Huerta, Dolores, 26–27
Hughes, Langston, 52–53
Hull House, Chicago, 10–11
“I Have a Dream” speech (King), 59
Internet, 11, 17, 27, 29, 45, 49, 61, 63, 67,
75, 79, 85, 97
Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 54–55, 60
Jim Crow laws, 76
Jimmy V Perseverance Award, 51
John Hancock Tower, 78, 79
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood of 1889, 14
Joseph (chief ), 95
Keller, Helen, 56–57
Kennedy, John F., 46
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 8, 58–59, 67
Ku Klux Klan, 16
Lewis, Meriwether, 60–61
lightbulb, invention of, 36–37
Lilienthal, Otto, 106
Lincoln, Abraham, 62–63
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, 59, 63, 84
Louisiana Territory, 60
Louvre Museum, Paris, 78
Ma, Yo-Yo, 64–65
Maine, 15
Managua earthquake, 28
Marshall, George C., 66–67
Marshall Plan, 45, 66
mental illness, 32
Microsoft, 44
Miracle Worker, The
, 57
Monticello, 54–55
Montreal Royals, 82
Mother Teresa, 10
Mount Vernon, 100–101
Muir, John, 68–69, 88
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American
Slave, The
(Douglass), 35
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), 46–47
National Air and Space Museum, 47, 73, 107
National Gallery of Art, 65, 78
National Museum of the American Indian, 95
national parks, 9, 68–69, 88
National Park Service, 69, 99
National Portrait Gallery, 32
National Wildlife Federation, 21, 88
National Woman Suffrage Association, 13
National Women’s Hall of Fame, 13
Nazi Germany, 40, 66, 74, 96
neuroblastoma, 92–93
Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, 12
Nobel Peace Prize, 10, 22–23, 58–59, 66–67, 70–71,
78, 88, 102–103
nuclear weapons, 39, 81
Obama, Barack, 67, 70–71
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 72–73
Olympic Games, 74–75, 77, 108
Oprah’s Book Club, 105
Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, 104
Oprah Winfrey Show, The
, 104–105
Our National Parks
(Muir), 69
Owens, Jesse, 74–75, 77
Paris, Treaty of, 43
Parks, Rosa, 76–77
Peabody, Endicott, 86
peanuts, 22, 24–25
Pei, I. M., 78–79
pesticide pollution, 20–21
polio, 45, 86–87, 90–91
Poor Richard’s Almanac
(Franklin), 42
Porivo, 61
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 75, 78, 102
press, freedom of the, 21
Pritzker Architecture Prize, 78
Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA), 83
Reagan, Ronald, 80–81
Revolutionary War, 43, 100
Rickey, Branch, 82–83
Robinson, Jackie, 83
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, 78
Roosevelt, Edith, 89
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 8, 84–85, 87
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 16, 25, 38, 67, 84–85, 86–87
Roosevelt, Theodore, 67, 69, 88–89
Sacagawea, 60–61
Sadat, Anwar, 22
Salk, Jonas, 90–91
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 91
Scott, Alexandra (Alex), 92–93
Shawnee Confederation, 94–95
Shepard, Alan, 46
Sierra Club, 69
Silent Spring
(Carson), 20–21
Sitting Bull, 95
slavery, 16, 24, 34–35, 62, 75, 98–99
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