Index
Adams, John, 54
Addams, Jane, 10–11, 67
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome),
45, 77, 91
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, 85, 92, 93
Allied forces, 40–41
American Civil War, 14–15, 35
American Red Cross, 14–15, 19
Anderson, Marian, 84–85
Anthony, Susan B., 12–13
Antietam, Battle of, 14
Articles of Confederation, 94
asthma, 88
atombic bomb, 38–39
Auschwitz concentration camp, 102
Axis forces, 40
Bank of China, Hong Kong, 78
Barton, Clara, 14–15
baseball, 13, 28, 82–83
Bedell, Grace, 62
Begin, Menachem, 22, 23
Benjamin Franklin National Memorial,
Philadelphia, 43
Berlin Wall, 81
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 16–17, 52
Bethune-Cookman College, 16–17
Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships, 74
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 44–45
Birmingham, Alabama, 58, 84
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 18–19
Boycott Grapes campaign, 26
Brandenburg Gate, 81
Brooklyn Dodgers, 82–83
Buchenwald concentration camp, 102
Bush, George H. W., 78
Camp David Accords, 23
cancer research, 91, 92–93
Carson, Rachel, 20–21
Carter, Jimmy, 8, 22–23, 67
Carter Center, 23
Carver, George Washington, 24–25
cerebral palsy, 50
Chavez, Cesar, 26–27
Clark, William, 60–61
Clemente, Roberto, 28–29, 85
Cold War, 39, 41, 80–81
Constitution of the United States, 12, 13, 21,
35, 43, 73, 76, 85, 94, 100, 101
Crazy Horse, 95
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), 84
D-day, 40–41
Declaration of Independence, 43, 54–55, 59, 70,
76, 84, 96
determination, 8, 16, 19, 24, 33, 51, 56, 58, 62, 74,
75, 80, 82–83, 104, 109
Discovery
, 46
Disney, Walt, 30–31
Dix, Dorothea, 32–33
Douglass, Frederick, 34–35
Edison, Thomas Alva, 36–37
Einstein, Albert, 38–39
Eisenhower, Dwight D. “Ike,” 40–41, 91
Eisenhower Interstate System, 41
Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, 67, 103
Emancipation Proclamation, 35
FDR Memorial, 87
Franklin, Benjamin, 42–43
Franklin Court, 43
Franklin Institute, 43
Franklin Museum, 43
Franklin Print Shop, 43
French and Indian War, 100
Friendship 7
, 46
Gates, Bill, 8, 44–45
Gates, Melinda, 44–45
Gates Plan of 2015, 45
Geneva Medical College, 18
George C. Marshall Foundation, 67
Gettysburg Address, 62
Glenn, John, 46–47
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 80–81
Great Depression, 30, 52, 84, 86
Habitat for Humanity, 22
Harlem Renaissance, 52
Harrison, William Henry, 95
Helen Keller National Center (HKNC) for
Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults, 57
Hershey, Kitty, 48–49
Hershey, Milton, 48–49
Hershey, Pennsylvania, 48
Hetch Hetchy Valley, California, 68–69
Hiroshima, Japan, 39
Hitler, Adolf, 38, 75, 77
Holocaust, 102–103
Hoyt, Dick, 50–51
Hoyt, Rick, 50–51
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