The Whites of their Eyes (28 page)

Cox, Archibald,
81

creationism,
12
,
124

Cronkite, Walter,
134

Curran, Emily,
78
,
88
–89

Curtis, George Ticknor,
7
–8

Dartmouth
,
77
,
89
,
90

Davis, Benjamin,
60

Davis, David Brion,
73
,
74

Dawes, William,
101

debtors’ prison,
22
,
49
,
50
,
55
,
139

Declaration of Independence,
13
,
23

committee for the drafting of,
131

first public reading of,
133

Jefferson’s ini
tial attack against slavery in,
131
–32

Defeat, The
(M. O. Warren),
75

Democratic Party, the,
23

Dickinson, John,
106

Dig
,
99

Douglas, Stephen,
116
,
121

Douglass, Frederick,
73

Dred Scott v. Sandford
(1857),
116

Drudge Report,
38

Dukakis, Michael,
128

Dunbar, Asa,
54

Dunbar, Cynthia,
158
–59

Dunmore, Lord,
94

Eastland, James,
23
,
134

Edes, Benjamin,
27
,
33
,
38
–39,
56
,
57
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63
,
102
–3,
138
,
141

death of,
144
–45

escape of from the British,
101

refusal to abide by the Stamp Act,
34

Edes, Peter,
103

Egan, George,
37
,
99
–100,
126

Egan, Joe,
99
–100

Egan, John,
99
–100,
126

Eleanor
,
77
,
89
,
90

Eliot, Andrew,
33
,
56
,
60
,
76
,
102
,
103
,
131
,
138

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
3
,
17
,
18
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78
,
139
,
152

Emerson, William,
139

environmentalism,
10

“Essay against
Hypocrites” (J. Franklin),
31

evangelicals,
120
–21

Faith of Our Founding Fathers, The
(LaHaye),
121

Falwell, Jerry,
120
,
121

Faneuil Hall,
20
,
34
,
43
,
61
,
70
,
78
,
82
,
87
,
115
,
135

Federalists,
23

Flynn, Ray,
117

Ford, Gerald,
117
,
118

Ford, Shawn,
70
,
88
,
89

Forefathers Day,
1

Founders’ Fridays,
156
–57

Founding Fathers,
17
,
112

contemporary books concerning,
35
–36

evocation of by politicians of all stripes,
14
–15,
23

faith/religion of,
120
–23

Frank, Barney,
100
,
136

Franklin, Benjamin,
32
,
47
,
48
,
77
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92
,
102
,
106
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107
,
121
,
122
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123
,
131

aid given to his nephews,
50
–51,
138

death and funeral of,
141
–42

escape of from the poverty of his childhood,
154
–55

view of the Stamp Act’s effect on printers,
38

writing of under the pseudonym “Mrs. Silence Dogood,”
31
–32,
52

writing of under the pseudonym “Richard Saunders,”
52

Franklin, James,
30
,
31
,
32
,
144

Franklin, Jane.
See
Mecom, Jane

Freedom Trail,
34
,
65
,
78
,
88

French and Indian War,
24
,
27
–28

Fugitive Slave Act (1850),
114
,
115

fundamentalism, historical,
15
–16,
125

Gage, Thomas,
91
,
93
,
103

Garrison, William Lloyd,
115

Garrity, W. Arthur,
117

Genovese, Eugene,
67

Gill, John,
27
,
33
,
39
,
101

Gingrich, Newt,
5

Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against Out-of-Control Government
(Beck),
147

global warming,
41
–42

Gray, Samuel,
60
,
62

Green Dragon Tavern,
34
–35,
80
,
101

as the “Headquarters of the Revolution,”
34

Tea Party meetings and gatherings at,
35
–38,
83
–84,
98
–99

Greer, Jim,
9

Grenville, George,
28

Gwin, Peter,
26
–27

Hacker, Andrew,
67

Haley, Alex,
134

Hancock
,
88

Hancock, John,
1
,
2
,
14
–15,
34
,
63
,
75
,
86
,
88
,
91
,
101
,
103

death of,
143

demolition of his mansion,
79

Hannity, Sean,
5
–6,
8
,
9
,
15

Harding, Warren G.,
16
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17
,
172
n29

Harvard College,
6
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28
,
32
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35
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36
,
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,
136
,
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153

Harvard Hall,
56
,
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Harvard Yard,
103

health care reform,
9
,
14
–15.
See also
Obamacare; Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (2010)

Hedlund, Robert,
3
–4

Helms, Jesse,
147

Hemings, Sally,
5

Henry, Patrick,
94

Henshaw, David,
108
–9

Heritage Foundation,
4

Hess, Austin,
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–91,
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,
183

occupation of,
64
,
183
n47

opinion of Sarah Palin,
111

political beliefs of,
43
–44,
94
–95

views on taxation,
84

Hewes, R. T.,
87
–88

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,
115

Historic Tours of America,
70
–71,
88
–89,
90

history, American: attempts to remove slavery from the study of,
73
–74

belief that teaching of is being corrupted by the Left,
95
–96

contemporary scholarship concerning,
96
–97

controversy concerning textbooks of,
12
–16

and “presentism,”
68
–69

History of Massachusetts
(Hutchinson),
33

History of the American Revolution, The
(Ramsey),
22
,
28
,
39

History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
(M. O. Warren),
28
,
47

Hofstadter, Richard,
67
–68

opinion of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
184
n56

on “presentism,”
68
–69

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
36
,
86

Hopkins, Stephen,
28

How to Commit Revolution American Style
(Rifkin),
72

Hughes, Langston,
157

Hume, David,
122

Humphries, Patrick,
38
,
111
–12,
126

Hutchinson, Thomas,
33
,
36
,
56
,
75
,
77
,
91

Imperial Presidency, The
(Schlesinger),
117

insanity/madness,
50
,
75
,
95

Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
10

Intolerable Acts (1774),
91

Irving, Washington,
17

Israel Potter
(Melville),
87

Jackson, Andrew,
23
,
108

Jackson, Jesse,
65

Jakub, Zerah,
80

Jealous, Benjamin,
159

Jefferson, Thomas,
5
,
13
,
21
,
24
,
86
,
88
,
121
,
122

defeat of John Adams in the 1800 presidential election,
144

drafting of the Declaration of Independence by,
131
–32

enthusiasm of for revolution,
22

on the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution,
113

Jehle, Paul,
5

John Adams
(HBO special),
46

Johns, Michael,
4

Johnson, Lyndon,
23
,
24
,
65
,
119
,
134

Johnson, Samuel,
93

Jones, James Earl,
73

Journal of the Times
,
57

on the stationing of British troops in Boston,
58
–59

Kennedy, John F.,
65

Kennedy, Robert F.,
65

Kennedy, Ted,
9
,
37

Kent State, shootings at,
65
–66,
67

Kerry, John,
66

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
23
,
24
,
65

Knox, Henry,
61
,
130

Kopechne, Mary Jo,
37

LaHaye, Tim,
120
–21

Landing of the British Troops in Boston, The
(Revere),
57

Landrieu, Mary,
112

“Last Leaf, The” (Holmes),
86

Lee, Debbie,
136

“Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” (Irving),
17
–18

Lexington and Concord, Battle of,
22
,
100
–102

reenactment of,
155

liberals,
12
,
127
,
152

as “moon-bats,”
137

liberty,
4
,
8
,
29
,
39
,
54
,
56
,
64
,
66
,
73
,
107
,
128
,
132
,
134
,
141

civil,
59

endangered,
59
,
112

religious,
122
,
123
,
148
,
149
,
150

and slavery,
18
,
74
,
76
,
93
–94

Liberty
,
40

Liberty Tree,
8
,
33
,
40
,
57
,
102

Lincoln, Abraham,
116
,
121

Littlehale, Shawni,
4

Livingston, Robert,
131

London Gazette
,
30

Looking Backward, 2000–1887
(E. Bellamy),
127

Lost Cause of the Confederacy,
96

Lowell, James Russell,
102
,
104

Lowell, Robert,
1
,
135

Lukas, J. Anthony,
117

Lynd, Staughton,
67

Maddow, Rachel,
159

Madison, James,
22
,
105
,
106
,
113
,
119
,
122
,
123

Malcolm X,
65
,
134

Malkin, Michelle,
9

Malone, Kat,
35
,
90
,
135

Marcus, Lloyd,
136

Mardi
(Melville),
114

Marshall, Jocelyn,
160

Marshall, Thomas,
60
–61

Marshall, Thurgood,
119
–20

Marshall School,
79
–80

Maryland Gazette, Expiring
,
39

Massachusetts Constitution,
109

Massachusetts Family Institute,
5

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
137

Massachusetts Poor Laws,
48

Massachusetts Tenth A
mendment Resolution,
156

Maternal Physician, The
(M. Tyler),
148

Mather, Cotton,
31

Maverick, Samuel,
62

Mayflower
,
1
,
5

McCarthy, Eugene,
67

McCarthyism,
13

McCullough, David,
46

McVeigh, Timothy,
22

“Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro, The” (Douglass),
73

Mecom, Benjamin,
50
–51,
131
,
138