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One-Night Stands with American History
Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents
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- English
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eBook - ePub
One-Night Stands with American History
Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents
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ABC News, 300
abolitionism, 89, 98, 99
accents, 1
Adams, Franklin P., 182
Adams, Henry, 130, 131
Adams, James, 127
Adams, John, 20, 21, 32, 33, 38, 233, 234, 246
Adams, John Quincy, 18, 53, 54, 55, 246
Adams, New Hampshire, 54
Adamson, Carl, 207
adultery, 9, 37, 40, 45, 71, 72, 75, 76, 77, 260, 298, 299, 300
Africa, 51, 52, 53
Agnew, Spiro, 259
Aguinaldo, 190
airplane, first, 205, 206
Alabama, 36, 64, 118, 129
Alamo, 63, 64, 65
Alexandria, Virginia, 107
Algonquin, 1
Allen, Ethan, 26
Allen, John, 118
ambassadorial ignorance, 273, 274
American Civil Liberties Union, 225
Ames, Fisher, 17
Anaconda Copper Company, 196
Annapolis, Maryland, 18
Appomattox, 105
Aptheker, Herbert, 281
Arens, Richard, 267, 268
Arikara, 44
Arizona, 82
Arkansas, 113, 225, 237, 299
Armstrong, Neil, 259
Army Corps of Engineers, 307, 308, 309
Arnold, Benedict, 57
Arthur, Chester A., 161
Articles of Confederation, 26
assassinations, 60, 61, 122, 157, 194, 195, 196, 212
Astor, John Jacob, 56
Atchison, David Rice, 79
Athens, Alabama, 119
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 297
Atlanta, Georgia, 217, 222, 223
Augusta, Georgia, 36
Austin, Warren, 257
Babbit, E. J., 64
balanced budget, 249
bald eagle, 27
Baldwin, Luther, 38, 39
Baltimore, Maryland, 41
Bank of the United States, 55
Barham, General, 110
Barkley, Alben, 257
Barnum, Phineas T., 132, 133, 134, 205
Barton, Bruce, 225
baseball, 55
bathtub, 218, 219
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 277
Battle of Brandywine Creek, 23
Battle of Buena Vista, 80, 81
Battle of Bunker Hill, 18, 19
Battle of Monterey, 80
Battle of New Orleans, 58
Battle of Santiago, 187
Beaumarchais, Caron de, 19
Beecher, Henry Ward, 112, 138, 148, 149
Beecher, Philomen, 50
Bell, Alexander Graham, 151, 158, 159, 302, 303
Bell Homestead Museum, 303
Benjamin, Judah P., 104, 105
Bennett, James Gordon, 167
Benton, Thomas Hart, 57, 60, 61, 62, 204
Berlin, West Germany, 254, 255
Bey of Tunis, 35
Bible, 1, 225
Biddle, Nicholas, 55
Billings, C. K. G., 181
billy goats, 236, 237
Billy the Kid, 208
Birdseye, Clarence, 214
birth control, 56, 57
Bismarck, North Dakota, 45
blackbirds, 74
Blackhawk War, 102
blackmail, 203, 204
Blakley, William Arvis, 279, 280, 281
Bliss, D. W., 158
bloody shirt, 84
Bonaparte, Joseph, 18
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 18
boom town, 63
Booth, John Wilkes, 105, 122, 157
Borden, Gail, 95
Bordento...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Beginnings
- Inventing a Country
- Old Hickory to Old Rough-and-Ready
- Billy Yank and Johnny Reb
- The Great Barbecue
- The Full Dinner Pail, the Bull Moose, and the Great War
- Era of the Pumpkin Coach
- War on Depression, War on Europe
- From Doo-wop to Disco
- Since Watergate
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher