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Hershey, Milton, 58–59 National Air and Space Museum, 51, 85, 127
Hershey, PA, 58 National Football League (NFL), 92
Hetch Hetchy Valley, CA, 80–81 National Gallery of Art, 77, 94
Hiroshima, Japan, 41 National Museum of the American Indian, 113
Hitler, Adolf, 40, 87 national parks, 9, 80–81, 106
Holocaust, 122–123 National Park Service, 81, 117
Hoyt, Dick, 60–61 National Portrait Gallery, 32
Hoyt, Rick, 60–61 National Wildlife Federation, 21, 106
Huerta, Dolores, 26–27 National Woman Suffrage Association, 13
Hughes, Langston, 62–63 National Women’s Hall of Fame, 13
Hull House, Chicago, 10–11 Nazi Germany, 42, 78, 86, 114
neuroblastoma, 110–111
“I Have a Dream” speech (King), 71 Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, 12
internet, 27, 29, 59, 73, 75, 79, 87, 95, Nobel Peace Prize, 10, 22–23, 70–71, 78–79, 82–83, 95,
103, 115 106, 122–123
nuclear weapons, 41, 97
Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 64–65, 72
Jim Crow laws, 88 Obama, Barack, 79, 82–83
Jimmy V Award for Perseverance, 61 O’Connor, Sandra Day, 84–85
John Hancock Tower, 94 Olympic Games, 86–87, 128
Johnson, Katherine, 66–67 143 Day, 101
Johnstown, PA, flood of 1889, 14 Oprah’s Book Club, 125
Joseph (chief), 113 Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, 124
Oprah Winfrey Show, The, 124–125
Keller, Helen, 68–69 Our National Parks (Muir), 81
Kennedy, John F., 50 Owens, Jesse, 86–87
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 8, 70–71, 79
Ku Klux Klan, 16 pandemic, 44–45, 52, 77, 91
Paris, Treaty of, 47
Ledbetter, Lilly, 49 Parks, Rosa, 88–89
Lewis, Meriwether, 72–73 Parton, Dolly, 90–91
light bulb, invention of, 38–39 Payton, Walter, 92–93
Lincoln, Abraham, 74–75 Peabody, Endicott, 104
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, 71, 102 peanuts, 22, 24–25
Louisiana Territory, 72 Pei, I. M., 94–95
Louvre Museum, Paris, 94 pesticide pollution, 20–21
polio, 104–105, 108–109
Ma, Yo-Yo, 76–77 Poor Richard’s Almanac, 46
Managua earthquake, 28 Porivo, 73
Marshall, George C., 78–79 presidential inauguration, 52
Marshall Plan, 78 Presidential Medal of Freedom, 87, 94, 122
mental illness, 32 press, freedom of the, 21
Miracle Worker, The, 69 Pritzker Architecture Prize, 94
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, 76, 100 Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA), 99
Monticello, 64–65
Montreal Royals, 98 Reagan, Ronald, 96–97
Mother Teresa, 10 Revolutionary War, 47, 120
Mount Vernon, 120–121 Rickey, Branch, 98–99
Muir, John, 80–81, 106 Robinson, Jackie, 99
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, 94
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Rogers, Fred, 100–101
Slave, The (Douglass), 35 Roosevelt, Edith, 107
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Roosevelt, Eleanor, 8, 102–103, 105
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