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

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Sacagawea, 60–61
Slave, The (Douglass), 35 Sadat, Anwar, 22
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Salk, Jonas, 90–91
(NASA), 46–47 Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 91
National Air and Space Museum, 47, 73, 107 Scott, Alexandra (Alex), 92–93
National Gallery of Art, 65, 78 Shawnee Confederation, 94–95
National Museum of the American Indian, 95 Shepard, Alan, 46
national parks, 9, 68–69, 88 Sierra Club, 69
National Park Service, 69, 99 Silent Spring (Carson), 20–21
National Portrait Gallery, 32 Sitting Bull, 95
National Wildlife Federation, 21, 88 slavery, 16, 24, 34–35, 62, 75, 98–99

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