187, 278,
349, 577, 730
Apalachicola River 247
Apollo spacecraft 21, 42, 151, 678, 679
Appalachian Mountains 33, 33, 434,
526
Blue Ridge Mountains 79
caves 127
formation 483
highest mountains 484
Pennsylvania 566, 567
pioneers cross 274-275, 382, 575,
756, 761
scenic roads 497, 497, 739
Tennessee 704
Virginia 738
West Virginia 754, 754
Appleseed, Johnny 33, 33
Aqueducts 749
Arapahos 33-34, 34, 577
Arbor Day 34, 34
Arbus, Diane 570
Arch Rock 453
Archaeology 34-35, 35
Architecture 36-37, 36-37
Kahn, Louis 373, 373
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
454-455, 454
Sullivan, Louis Henry 693, 693
Wright, Frank Lloyd 771
Arctic 69, 533, 583
explorers 104, 330, 564, 564
Northwest Passage 532
wildlife 742, 758
Arizona 38-39, 38-39
cotton 175
Grand Canyon 291, 291
Painted Desert 557, 557
Phoenix 570, 570
Pueblo Indians 603
Arkansas 40-41, 40-41
Arkansas River 34, 41, 152, 374, 464,
544, 545, 627, 719
Arlington National Cemetery 739
Armadillo 42, 42
Armistice Day 736
Armstrong, Louis 42, 77, 364, 365, 365
Armstrong, Neil 21, 21, 42, 42, 151,
151, 678
Army, United States 43, 43
Defense Department 192-193
draft 207-208
Fort Knox 259
Mitchell, Billy 468
Powell, Colin L. 593, 593
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman 655, 655
Army Medical Corps 43
Army of Northern Virginia 397, 411
Army of the Potomac 441
Art 44-45, 44-45
folk art 248-249, 248-249
see also individual artists and
Painting; Sculpture
Arthur, Chester A. 46, 46, 597
Articles of Confederation 47, 167,
170,341
Art Institute of Chicago 488
Asimov, Isaac 47, 658
Assiniboines 577, 653
Associated Press 68
Astaire, Fred 47-48, 47, 187
Astor family 48, 48, 625
Astor, Lady Nancy 48, 48
Astronauts 678
Aldrin, Edwin, Jr. 21, 21
Armstrong, Neil 42, 42
Glenn, John H. 280-281, 281
Ride, Sally 626
Shepard, Alan B. 663, 663
Astronomy:
Hubble, Edwin 330
Jansky, Karl 363
observatories 536-537, 537
Van Allen, James 731
Atacama Desert 199
Athabasca, Lake 419
Athletics 714-715, 714
Atlanta 14, 15, 48, 48, 276, 277
Atlantic Charter 49
Atlantic City 512, 513
Atlantic Ocean 130, 212, 298, 402,
404, 532, 725
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
504, 549
Attucks, Crispus 49, 78
Auden, W. H. 581
Audubon, John James 49, 49, 382
Augusta, Maine 422, 423
Ausable River 518
Austin 50, 50, 709
Austin, Stephen 50
Automobile industry 50, 50
Chevrolet, Louis 130, 130
Duryea brothers 211, 211
Ford, Henry 257, 257
Automobile racing 51, 51, 343
soap box derby 672
Avedon, Richard 570
Aviation 52, 52
Cochran, Jacqueline 147, 147
Curtiss, Glenn H. 184
Douglas Aircraft Company 206, 206
Earhart, Amelia 212, 212
helicopters 313-314, 313-314
military 13, 13
Langley, Samuel Pierpont 392-393,
392
Lindbergh, Charles 404, 404
Sikorsky, Igor 667, 667
Wright brothers 771, 771
Aztecs 174, 175, 445, 445, 446, 448,
730
Bb
Baden-Powell, Sir Robert 658
Badger 30, 53, 53, 751
Badlands 53, 464, 531, 676, 677
Baekeland, Leo 54, 352
Baffin Bay 533
Bagataway 390
Bahamas 156, 552
Bailey, James 59
Bailey, Pearl 548
Bakelite 54
Baker, Mount 740
Balanchine, George 54, 54, 56
Balboa, Vasco Nunez de 54, 54
Bald eagle 74, 212, 212, 224, 296, 720
Baldwin, James 55, 55, 77, 405
Ballet 54, 55-56, 55
see also Dance
Baltimore 56-57, 56, 130, 137, 434,
435, 726, 743
Banff National Park 20, 496, 634
Bank of the United States 359
Banks and banking 57, 57, 197, 471,
732
Banks Island 532
Banneker, Benjamin 58, 78
Banting, Sir Frederick 58, 58
Baptists 58, 134, 601
Barbary pirates 366, 576
Barber, Samuel 490
Bardeen, John 58-59, 88, 353
Barker, Newton 207
Barley 290
Barnum & Bailey 59, 59, 136
Barrymore family 59-60, 60
Barton, Clara 60, 60, 619
Bart Trans-Bay Tubes, San Francisco
720
Baseball 61, 61, 673, 682
Little League 406, 406
Robinson, Jackie 629-630
Ruth, Babe 644, 644
Baseball Hall of Fame 300, 488
Basie, Count 62, 62, 364, 365
Basketball 62-63, 62, 437, 682
Bass 242
Baton Rouge 414, 464, 590
Bats 63,63
'Battle Hymn of the Republic' 329,
588
Baum, L. Frank 63-64
Bayous 529
Beamon, Bob 715
Bears 64, 64, 543
Beat generation 384
Beatles 588, 632
Beaver 30, 65, 65, 636
Beaver Wars 469
Becknell, William 652
Bedloe's Island 686
Beecher, Henry Ward 690
Beer 456, 466
Bees 65-66, 65, 350, 582
Beetles 66-67, 66, 350
Beiderbecke, Bix 365
Belladonna 582
Bell, Alexander Graham 67, 67, 158,
353,701
Bell, Liberty 400, 400
Bellow, Saul 67-68, 68, 405, 524
Bell Telephone Company 58-59, 67
Benét, Stephen Vincent 68, 581
Bennett, Floyd 104
Bennett, James Gordon 68
Bennett, James Gordon, Jr. 68, 68
Benton, Thomas Hart 69, 69, 262,
558
Berg, Paul 524
Bergman, Ingrid 481
Bering Strait 69, 69, 76, 225, 227
Berkshire mountains 436
Berlin, Irving 70, 70, 491, 536
Bernstein, Leonard 56, 70, 70, 490,
491
Berries 70-71, 71, 266
Berry, April 12
Berry, Chuck 632, 632
Berryman, John 581
Bethune, Mary McLeod 71, 71, 78
Bible 23, 135, 400, 401, 575, 596, 671
Bicycling 682
Bierstadt, Albert 558
Big Bend National Park 497, 627, 708,
709,709
Big Black River 462
Bighorn River 772
Bighorn sheep 30, 72, 72, 663
Bill of Rights 72-73, 139, 167, 315,
420, 747
Biloxi 462, 463
Bingham Canyon 457
Bingham, George Caleb 44, 558
Biondi, Matt 695
Bird, Larry 63
Birds of North America 74, 74-75
Audubon, John James 49, 49
deserts 199
endangered 224
prehistoric 595
water birds 748, 748
see also individual types of bird, e.g.
Ducks; Herons
Birds of prey 76, 76
see also individual types of bird of
prey, e.g. Eagles; Hawks
Birmingham, Alabama 17
Bismarck, North Dakota 398, 530
Bison 30, 30, 76, 76, 78, 178, 295
Bitterroot Range 336
Black Americans 77-78, 77, 228
Mississippi 462
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
495, 495
naturalization 498
see also Civil rights
Blackbeard 529, 576
Blackfoot Indians 78, 78, 492, 577
Black Hawk 78
Black Hawk War (1831-1832) 78,
348
Black Hills 184, 676, 677
Black Mesa 545
Black Mountains 33
Black Muslims 424, 487
Black Panther Patty 122
Black Power 122
Blackstone River 625
Blackwell, Elizabeth 78-79
Block Island 624
Bloomer, Amelia 233
Blueberry 71, 71, 266
Bluegrass music 176
Blue Ridge Mountains 33, 79, 79, 497,
529, 674, 675, 704, 739, 754
Blues 303, 364, 588
Bobcat 30, 79-80, 79, 126
Boeing Company 8, 9, 52, 80, 427,
660, 744
Boeing 747 (jumbo jet) 80, 80
Boeing, William Edward 80
Bogart, Humphrey 80, 80, 128, 129,
481
Boise, Idaho 336
Boll weevil 67, 175, 350
Bombs 13, 549, 703
Books, libraries 401, 401
see also Literature
Boone, Daniel 81, 81, 275, 382, 575,
756, 757, 761
Boothbay Harbor 423
Booth, Edwin 81, 81, 710
Booth, John Wilkes 81, 82, 82, 403
Booth, William 649
Borden, Sir Robert 598
Borglum, Gutzon 484-485, 659, 690
Borglum, Lincoln 484-485
Boston 82-83, 82, 436, 507
fire fighting 240
Intolerable Acts 608
National Guard 495
population 137
port 590
Revolution 400
subway 692
Boston Massacre 49, 83, 83, 436, 621,
622
Boston News Letter 516
Boston 'Pops' Orchestra 437
Boston Tea Party 6, 83-84, 84, 169,
436, 621, 622
Botanical gardens 84, 84
Boulder Dam see Hoover Dam
Bourke-White, Margaret 84-85, 570
Bourque,Ray 335
Bowditch, Nathaniel 85, 85
Bowell, Sir Mackenzie 598
Bowie, James 86, 181
Bowie knife 86, 86
Bowie, Rezin 86
Bowling 86, 682
Boxing 86-87, 86-87
Dempsey, Jack 196
Louis, Joe 413
Ali, Muhammed 23, 23
Boyce, William 658
Boy Scouts 658, 775
Boys Town 245,502
Bradbury, Ray 658
Braddock, General Edward 263-264
Bradford, William 87, 580
Bradley, Omar Nelson 87
Bradley, Thomas 682
Brady, Mathew 88, 141, 570, 571
Brakes, Westinghouse 753
Brando, Marlon 3, 88, 88
Brandywine, Battle of (1777) 623
Brant, Joseph 88, 468, 468, 724
Brattain, Walter 59, 88-89, 88, 353
Breckinridge, John 597
Bridal Veil Falls 748, 748
Bridges 89-90, 89-90, 510
Bristlecone pine 90, 90, 163, 574, 716
Britain:
American Revolution 98, 400, 400,
608, 609, 622-623
Boston Tea Party 83-84
Canada 116-117
the Continental Congress 169-170
Declaration of Independence
190-191
French and Indian War 263-264,
263
fur trade 268
Lend-Lease398
Oregon Territory 585
Quebec Act 608
Stamp Act 684
War of 1812 743, 743
Webster-Ashburton Treaty 752
World War I 769
World War II 770
British Columbia 91, 91
Vancouver 733, 733
British Commonwealth 115, 117
British North America Act (1867)
92, 116, 117, 167, 234
Britten, Benjamin 99
Broadcasting 158, 372
radio 611, 611
television 701-702,701
Broadway 8, 92, 92, 253, 520, 711
Brodsky, Joseph 405, 524
Bronx 520
Brooklyn 89, 411, 520
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel 720
Brooklyn Bridge 46
Brooks, Gwendolyn 77, 93, 93, 405,
581
Brooks Range 634
Brown, John 93-94, 93, 95
Bruce, Blanche Kelso 94
Bryan, William Jennings 94, 94
Bryant, William Cullen 581
Bryce Canyon 119, 634, 729
Buccaneers 576, 576
Buchanan, James 95, 95, 263, 524,
597, 621
Buck, Pearl S. 96, 96, 405, 524
Buddhism 619
Buffalo 577, 577
see also Bison
Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody) 148,
148, 318, 536
Buffalo, New York State 118, 227,
518, 590, 693
Bugs 94-97, 96
Buildings:
architecture 36-37, 36-37
construction industry 168-169,
168-169
housing 328
skyscrapers 670, 670
Bull Run, Battles of (1861/1862) 97,
97, 140, 360-361, 360
Bunche, Ralph 77, 98, 525, 682
Bunker Hill, Battle of (1775) 98, 98,
623, 623
Banyan, Paul 99, 99, 250
Burbank, Luther 78, 99
Bureau of the Census 127, 757
Bureau of Indian Affairs 348
Burgoyne, General John 622
Burr, Aaron 100, 100, 302, 597, 698
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 100, 100
Bush, George 26, 101, 101, 105, 121,
221, 289, 422, 495, 569, 584, 597,
617, 678
Bushnell, David 691
Butler, Frank E. 536
Butterflies and moths 102-103,
102-103, 350
Buzzard see Vulture
Byrd, Richard E. 104, 104
Cc
Cabinet 105, 105, 289, 596
Cable car 105
Cabot, John and Sebastian 106, 106,
Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez 106, 106
Cactuses 107, 107, 199, 224, 578, 579
Caddos 107-108, 108, 577
Cadillac, Antoine de la Mothe 108,
200, 453
Cadillac, Mount 108, 422
Cage, John 108, 490
Cagney, James 109, 109
Cajuns 109, 414, 516
Calamity Jane 110, 110, 148
Calder, Alexander 110, 110, 659
Caldwell, Sarah 490
Calgary 20, 111
Calgary Stampede 20, 111, 111, 636
Calhoun, John C. 111, 111, 597
California 112-113, 112-113
architecture 36
climate 146
cotton 175
Death Valley 189, 189
discovery 106
flood protection 245
fruit 138, 266
Gold Rush 282-283, 282, 699
Long Beach 410, 410
Los Angeles 412-413, 412
lumber industry 417
Mexican War 447
missionaries 461
Mojave Desert 469, 469
Mount Whitney 486, 486
National Parks 496
pioneers 575
San Andreas fault 213-214, 649,
649
San Diego 650, 650
San Francisco 651, 651
San Jose 651, 651
volcanoes 740
water supply 749
California, Gulf of 173
Calvin, John 595
Cambodia 523, 737
Cameras:
photography 570
Polaroid 392, 392
Campbell, John, Jr. 658
Campbell Hill 541
Camp David Agreement (1979) 124,
124
Camp, L. Sprague de 658
Canada 25, 114-115, 114-115, 526,
725, 765, 765
Alberta 20, 20
border with U.S. 472
British Columbia 91, 91
British North America Act 92
Cartier, Jacques 125
Constitution 72, 116, 117, 167
Constitution Act, 167
Edmonton 217, 217
Eskimos 227, 227
exploration 106
Fathers of Confederation 234, 234
French and Indian War 263-264
gold rushes 283
government 286-287, 286-287
Great Lakes 294
history 116-117, 116-117
ice hockey 334
Indians 347
lacrosse 390
language 393
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid 395, 395
Macdonald, Sir John Alexander 418,
418
Mackenzie King, W.L. 385
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander 419, 419
Mackenzie, William Lyon 419, 419
Manitoba 425, 425
maple trees 427
Montreal 476, 476
moose 477
National Parks 496
New Brunswick 506, 506
Newfoundland 508, 508
New France 509, 509
Niagara Falls 521
Northwest Territories 533, 533
Nova Scotria 534, 534
Ontario 547, 547
Ottawa 553-554, 554
political parties 584
pollution 586
Prime Minister 598, 598
Prince Edward Island 599, 599
Quebec 607, 607
Quebec City 609, 609
railroads 612-613
Riel Rebellions 626, 626
Royal Canadian Mounted Police 643,
643
Saskatchewan 653, 655
Thanksgiving Day 710
Toronto 714, 714
Trudeau, Pierre 717, 717
Underground Railroad 723
United Empire Loyalists 724
Vancouver 733, 733
War of 1812 743
Webster-Ashburton Treaty 722
Yukon Territory 775, 775
Canadian Pacific Railway 20, 116,
117, 418, 613, 765
Canadian River 544, 545
Canadian Shield 117, 117, 275
Canals 118-119, 118
Erie Canal 226-227
Great Lakes 293
Panama Canal 559, 559
Canarsee Indians 460
Canby, William J. 641
Canyons 119, 119, 291, 291
Capa, Robert 570, 571
Cape Breton Island 534
Cape Canaveral 119-120, 119
Cape Cod 120, 120, 436, 437
Cape Hatteras 471, 497, 528, 529
Cape Kennedy see Cape Canaveral
Capitalism 215
Capitol, U.S. 36, 120, 120, 162, 204,
205, 327,746
Cardinal 121
Caribbean Sea 121, 121, 298, 332,
526, 603, 725, 740
Carib Indians 121
Caribou 30, 122, 122, 192, 295
Carleton, Mount 506
Carlsbad Caverns 127, 127, 496, 515
Carlson, Chester 353
Carmichael, Stokely 122, 122
Carnegie, Andrew 123, 123, 356
Carnegie Hall, New York City 123,
123, 284, 490
Carothers, Wallace H. 353
Carpetbagger 618
Carr, Rosemary 68
Cars see Automobile industry
Carson City, Nevada 123, 504
Carson, Kit 123, 123, 262, 268, 500
Carter, Elliott 490
Carter, James Earl (Jimmy) 124, 124,
196, 256, 277, 559, 597, 617
Cartier, George Etienne 234
Cartier, Jacques 116, 125, 231, 509,
509, 599, 607
Cartoon see Comic Art; Motion
pictures
Carver, George Washington 78, 125,
125, 563
Cascade Mountains 483, 484, 485,
485, 550, 660, 666, 740, 744
Cascades (waterfalls) 748
Cassatt, Mary 125, 125, 558
Castle Geyser 280
Castro, Fidel 220
Caterpillars 102
Cathedral Gorge 505
Cather,Willa Sibert l26
Catholic Church see Roman
Catholic Church
Catlin, George 156, 424, 558, 577
Cats 126, 126
bobcats 79-80, 79
cougar 176, 176
ocelot 538, 538
CAT scanner 353
Catskill Mountains 33, 518, 720
Catt, Carrie Chapman 126-127, 126
Catt, George 127
Cattle 10
cowboys 177-178, 178
dairy industry 185, 185
ranching 614-615, 614
Caubvick, Mount 508
Caves 127, 127
Cayuga Indians 357
Cech, Thomas R. 524
Census 127, 137, 327
Centerville 195
Central America, 25, 106, 318, 526
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
101, 127-128
Central Pacific Railroad 612-613
Century plant 10, 10
Cereals, grains 290
Challenger space shuttle 9, 42, 626
Chamberlain, Wilt 63
Champlain, Lake 128, 518, 734, 743
Champlain, Samuel de 128, 128,231, 506, 509, 599, 607, 609, 734
Chandler, Raymond 128-129
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan 524
Chaplin, Charlie 129, 129, 232, 480,
687
Chapultepec 447
Charbonneau, Toussaint 645
Charisse, Cyd 47
Charles I, King of England 765
Charles II, King of England 565, 565
Charles Mound 339
Charles River 168, 436
Charleston, South Carolina 95, 590,
623, 674-675, 674
Charleston, West Virginia 754
Charlotte, North Carolina 528, 528
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
599
Chattahoochee River 277
Cheaha Mountain 16
Cherokees 129-130, 129, 180,
328-329, 348, 545, 662
Chesapeake Bay 31, 56, 130, 130,
434, 435, 736
Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel 89
Chevrolet, Louis 130, 130
Chevron 427, 542
Cheyenne River 676
Cheyennes 131, 131, 326, 344, 345,
577
Chicago 131, 131, 201, 338
architecture 36, 37, 454, 693
bridges 90
Great Fire 36, 131
Gwendolyn Brooks 93
Hull House 6
industry 427
Lincoln Park Zoo 776
O'Hare Airport 14
opera 548
population 137
port 590
skyscrapers 339, 670, 670
Chickamauga, Battle of (1863) 140,
141
Chickasaws 130, 180, 344, 545
Children's Museum, Boston 488
China 386, 386, 388, 523, 523, 736
Chinatown, San Francisco 651, 651
Chinooks 132, 132
Chipewyan Indians 653
Chipmunk 30, 132, 132, 636, 683
Chippewa River 767
Chippewas 132-133, 133
Chisholm, Shirley 77, 133, 133
Chisos Mountains 497, 709
Chocorua, Mount 511
Choctaws 130, 133-134, 134, 180,
344, 545
Choreographers 491
Christianity 134-135, 619
All Saints 301
missionaries 461, 461
Mormons 477-478, 478
Protestantism 601, 601
Roman Catholic Church 638
Christian Science 134, 135, 135,
215-216
Christmas 320,720
Christo 659
Chrysler 51, 174, 427
Chrysler building, New York City 45
Churches 135
see also Religions
Churchill, Winston 49, 609, 639, 639,
718
Church of England 225, 445, 605
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints see Mormons
CIA see Central Intelligence Agency
Cimarron Cutoff 652
Cimarron River 544
Cincinnati 137, 540, 776
Cinema see Motion pictures
Circus 135-136, 136
Barnum & Bailey 59, 59
Cities 136-137
water supply 749
see also names of individual cities
Citizenship 138, 340
naturalization 498-499, 499
passports 560-561, 560
Citizenship Day 138
Citrus fruit 138, 138, 266
Civil law 396
Civil rights 16, 78, 138, 139, 380
Abernathy, Ralph 1
Atlanta 48
Carmichael, Stokeley 122, 122
Douglass, Frederick 207
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 369, 385,
385
Ku Klux Klan 388
Mississippi 462
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People 495, 495
Randolph, A. Philip 615
Truth, Sojoumer 719
Wilkins,Roy 762, 762
Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr. 774
Young, Whitney M., Jr. 774
Civil service 139
Civil War 26, 41, 140-141, 140-141,
161, 306
Atlanta 48
Battle of Gettysburg 280
Battles of Bull Run 97, 97
Carson, Kit 123
draft 207
Farragut, David 232, 232
Gettysburg Address 279
Grant, Ulysses S. 292
Jackson, 'Stonewall' 360-361
Lee, Robert E. 397, 397
Lincoln, Abraham 403
Longstreet, James 411
Louisiana in 415
Meade, George Gordon 441, 441
Mississippi 462
Monitor and Merrimac 471, 471
newspapers 68
nurses 60
Pennsylvania in 566
photography 88
railroads 613
Reconstruction 618-619, 618
Sheridan, Philip Henry 663
Sherman, William Tecumseh 664, 664
slavery 671
South Carolina in 674
Truth, Sojourner 719
Virginia in 738
Clam 142, 142, 470
Clarke, Arthur 658
Clark, Charles Joseph 598
Clark, George Rogers 142, 142
Clark, William 231, 398-399,
398-399, 550-551, 552
Clay, Cassius see Ali, Muhammed
Clay, Henry 5, 142-143, 143, 585
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914) 664, 764
Clearwater Mountains 336
Clearwater River 336
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne see
Twain, Mark
Clermont (steamship) 267, 268
Cleveland, Ohio 137, 143, 143, 312,
540, 541
Cleveland Indians 143
Cleveland, Stephen Grover 144, 144,
196, 306, 402, 597, 688
Cleveland Symphony 143
Cliff dwellers 145, 603
Climate 145, 145, 526
tornadoes 713, 713
Clinton, Bill 146, 146, 196, 221, 597
Clinton, George 597
Clothes:
cowboys 178
fashion 233-234, 233-234
Clovis culture 35, 252, 253
Clowns 136
Clubs, 4-H 260, 260
CN Tower, Toronto 714, 714
Coal mining 383, 457, 499, 754, 755
Coast Guard, U.S. 147, 313, 402
Coast Mountains (Washington) 744
Cobb, Ty 61
Cochise 32, 39, 147
Cochran, Jacqueline 147, 147
Cody, William F. (Buffalo Bill) 148,
148, 318, 536
Cohan, George M. 148
Coins 149, 149, 470-471
Cold War 3, 149-150, 149, 193, 210,
258, 718
Cole, Nat King 588, 588
Colfax, Schulyer 597
Colleges and universities 150-151,
150-151
community colleges 159
libraries 401
Collins, Michael 151, 151
Colman, Ornette 364
Colonial architecture 36
Colorado 152-153, 152-153, 196,
275
Colorado Plateau 119, 728
Colorado River 39, 50, 113, 152, 154,
154, 173, 186, 199, 291, 291, 392,
505, 627, 634, 728, 748 Coltrane,
John 364
Colt revolver 299, 299
Colt, Samuel 299, 353
Columbia, District of see
District of Columbia
Columbia, Mount 20
Columbia Plateau 744
Columbia River 132, 132, 154-155,
154, 186, 333, 399, 504, 550, 551,
589, 627, 634, 744
Columbia, South Carolina 674
Columbia space shuttle 52
Columbus, Christopher 155-156, 155,
173, 226, 344, 445, 586, 604, 725
Columbus, Ohio 137, 155, 155, 540,
541
Comanches 156, 156, 577, 606, 730
Comics 157, 157
Committee for Industrial Organization
389, 399
Communications industry 157-158,
157-158
Marshall McLuhan and 441
radio 611, 611
telegraph 700, 700
telephone 701, 701
television 701-702, 701
Communism 584
Cold War 149-150, 210
Korean War 387-388
McCarthyism 439
Vietnam War 737
Community colleges 159
Composers 489-490
Compromise of 1850 239, 699
Computer industry 159-160,
159-160
Eckert and Mauchly 214-215
Concord, Battle of (1775) 400, 400 Concord, New Hampshire 510, 511
Condor 74, 76, 160, 160, 224, 741
Confederate Army:
Battle of Gettysburg 280
Ku Klux Klan 388
Lee, Robert E. 397, 397
Confederate States of America
140-141, 160, 161-162, 188, 738
Reconstruction 618-619, 618
Confederation Congress 532
Congregational Church 601
Congress, Library of see Library of Congress
Congress of the United States 162,
162, 167, 288-289
Articles of Confederation 47
Capitol 120
foreign policy 258
Homestead Act 322
House of Representatives 327-328
laws 396
Rankin, Jeanette 615
Reconstruction Acts 618
Senate 661
women's suffrage 692
Congress of Industrial Organizations
(CIO) 389, 399, 442, 621
Conifer 163, 163
Connecticut 164-165, 164-165, 408,
507, 711
Connecticut Compromise 165
Connecticut River 164, 436, 510, 734
Connors, Jimmy 706
Conquistadors 174, 200, 445, 448
Conscription 207-208
Conservation 166, 166, 225, 500
Constitution Act (1982) 167
Constitution of the United States 167,
167, 170, 259, 288, 289, 341, 363,
366, 569
abolition of slavery 403, 671
Articles of Confederation 47
Bill of Rights 72-73, 315
Census 127
citizenship 138
civil rights 139
Connecticut Compromise 165
Constitutional Convention 262
Federalists 235-236
Hamilton, Alexander 301-302
Madison, James 420
presidents 596
Prohibition 600
Reconstruction 618
right to bear arms 299
state government 686
Supreme Court and 433
Washington and 747
women's rights 768
Constitution, USS 167-168, 168, 621
Construction industry 168-169,
168-169
Consumer protection 169, 494
Continental Army 43, 300, 622, 623,
731, 731, 747
Continental Congress 169-170, 170,
566, 623
Adams, John 4
Adams, Samuel 6
Declaration of Independence 190
flag 244
Franklin, Benjamin 262
Hamilton, Alexander 302
Hancock, John 303
Henry, Patrick 315
Independence Day 341
Jay, John 363
Jefferson, Thomas 366
Madison, James 420
minutemen 460
postal service 591
Continental Divide 170, 170,
626-627, 634
Continental Navy 501
Cook, Captain James 309
Cooke, Sir William F. 700
Coolidge, Calvin 171, 171, 324, 377,
597, 637
Coolidge, William D. 353
Cooper, James Fenimore 172, 172,
405, 469
Copland, Aaron 56, 172, 172, 490
Copley, John Singleton 44, 172, 558
Copper, mining 457, 457, 499
Copyright 401, 561-562, 561
Corbett, James J. 87
Cormack, Allan 352, 353
Corn 11, 172-173, 173, 290, 339,
449, 493
Corn Belt 11, 173, 573
Cornell, Joseph 659
Cornwallis, Lord Charles 623
Coronado, Francisco V squez de 173,
230, 374-375, 515, 603
Corporation 173-174
Corpus Christi, Texas 590
Cortés, Hern n 174-175, 174, 445,
447
Cosby, Bill 682
Cosmic rays 456
Cost of living 215
Cotton 16, 175, 175, 277
Cotton Belt 175
Cotton Club 364
Cotton gin 175, 760, 760
Cottontails 610, 610
Cougar 30, 30, 126, 176, 176
Country music 176-177, 176
County courts 396
Courts 396
Supreme Court 694
Cowboy 177-178, 177, 614, 614
Pecos Bill 565, 565
rodeos 636, 636
Cowgirl 636
Cowpens, Battle of (1781) 623
Cows see Cattle
Coyote 30, 178, 178, 205, 295, 594
Crabs 182, 407, 407
Cram, Donald J. 524
Cranberry 71, 178-179, 178, 266
Crane, Stephen 179
Crater Lake 392, 496, 550
Crazy Horse 179, 182, 184, 668, 669
Credit unions 57
Creeks 130, 180, 180, 181, 344, 545,
661, 719
Crees 179, 179, 653
Creoles 414, 516
Crickets 293
Crick, Francis 750
Crime 180, 180
Federal Bureau of Investigation 235,
324
guns 299
James, Jesse 362
juvenile delinquency 372
law 396
police 583
Prohibition 600
railroads 612
Croatoan Indians 413, 413
Crockett, Davy 180-181, 181, 250
Crocodile 620, 620
Crook, General George 182, 278
Crosby, Bing 181, 181, 588
Crows 182, 182, 577
Cruise, Tom 2
Crustaceans 182, 182
Cuba:
Communism 220
Hispanic Americans from 318
Organization of American States 552,
553
Spanish-American War 440, 642,
680, 680
Cuban missile crisis (1962) 150, 183,
380
Cullen, Countee 77, 581
Cumberland Gap 81, 382, 705, 705,
761
Cumberland River 382
Cummings, E.E. 581
Cunningham, Major 300
Cunningham, Merce 187, 367, 367
Curie, Marie 562
Currier and Ives 183, 183, 190, 268
Curtis, Charles 597
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond 184
Curwood, Mount 452
Cushman, Charlotte 710
Custer Battlefield National Monument
475, 497
Custer, George 110, 131, 179, 184,
184, 349, 475, 531, 668-669
Cyclotron 396, 396
Dd
Dairy industry 10, 185, 185, 766
Dakota Indians see Sioux
Dallas 14, 137, 185-186, 185, 260,
708
Dallas, George 597
Dams 154, 154, 155, 186, 186, 333,
464
Dance 187, 187
Indian 492, 493
musicals 491
square dancing 683, 683
see also Ballet
Dare, Virginia 413
Darien 54
Darrow, Clarence 94, 188
Davis, Bette 188, 188
Davis, Jefferson 161-162, 188-189,
188, 462, 690
Davis, Miles 364, 365
Davis, Mount 566
Davis Cup 706
Dayton, Ohio 540
Daytona Speedway 51
D Day 189, 189, 770
Dean, James 236
Death penalty 180
Death Valley 112, 189, 189, 199, 275,
504, 527, 565, 725
Debs, Eugene V. 190
Declaration or Independence 4, 6, 167,
190-191, 190, 244, 259, 420, 569,
623
Continental Congress 170
Hancock's signature 303, 303
Independence Day 341
Jefferson, Thomas 366
Liberty Bell 400
Paine's influence 557
Decoration Day 443
Decorations and medals 191, 191
Deer 30, 122, 191-192, 191-192,
543
moose 477, 477
Defense, Department of 139,
192-193, 501
De Forest, Lee 193
De Kooning, Willem 558
Delaware 194-195, 194-195, 275,
460, 711
Delaware River 195, 512, 566, 569,
590
Delaware Water Gap 512
De La Warr, Lord l94
Delmarva Peninsula 434
De Mille, Agnes 56, 491
DeMille, Cecil B. 480
Democratic Party 196, 196, 236, 366,
584, 621, 698
Demoiselle, Chief 450
Dempsey, Jack 86, 87, 196
Dempster Highway 775
Denim 233, 234
Dentists 312
Denver 152, 153, 196, 196
Depression, Great 26, 197, 197, 323,
621
comics 157
consumer protection 169
labor unions 389
New Deal 507, 507, 639
photography 570, 571
public works projects 85
Deschutes River 551
Desert Island, Mount 423
Deserts 198-199, 198-199
cactus 579
Mojave 469, 469
Painted 557, 557
wildflowers 762
Des Moines 355, 355
Des Moines River 355
De Soto, Hernando 200, 200, 230,
231, 414, 443, 465
Detroit 51, 108, 137, 200-201, 200,
294, 427, 452-453, 452, 590
Detroit River 200, 452
Devils Tower 772, 773
De Vito, Danny 702
Dewey Decimal System 401
Dewey, George 201, 680
Dewey, John 201, 201
Dewey, Thomas 548, 696, 718
Diamond Head Mountain 309
Diamonds 40, 40
Diatoms 431
Díaz, Porfirio 446, 447
Dickinson, Emily 201, 201, 290, 581
Dictionaries 393, 752
Diefenbaker, John 598
Diem, President 737
DiMaggio, Joe 473
Dinkins, David 77
Dinosaurs 202, 202, 595
Diomede Islands 69
Disneyland 112, 203, 203
Disney, Walt 203, 203
Disney World 203, 246, 247
District of Columbia 58, 204-205,
204, 434, 725, 746
Diving 749
Dixiecrat Party 584
DNA 750, 750
Doctors 312, 312
Dodge City 374, 375
Dogs 205, 205
Chesapeake Bay Retriever 130
coyote 178, 178
foxes 261, 261
wolves 768, 768
Dollar bills 471, 471
Dolphins 758
Dominican Republic 121, 552, 553
Donkey 326
Dorsey, Tommy 667
Doubleday, Abner 61
Douglas Aircraft Company 206, 206
Douglas, Donald W. 206
Douglas fir 163, 163, 578
Douglass, Frederick 1, 78, 207
Douglas, James 86
Douglas, Stephen 206-207, 206
Dover, Delaware 194, 195
Doves 573
Draft 207-208, 207
Drag racing 51
Drawbridges 90
Dred Scott case 95
Dreiser, Theodore 208, 405
Driskill Mountain 414
Drug abuse 208, 208
Dryden, Ken 335
Dubinsky, David 389
Du Bois, W.E.B. 77, 208-209, 208,
495
Duchamp, Marcel 209, 209
Ducks and geese 209-210, 209-210,
748
Dukakis, Michael 221
Dulles, John Foster 210
Duluth 458
Duncan, Isadora 187, 210-211, 210
Du Pont, El
Ee
Eagle 74, 76, 212, 212, 224, 296, 720
Eagle Mountain 458
Eakins, Thomas 558
Eames, Charles 269
Earhart, Amelia 52, 212, 212
Ear Mountain 635
Earp, Wyatt 213, 213
Earthquakes 213-214, 213, 275
San Andreas Fault 649, 649
San Francisco 651
Earthworks, Mound Builders 483, 483
East India Company 83
Eastman, George 214, 214, 570
Eastman Kodak 214, 214
East River 83, 520
Eastwood, Clint 481
Eckert, John P., Jr. 214-215, 352
Economy, U.S. 215, 215
Galbraith, J.K. 271, 271
Nobel Prize 524
trade 715
Eddy, Mary Baker 135, 215-216, 215
Edison, Thomas Alva 216, 216, 300,
353, 512, 513, 561, 700, 707
Edisto River 674
Edmonton 20, 217, 217
Education 217-219, 217-219
colleges and universities 150-151,
150-151
community colleges 159
Mann, Horace 426, 426
schools 655, 655
Einstein, Albert 219, 219
Eisenhower Doctrine 220
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 189, 210, 220,
220, 374, 409, 523, 597, 621, 688,
696
Elbert, Mount 152, 483, 484, 634
Elections 221, 221, 548, 548
Electoral college 221, 311
Electric power industry 221-222, 221
hydroelectric power 333, 333
nuclear power 535
Electronics:
communications 158
computers 159-160, 159-160
transistors 59, 59, 88-89, 665
Zworykin, Vladimir 776
Electron microscope 776
Elevator 561, 670
Eliot, T.S. 222, 222
Elizabeth I, Queen of England 614
Elizabeth II, Queen of England 287
Elk 192, 477
Ellesmere Island 564
Ellington, Duke 222, 222, 364, 365
Ellis Island 340, 686
El Morro National Monument 514
El Paso 137, 223, 223
El Salvador 106, 552
Emancipation Proclamation 223, 403,
671
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 7, 21, 223,
223, 405, 416, 581, 712
Empire State Building, New York 670
Endangered animals and plants 74,
224, 224
Endurance racing 51
Environmental protection 166,
224-225
pollution 586, 586
Episcopalians 134, 225, 601
Equal Rights Amendment 768
Ericsson, Leif 226, 226, 230
Erie Canal 5, 118, 226-227, 339
Erie, Lake 293-294, 293, 452, 518,
540
Cleveland 143
Iroquois villages 357
Niagara River 522
size 392
War of 1812, 568, 568, 743
Eskimos (Inuit) 18, 22, 227, 227, 228,
297, 526, 583
caribou 122
dogs 205, 205
language 393
Northwest Territories 533
walrus hunting 742
Essler, Fanny 55
Estafan, Gloria 318
Ethnic groups 228, 228
European Recovery Plan 433
Europe, Monroe Doctrine 472, 473
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 417, 601
Evans, Walker 570, 571
Everest, Mount 438
Everett, Edward 229, 229, 279
Everglades 229, 229, 246, 246, 247,
553, 694
Evergreens 716
Exploration of North America 230,
230-231
see also names of individual explorers Explorer satellites 731
Exxon 174, 427, 542
Exxon Valdez 225
Ff
F-15 jet fighter 13
Fairbanks, Charles 597
Fairbanks, Douglas 232, 232, 480, 571
Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami 84
'Fair Deal' 718
Fairweather, Mount 91
Falcons 76
Falling Water, Bear Run 36, 771
Farming see Agriculture
Farragut, David 232, 232, 646
Fashion 233-234, 233-234
Fathers of Confederation 234, 234
Faulkner, William 128, 235, 235, 405,
524
FBI see Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
14
Federal Bureau of Investigation 180,
235, 235, 324, 396, 583
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) 507, 611
Federal courts 396
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) 507
Federal government 288
Federal Reserve System 57, 471
Federal style, furniture 269, 269
Federal Trade Commission 8, 169
Federalist Papers, The 420
Federalists 4, 5, 235-236, 302, 584,
698, 747
Federated States of Micronesia 556
Feminism 768
Ferber, Edna 236
Ferdinand, King of Spain 155
Fermi, Enrico 237, 353
Fiber-optic technology 158
Field hockey 238, 238
Field, Marshall 237
Fields, W.C. 238, 238
Fillmore, Millard 229, 239, 239, 597,
752
Film see Motion pictures
Fink, Mike 250, 251
Fire fighting 240-241, 240
Fire Island 411
Firestone, Harvey 241
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
241, 241
First United Volunteer Cavalry 642
Fish 241-242, 242, 430
endangered 224
fossils 9
Fishing industry 242-243, 243
Great Lakes 294
Menominees 444
sport fishing 624, 749
Fitzgerald, Ella 364
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 243, 243, 405
Fitzgerald, Zelda 243
Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire 510
Five Civilized Tribes 180, 346
Flag 244, 244, 494, 494, 641
Flanagan, Edward J. 245
Flint, Michigan 452
Flood 245, 245
Mississippi-Missouri river system 464
Florida 246, 246-247
citrus fruit 138
climate 145, 526
Everglades 229, 229
Jacksonville 361
Leon, Juan Ponce de 586
Miami 450
missionaries 461
Okefenokee Swamp 543, 543
St. Augustine 645, 645
Florida Keys 246, 247
Flowers see Plants; Wildflowers
Floyd, Charles 355
Floyd Monument 355
Folger Shakespeare Library 401
Folk art, American 248-249,
248-249
Folklore, American 250-251,
250-251
Bunyan, Paul 99, 99
myths and legends 492-493,
492-493
Pecos Bill 565, 565
Folk music 252, 252
Folsom culture 35, 252-253
Folsom, Frances 144
Fonda, Henry 253, 253
Fonda, Jane 3, 253
Food industry 253, 253, 427
berries 70-71, 71
citrus fruit 138, 138
corn 172-173, 179
cranberries 178-179, 178
dairy industry 185, 185
fruit 266, 266
grains 290
maple syrup 428, 428
peanuts 563, 563
sugar 693
sweet potatoes 695, 695
vegetables 733, 733
see also Agriculture
Food and Drug Administration 169,
253
Football 254-255, 254-255, 633,
633, 682, Volume 4 frontispiece
Foraker, Mount 484
Ford, Gerald 153, 256, 256, 386, 523,
597, 631
Ford, Harrison 481
Ford, Henry 241, 257, 257, 770
Ford's Theater, Washington 82
Foreign aid 257-258
Foreign policy 258
Foreign Service 258
Foreman, George 87
Forests and forestry industry 258-259,
258-259, 422, 578
Forrest, Edwin 710
Fort Atkinson 767
Fort Bliss 223
Fort Chipewyan 419
Fort Dearborn 131
Fort Duquesne 263, 264
Fort Knox 259
Fort Laramie 773
Fort McHenry 57, 494, 494, 726
Fort Peck Dam 85, 186
Fort Rouge 765
Fort Sackville 142
Fort Sam Houston 650
Fort Sumter 140, 141, 674, 675
Fort Wayne 342, 343
Fort Worth 259-260, 259, 708
Fosse, Bob 491
Fossils 9, 202, 291, 595
Foster, Stephen 260, 588
Founding Fathers 167, 261, 301
4-H Clubs 260, 260, 775
Fourteen Points 260-261, 764
Fowler, William A. 524, 524
Fox 30, 205, 261, 261
Fox, George 264
Foxglove 582, 582
Fox Indians 348, 355
Fox Studios 473
France:
Battle of Quebec 608
Canada 116, 125
D Day 189, 189
exploration of North America 230
French and Indian War 263-264, 263,
348
fur trade 268
Louisiana 414-415, 416
missionaries 461
Mississippi 462
Monroe Doctrine 473
Montreal 476
New France 509, 509
Nova Scotia 534
Quebec 607
World War I 769
World War II 770
Franciscans 461
Francis I, King of France 125, 736
Franklin, Benjamin 261-262, 261,
512, 557, 688, 720
Constitution 167
Declaration of Independence 190
General Magazine and Historical
Chronicle 421
inventions 353
postage stamps 684
postal service 591
Frank, Robert 570
Fraser River 91, 419
Fredericksburg, Battle of (1862) 140,
411
Fredericton, New Brunswick 506
Freedom 7 space capsule 663
Free Soil Party 732
Frémont, John C. 123, 230, 231,
262-263, 262, 621
French and Indian War 116, 230,
263-264, 263, 339, 425, 465, 509,
607, 622
Allen, Ethan 23
Battle of Quebec 608, 608, 609
Brant, Joseph 88
Chippewas 132-133
Miamis 450
Mohawks 468
French, Daniel Chester 659
French Revolution 390, 747
Friedan, Betty 768
Friedlander, Lee 570
Friedman, Jerome I. 524
Friends, Society of (Quakers) 1, 134,
264, 264, 565, 566, 711
Frissell, Mount 164
Frogs and toads 28, 264-265, 265
Frost, Robert 99, 265, 265, 581, 592
Fruit 266, 266
berries 70-71, 71
citrus 138, 138
cranberries 178-179, 178
gourds 285-286, 286
Fuel:
coal 383, 457, 499, 754, 755
fossil 166
natural gas 498, 498
oil 542, 542
Fugitive Slave Law 239
Fulbright, James William 266
Fuller, Buckminster 266-267, 267
Fulton, Robert 267-268, 267, 331,
349, 353, 691-692
Fundy, Bay of 506
Fungi 488-489, 489, 579
Fur:
muskrat 491, 491
weasel family 751
Fur trade 268, 268, 331, 509
Furniture 269, 269
Gg
Gable, Clark 270, 270
Gadsden, James 270, 270
Gadsden Purchase 270, 270, 572
Galbraith, John Kenneth 271, 271
Gallatin, Albert 271, 271
Gallup, George 271, 548
Galveston, Texas 590, 708
Garbo, Greta 687
Garden of the Gods 153
Gardens, botanical 84, 84
Garfield, James 46, 67, 272, 272, 292,
597
Garland, Judy 64, 273, 273
Garner, John 597
Garrison Dam 186
Garrison, William Lloyd 1, 2, 273
Garvey, Marcus 77, 273, 273
Gas, natural 498, 498
Gasoline 542
Gaspe Peninsula 509
Gateway Arch, St. Louis 467, 647, 647
Gatling gun 299
Gatling, Richard 353
Gatun, Lake 559
Geese 209-210, 209-210, 748
Gehrig, Lou 61
Gemini spacecraft 21, 42, 151, 679
General Electric 174, 393, 427
General Motors 8, 51, 51, 174, 427
Geodisic domes 267, 267
Geography 274-275, 274-275
Geology 275, 275
George, Lake 6-7
George II, King of England 276
George III, King of England 191
Georgia 276-277, 276-277, 711
Atlanta 48, 48
lumber industry 417
Oglethorpe, James 539
Okefenokee Swamp 543, 543
peanuts 563
Gerbil 636
Germantown, Battle of (1777) 623
Germany:
Hessians 317, 317
World War I 769
World War II 770
Gernsback, Hugo 658
Geronimo 32, 39, 148, 278, 278, 346
Gerry, Elbridge 597
Gershwin, George and Ira 278, 278,
490, 491, 548, 548
Getty, J. Paul 279
Getty Museum, Los Angeles 488
Gettysburg, Battle of (1863) 140, 141,
280, 411, 441, 566, 567
Gettysburg Address 229, 279, 279,
403, 566-567
Geysers 280, 280, 496
Ghana 77
Ghent, Treaty of (1814) 743
Ghost towns 505
Gibson, Charles Dana 233
Gila monster 199, 406, 407, 582, 620
Gila River 39, 154, 270, 515
Gilbert, Walter 524
Gillespie, Dizzy 364
Ginsberg, Charles 353
Girl Scouts 658, 658, 775
Glaciers 275, 391
Glashow, Sheldon L. 524
Glass, Philip 548
Glenn, John H. 280-281, 281, 678
Glidden, Carlos S. 353
'Global village' 441
Goats 30, 281, 281
Goddard, Robert H. 281, 281, 353
Goethals, George Washington 282,
282
Gold:
Alaska 19
Fort Knox 259
mining 457, 504-505
natural resources 499
reserves 477
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
89-90, 651, Volume 2 frontispiece
Gold Rush 282-283, 282, 699, 756,
775
Goldwyn, Samuel 480
Golf 283, 283, 370, 682
Gompers, Samuel 284, 389
Goodman, Benny 284, 284, 364, 365,
381
Good Neighbor Policy 284, 639
Goodyear, Charles 285, 353
Gopher 30, 285, 285, 636
Gorbachev, Mikhail 149, 150, 617,
617
Gore, Al 597
Gottschalk, Louis 489-490
Gould, Jay 285
Gourd 285-286, 286
Government, Canada 286-287,
286-287
Government, United States 288-289,
289
Cabinet 105, 105
civil service 139
Congress 162, 162
Defense, Department of 192-193
District of Columbia 204
economy 215
elections 221, 221
Federalists 235-236
foreign aid 257-258
foreign policy 258
Foreign Service 258
forestry 258-259
insurance 352
local government 408
state 686
taxes 698, 698
Graceland, Tennessee 705
Graham, Billy 290, 290
Graham, Martha 12, 187, 290, 290
Grains 290
Le Grand (airplane) 667
Grand Canyon 38, 38, 39, 99, 119,
154, 154, 173, 173, 291, 291, 565,
634
Grand Coulee Dam 155, 186, 333,
744, 745
Grand Manan Island 506
Grand Old Party see Republican Party Grand Rapids 452
Grand River 452
Grand Teton National Park 634, 635
Grand Traverse Peninsula 452
Grant, Ulysses S. 46, 140, 272, 292,
292, 296, 397, 441, 597, 663
Grapefruit 138
Grapes 266, 266
Grasshoppers 293, 293
Grasslands 578, 578, 593-594, 593
Graves, Michael 37
Great Basin 199, 559, 666, 728
Great Bear Lake 392
Great Depression see Depression,
Great
Great Divide 170, 170
Greater Antilles 121
Great Lakes 116, 293-294, 293-294,
452, 627, 725
canals 118, 227
exploration 230
formation 391
geography 275
geology 275
missionaries 461
ports 590
St. Lawrence Seaway 646, 646
War of 1812 743
Great Plains 294-295, 294, 526
Dust Bowl 211
grasslands 578
Indians 33-34, 34, 78, 156, 182,
346
pioneers 552, 575
prairie dog 594
tornadoes 713
Westward Movement 756
Wyoming 772
Great Salt Lake 295, 295, 392, 728,
729, 774
Great Seal of the United States 43,
244, 296, 296, 471, 596, 742
Great Serpent Mound 35, 483
Great Slave Lake 392, 533
'Great Society' 369, 369
Great Smoky Mountains 528, 529,
705
Greeley, Horace 296, 296
Greenback Party 584
Green Bay, Wisconsin 766
Greenbrier River 754
Greenland 330, 526, 564
Green Mountains 33, 734, 735
Green River 382, 728, 772
Greenville, Treaty of (1795) 751
Grenada 526, 552, 617
Grenadines 121, 552
Gretzky, Wayne 335, 765
Greylock, Mount 436
Griffith, D.W. 232, 480, 480
Gropius, Walter 37
Gross National Product (GNP) 215
Gros Ventre 577
Groundhog 30, 296, 296, 636
Ground squirrel 132, 297, 297, 594,
636, 683
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of 448
Guam 297-298, 297, 424, 440, 556,
680
Guatemala 106, 552
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
771
Guildford Courthouse, Battle of (1781)
623
Guillemots 748
Guinea pig 636
Gulf of Mexico 298, 298, 333, 414,
415, 462, 464, 542, 590, 627, 725
Gulf of St. Lawrence 599
Gulf Stream 298
Gulf War (1991) see Persian Gulf War
Gulls and terns 298, 298, 748
'Gunfight at the O.K. Corral' 213, 213
Guns 268, 298-299, 299
Gutenberg Bible 401
Guthrie, Arlo 252
Gymnastics 299, 299
Gyroscope 681, 681
Hh
Haas, Ernst 570
Haiti 121, 552
Hale, Nathan 300, 300
Haley, Bill 632
Halifax, Nova Scotia 534
Hallidie, Andrew S. 105
Hall of Fame 300, 300
Halloween 301, 301
Hamburg, New York 701
Hamilton, Alexander 100, 100,
235-236, 301-302, 301, 366, 420
Hamilton, Andrew 776
Hamilton, Jimmy 222
Hamilton, Ontario 302, 302
Hammerstein, Oscar II 302-303, 302,
491, 637
Hamster 636
Hancock, John 303, 303
Hancock, Walter Kirtland 690
Handy, William Christopher 303, 303,
588, 705
Harbors 590-591, 590
Harding, Warren 171, 304, 304, 323,
597
Hardy, Oliver 395
Hares 610, 610
jackrabbit 358, 358
Harlem 592
Harness racing 325, 325
Harney Peak 676
Harper, Frances 305, 305, 581
Harpers Ferry raid (1859) 93, 93, 95
Harper, William Rainey 159
Harriman, W. Averell 305
Harris, Joel Chandler 251, 305, 405,
405
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 566
Harrison, Benjamin 144, 306, 306,
597
Harrison, William Henry 306, 307,
307, 342, 597, 722, 732, 752
Hartford, Connecticut 164, 165, 165
Hart, Lorenz 637
Hart, Moss 405
Harvard University 83, 150, 218, 401,
437
Hatteras, Cape 471, 497, 528, 529
Havana 680
Havasupai Indians 291
Hawaii 308, 308-309, 725
climate 145
Kamehameha I 373
Liliuokalani, Lydia 402, 402
manifest destiny 424
Mauna Loa 438, 438
missionaries 461
mountains 484
Pearl Harbor 564
plant life 579
roads 628
Spanish-American War 440
surfing 694
volcanoes 275, 740, 740
Hawk 76, 310, 310
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 21, 310, 310,
405
Hay 22, 337
Hayes, Rutherford B. 46, 311, 311,
597
Head Start program 774
Health 312-313, 312
insurance 352
Nobel Prize for Medicine 524
polio vaccination 648
public health 601-602
Reed, Walter 619 , 619
Hearst, William Randolph 157, 313,
313
Heiden, Eric 335
Heinlein, Robert 658
Helicopter 313-314, 313-314, 667
Hellman, Lilian 405
Hell's Canyon National Recreation Area 337
Hemingway, Ernest 314, 314, 405,
524, 592, 687
Hemiptera 96
Hendrick, Chief 468
Hendricks, Thomas 597
Hennepin, Father Louis 522
Henrietta Maria, Queen 434
Henry VII, King of England 106
Henry VIII, King of England 106
Henry, John 250, 251, 251
Henry, Joseph 352
Henry, O. 314-315, 315, 405
Henry, Patrick 142, 315, 315
Henson, Matthew 104, 564
Hepburn, Audrey 47
Hepburn, Katharine 316, 316
Herald Tribune 296
Heron 316, 316, 748
Hershiser, Orel 61
Hessians 317, 317
Hiawatha 317, 317, 410, 410
Hickman, Margaret 2
Hickok, James 'Wild Bill' 317-318,
317
Highways 628, 628
Hilton, Conrad 318
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
674, 675
Hiroshima 770
Hispanic-Americans 39, 318-319,
319, 450
Hispaniola 121, 586
Hitchcock, Alfred 378, 689
Hitler, Adolf 197
Hockey:
field 238, 238
ice 334-335, 334, 765
Hoffman, Dustin 2, 455
Hogan, Ben 283
Holiday, Billie 319
Holidays 319-320, 320
Independence Day 341
Memorial Day 443, 443
Thanksgiving Day 710, 710
Veterans Day 736, 736
Holland see Netherlands
Holland, John P. 353, 692
Holland (submarine) 692
Holland Tunnel 720
Holly, Buddy 632
Hollywood 320-321, 320, 412-413,
480
see also Actors; Motion pictures
Holman, Marshall 86
Holmes, Oliver Wendell 321, 581
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. 321, 321
Holstein cows 10
Homer, Winslow 321-322, 322, 558
Homestead Act (1862) 10, 322, 756
Honduras 552
Honeybee 65, 66, 350, 351
Honolulu 308
Hood, Mount 550, 551
Hoover Dam 154, 186, 392, 504, 505
Hoover, Herbert 323, 323, 597
Hoover, J. Edgar 324, 324
Hopi 35, 324, 324, 603
Hopi language 730
Hopkins, Samuel 561
Hopper, Edward 324-325, 325, 558
Hopewell culture 483
Horne, Lena 682
Horne, Marilyn 548
Hornet 582
Horse racing 325, 325, 383, 384
Horses and their relatives 326, 326
Kentucky 383
Plains Indians 577
Pony Express 587, 587
prehistoric 595
rodeos 636, 636
Horseshoe Bay 91
Horseshoe Falls 521
Hospitals 312
Hotels and motels 318, 318, 327, 327
Hot Springs, South Dakota 677
Houdini, Harry 327, 327
Hounsfield, Geoffrey 353
House of Commons (Canadian
Parliament) 598
House of Representatives 162, 289,
327-328
Chisholm, Shirley 133
impeachment 341
Madison, James 420
Rayburn, Sam 616, 616
see also Congress
Houses of Parliament, Ottawa 554
Housing 328, 345
Houstatonic River 164, 165
Houston 137, 328, 328, 427, 548,
569, 590, 708
Houston, General Sam 328-329, 329
Howard, General Oliver 147
Howe, Elias 300, 329, 329, 353
Howe, Gordie 335
Howe, Julia Ward 2, 329, 588
Howe, Samuel Gridley 329
Hubble, Edwin 330
Hubble Space Telescope 330, 537, 654,
679, 679
Hudson Bay 117, 330, 425
Hudson, Henry 194, 231, 330, 330,
331, 520, 532
Hudson River 7, 118, 227, 267, 267,
330-331, 330, 512, 518, 520, 627,
736
Hudson's Bay Company 268, 331,
425, 533, 653
Huerta, Victoriano 764
Hughes, Langston 77, 331, 331, 581,
682
Human rights see Civil rights
Humboldt River 504
Hummingbird 331-332, 331
Humphrey, Hubert 523, 597
Humphreys Peak 39
Hunt, Walter 353
Hunt, William 353
Huron, Lake 293-294, 392, 452,
453
Hurons 128, 332, 332
Hurricane 298, 332-333, 332
Hydroelectric power 186, 222, 333,
333
Hydrogen bomb 703
Hyracotherium 595
Ii
IBM 159-60, 174, 427
Ibsen, Henrik 711
Ice hockey 334-335, 334, 765
Ice-skating 335, 335
Iconoscope 776
Idaho 336, 336-337, 417, 592
Igloos 227
Iguana 407
Illilouette falls 748
Illinois 173, 294, 338-339, 338-339,
532
Illinois River 339, 464
Immigration 340, 340
Immigration and Nationality Act
(1952) 498
Immigration and Naturalization
Service 498
Impeachment 341, 368, 661, 694
Impressionists 125
Income tax 698
Income Tax Act (1913) 396
Independence Day 341
Independence Hall 190, 341, 341
Independence, Missouri 478, 552, 652
Independent Treasury Act (1840) 732
Indiana 173, 294, 342, 342-343, 344,
532
Indiana Dunes 342, 497
Indianapolis 137, 342, 343, 344, 344
Indianapolis 500 race 51, 343, 344
Indians, American 18, 26, 122, 228,
340, 344-348, 344-348, 526, 725
cliff dwellers 145, 145
dancing 187
folk art 248
folklore 250, 251
language 393
maple syrup 428
missionaries 461
mound builders 34-35, 35, 483, 483
myths and legends 492-493,
492-493
totem poles 44
Uto-Aztecan languages 730
the Westward Movement 756, 761
see also individual Indian tribes
Indian Territory 133, 180, 307, 545,
562, 661
'Indian Turnip' 358
Indian Wars 34, 348-349, 349
Indochina 737
Industrial Revolution 37, 349, 349
Industry:
insurance 352
manufacturing 426-427, 426
mining 457, 457
public utilities 602
service 662
Information Agency, U.S. 488
Insects 350-351, 350-351
ants 31-32, 32
bees 65-66, 65
beetles 66-67, 66
bugs 96-97, 96
butterflies and moths 102-103,
102-103
deserts 199
grasshoppers 293, 293
poisonous 582
prehistoric 595
Institutional Revolutionary Party
(Mexico) 446-447
Insulin 58
Insurance industry 352
Interferometer, Michelson 451
Interior, Department of the
see Government, U.S.
International Business Machines (IBM)
159-60, 174, 427
International Court of Justice 725
International Falls 459
International Harvester Company 439
International Peace Garden 531
International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War 524
International Red Cross 60
International Space Hall of Fame 515
International Whaling Commission
(IWC) 758
Interstate Commerce Act (1887) 396
Interstate Commerce Commission 612
Intolerable Acts (1774) 169, 608, 622
Inuit see Eskimos
Inventions 352-353, 353
patents and copyrights 561-562, 561
see also names of individual inventors
Iowa 173, 354-355, 354-355, 573
Iowa Indians 577
Iran, American hostages 124, 707
Iraq, Gulf War 101, 569
Iron and steel industry 356, 356, 457
Ironclad ships 471, 471
Iroquois Indians 88, 108, 332, 468
Iroquois League 317, 346, 357, 357,
468, 724
Irrigation 294
Irving, Washington 405
Isabella, Queen of Spain 155
Islam see Muslims
Island Beach 513
'Isolationism' 770
Israel 98, 367
Itasca, Lake 458, 464
Ives, Charles 490
Ives, James 183
Iwo Jima, Battle of (1945) 357, 357,
522
Jj
Jack-in-the-pulpit 358, 358, 578
Jackrabbit 30, 358, 358, 610
Jackson, Andrew 359, 359, 584, 597
Battle of New Orleans 415, 576, 743
Creek War 180, 181
First Seminole War 661
The Hermitage 705
Jacksonville 361
Kitchen Cabinet 387
opposition to John Quincy Adams 5
Texas 329
Van Buren and 732
vice president 111
Jackson, Jesse 77, 360, 360, 682
Jackson, Mahalia 360
Jackson, Michael 632
Jackson, Missouri 462, 463
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan
'Stonewall' 360-361, 360, 690
Jacksonville 137, 246, 361, 361
Jackson, William Henry 570, 571 Jaguar 126, 126
Jamaica 121, 552
James I, King of England 614
James Fort 739
James, Frank 362, 362
James, Harry 667
James, Henry 361, 361, 362
James, Jesse 362, 362, 612
James River 245, 362, 471, 530, 738
Jamestown Festival Park 739
Jamestown Settlement 25, 130,
362-363, 363, 580, 738, 757
James, William 361, 362
Jansky, Karl 363
Japan:
Perry, Matthew 239, 568
World War II 298, 357, 357, 454,
454, 522, 564, 564, 718, 770
Jay (bird) 74
Jay, John 235-236, 302, 363, 363,
420
Jay's Treaty (1794) 363, 363
Jazz 77-78, 364-365, 364-365, 490,
588
Armstrong, Louis 42
Basie, Count 62, 62
Dixieland 415
Ellington, Duke 222, 222
Goodman, Benny 284, 284
Handy, W.C. 303, 303
Holiday, Billie 319
Kenton, Stan 381, 381
Miller, Glenn 455, 455
New Orleans 516
Jefferson City 466
Jefferson Memorial 204
Jefferson, Thomas 100, 300, 301, 302,
366, 366, 597, 738
archaeology 34
Declaration of Independence 190
forms Democratic Party 196, 236
Lewis and Clark Expedition 398-399
library 401
Louisiana Purchase 416
Madison, James 420
Monticello 739
statues of 484, 485, 676
as vice president 4
Jeffords, Thomas 147
Jehovah's Witnesses 134
Jemison, Mae 679
Jensen, Jim 202
Jesup, General T.S. 553
Jesus Christ 134, 290
Jews and Judaism 367, 367, 619
Jimsonweed 582
Joffrey, Robert 56
'John Brown's Body' 94
John F. Kennedy Space Center
119-120
Johns, Jasper 367, 367, 558
Johnson, Andrew 341, 368, 368, 597,
618
Johnson, Jack 87
Johnson, Lyndon B. 196, 305, 369,
369, 380, 597, 737
Johnson, Magic 63
Johnson, Philip 37, 455
Johnson, Richard 597
Johnson, Sir William 88
Johnson Space Center, Houston 708,
709
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) 193
Joliet Junior College 159, 218
Jolliet, Louis 231, 370, 370, 432, 432,
465
Jolson, Al 278, 370, 480, 588
Jones, Bobby 283, 283, 370
Jones, John Paul 370-371, 371
Joplin, Scott 371
Jordan, Michael 63
Joseph, Chief 372, 372, 521
Journalism 372, 517
Pulitzer Prizes 604
Zenger, John Peter 776
see also Newspapers
Joyner-Kersee, Jackie 715
Juarez, Benito 446, 447
Judaism 367
Judson, W.L. 353
Jumbo jet (Boeing 747) 80, 80
Juneau, Alaska 18, 19
Justice, Department of 235
Juvenile delinquency 372
Kk
Kachina dolls 324, 324
Kahn, Louis 373, 373
Kalamazoo River 452
Kamehameha I373
Kansas 374-375, 374-375, 614
Kansas City, Kansas 376
Kansas City, Missouri 376, 376, 464,
466
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) 572, 572
Kansas River 374
Karan, Donna 233, 234
Karle, Jerome 524
Katahdin, Mount 423
Katmai National Park 496
Katydids 293
Kaufman, George S. 236
Kealakekua Bay 309
Keaton, Buster 376-377, 376
Keller, Helen 377, 377
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) 377
Kellogg, Frank 377
Kelly, Gene 377-378, 378
Kelly, Grace 378, 378
Kendall, Henry W. 524
Kennebec River 423
Kennebunkport 422
Kennedy Airport, New York 411
Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts, Washington, D.C. 746
Kennedy, Edward 379, 379
Kennedy family 379, 379
Kennedy, Jacqueline 380, 380
Kennedy, John F. 196, 305, 379, 379,
380, 380, 409, 523, 597, 654
assassination 158, 186, 369
Cape Kennedy 120
Cuban missile crisis 183
inauguration 265
Peace Corps 563
space program 678, 679
Kennedy, Robert 379, 379
Kennesaw Mountain 497
Kenton, Stan 381, 381
Kent, Rockwell 381, 381, 558
Kentucky 81, 382-383, 382-383,
575
Kentucky Derby 325, 383, 384
Kentucky River 382
Keresan Indians 603
Kern, Jerome 303, 384, 384, 491, 628
Kerouac, Jack 384
Key, Francis Scott 57, 244, 434, 494,
494, 727, 743
Khrushchev, Nikita 183
Kidd, Michael 491
Kilauea 740, 740
Kingfisher 386
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1, 77, 48,
360, 369, 380, 385, 385, 495, 524,
525, 682, 774
King Philip's War 438, 580
King, William 597
King, W.L. Mackenzie 385
Kings Canyon National Park 496, 667
Kings Peak 728
Kiowas 34, 386, 386, 577
Kipling, Rudyard 651
Kirtland, Ohio 478
Kissinger, Henry 256, 386, 386, 525
Kitchen Cabinet 387
Kites (birds) 76
Kit fox 199, 261, 261
Kitty Hawk 528, 771
Klein, Anne 234
Klein, Calvin 234
Klein, Lawrence R. 524
Klondike 283, 643, 775
Knights of Labor 389
Kodak see Eastman, George
Kootenai River 336, 475
Kootenay National Park 634
Korean War 150, 208, 220, 220,
387-388, 387-388, 418, 718
Kosciuszko, Tadeusz 388, 388
Koster, Illinois 34
Ku Klux Klan 77, 292, 388, 618-619
Kuskokwim River 19
Kuwait, Gulf War 101, 569
Kwakiutl 347
LI
Labor unions 389, 389
Gompers, Samuel 284
Lewis, John L. 399
Meany, George 442, 442
Randolph, A. Philip 615, 615
Reuther, Walter 621
Taft-Hartley Act 696
Labrador 508
La Brea tar pits 595
Lachaise, Gaston 659
La Cosa, Juan de 230
Lacrosse 390, 390
Ladybug 66, 67, 97, 351
Lafayette, Marquis de 390, 390
Laffite, Jean 576
Lafleur, Guy 335
La Follette, Robert M. 391, 391
La Fontaine, Jean de 476
La Guardia Airport, New York City 411
Lake George, Battle of (1755) 468
Lake of the Ozarks 467
Lake Placid, Winter Olympics 546
Lakes 391-392, 391
Great Lakes 293-294, 293-294
Great Salt Lake 295, 295
Minnesota 458
Lakota Sioux 668
Land, Edwin Herbert 353, 392, 392
Lange, Dorothea 570, 570, 571
Langley, Samuel Pierpont 392-393,
392
Langmuir, Irving 393
Language 393
Uto-Aztecan 730
Webster's dictionary 752
Lansing, Michigan 452
Laos 737
Lardner, Ring 394
La Renta, Oscar de 234
Lariat 178
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de 231,
394, 394, 465, 509
Lasers 421
Lassen Peak 740
Lassen Volcanic National Park 496
Las Vegas 318, 504, 505, 505
Latin America 25
Good Neighbor policy 284
Hispanic-Americans 318
language 393
Monroe Doctrine 473
Pan-American Union 306
Latter-Day Saints 134
Laurel and Hardy 36, 365, 395, 395
Lauren, Ralph 234
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid 286, 385, 395,
395, 598
La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de
Varennes, Sieur de 465
Lawrence (ship) 568
Lawrence, Ernest O. 352, 395, 396
Laws and legal system 396
Canada 287
Lead, mining 457
League of Five Nations 468
League of Nations 261, 304, 391, 397,
724, 764
Lebanon 707
Lederman, Leon M. 524
Lee, Peggy 588
Lee, Robert E. 141, 360, 397, 397,
691
Battle of Bull Run 97
Battle of Gettysburg 280
captures John Brown 93
Stone Mountain sculpture 690
surrenders 141, 162, 292, 663
Lee, Yuan T. 524
Legal system see Laws and legal system
Legends, Indian 492-493, 492-493 Lemons 138
Lend-Lease Act (1941) 398, 639
Lendl, Ivan 706
L'Enfant, Pierre Charles 204, 746 Leonard, Sugar Ray 87
Lesser Antilles 121
Lester B. Pearson Airport, Toronto 714
Leutze, Emanuel 747, 757
Lewis and Clark Expedition 154, 230,
231, 336, 355, 398-399,
398-399, 416, 465, 550-551,
552, 634, 645, 665-666
Lewis, John L. 389, 399
Lewis, Sinclair 399, 405, 524, 524
Lexington 382
Lexington and Concord, Battles of
(1775) 170, 400, 400, 436, 460, 623
Lexington, SS, 183
Leyte Gulf, Battle of 522
Liberal Party 584, 598
Liberator, The 1, 273
Liberty, S.S. 763
Liberty Bell 341, 341, 400, 400, 569
Liberty Bonds 460
Liberty Island 686
Libraries 123, 401, 401
Library of Congress 401, 401, 562,
746
Libya 617
Lichtenstein, Roy 157, 558
Life insurance 352
Life magazine 84-85, 421
Lighthouses 402, 402, 422
Lightner Museum, St. Augustine 645
Liluokalani, Lydia 402, 402
Lincoln, Abraham 60, 95, 140, 161,
188, 206-207, 403, 403, 597, 618
assassination 81, 82, 82, 158, 368
birthplace 382, 383
coins 149
death 760
Emancipation Proclamation 223, 671
Gettysburg Address 229, 279, 279,
566-567
Illinois 338, 339
meets Harriet Beecher Stowe 690
Republican Party 620-621
statues of 484, 485, 646, 676
Thanksgiving Day 710
Lincoln Memorial, Washington 29,
204, 385, 746, 746, Volume 6
frontispiece
Lind, Jenny 59
Lindbergh, Charles 52, 104, 104, 404,
404, 671
Lindenmeier, Colorado 253
Lindsay, Vachel 581
Lipchitz, Jacques 659
Liston, Sonny 487
Literature 404-405, 405
Nobel Prize 524
poetry 581, 581
Pulitzer Prizes 604
science fiction 658
see also individual writers
Little Bighorn, Battle of (1876) 131,
179, 184, 349, 475, 531, 669
Little Colorado River 154
Little League 406, 406
Little Richard 632
Little Rock, Arkansas 41, 41, 220
Little Turtle, Chief 450
Livingston, Robert 190, 416
Livingstone, Dr. David 68, 685, 685
Lizards 30, 406-407, 406, 620
Lloyd, Chris Evert 706
Lloyd, Harold 407, 407
Lobsters and crabs 182, 407, 407, 423
Local government 408
Lockheed 8, 9
Locks, canals 118
Locomotive 408, 408, 612, 613
Locoweed 409, 409, 582
Locusts 293
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr. 256, 409
Lodges, beaver 65, 65
Loesser, Frank 491
Logan, Mount 114, 775
Log cabins 575, 575
Lomax, John and Alan 252
London, Jack 405, 409, 409
Long Beach 214, 410, 410, 590, 591
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 251,
300, 317, 410, 410, 416, 581, 621
Long Island 411, 411, 518, 623, 692
Longstreet, James 411, 411
'Long Walk', Navajos 500
Loofah 286, 286
Loon 412, 412
Lopez de Cardenas, Garcia 291
Los Alamo Laboratory 515, 549
Los Angeles 112, 129, 412-413, 412,
569
fire righting 240
Hollywood 320-321
industry 427
Olympic Games 546
population 137
port 590, 591
prehistoric animals 595
Second Street Tunnel 720
Shasta Dam 333
water supply 749
Zoo 776
Lost Colony 413, 528, 614
Loud, John 353
Louisiana 414-415, 414-415, 509
Cajuns 109
exploration 394
flood defenses 245
local government 408
lumber industry 417
New Orleans 516, 516
port 590
Louis, Joe 86, 87, 413
Louisiana Purchase 41, 152, 230, 355,
366, 375, 398, 415, 416, 416, 420,
459, 465, 466, 472, 475, 503, 676,
757
Louis XIV, King of France 394, 414,
509
Louis XVI, King of France 390
Louisville, Kentucky 383, 383, 384
Louse 350, 351
Lowell, Amy 581
Lowell, James Russell 2, 405,
416-417, 416, 581
Lowell, Robert 581
Low, Juliette 658
Loyalists 724
Lumber industry 417, 417, 550, 574
Lumberjack 163, 250
Lusitania 769
Lutherans 134, 417, 601
Luther, Martin 134, 417
Lynx 79, 126
Mm
MacArthur, Douglas 388, 418, 418,
718
Macdonald, John 234
Macdonald, Sir John Alexander 418,
418, 598
Machine guns 299
Mackenzie-King, W.L. 598
Mackenzie River 419
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander 231, 419,
419, 598
Mackenzie Valley 533
Mackenzie, William Lyon 419, 419
Mackinac Island 453, 453
Mackinac Straits Bridge 89, 90
Macleod, John 58
Madison, Dolley 420
Madison, James 5, 288, 420, 420, 472,
597
Constitution 167
Federalists 235-236, 302
Madison Avenue, New York City 7,
520
Madison, Wisconsin 767
Madonna 12, 632, 632
Mafia 235
Magazine Mountain 41
Magazines 372, 421, 421
Magnesium, mining 457
Mail:
Pony Express 587, 587
postal service 591, 591
Maiman, Theodore 353, 421
Maine 422, 422-423, 507, 722, 752
Maine, U.S.S. 440, 440, 680
Malcolm X 77, 424, 424
Malibu 113
Mallory, Stephen R. 161
Malone, New York 519
Mammals see Animal Life
Mammoth Cave National Park 127,
382, 382
Mammoths 252, 595, 677
Mammoth Springs 40, 496
Manassas, Battles of (1861-1862) 97
Mandans 424, 424, 493, 577
Manhattan 136, 137, 460, 520, 521,
692, 692, 720, 742
Manhattan (icebreaker-tanker) 532,
532
Manifest destiny 424, 585
Manitoba 114, 132, 425, 425, 765
Mann, Horace 426, 426
Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston
663
Mansfield, Mount 734
Manufacturing 215, 426-427, 426
Mao Zedong 523
Maple 427-428, 427-428, 578, 716
Maple syrup 428, 428
Maps, John C. Franklin 262-263
Marathon races 682
Marches:
marching bands 490
Sousa, John Philip 673
Marciano, Rocky 87, 413
Marcy, Mount 6, 7, 518
Mardi Gras carnival, New Orleans 516
Marietta, Ohio 540
Marine Corps, United States 357, 429,
429, 501
Marineland 247
Marine life 430, 430-431
Marion, Francis 432, 432
Markowitz, Harry M. 524
Marquette, Jacques 231, 370, 432,
432, 453, 461, 465
Marsalis, Wynton 365
Marshall Field and Company 237
Marshall, George C. 3, 433, 433, 524
Marshall, John 400, 433
Marshall Islands 556
Marshall Plan 305, 433, 718
Marshall, Thomas 597
Marshes 694
Marsupials 549
Martha's Vineyard 120, 437
Martin, Mary 491
Marx Brothers 433, 433
Maryland 31, 56, 434-435, 434-435,
711
Maser 421
Masks, Iroquois 357
Massachusetts 436-437, 436-437,
507, 711
Boston 82
lighthouses 402
Minutemen 460
Massachusetts Bay Colony 174, 422,
580, 605, 711, 763, 765
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
83, 437
Massasoit 438, 438, 580
Massive, Mount 484
Mauchly, John W. 214-215, 352
Mauna Kea 308, 537
Mauna Loa 438, 438, 484, 740
Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico 447
Mayas 445, 446
Mayflower 580, 580
Mayflower Compact 87
McCarthy, Joseph 439, 439, 488
McClellan, General George 403
McClintock, Barbara 524
McClure, Sir Robert 532
McCormick, Cyrus 353, 439, 439
McDonnell Douglas Corporation 9,
206, 466
McEnroe, John 706
McGregor, Mount 292
McKinley, Mount 18, 19, 19, 275,
484, 484, 484, 527, 725
McKinley, William 440, 440, 484, 597,
640, 641, 680
McLuhan, Marshall 441
Mead, Lake 186, 392, 505
Meade, George Gordon 280, 441, 441
Mead, Margaret 441, 441
Meany, George 442, 442
Measurements see Weights and
Measures
Medals 191, 191
Medicare 352, 369, 673
Medicine see Health
Mediterranean, Barbary pirates 576
Meighen, Arthur 598
Melville, Herman 310, 381, 405, 442,
442
Memminger, Christopher 161
Memorial Day 443, 443
Memphis 137, 385, 443, 443, 464,
704, 705
Mennoniles 134, 135, 444, 444
Menominees 444, 444
Menotti, Gian Carlo 548
Menuhin, Yehudi 490
Mercury spacecraft 281, 679
Merman, Ethel 491
Merrifield, R. Bruce 524
Merrill, Robert 548
Merrimac 471, 471
Merrimack River 436, 510
Mesas 514
Mesa Verde 34, 35, 145, 145, 153,
634
Mesquital Valley 449
Metacomet 438
Metals, mining 457
Meteorology 751
Methodists 134, 445, 601
Mètis 179, 626, 653
Metric system, weights and measures
753
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 249, 477, 488
Metropolitan Opera, New York City
29, 548
Mexican history 445-447, 445-447
Mexican War (1846-48) 21, 113, 263,
360, 441, 446, 447-448, 447, 585
Carson, Kit 123
Compromise of 1850 239
Gadsden Purchase 270
Lee, Robert E. 397
Los Angeles and 412
manifest destiny 424
New Mexico 515
Taylor, Zachary 699
U.S.-Mexican border 223
Utah 728
Mexico 448-449, 448-449, 526,
552, 725
California 112-13
exploration 174-175
Gadsden Purchase 270, 270, 572
Hispanic-Americans 318
language 393
Mexico City 448, 449, 449
Mexico, Gulf of see Gulf of Mexico
MGM 321
Miami 450, 450
Miami Beach 246, 450
Miami River 541
Miamis 342, 450-451, 451
Mice see Mouse
Michelson, Albert 451
Michener, James 451, 451
Michigan 200, 356, 452-453,
452-453, 532
Michigan, Lake 131, 293-294, 338,
339, 342, 392, 432, 452, 452, 456,
766, 766-767
Mickey Mouse 203, 203
Micronesia 556, 556
Microscope, electron 776
Midway, Battle of (1942) 454, 454,
522, 770
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 37,
454-455, 454
Miles, General Nelson 278
Milk 185, 185
Millay, Edna St. Vincent 581
Miller, Arthur 405, 455, 455, 473, 711
Miller, Glenn 381, 455, 455
Miller, Merton H. 524
Millet 290
Millikan, Robert A. 455, 456
Mills, Robert 37
Milosz, Czeslaw 405, 524
Milton, Tommy 130
Milwaukee 137, 456, 456, 766, 767
Minerals 166, 199
Mingus, Charlie 364
Mining industry 457, 457, 775
Mink 751
Minneapolis 458, 459, 459, 464
Minnesota 356, 391, 458-459,
458-459
Minnesota River 458, 464
Mint, U.S. 153
Minuit, Peter 460, 460
Minutemen 460, 460, 621
Mispillion River 195
Missiles 631, 631
Missionaries 461, 461
Mississippi-Missouri River System 41,
38, 354, 355, 414, 464-465,
464-465, 526, 627, 725
burial mounds 35
dams 186
exploration 200, 200, 230, 370, 394,
394, 398, 414, 432, 432
flood defenses 245
geography 274-275
Illinois 339
Iowa 355
Kansas 374
Kentucky 382
Memphis 443
Minnesota 458, 459
missionaries 461
Mississippi 462
Missouri 466
Montana 474
Nebraska 502
New Orleans 516
North Dakota 530
riverboats 268, 415
St. Louis 647
source 634
in South Dakota 676
Mississippi (state) 175, 462-463,
462-463
Missouri 356, 376, 466, 466-467,
578, 647
Missouri Compromise (1820) 143,
466, 472
Missouri Indians 464
Missouri River see Mississippi-Missouri River System
Missouri, U.S.S. 770
Mitchell, Betsy 695
Mitchell, Billy 468, 468
Mitchell, Mount 33, 483, 484, 484,
528
Mitchell, Nebraska 713
Mixtecs 446
Mobile, Alabama 590
Moccasins 345
Mockingbird 468
Modigliani, Franco 524
Mohawk River 518
Mohawks 88, 317, 357, 468, 468,
469, 724
Mohicans 468, 469
Mojave Desert 112, 146, 199, 469,
469, 666
Moles and shrews 469-470, 469
Mollusks 470, 470
Monaco 378
Moncton, New Brunswick 506
Mondale, Walter 597
Money 470-471, 470
banks and banking 57, 57
coins 149, 149
Monitor and Merrimac 471, 471
Monongahela River 576
Monroe Doctrine 5, 144, 472, 472,
473, 640
Monroe, Elizabeth 472
Monroe, James 5, 111, 416, 472, 472,
473, 597
Monroe, Marilyn 270, 455, 473, 473
Monster Bowl State Park 669
Montana 78, 417, 474-475, 474-475
Montauk Point 411
Montcalm, Marquis de 116, 608
Mont d'lberville 607
Monterey Bay 579
Montezuma, Emperor 448
Montgomery, Alabama 16
Montgomery, Field Marshal 220
Monticello 149, 366, 366, 739
Montpelier, Vermont 734
Montreal 114, 268, 476, 476, 509,
553, 607
Monument Rocks 375
Monument Valley 729
Moody, Helen Wills 706
Moon, landings on 21, 21, 42, 701,
678
Moore, Marianne 476, 476, 581
Moose 30, 192, 295, 477, 477
Moraine Lake 20
Morales, Pablo 695
Morgan, Henry 576
Morgan, John Pierpont 477, 477
Morgan, William G. 741
Mormons 336, 477-478, 478, 505,
601, 649, 671, 728, 756, 774
Mormon Tabernacle 478, 728, 729
Mormon Temple 728, 729
Moro Lake 666
Morristown, New Jersey 497
Morse code 478-479, 478
Morse, Samuel F.B. 157-158, 353,
478-479, 478-479, 671, 700
Morton, J.S. 34
Morton, Levi 597
Moses, Edwin 714
Moses, Grandma 479, 479, 558
Mosquito 350, 351, 619
Motels 327, 327
Moths 102-103, 102-103, 350
Motion pictures 480, 480-481
Academy Awards 2-3, 2
Hollywood 320-321, 320
see also names of individual film stars
Motorcycles 482, 482
Mott, Lucretia 1, 482, 685, 768
Mound Builders 35, 35, 483, 483
Mound City Group National
Monument 540
Mountain lion 30, 126, 176
Mountains 483-484, 484, 526
Rocky Mountains 634, 634-635
Sierra Nevada 666-667, 666
Stone Mountain 690
volcanoes 740, 740
waterfalls 748
Mountain sheep 72, 72
Mount Baker 740
Mount Cadillac 108, 422
Mount Carleton 506
Mount Caubvick 508
Mount Chocorua 511
Mount Columbia 20
Mount Curwood 452
Mount Davis 566
Mount Desert Island 423
Mount Elbert 152, 483, 484, 634
Mount Everest 438
Mount Fairweather 91
Mount Foraker 484
Mount Frissell 164
Mount Greylock 436
Mount Hood 550, 551
Mount Katahdin 423
Mount Logan 114, 775
Mount Mansfield 734
Mount Marcy 6, 7, 518
Mount Massive 484
Mount McGregor 292
Mount McKinley 18, 19, 19, 275, 484,
484, 527, 725
Mount Mitchell 33, 483, 484, 484,
528
Mount Rainier 166, 484, 744, 745
Mount Rogers 738
Mount Rushmore 484-485, 485, 676,
677
Mount St. Elias 484
Mount Saint Helens 485, 485, 740,
744, 745, 745
Mount Sir James MacBrien 533
Mount Sunflower 374
Mount Vernon 486, 486, 739
Mount Vernon Ladies Association of
the Union 486
Mount Washington 510, 511
Mount Whitney 113, 483, 484, 486,
486, 666
Mouse 487, 487, 636
Movies see Motion pictures
Muckrakers 487
Mud Island Park 443
Mule 326
Mulroney, Brian 598, 598
Municipal courts 396
Murals 69
Murder 180
Murrow, Edward R. 487-488, 488
Museums 488, 488
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 488
Museum of Modern Art, New York
City 3, 488
Museum of Science and Industry,
Chicago 488
Mushrooms 488-489, 489, 582
Music 489-490, 489-490
Cajun 109
country music 176-177, 176
folk music 252, 252
jazz 77-78, 364-365, 364-365
opera 548, 548
popular 588, 588
Pulitzer Prizes 604
rock music 632, 632
see also Jazz and individual
composers
Musical theater 491, 491, 637, 637,
711
Muskrat 30, 491, 491, 636
Muslims 619
Mussels 470
Mustang 326
Mutton 663
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 674,
675
Mystic Seaport 164, 165
Appalachians 33, 33
Myths and legends of the American
Indians 492-493, 492-493
Nn
Nader, Ralph 169, 494
Nagasaki 770
Naismith, James 62
Naive art 248, 248
Nakota Sioux 668
Nantucket 120, 437
Napoleon III, Emperor 439, 446
Narragansett Indians 763
NASA see National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Nash, Ogden 581
Nashua, New Hampshire 511
Nashville, Tennessee 176-177,
704-705, 736
Nast, Thomas 196
Natchez 462, 463
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) 8-9,
119-120, 328, 678
National Air and Space Museum,
Washington, D.C. 488, 488, 771
National American Woman Suffrage
Association 127
National anthem 494, 494
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) 209, 495, 495, 682, 762
National Baptist Convention 601
National Football League 255
National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C. 488, 746
National Guard 495, 495
National Hurricane Center 751
National Museum of Man,
Washington, D.C. 488
National Museum of Natural History,
Washington, D.C. 488
National Museum of Technology,
Washington, D.C. 488
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration 537
National Organization for Women 768
National Park System 224, 225,
496-497, 496-497
National Railroad Corporation
(Amtrak) 613
National Recovery Administration
(NRA) 507
National Rifle Association 299
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle
Safety Act (1966) 494
National Weather Service 147, 713,
751-752
National Wildlife Refuge System 75
National Woman's Party 562
National Woman Suffrage Association
31, 686
National Zoological Park, Washington,
D.C. 776
Nation of Islam 487
NATO see North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
Naturalization 498-499, 499
Natural gas 457, 498, 498
Natural resources 225, 499-500, 500
conservation 166, 166
Navajos 39, 344, 347-348, 348, 492,
500, 500, 730
Naval Academy, Annapolis 31, 31, 501
Naval War College, Newport 501
Navigation:
Bowditch, Nathaniel 85
gyroscopes 681, 681
Navratilova, Martina 706, 706
Navy 501, 501
Constitution, U.S.S., 167
Department of Defense 192-193
helicopters 313
Jones, John Paul 370-371
Los Angeles-Long Beach
Naval Shipyard 410
submarines 692
World War I769
Navy, Department of the 147
Nazis 85, 761
Nebraska 173, 502-503, 502-503,
572, 572, 614
Negroes see Black Americans
Netherlands 516, 520, 575
Nevada 90, 504-505, 504-505, 666
Nevada Falls 748
Nevelson, Louise 45, 659
New Amsterdam 460, 516, 520 see
also New York City
Newark, New Jersey 512-513
New Brunswick 92, 506, 506, 534,
724
New Deal l97, 507, 507, 639
New England 507, 507
architecture 36
Connecticut 164-165
fur trade 268
Indian Wars 348
lumber industry 417
Maine 422
Massachusetts 436-437
New Hampshire 510-511
Rhode Island 624, 624-625
Thanksgiving Day 710
Vermont 734
whaling 758
New England Anti-Slavery Society 273
New Federal Trade Commission 764
Newfoundland 92, 106, 116, 226,
508, 508
New France 116, 370, 509, 509, 607,
609
New Guinea 441
New Hampshire 507, 510-511,
510-511, 711
New Hope Mission, New York City
197
New Jersey 512-513, 512-513, 711
New Jersey, U.S.S. 631
New Kids on the Block 632
New Mexico 514-515, 514-515
Albuquerque 21
architecture 36
climate 146
Mexican War 447
Pueblo Indians 603
New Netherland 460, 516, 519, 691
New Orleans 137, 359, 364, 365, 414,
415, 415, 416, 464, 516, 516, 590
New Orleans, Battle of (1815) 420,
576, 743
Newport, Rhode Island 624, 625
News media 372
New Spain 445, 448
Newspaper Rock Historical
Monument 728
Newspapers 372, 516-517, 517
advertising 8
Bennett, James Gordon 68
Greeley, Horace 296, 296
Hearst, William Randolph 313, 313
journalism 372
Ochs, Adolph 538, 538
New Sweden 691
New York Bay 330-331, 520
New York City 137, 518, 519, 520,
520-521
advertising industry 7-8, 8
bridges 89
Broadway 92, 92
commuters 165
Ellis Island 340
George Washington Bridge 85
industry 427
Long Island 411
mayor 77
museums 488
police 583
population 137
port 118, 226, 330-331, 590
sanitation 652
schools 218
skyscrapers 455, 670
Statue of Liberty 686, 686
subway 692, 692
Tammany Hall 698, 698
theater 711
tunnels 720
United Nations headquarters 724
Wall Street 742
zoos 776
New York Philharmonic 70
New York (state) 427, 428, 518-519,
518-519, 711
New York Stock Exchange 215, 323,
690, 742
New York Times 517, 538, 637
New York Tribune 296
New Yorker, The 648, 712, 759, 763
Nez Percè 182, 326, 337, 372, 521,
521
Niagara (ship) 568
Niagara Falls 518, 519, 521-522,
522, 707, 748
Niagara Gorge 521-522
Niagara River 521, 522
Nicaragua 106, 552, 617
Nicklaus, Jack 283
Nimitz, Chester W. 522, 522
Niña 156
Niobrara River 502
Nixon, Richard M. 256, 324, 341,
380, 386, 409, 523, 523, 597, 666,
737
Noatak River 19
Nobel Price 405, 524-525, 524
Noguchi, Isamu 659
Nokoni 606
Noriega, General Manuel Antonio
101
Normandy, D Day 189, 189
Norman, Jessye 490
Norsemen see Ericsson, Leif
North America 25, 526, 526-527,
725
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 3, 220, 525, 525, 718
North Carolina 79, 417, 528-529,
528-529, 711
North Dakota 424, 530-531,
530-531
Northern Mariana Islands 556
North Korea 387-388
North Platte River 772
North Pole 104, 564, 564, 583, 583
North River (steamship) 267
North Vietnam 737
North-West Mounted Police
(NWMP)643
Northwest Ordinance (1787) 396, 532,
757
Northwest Passage 128, 330, 331,
532, 532
Northwest Territories 532, 533, 533,
583
Notre Dame University 633, 633
Nova Scotia 92, 109, 115, 414, 534,
534, 599, 724
Novels see Literature
Nuclear fission 237, 237
Nuclear power 535, 535
Nuclear weapons 13, 183, 237, 237
Nymph 97
Oo
Oahu 308, 564
Oak 536, 536, 578, 716
Oakley, Annie 536, 536
Oak Ridge National Laboratory 535,
704
Oath of Allegiance 498, 499, 499
Oats 290
Observatories 536-537, 537
Oceanography 537-538, 537-538 Oceans:
fish 242
lighthouses 402, 402
lobsters and crabs 407, 407
marine life 430, 430-431
whales 758, 758
Ocelot 538, 538
Ochs, Adolph 538, 538
O'Connor, Flannery 539
O'Connor, Sandra Day 539, 539
Ocracoke Island 529
Octopus 470, 470
Oglala Indians 179
Oglethorpe, James Edward 276, 539,
539
O'Hare Airport, Chicago 14, 131
Ohio 143, 155, 294, 444, 532, 540,
540-541
Ohio River 137, 339, 342, 382, 383,
464, 509, 540, 541, 576, 627, 754,
755
Ohio Valley 450, 575, 700
Oil industry 457, 542, 542
Alaska 19, 19
environmental protection 225
Fort Worth 259-260
natural resources 499
Ojibwa Indians 132, 464
Okeechobee, Lake 229, 661
O'Keeffe, Georgia 542-543, 543, 558,
689
Okefenokee Swamp 277, 543, 543,
694
Oklahoma 133, 322, 544-545,
544-545, 575, 719
Oklahoma City 545, 546, 546, 636
Oldenburg, Claes 659, 659
'Old Faithful' geyser 280, 280, 496,
773
Oldfield, Barney 130
Old Ironsides 167-168
Old Salem 529
Old Testament 367
Olmecs 445, 446, 446
Olympia, Washington 744
Olympic Games 124, 299, 335, 546,
555, 695, 715, 741, 741, 749, 765,
771
Olympic Mountains 660
Omaha 464, 503
Omaha Beach 189
Oneidt Indians 357
O'Neill, Eugene 405, 405, 546, 546,
628, 711
Onondaga Indians 357
Ontario 92, 114, 294, 302, 547, 547,
553, 714, 724
Ontario, Lake 293-294, 302, 357,
392, 518, 526, 547, 714
Opera 548, 548
Opinion polls 548
Opossum 30, 543, 549, 549
Oppenheimer, J. Robert 549, 549
Oraibi Village 39
Oranges 138, 266
Orchestras 489
Ordinance of 1785 757
Ordinance of 1787 532
Oregon 550-551, 550-551
climate 146
lumber industry 417
pioneers 575
Portland 589-590, 589
volcanoes 740
Oregon Territory 585
Oregon Trail 182, 503, 551, 552, 552,
575, 635, 757
O'Reilly, Edward 565
Organization for Afro-American Unity
424
Organization of American States
(OAS) 284, 552-553
Oriole 553, 553
Ormandy, Eugene 490
Orr, Bobby 335
Orthodox churches 134
Osage Indians 577
Osage River 466
Oscars 2-3
Osceota 553, 553, 661
Osceola County 355
O'Sullivan, John L. 424
Oswald, Lee Harvey 380
Otis, Elisha 352, 567, 670
Ottawa 114, 115, 287, 547, 553-554,
554, 598
Ottawa Indians 587
Ottawa River 553
Otter 30, 543, 554, 554, 751
Otter River 734
Ouachita Mountains 40
Ouimet, Francis 283
Oval Office, White House 759
Owens, Jesse 555, 555
Owl 76, 555, 555
Oyster Bay Yacht Club 411
Oysters 470
Ozark Mountains 40, 41, 466, 467
Ozark River 497
Pp
Pacific Coast Indians 492
Pacific Mountain System 275
Pacific Territories of the United States
556, 556, 725
Balboa's discovery 54, 54
Guam 297-298, 297
Hawaii 308, 309
Lewis and Clark expedition 399, 399
Mead, Margaret 441
Midway, Battle of 454, 454
Northwest Passage 532
ports 591
Ring of Fire 213, 275, 740
Pack rat 556, 636
Padre Island 708
Paine, Thomas 557, 557
Painted Desert 38, 496, 557, 557
Painting 558, 558
see also Art and individual artists
Paiutes 559, 559
Palau 556
Paleontologists 202
Palm Beach 327
Pan Am Games 638
Pan-American Union 306, 552
Panama 54, 101, 552
Panama, Isthmus of 25, 559
Panama Canal 119, 121, 282, 559,
559, 640, 640
Pangea 25
Panic of 1837 732
Panther 30
Paraguay 552
Parasailing 749
Paria Canyon, Volume 10 frontispiece
Paris 770
Paris, Treaty of (1763) 116, 264
Paris, Treaty of (1793) 363, 623
Paris, Treaty of (1898) 680
Parker, Captain John 400
Parker, Charlie 364, 364, 365
Parker, Dorothy 560, 560, 581
Parkman, Francis 560
Parks, National 496-497, 496-497
Parliament, Canadian 598
Parti Quebecois 287
Parton, Dolly 176
Partridge 606
Passport 560-561, 560
Patapsco River 56, 435
Patents and copyrights 561-562, 561
Patterson, Frederick 682
Patuxent River 435
Paul, Alice 562
Pauling, Linus 524, 562
Pavlova, Anna 55
Pawnees 108, 326, 562, 562, 577
Pawtucket, Rhode Island 624
Peace:
Nobel Prize 524, 525
United Nations 724
Peace Corps 380, 563, 563
Peace pipe 332
Peace River 419
Peanut 157, 157, 563, 563
Pearl Harbor 298, 308, 309, 522, 564,
564, 770
Pearl River 462
Pearson, Lester B. 598, 598
Peary, Robert E. 104, 564, 564
Pecos Bill 250, 565, 565
Pecos Indians 35
Pecos River 515, 627
Pedersen, Charles J. 524
Peggy's Cove 115, 534
Peggy Stewart 83
Pei, I.M. 37
Pelican 75, 224, 565, 748
Pelican Island 75, 565
Pendleton Act (1883) 272
Penn, Irving 570
Pennsylvania 566, 566-567, 711
Amish 444
Penn, William 565
Philadelphia 569, 569
Pittsburgh 576, 576
Quakers 264
Pennsylvania Dutch 250, 269
Pennsylvania Gazette 261, 262
Pennsylvania State House 400
Penn, William 136, 264, 565, 565,
566, 569
Penobscot River 423
Pentagon 193,738
Pentecostal Church 134, 601
Percy Quinn State Park 463
Perot, H. Ross, Jr. 314
Perry, Matthew C. 239, 568
Perry, Oliver Hazard 568, 568, 743
Pershing, John J. 568, 568, 769
Persian Gulf 499
Persian Gulf War (1991)
26, 101, 495, 569, 655
Peru 552
Petalshara 562
Peters, Bernadette 491
Petersburg, Siege of (1864) 140
Peters, Roberta 548
Petrified Forest National Park 496
Petroleum industry 542, 542
Petty, Richard 51
Philadelphia 566, 567, 569, 569
circus 136
Continental Congress 169, 262
Declaration of Independence 190,
341
Fields, W. C. 238
industry 427
Liberty Bell 400, 400
population 137, 712
port 590
Philip, King 438
Philip Morris Company 7-8, 174, 427
Philippines 418, 424, 440, 680
Phips, Sir William 647
Phoenix 38, 39, 137, 570, 570
Phosphate rock 457
Photography 570-571, 570-571
Adams, Ansel 3, 3
Bourke-White, Margaret 84-85
Brady, Matthew 88
Currier and Ives 183, 183
Eastman, George 214
Polaroid camera 392, 392
Steichen, Edward 687, 687
Stieglitz, Alfred 689, 689
Phyfe, Duncan 269
Phylloxera 266
Picasso, Pablo 687
Pickett, General George 280
Pickford, Mary 232, 480, 571, 571
Pictured Rocks 453, 497
Piegan Indians 78
Pierce, Franklin 188, 572, 572, 597
Pierre, South Dakota 676
Pigeon 573, 573
Pigs and hogs 573, 573, 595
Pikes Peak 152, 574
Pike, Zebulon 152, 230, 231, 231,
574, 574, 634
Pilgrims 26, 87, 120, 436, 436, 438, 605
see also Plymouth Colony; Puritans
Pinchot, Gifford 697
Pine 574, 574, 578, 716
bristlecone pine 90, 90
Pinta 156
Pioneers 575, 575
Westward Movement 756-757,
756-757
Wilderness Road 761, 761
Pirates and buccaneers 576, 576
Pittsburgh 263, 264, 566, 576, 576
Placid, Lake 7
Plains, Georgia 124
Plains Indians 131, 184, 250, 386,
424, 424, 493, 577, 577
Plains of Abraham 608
Plankton 430, 430
Plant life 578, 578-579
berries 70-71, 71
botanical gardens 84, 84
Burbank, Luther 99
cactuses 107, 107
deserts 199
endangered 224-225, 224
gourds 285-286, 286
jack-in-the-pulpit 358, 358
locoweed 409, 409
marine life 430, 430-431
poisonous 582, 582
swamps 694
wildflowers 762, 762
Plastics, Bakelite 54
Plath, Sylvia 581, 581
Platte River 34, 502, 562
Plays see Theater
Plimoth Plantation 437,580
Plimpton, James 638
Plymouth Colony 87, 436, 438, 580,
580, 605, 710
Plymouth, Massachusetts 438
Pocahontas 363, 580, 593
Poe, Edgar Allan 300, 405, 405, 580,
580, 581
Poetry 404-405, 581, 581
see also individual poets
Poinsettias 582
Point Loma Naval Reservation 692
Point Pelee 293
Poisonous plants and animals 582, 582
locoweed 409
mushrooms 488-489, 489
poison ivy 582, 582
poison oak 582
poison sumac 582
rattlesnakes 616
Poitier, Sidney 548, 582, 582
Poland 388, 604, 770
Polaroid camera 392, 392
Polar regions 583, 583
Police 180, 583, 583
Federal Bureau of Investigation 235,
235
Royal Canadian Mounted Police 643,
643
Political parties 584, 584
Democrats 196, 196
elections 221, 221
opinion polls 548
Republicans 620-621
Polk, James K. 95, 447, 585, 585, 597
Pollock, Jackson 558, 558
Polls, public opinion 271
Pollution 586, 586
cities 136-137
conservation 166
crustaceans 182
endangered animals and
plants 224
environmental protection 224-225
Great Lakes 294
Lake Michigan 342
smog 413
water 750
Polynesians 308, 461
Ponca Indians 577
Ponce de Leon, Juan 230, 586, 586
Pontchartrain, Lake 89
Pontiac 587, 587
Pontiac's Rebellion 587
Pony Express 148, 158, 587, 587, 591
Pop art 367, 742
Pope 638
Poppy 578, 762
Popular Music 489, 588, 588
Population:
Black Americans 77-78, 77
Cajuns 109
census 127
Hispanic-Americans 318-319, 319
see also individual Indian tribes
Populist Party 584
Porcupine 30, 589, 589, 636
Porgy and Bess 278, 548, 548
Porpoise 758
Porter, Cole 491, 589, 589
orter, Eliot 570
Porter, William Sydney see Henry, O.
Portland Head Light 402
Portland, Maine 422, 590
Portland, Oregon 154, 550, 589-590,
589, 591
Ports and harbors 590-591, 590
Portsmouth, New Hampshire 511
Portuguese man-of-war 582
Postal Service 139, 591, 591,
684-685, 717
Posters 7
Potato 592, 592, 733
Potomac River 130, 205, 393, 435,
486, 627, 738
Pound, Ezra 581, 581, 592
Poundmaker 179
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. 77, 592,
592
Powell, Colin L. 77, 593, 593
Powell Expedition 154
Power:
electric 221-222, 221
hydroelectric 186, 222, 333, 333
nuclear 535, 535
Powhatan 580, 593
Powhatan Confederacy 593
Prairie 578, 593-594, 593
Alberta 20
animals 30
grains 290
Manitoba 425, 425
wildflowers 762
Prairie dog 30, 30, 295, 594, 594, 636,
683
Prawns 182
Prehistoric animals 595, 595
Prehistory, Folsom culture 252-253
Prejudice, racial 77
Preminger, Otto 689
Prenter 755
Presbyterians 134, 595-596, 601
Prescott, Colonel William 98
President of the United States
596-597 596
Cabinet 105, 105
Constitution 167
elections 221
Mount Rushmore 484-485, 485
see also names of individual presidents
Presley, Elvis 588, 632, 632, 705
Press see Journalism; Newspapers
Price, Leontyne 548, 682
Prime Minister of Canada 287, 598,
598
Primitive art 44, 248, 248
Prince Edward Island 599, 599
Princeton University 512
Prizes:
Nobel 524-525, 524
Pulitzer 604, 604
Procter & Gamble 8, 427
Progressive Conservative Party 584,
598
Prohibition 171, 304, 600, 600
Prohibition Party 584
Pronghorn 30, 178, 295, 595, 600,
600
Property insurance 352
Property tax 698
Protestantism 601, 601
Lutherans 417
Mennonites 444, 444
missionaries 461
Presbyterians 595-596
Providence, Rhode Island 624,625
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) 701
Public health 601-602, 602
sanitation 652, 652
Public opinion polls 271, 548
Public utilities 602
Public Works Administration 507
Pueblo Bonito 35
Pueblos 145, 346, 347, 492, 603, 603
Pueblos (villages) 35, 39, 514, 514,
515, 603
Puerto Rico 121, 318, 424, 440,
603-604, 603, 680
Puffin 748
Puget Sound 660, 744
Pulaski, Casimir 604, 604
Pulaski's Legion 604
Pulitzer, Joseph 604
Pulitzer Prizes 93, 96, 372, 604, 604
Pullman, George 353, 612
Puma 30, 126, 176
Pumpkin 301, 567
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) 668
Puritans 82, 580, 605, 605, 647, 711,
765
Purple Heart 191, 191
Qq
Quail 606, 606
Quakers see Friends, Society of
Quanah Parker 156, 606, 606
Quantrill's Raiders 362
Quapaws 577
Quayle, Dan 105, 584, 597
Quebec (province) 92, 114, 115, 607,
607
French language 393
maple trees 428, 428
Montreal 476
separatist movement 117, 287, 717
United Empire Loyalists 724
Quebec Act 608
Quebec, Battle of (1759) 116, 608,
608
Quebec City 118, 128, 264, 268, 332,
509, 607, 608, 609, 609
Queen Anne's War 468
Queens 411, 520
Queens County, Prince Edward Island
599
Queenston Heights, Battle of (1812)
743
Quills, porcupine 589
Quilts 249
Rr
Rabbits and hares 610, 610
Raccoon 30, 543, 610, 610
Rachmaninoff, Sergei 610-611
Racial discrimination see Civil rights
Racing:
automobile 51, 51, 343
horse 325, 325, 384
soap box derby 672
Radar 13
Radioactivity 535
Radio broadcasting 158, 193, 372,
487-488, 611, 611
Radio Corporation of America 158
Radio telescopes 363, 537, 537
Rafting 749
Ragtime 371
Railroads 612-613, 612-613, Volume
8 Frontispiece
Canadian Pacific Railway 20, 116,
117, 418, 613, 765
locomotives 408, 408
subways 692, 692
Transcontinental Railroad 292
Railroad, Underground 723, 723
Rainfall 145-146, 199
acid rain 586
Rainier, Mount 166, 484, 744, 745
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco 378
Rainy River 458
Raleigh, North Carolina 528
Raleigh, Sir Walter 614, 614
Ramsay, Norman F. 524
Ranching 614-615, 614
Randolph, A. Philip 77, 615, 615
Rankin, Jeanette 615
Ransom, John Crowe 581
Rats 615-616, 615, 636
Rattlesnake 30, 582, 594, 616, 616,
620, 672
Rayburn, Sam 616, 616
Ray, James Earl 385
Razor, safety 352
Reader's Digest 421
Reagan, John H. 161
Reagan, Ronald W. 101, 124, 149,
539, 593, 597, 617, 617, 666
Reapers 439, 439
Reconstruction 311, 368, 618-619,
618
Recycling 166, 166
Redbird see Cardinal
Red Cloud 669
Red Cross 60, 60, 602, 619, 695
Redoubt 740
Red River 414, 464, 530, 530,
544, 545, 627, 709
Red River colony 425
Red River Rebellion 626
Red-throated loon 412, 412
Redwood 163, 163, 550, 578, 661,
716
Redwood National Park 496
Reed, Dr Walter 619, 619
Reelfoot Lake State Park 704
Reformation 595, 601
Reformed churches 134, 135, 596, 601
Regina, Saskatchewan 653
Reindeer 122, 192
Relativity, theory of 219
Religions 619, 619
Baptists 58
Christianity 134-135
Christian Science 135, 135, 215-216
Episcopalians 225
Friends, Society of 264, 264
Graham, Billy 290, 290
Judaism 367
Lutherans 417
Mennonites 444, 444
Methodists 445
missionaries 461, 461
Mormons 477-478, 478
Pawnees 562
Presbyterians 595-596
Protestantism 601, 601
Roman Catholic Church 638
Salvation Army 649, 649
Remington, Frederic 345, 558, 659,
659, 668
Renaissance Center, Detroit 452
Reno, Nevada 504
Reptiles 620, 620
alligators 24, 24
dinosaurs 202, 202
endangered 224
lizards 406-407, 406
prehistoric 595
snakes 672, 672
turtles 721, 721
Republican Party 101, 272, 584,
620-621
Republican River 374, 502
Republic Steel 541
Reservoirs 186, 186, 749
Resources, natural 499-500, 500
Retton, Mary Lou 299
Reuther, Walter 621
Revere, Paul 400, 437, 621, 621
Revolution, The 686
Revolution, American 622-623,
622-625
Battle of Bunker Hill 98, 98
Battle of Saratoga 519
Battles of Lexington and Concord
400, 400
Boston Massacre 83,83
Boston Tea Party 83-84, 84
Clark, George Rogers 142
Continental Congress 170
Green Mountain Boys 734
Hamilton, Alexander 301
Hessians 317, 317
Indian Wars 348
Jackson, Andrew 359
Jones, John Paul 370-371
Kosciuszko, Tadeusz 388
Lafayette, Marquis de 390
Marion, Francis 432, 432
Massachusetts 436
Minutemen 460, 460
Mohawks 468
Pulaski's Legion 604
Revere, Paul 621,621
United Empire Loyalists 724
Valley Forge 731, 731
Wayne, Anthony 750-751, 750
Revolvers 299, 299
Rhode Island 408, 427, 507, 624,
624-625, 711, 763
Rhododendron 582
Ribbon falls 748
Rice 290
Rich, Adrienne 581
Richardson, Henry 37
Richland Balsam 484
Richmond, Virginia 245, 738
Richter scale 213-214
Rickenbacker, Eddie 626, 626
Ride, Sally Kristen 626, 678
Rideau Canal 554, 554
Riel, Louis 179, 626, 626, 643, 653
Rifles 268, 299, 683
Rights of Man, The (Paine) 557
Riis, Jacob A. 570
Riley, James Whitcomb 581
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai 690
Ringling Brothers 59, 136
Rio Grande 223, 514, 515, 626-627,
627, 634, 709
Riverboats 415, 704
Rivers 526, 627
Continental Divide 170, 170
dams 186, 186
fish 241
floods 245, 245
irrigation 294
Rio Grande 626-627, 627
Roadrunner 75, 199
Roads and highways 628, 628
Roanoke Island 413
Roanoke River 528
Robbins, Jerome 491, 491
Robeson, Paul 77, 628, 628
Robin 74, 629, 629
Robinson, Edwin Arlington 581, 629,
629
Robinson, Jackie 61, 629-630
Robinson, Sugar Ray 87
Rochester, New York 118, 518
Rockefeller Center, New York City
335, 630
Rockefeller, David 631
Rockefeller, John D., Sr. 285, 630, 630,
664, 697
Rockefeller, John D., Jr. 630, 630
Rockefeller, John D. III 630
Rockefeller, John D. IV 631
Rockefeller, Lawrence 631
Rockefeller, Nelson 597, 630-631
Rockefeller, Winthrop 631
Rockefeller family 630-631, 630
Rockets and missiles 631, 631
Goddard, Robert H. 281, 281
Von Braun, Wernher 741
Rock music 588, 632, 632
Rockne, Knute 633, 633
Rockport 437, 547
Rocks:
Canadian Shield 117
geology 275, 275
Grand Canyon 291
Rockwell, Norman 558, 633, 633
Rocky Canadian Shield 547
Rocky Mountain goat 281, 281
Rocky Mountains 91, 464, 526, 634,
634-635
animals 30, 477
in Canada 20, 115, 419
Colorado 152
Continental Divide 170
exploration 230
formation 483
geography 275
geology 275
highest mountains 484
Idaho 336
Montana 474
Oregon Trail 552, 552, 757
Pikes Peak 574
plant life 579
Rio Grande 627
Utah 728, 729
waterfalls 748
Wyoming 772
Rodents 30, 636, 636
beavers 65, 65
gophers 285, 285
muskrats 491, 491
pack rats 556
porcupine 589, 589
rats 615-616, 615
squirrels 683-684, 683-684
Rodeo 111, 636, 636
Rodgers, Richard 303, 451, 491, 637,
637
Roethke, Theodore 581
Rogers, Ginger 47-48, 187
Rogers, Mount 738
Rogers, Will 637, 637
Rolfe, James 580
Rolfe, John 363, 593
Roller skating 637-638, 638
Roman Catholic Church 134, 434,
461, 461, 601, 608, 619, 638, 711
Roman Empire 120
Roman Rite church 134
Romberg, Sigmund 303
Romeo, Robin 86
Ronan, Montana 474
'Roosevelt Corollary' 473, 640
Roosevelt, Eleanor 29, 638, 638
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 196, 305, 596,
597, 615, 638, 639, 639
Atlantic Charter 49
'Brains Trust' 71
death in office 718
election 271, 323
Good Neighbor policy 284
Lend-Lease Act 398
New Deal 197, 507, 507
World War II 564, 609, 770
Roosevelt, Theodore 75, 362, 584,
597, 638, 640, 640, 641, 697
Nobel Prize 525
Republican Party 621
Rough Riders 642, 642
Spanish-American War 680, 680
statues of 484, 485, 676
White House 759
Root, Elihu 641
Root-Takahira Agreement (1908) 641
Roper, Elmo 548
Rosebud Creek, Battle of (1876) 182
Roses 578
Ross, Betsy 641, 641
Ross, Diana 588
Ross Ice Shelf 104
Ross, Nellie Tayloe 773
Rothko, Mark 558, 642, 642
Rough Riders 642, 642, 680, 680
Rowing 749
Royal Canadian Mounted Police 643,
643
Rubber:
Firestone Company 241, 241
Goodyear, Charles 285
Running 682
Runyon, Damon 643-644, 644
Rural Electrification Administration
(REA) 507
Rushmore, Mount 484-485, 485,
676, 677
Russia see Soviet Union
Rutan, Richard 52
Ruth, Babe 61, 644, 644
Ryder, Albert Pinkham 558, 644, 644
Rye 290
Ss
Saarinen, Eero 37
Sable 751
Sacagawea 398, 398, 645, 645,
665-666
Sacramento 112, 113, 587
Sacramento Canal 119
Sacramento River 113
Sadat, Anwar 124
Safety pin 353
Saguaro cactus 107, 107
Saigon 737
Sailboarding 749
St. Augustine 137, 247, 645, 645
St. Clair River 452
St. Croix (Virgin Islands) 740
Saint Croix Island (Minnesota/
Wisconsin) 497
St. Denis, Ruth 290
St. Elias, Mount 484
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus 646, 646,
659
St. George, Strait of 733
St. George's (Grenada) 526
Saint Helens, Mount 485, 485, 740,
744, 745, 745
Saint John (New Brunswick) 506
St. John's (Newfoundland) 508, 508
St. John (Virgin Islands) 740
St. Johns River 247, 361
St. Joseph, Missouri 587
St. Kitts and Nevis 552
St. Lambert Lock 118
St. Laurent, Louis 598
St. Lawrence, Gulf of 509
St. Lawrence River 106, 116, 118,
125, 128, 128, 268, 476, 518, 608,
609, 627
St. Lawrence Seaway 116, 118, 119,
293, 294, 302, 458, 518, 540, 627,
646, 646, 664, 766
St. Louis 464, 466, 467, 546, 647,
647, 693
St. Louis Zoo 776
Si. Lucia 552
St. Marys River 247, 452, 543
St. Paul 458, 459, 459, 464
St. Paul Winter Carnival 459
St. Saveur 607
St. Thomas (Virgin Islands) 740
St. Vincent 121, 552
Salamanders 28-29, 29
Salem, Oregon 550, 551
Salem witchcraft trials 647, 647
Sales tax 698
Salinger, J. D. 648, 648
Salk institute, La Jolla 373
Salk, Jonas 648
Salmon 242, 243
Salmon River 336
Salmon River Mountains 336
Salt Lake, Great 295, 295
Salt Lake City 295, 478, 648-649,
648, 728, 729, 774
Salt River 570
SALT 2 Treaty (1979) 124
Salvation Army 134, 649, 649
Samoa, American 306, 441, 556
Sampras, Pete 706
Sam, Uncle 723
San Andreas Fault 213-214, 649, 649,
651
San Antonio 137, 650, 650, 708
San Antonio de Valero 461
San Antonio Missions Historical
Park 461
San Antonio River 650
Sand 457
Sandburg, Carl 581, 581, 650, 687
San Diego 106, 110, 112, 137, 650,
650
Sandusky River 541
San Francisco 112, 297, 651, 651,
Volume 9 frontispiece
cable cars 105
earthquakes 213-214, 213, 649
Golden Gate Bridge 89-90,
Volume 2 frontispiece
Gold Rush 283
opera 548
population 137
tunnels 720
San Francisco Art Institute 3
Sanitation 652, 652
San Jose 137, 461, 628, 651, 651
San Juan Capistrano 461
San Juan Hill, Battle of (1898) 642,
642, 680
San Juan, Puerto Rico 603, 604
San Luis Dam 186
San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant
535
San Pedro Bay 410
Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de 270,
446
Santa Barbara 112, 461
Santa Clara Valley 651
Santa Fe 515
Santa Fe Trail 652
Santa Maria 156
Santee River 674
Santiago, Cuba 680
Saratoga 622
Saratoga, Battle of (1777) 388, 519
Sardinia 525
Sargent, John Singer 45, 558, 652, 652
Saskatchewan 78, 114, 653, 653
Saskatoon 653
Sassafras Mountain 674
Satellites, artificial 654, 654
communications 157
weather 274
Saturday Evening Post 394, 633
Saturn rockets 631, 741
Saudi Arabia, Persian Gulf War 101
Saugus 356
Sauk Indians 78, 348, 355
Sault Ste. Marie 453
Savannah 276, 276, 539, 664
Savannah River 277, 674
Scalawags 618
Scallops 470
Schawlaw, Arthur L. 524
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. 654
Schlesinger, Arthur, Sr. 654
Schollander, Don 695
Schools 217-219, 217-219, 401, 655,
655
Schrieffer, J.R. 59
Schulz, Charles 157
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman 569, 655,
655
Schwarz, Melvin 524
Science 656, 656-657
Science fiction 47, 658
Scientific American 421
Scioto River 155
Scopes, John 94
Scorpions 582, 681
Scott, General Winfield 447, 572
Scottsbluff, Nebraska 503
Scouts 658, 658, 775
Scrimshaw 249, 249
Sculpture 659, 659
Calder, Alexander 110, 110
folk art 248-249, 249
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus 646, 646
Seabirds 748, 748
Seagram Building, New York City 455
Sea lions 30, 660, 660
Seal see Great Seal of the U.S.
Seals and sea lions 30, 660, 660
Sears, Roebuck 8
Sears Tower, Chicago 131, 339, 670,
670
Seaside Heights, New Jersey 669
Seattle 137, 485, 591, 660, 660, 744,
744, 745
Seaweed 430
Secret Service 660
Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) 507
Security Council, United Nations 724
Sedition Act 4
Seeger, Pete 252
Seminoles 130, 180, 348, 545, 553,
661, 661
Seminole Wars 553
Senate 162, 289, 327, 341, 661
see also Congress
Seneca Falls, New York 482, 685
Seneca Indians 357
Senegal 563
Seoul 388
Separatists 605
Sequoias 163, 163, 578, 661, 661,
662, 667, 716
Sequoya 661, 662, 662
Serapis 371, 371
Serpent Mound State Memorial 483
Serra, Father Junipero 461, 461
Service industries 215, 662
Sesame Street 702
Sessions, Roger 490
Seven Years' War 263
Sewage disposal 652, 749
Seward, William H. 19
Sewing machine 329, 329, 352
Shakers, furniture 269, 269
Shakespeare, William 60, 81
Sharks 430, 431
Sharpe, William F. 524
Sharpsburg, Battle of (1862) 140
Shasta Dam 333
Shaw, George Bernard 711
Shawnees 81, 451, 700
Shawn, Ted 290
Sheep 72, 72, 595, 614, 662-663, 663
Shelborne Museum 735
Shellfish 142, 142, 242-243, 430
Shell Oil 427
Shells:
mollusks 470, 470
wampum 470
Shenandoah National Park 739, 739
Shenandoah River 738
Shepard, Alan B., Jr. 663, 663, 678
Sheridan, Philip Henry 386, 663
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) 664
Sherman, James 597
Sherman, Roger 190
Sherman, William Tecumseh 48, 141,
277, 646, 664, 664
Shiloh, Battle of 140
Ships and shipping 664-665,
664-665
canals 118-119, 118
Coast Guard 146-147, 146
Constitution 167-168, 168
Great Lakes 293, 294
gyroscopes 681, 681
Mississippi-Missouri river system
465, 465
Monitor and Merrimac 471, 471
Navy 501, 501
pirates and buccaneers 576, 576
ports and harbors 590-591, 590
St. Lawrence Seaway 646, 646
steamboats 267-268, 267
submarines 691-692
Shishaldin 740
Shockley, William B. 59, 88, 353, 665,
665
Sholes, Christopher L. 353
Shore, Dinah 588
Short stories 404
Shoshone falls 748
Shoshoni language 730
Shoshonis 78, 645, 665-666, 666
Shreveport 414
Shrews 469-470, 469
Shrimp 182, 182
Shultz, George 666
Siberia 526
Sierra Leone 77
Sierra Madre 448, 526
Sierra Nevada 112, 240, 483, 486,
526, 661, 666-667, 666, 748
Sikorsky, Igor 313, 352, 667, 667
Siksika Indians 78
Silage 22
Silicon microchips 159
'Silicon Valley' 113, 651
Sills, Beverley 548
Silver City Ghost Town 337
Silver, mining 457, 499, 504-505
Silver Strand falls 748
Simon, Neil 405
Simons, Menno 444
Sinatra, Frank 588, 667, 667
Sinclair, Upton 169, 668
Singer, Isaac Bashevis 329, 405, 524,
668
Sioux 132, 179, 346, 348, 349, 531,
577, 668-669, 668
Sioux City 464
Sir James MacBrien, Mount 533
Sitting Bull 179, 184, 669
Skateboarding 669, 669
Skating:
ice 335, 335, 765
roller 637-638, 638
Skiing 765, 765
Skin diving 749
Skinks 406
Skunk 30, 669, 669, 751
Skunk cabbage 694
Skylab 678, 678, 679
kyline Drive 739
Skyscrapers 37, 131, 168, 339, 670, 670
Slater Mill 624
Slavery 77, 77, 670-671, 670
abolitionists 1-2, 1, 93-94, 139,
273, 482
Calhoun, John C. 111
Civil War 140
Compromise of 1850 239
Dred Scott case 95
Emancipation Proclamation 223, 403
Mississippi 462
Reconstruction 618-619, 618
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 690
Taylor, Zachary 699
Turner, Nat 720-721, 721
Underground Railroad 723, 723
Slugs 470
Sluiskin falls 748
Smith, Bessie 365
Smith, Captain John 130, 362-363,
580
Smith, David 659
Smith, Joseph 478, 671, 671, 774
Smith, Kate 588
Smithsonian Institution 488, 488, 671,
671, 746
Smithson, James 671
Smith, W. Eugene 570
Smog 413
Smoky Hill River 374
Snails 470, 470
Snake River 336, 337, 550, 627, 744
Snakes 620, 672, 672
rattlesnakes 616, 616
Snake Uprising (1901) 180
Snapping turtles 721, 721
Snook (submarine) 692
Snow goose 74, 210
Soap box derby 672
Soccer 255, 672, 672
Socialism 456, 584
Social Security Act (1935) 396
Social welfare 673, 673
Socorro radio telescope 537, 537
Softball 673, 673
Soil, pollution 586
Solar power 166
Solomon Islands 451
Solow, Robert 524
Sondheim, Stephen 491
Songs:
folk 252, 252
popular music 588
Porter, Cole 589, 589
Sonoran Desert 199
Sons of Liberty 84, 621, 673
Soo Canals 453
Soule, Samuel W. 353
Soup kitchens 732
Sousa, John Philip 673
South America 25, 318
South Bend 342
South Carolina 674, 674-675, 711
South Dakota 676, 676-677
Badlands 53
Mount Rushmore 484-485, 485
South Korea 387-388, 546
South Newfane, Vermont 601
South Platte River 152
South Pole 104, 583, 583
South River Falls 739
South Vietnam 737
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO) 220
Southern Baptist Convention 58, 601
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) 1, 385, 774
Southern Plains War (1868-1869) 386
Soviet Union:
Alaska 18-19, 22
Cold War 150, 210
Cuban missile crisis 183
Monroe Doctrine 473
SALT treaties 124
space program 678
Soybeans 11-12
Space Needle, Seattle 660, 744
Space program 380, 678-679,
678-679
Armstrong, Neil 42
Cape Canaveral 120
Collins, Michael 151, 151
Glenn, John H. 280-281, 281
Shuttle 52, 626, 678, 679, 679
Spain:
exploration of North America 230
Florida 246
Louisiana Purchase 416
Mexico 445-446, 448
missionaries 461, 461
Monroe Doctrine 473
New Mexico 515
Puerto Rico 604
Spanish-American War (1898) 201,
297, 424, 440, 440, 604, 642, 680,
680
Spanish language 393, 448
Spanish moss 415
Sparrow 74
Speakeasy 600, 600
Speed skating 335
Spelling 752
Sperry, Elmer 352, 681
Spiders 582, 681, 681
Spingarn, Joel Elias 682
Spinks, Leon 487
Spirit of St. Louis 404, 404, 671
Spirituals 252
Spitz, Mark 695
Spock, Dr. Benjamin 682
Spokane River 744
Sponges, marine 430
Sport fishing 624
Sports 682-683, 682
Olympic Games 546
water sports 749, 749
winter sports 765, 765
see also individual types of sport and
under names of individual sports men and women
Sprague, Frank 353
Springfield, Illinois 339
Spruce 163, 716
Sputnik 654, 678
Square dancing 683, 683
Squaw Valley 546
Squid 470
Squirrels 30, 296, 297, 636, 683-684,
683-684
Stabiles 110, 110
Stalagmite 127
Stalin, Joseph 639, 639, 718
Stalwarts 46, 272
Stamp Act (1765) 6, 264, 622, 673, 684
Stamps and stamp collecting 684-685,
684-685
Standardbred horse 326
Standard of living 215
Standard Oil Company 630, 664, 697
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton 68, 685, 685
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 482,
685-686, 768
Stanton Hall, Natchez 462
Starfish 430
Star-of-Bethlehem 582
Star of the West 95
'The Star-Spangled Banner' 57, 244,
434, 494, 494, 727,743
Starr, Ellen Gates 6
Stars, observatories 536-537, 537
'Stars and Stripes' 244, 244, 641
Stars and Stripes (yacht) 28, 28
State courts 396
State Department 258, 439
State government 686
Staten Island 89, 520
State University of New York 150
Statue or Liberty 144, 686, 686,
Volume 7 frontispiece
Stealth bomber 52
Steamboats 17, 267-268, 267, 465,
465
Steam locomotives 408
Steel industry 356, 356
Stegosaurus 202
Steichen, Edward 570, 571, 687, 687
Steinbeck, John 211, 405, 524, 687, 687
Steinberger, Jack 524
Stein, Gertrude 687
Stella, Frank 558
Stephens, Alexander H. 161
Stephenson, Jan 283
Steuben, Baron von 688, 688, 731
Steuben County 342
Stevens-Duryea cars 211
Stevenson, Adlai E. 597, 688
Stevens, Wallace 581, 688
Stewart, James 688-689, 689
Stieglitz, Alfred 543, 570, 571, 687,
689, 689
Stigler, George J. 524
Stockades 575
Stockbridge Indians 469
Stock car racing 51
Stokes, Carl 143
Stock Markets 215, 323, 690, 742
Stone, Edward Durrell 37
Stone Mountain 277, 690
Stones River 497
Stony Point 750, 750
Storks 748
Storms:
hurricanes 332-333, 332
tornadoes 713, 713
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 2, 300, 405,
690, 690
Strange, Curtis 283
Strasberg, Lee 473
Strategic Air Command 503
Strauss, Levi 233, 282
Stravinsky, Igor 690-691, 691
Strunk, William 759
Stuart, Charles Gilbert 26, 558
Stuart, J.E.B. 691
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) 122
Stuyvesant, Peter 691, 691
Subatomic particles 24-25
Submarines 267, 691-692
Submersibles 537
Subways 692, 692
Suffrage 615, 692-693, 768
Sugar 693
Sugar maple 427, 428
Sulfur 457
Sullivan, Anne 377, 377
Sullivan, John L. 87
Sullivan, Louis Henry 37, 693, 693
Sunbelt 137
Sunflower, Mount 374
Sun Valley 337
Superbowl 255
Superconductivity 59, 657
Superior, Lake 132, 293-294, 356,
392, 452, 453, 458, 766
Supreme Court 205, 289, 396, 694
Bill of rights 73
civil rights 139, 220
Constitution 167
Dred Scott case 95
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. 321
Marshall. John 433
O'Connor, Sandra Day 539, 539
Surfing 694, 694, 749
Suspension bridges 89-90
Susquehanna River 130, 435, 566
Sutter's Mill 282-283
Sutton, Percy E. 682
Suwannee River 247, 277, 543
Swallowtail lighthouse 506
Swamps 694, 694
Everglades 229, 229
Okefenokee 543, 543
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania 482
Sweet potato 695, 695, 733
Swimming 682, 695, 695, 749
Swordfish 430
Sycamore 578
Symphony 489
Syracuse, New York 518
Syrup, maple 428, 428
Tt
Table Rock 675
Table tennis 696
Tacoma 586, 665
Tadpoles 265
Taft, Robert A. 696, 696
Taft-Hartley Act (1947) 696
Taft, William Howard 597, 640, 696,
697, 697
Tahoe, Lake 391, 504, 505
Tallahassee 246, 247
Tallchief, Maria 56
Tammany Hall 698, 698
Tampa, Florida 590
Taos 514, 515
Tarantula 582, 681
Taro 308
Tarzan 100, 100
Taube, Henry 524
Taum Sauk Mountain 466
Taxco 448
Taxes 698, 698
Taylor, Deems 548
Taylor, Zachary 239, 597, 699, 699
Tayonix, Fannie 666
Teach, Edward (Blackbeard) 576
Teachers 655
Teamsters Union 442
Tea Party, Boston 83-84
Teapot Dome oil scandal 304, 304
Tear-of-the-Clouds, Lake 7, 330
Tecumseh 180, 307, 451, 700, 700
'Teddy bear' 640
Telegrams, Morse code 478-479
Telegraph 67, 158, 478-479,
478-479, 587, 591, 700, 700
Telephone 67, 67, 158, 158,
701, 701
Telescope 536-537, 537
Television 158, 372, 701-702,
701-702
advertising 8
Murrow, Ed 487-488
Teller, Edward 703, 703
Telstar 157
Temple of the Dwarf, Uxmal 445
Temple, Shirley 703, 703
Ten Commandments 367
Tennessee 443, 575, 704-705,
704-705
Tennessee River 16, 17, 704
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
186, 602, 704
Tennis 682, 706, 706
Tenochtitlan 174, 175
Tenpin bowling 86
Tequila 10
Terns and gulls 298, 298, 748
Terrapin 721
Terrorism 707, 707
Terry, General Alfred 184
Tesla, Nikola 353, 707
Teton Range 635
Teton Sioux 668
Tewa Indians 603
Texaco 174, 427, 542
Texas 708, 708-709
annexation 722, 722
Austin 50
cotton 175
cowboys 614
Dallas 185-186
Fort Worth 259-260
Houston 328
manifest destiny 424
Mexican War 446, 447
roads 628
San Antonio 650, 650
Texas Revolution 86
Textile industry 349
Textron 9
Thames River 164
Thanksgiving Day 178, 438, 580, 710,
710, 720
Thatcher, Margaret 101
Theater 710-711
Broadway 92, 92
Miller, Arthur 455
musical 491, 491
O'Neill, Eugene 546, 546
opera 548, 548
Wilder, Thornton 761, 761
Williams, Tennessee 763, 763
Ziegfeld, Florenz 776
see also Actors and actresses; Motion pictures
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
464, 531
Thimble Shoal Channel, Newport
News 720
Thirteen Colonies 7110-712, 711
Thomason, John, Jr. 769
Thompson, Sir John 598
Thomson, Virgil 548
Thoreau, Henry David 21, 223, 712,
712
Thorpe, Jim 254
Thousand Islands 518
Thurber, James 712
Ticks 582
Ticonderoga, Fort 23, 23
Tiffany, Louis Comfort 45
Tilden, Bill 706
Tilden, Samuel 311
Timber see Trees
Timiskaming District 547
Timms Hill 767
'Tin Lizzie' 257, 257
Tippecanoe, Battle of (1811) 342, 700
Tippecanoe, Lake 343
Tippecanoe River 342
Tires, rubber 241, 241
Tituba 647
Titusville, Pennsylvania 542
Tiwa Indians 603
Tlingit Indians 493
Toads 28, 264-265, 265
Toadstools 488, 489
Tobacco 713, 713
Tobin, James 524
Toklas, Alice B. 687
Tokyo Bay 568
Toledo, Ohio 540
Tolict, Peopes 521
Toltecs 445, 446, 446
Tomahawk 332
Tombigbee River 16
Tombstone, Arizona 39, 213, 213
Tompkins, Daniel 597
Tom Thumb, General 59
Tom Thumb (locomotive) 57
Tongue River 131
Tonti, Henri de 231
Toombs, Robert 161
Topeka 374
Torah 367
Tornado 713, 713
Toronto 114, 526, 547, 553, 714, 714
Tortoise 721
Totem poles 44, 347
Touro Synagogue 624
Towa Indians 603
Townships 408
Track and field 714-715, 714
Tracy, Spencer 316
Trade 715
Trade rat 556
'Trail of Tears' 130
Trains, railroads 612-613, 612-613
Trans-Alaska Pipeline 19
Transamerica Pyramid, Volume 9
Frontispiece
Transcontinental Railroad 292
Transistors 59, 59, 665
Transportation:
aviation 52, 52
cable cars 105
canals 118-119, 118
Mississippi-Missouri river system
465, 465
motorcycles 482, 482
railroads 612-613, 612-613
roads and highways 628, 628
St. Lawrence Seaway 646, 646
ships and shipping 664-665,
664-665
trucks 717, 717
tunnels 719-720, 720
Transportation, Department of 147
Traubel, Helen 548
Travis, Joseph 720
Treasure, pirates 576
Treasury Department 259, 271, 471,
732
Trees 578, 715-716, 716
Arbor Day 34, 34
bristlecone pines 90, 90
conifers 163, 163
forests and forestry
service 258-259, 258-259
lumber industry 417, 417
maple 427-428, 427-428
natural resources 499
oak 536, 536
pine 574, 574
redwood 550
sequoias 661, 661
Trenton, Battle of (1776) 623
Trenton, New Jersey 512
Trevino, Lee 318
'Trick-or-treat' 301
Trinidad and Tobago 552
Triode 193
Tripoli 576
TriStar aircraft 14
Truckee River 504
Trucks 717, 717
Trudeau, Pierre Elliott 117, 286, 598, 717, 717
Truman Doctrine 3, 718
Truman, Harry S. 3, 196, 305, 418, 433, 548, 597, 718, 718
Trumbull, John 558
Truth, Sojourner 78, 719, 719
Tubman, Harriet 2, 78, 719, 719
Tucker, Richard 548
Tucker, Tony 87
Tucson, Arizona 38, 135
Tulip Festival 444
Tulsa 545, 545, 719, 719
Tuna 430
Tunnels 719-720, 720
Tunney, Gene 87, 196
Tupper, Sir Charles 598
Turkey (bird) 49, 720, 720
Turner, John 598
Turner, Nat 78, 720-721, 721
Turtles 620, 721, 721
Turtle, The (submarine) 692
Tuscaroras 357
Tuskegee Institute 746
Tuskegee University, Alabama 17
Tusks, walrus 742, 742
Twain, Mark 165, 405, 464, 467, 721,
721
Tweed, William Marcy ('Boss') 698
Twin Cities 458
Tygh Valley 636
Tyler, John 111, 307, 597, 722, 722,
752
Tyson, Mike 86, 87
Uu
U-2 aircraft 183
Ultrasaurus 202
Uncle Remus 251, 305, 405
Uncle Sam 723
Underground Railroad 2, 712, 719, 723, 723
UNESCO see United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization
UNICEF see United Nations Children's
Fund
Uniforms:
Air Force 13
Marine Corps 429
naval 501
Union Pacific Railroad 612-613, 773
Unitarian Universalist Association 134
United Artists 232, 480, 571
United Automobile Workers (UAW)
621
United Church of Christ 134
United Empire Loyalists 724
United Methodist Church 445, 601
United Mine Workers of America (UMW) 399
United Nations 98, 387-388, 397,
638, 638, 724, 724
United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF) 301, 725
United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
725
United States of America 725, 725-727
see also entries for individual states and cities
United States Steel Corporation 356, 477
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights 638
Universal Negro Improvement
Association (UN1A) 273
Universe 330
Universities see Universities and
colleges
Unser brothers 51
Updike, John 581
Upper Canada 724
Uranium 535
Uruguay 552
Utah 728, 728-729
deserts 666
Great Salt Lake 295
Mormons 478, 671
Salt Lake City 648-649, 648
Young, Brigham 774, 774
Utes 728, 730, 730
Uto-Aztecan languages 730
Utrecht, Treaty of (1713) 109
Uxmal 445
Vv
Vaccination, poliomyelitis 648
Vail 152, 153
Valdez Harbor, Alaska 590
Valentino, Rudolph 731
Valenzuela, Fernando 318
Valley Forge 731, 731
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
496
Valley quail 606
Van Allen Belts 731
Van Allen, James 731
Van Buren, Martin 307, 387, 597, 698, 732, 732
Vancouver 91, 91, 733, 733
Vancouver Island 91, 733
Vanderbilt, Cornelius 285, 733
Vanderbilt, Cornelius II 733
Vanderbilt family 733
Vanderbilt, William Henry 733
Vardon, Harry 283
Vaudeville 109, 433
Vegetables 733, 733
potatoes 592
sweet potatoes 695, 695
Velsmann, Jerry 570
Venezuela 144, 552
Verbena 578
Vermont 23, 427, 428, 507, 734, 734-735
Vernacular architecture 36
Vernal falls 748
Verne, Jules 658
Vemon, Admiral Edward 486
Vernon, Mount 486, 486, 739
Verrazano, Giovanni da 331, 520, 736
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, New
York 89
Versailles, Treaty of (1919) 764
Very Large Array radio telescope 537
Vespucci, Amerigo 25, 736, 736
Veterans, American Legion 27
Veterans Day 736, 736
Vice president 162
Vicksburg, Battle of 140, 463
Victoria, British Columbia 91
Victorio, Chief 32
Videophone 158
Viet Cong 737
Vietnam Memorial (Washington,
D.C.) 737, 746
Vietnam War 26, 124, 150, 208, 256, 266, 369, 386, 523, 632, 737, 737
Vikings 35, 116, 226, 230, 422, 508
Villa, Pancho 446, 568
Vincennes, Battle of (1779) 623
Vinland 226, 226, 230
Violin 489
Virginia 25, 174, 268, 711, 738-739, 738-739
Army of Northern Virginia 397, 411
Henry, Patrick 315
Indian Wars 348
Jamestown Settlement 362-363
Mount Vernon 486
Virginia Beach 739
Virginia City, Montana 475
Virginia City, Nevada 505
Virgin Islands 121, 740, 740
Visa 561
Virginia, West see West Virginia
Volcano 275, 309, 740, 740
Mauna Loa 438, 438
Mount Saint Helens 485, 485
Volleyball 741, 741
Volstead Act (1920) 600
Von Braun, Wernher 631, 741
Voters, elections 221, 221
Voyager aircraft 52
Vulture 76, 160, 741, 741
Ww
Wabash River 339, 342
Waikiki Beach 309
Waimea Canyon 309
Waldseemuller, Martin 230, 736
Walker Law (1920) 86
Walker, Leroy P. 161
Wallace, Henry 597
Wall Street 520, 742
Wall Street Journal 516, 517
Walnut 578, 716
Walrus 660, 742, 742
Waltham, Massachusetts 436
Wampanoag Indians 438, 580, 710
Wampum 142, 470
Wapiti 192, 477
Warhol, Andy 45, 558, 742, 742
Warner Brothers 60
War of 1812 444, 743, 743
Adams, John Quincy 5
Battle of New Orleans 415
Capitol burned down 120
Constitution 168
Gallatin, Albert 271
Harrison, William Henry 307
Jackson, Andrew 359
Madison and 420
Perry, Oliver 568
Tecumseh 700, 700
Warren, Michigan 452
Warren, Robert Penn 581
Warwick, Rhode Island 624
Wasatch Range 648
Washington (state) 744, 744-745
climate 146
lumber industry 417
Mount Saint Helens 485, 485
Seattle 660, 660
volcanoes 740
Washington, Booker T. 77, 78, 746, 746
Washington, D.C. 204-205, 289, 725, 746, 746
Capitol 120, 120
flowering cherry trees 697
Library of Congress 401, 401
museums 488
National Zoological Park 776
population 137
Vietnam War Memorial 737
War of 1812 743
White House 759, 759
Washington, George 59, 136, 300, 363, 597, 738, 747, 747
birthday 319, 320
Cabinet 366
Capitol 120
coins 149
Constitution 167
Continental Army 341
Continental Congress 170
decorations and medals 191
dollar bills 471
Federalists 235
French and Indian War 263, 263
Mount Rushmore 484, 485
Mount Vernon 486, 486, 739
portrait 558
postage stamps 684
Revolution 301, 317, 622, 623
siege of Yorktown 390
Stars and Stripes 641
statues of 45, 676
Valley Forge camp 731, 731
Washington, D.C. 204, 746
Washington, Martha 486
Washington Monument 37, 204, 497, 497
Washington, Mount 510, 511
Washington Post 517
Wasps 350, 582
Water:
geysers 280, 280
hydroelectric power 333, 333, 499
irrigation 294
pollution 586
tunnels 720
Water birds 748, 748
see also Birds
Waterfalls 748, 748
Niagara Falls 521-522, 522
Watergate scandal 256, 523
Water lily 578, 579
Water polo 749
Water sports 749, 749
Water supply 749-750, 749
Waterman, Lewis E. 353
Waterskiing 749
Watson, James Dewey 524, 750
Watt, James 349
Watts, Andre 490
Watts Tower, Los Angeles 248
Wayne, Anthony 750-751, 750
Wayne County 342
Wayne, John 751, 751
Weapons:
guns 298-299, 299
hydrogen bombs 703
nuclear 13
Weasels 30, 53, 554, 669, 751
Weather:
climate 145-146, 145
hurricanes 332-333, 332
satellites 274
Weather forecasting 751-752, 751
Webs, spiders 681
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) 722, 752
Webster, Daniel 722, 752, 752
Webster, Noah 752, 752
Webster Springs 754
Weddings 135
Weeki Watchee Springs Zoo 776
Weights and measures 753
Weinberg, Steven 524
Weissmuller, Johnny 100
Welles, Orson 480, 611, 753, 753
Wells, H.G. 611, 658
Wesley, John 134, 445
West, Benjamin 116, 558
Western Union Telegraph Company
700
West Indies 121
West, Mae 238
West Point 518
West Quoddy Head 422
West River 734
West Virginia 457, 754, 754-755
Westinghouse, George 352, 707, 753
Westminster, Statute of (1931) 116
Weston, Edward 570
Westward Movement 756-757, 756-757, 761
Whales 30, 430, 442, 442, 758, 758
Wharton, Dave 695
Wheat 290, 295
Wheatstone, Sir Charles 700
Wheeler, William 597
Wheeler Peak 515
Whelks 470
Whig Party 181, 722
Whistler, James A. McNeil 558, 758, 758
White Butte 530
White, E. B. 759
White, Edward H. II 678
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory 775
White House 4, 37, 105, 204, 205, 472, 596, 746, 759, 759
White, John 413
Whiteman, Paul 181
White, Minor 570
White Mountain National Forest 511
White Mountains 33, 510
White River 41, 342, 676
White, Stanford 37
White Sulphur Springs 754
Whitman, Walt 581, 760, 760
Whitney, Eli 175, 277, 349, 352, 760, 760
Whitney, Josiah Dwighl 486
Whitney, Mount 113, 483, 484, 486, 486, 666
Whittier, John Greenleaf 2, 581, 760
WHO see World Health Organization
(WHO)
Wichita 374
Wichita Indians 577
Wiesel, Elie 524, 525, 525, 761
Wilander, Mats 706
Wilbur, Richard 581
'Wild Bunch' 612
Wilder, L. Douglas 682
Wilder, Thornton 761, 761
Wilderness, Battle of 140
Wilderness Road 81, 756, 757, 761, 761
Wildflowers 578, 762, 762
Wild West, cowboys 177-178
Wilkins, Maurice 750
Wilkinson, General James 100
Wilkins, Roy 77, 762-763, 762
Willamette River 154, 550, 551, 552, 589
Willard, Jess 196
Williamsburg 363, 630, 738, 739
Williams, Roger 605, 624, 763
Williams, Ted 61
Williams, Tennessee 405, 711, 763, 763
Williams, William Carlos 581
Willow 716
Willow Run, Michigan 770
Wilmington 195, 195
Wilson, Dooley 481
Wilson, Edmund 763
Wilson, Henry 597
Wilson, Kenneth G. 524
Wilson, Sam 723
Wilson, Woodrow 94, 196, 260-261, 397, 525, 597, 640, 697, 764, 764
Winchester rifle 299
Windsurfing 749, 749
Wind, tornadoes 713
Winnipeg 425, 765, 765
Winnipeg, Lake 392, 425
Winogrand, Garry 570
Winston-Salem 529
Winter Olympics 111, 546, 765
Winter sports 765, 765
Winthrop, John 765
Wisconsin 532, 766, 766-767
maple trees 427
Milwaukee 455, 456
name 132
Wisconsin River 766, 767
Witchcraft 301, 301, 647, 647
Wizard of Oz, The 64
Wolf 30, 205, 295, 768, 768
Wolfe, General James 116, 264, 608
Wolfe, Thomas 529, 768
Wolverine 30, 751
Women Airforce Service Pilots
(WASPS) 147
Women's Christian Temperance Union
(WCTU) 600
Women's rights 139, 768
Anthony, Susan B. 31
Catt, Carrie 126-127, 126
Mott, Lucretia 482
Paul, Alice 562
Rankin, Jeanette 615
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 685-686
suffrage 692-693
Truth, Sojourner 719
Wood see Trees
Woodall Mountain 462
Woodchuck 296, 296, 683
Wood, Colonel Leonard 642
Wood, Grant 558, 558
Woodstock festival 632
Woonsocket, Rhode Island 624
Works Progress Administration 507, 507
World Bank 725
World Health Organization (WHO)
602, 725
World Meteorological Organization
752
World Ocean Circulation Experiment
537-538
World Trade Center, New York City
521, 670, 707
World War 194, 769, 769
Armistice Day 736
draft 208
Fourteen Points 260-261, 764
Marshall, George C. 433
minutemen 460
Mitchell, Billy 468
Pershing, John J. 568
Rickenbacker, Eddie 626, 626
Wilson, Woodrow 764
World War II 770, 770
Atlantic Charter 49
atomic bombs 718
Bradley, Omar Nelson 87
D Day 189, 189
draft 208
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 220, 220
Great Depression 197
Guam 298
Iwo Jima, Battle of 357, 357
Lend-Lease Act 398
MacArthur, Douglas 418, 418
Marshall, George C. 433
Midway, Battle of 454, 454
news photography 84
Nimitz, Chester W. 522
Pearl Harbor 308, 564, 564
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 639
World Women's Party 562
Worthy, James 62
Wounded Knee, Battle of (1890) 349, 559, 577, 669
Wovoka 559
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
496
Wrestling 771, 771
Wright, Frank Lioyd 36, 269, 771
Wright Brothers 52, 52, 204, 352, 393, 528, 771, 771
Writing, Cherokee language 662
Wyandot 332
Wyeth, Andrew 439, 558
Wyoming 280, 356, 772-773, 772-773
Wyoming Basin 772
Yy
Yachts:
America's Cup 27, 27
sailing 749
Yadkin River 528
Yale Gallery of Fine Arts, New Haven
488
Yale, Linus, Jr. 353
'Yankee Doodle' 588
Yarborough, Cale 51
Yazoo River 462
Yeager, Chuck 52
Yeager. Jeana 52
Yellowknife 533
Yellowstone Falls 748
Yellowstone National Park 225, 280, 280, 474, 496, 496, 497, 634, 772, 773
Yellowstone River 182, 474, 475
Yorktown, siege of (1781) 390, 390, 623, 738-739, 750
Yorktown, USS 454
Yosemite Falls 496
Yosemite National Park 112, 113, 496, 526, 667
Yosemitt Valley 748
Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr. 77, 774
Young, Brigham 478, 649, 671, 728, 774, 774
Young, Coleman 682
Young, Cy 61
Young, John 151
Young, Whitney M., Jr. 77, 774
Youth Organizations 775
Yucca 578
Yukon River 19
Yukon Territory 283, 775, 775
Zz
Zapata, Emiliano 446
Zapotecs 445, 446
Zenger, John Peter 776
Ziegfeld, Florenz 776
Ziegfeld Follies 776
Zinc, mining 457
Zion National Park 258
Zoo 776, 776
Zuni Indians 35, 173, 603
Zworykin, Vladimir 353, 702,
776
Subject Index
Animals, Plants,
and Food
Agave
Alfalfa
Alligator
Amphibians
Animal life of North America
Ants
Armadillo
Badger
Bats
Bears
Beaver
Bees
Beetles
Berries
Bighorn sheep
Birds of the United States
Birds of prey
Bison
Bobcat
Botanical gardens
Bristlecone pine
Bugs
Butterflies and moths
Cactuses
Cardinal
Caribou
Cats
Chipmunk
Citrus fruit
Clam
Condor
Conifer
Corn
Cotton
Cougar
Coyote
Cranberry
Crustaceans
Deer
Dinosaurs
Dogs
Ducks and geese
Eagle
Endangered animals and
plants
Fish
Fox
Frogs and toads
Fruit
Goats
Gopher
Gourd
Grains
Grasshoppers
Groundhog
Ground squirrel
Gulls and terns
Hawk
Heron
Horses and their relatives
Hummingbird
Jack in the pulpit
Jackrabbits
Kingfisher
Lizards
Lobsters and crabs
Locoweed
Loon
Maple
Maple syrup
Marine life
Mockingbird
Moles and shrews
Mollusks
Moose
Mouse
Mushrooms
Muskrat
Oak
Ocelot
Opossum
Oriole
Otter
Owl
Pack rat
Peanut
Pelican
Pigeon
Pigs and hogs
Pine
Plant life
Poisonous plants and animals
Porcupine
Potato
Prairie dog
Prehistoric animals
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