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Lafeber, Walter, 301, 304

La Follette, Robert, 353

LaGuardia, Fiorello, 384, 385, 388, 684

LaMonte, Robert, 354

Land, Aubrey, 57

land: Bacon’s Rebellion, 37, 39–42, 45, 54, 55, 59 blacks and post-Civil War problems, 197–98, 199

“eminent domain” favoring business, 239

Homestead Acts, 206, 238, 282

Indians, 13, 20, 86–88, 128

Indian Removal and treaties, 126–28, 295, 526, 529

private property, Colonial era, 13, 17, 47, 48, 49, 54, 84, 85; in Europe, 16, 27, 74; law’s regard for, 260–62; as

qualification for voting, 49, 65, 83, 96, 214–16, 291; after Revolutionary War, 84, 85, 86–87, 99, 126; tenants and rebellions, 47, 62–65, 84, 85–86, 91–95, 98, 211, 212–14

Proclamation of 1763, 59, 71, 87

railroads acquisition of, 220, 238, 239, 283

territorial expansion, 9, 87–88, 111, 124, 685: Florida, 129; Louisiana Purchase, 126, 149; Mexico/Mexican war, 10, 149–69 passim, 181, 297, 408, 411, 492; overseas, 297–300; see also Spanish-American war

see also farming

Laos, 472, 473, 481–83, 484, 556

las Casas, Bartolomé de, 5–7

Latin America, 53, 299, 408 Alliance for Progress, 438

Good Neighbor Policy, 439

Monroe Doctrine, 297, 408

Organization of American States, 440

slavery, 25, 32, 173

see also Indians, Central and South American

Latinos, 615–16

Lattimore, Owen, 432, 436

Lease, Mary Ellen, 288

Lebanon, 439, 586, 595

Lee, Richard, 42

Lee, Richard Henry, 81

Lee, Robert E., 185, 192, 195

Lehman, John, 597

Lehrmann, Leonard, 628

Leisler, Benjamin, 48

Lekachman, Robert, 571

Lemon, James T., 50

Lenin, V. I., 363

Leontief, Wassily, 577

lesbianism, 511

LeSeuer, Meridel, 406

Lester, Julius, 459–60

Levine, Lawrence, 179

Levy, Howard, 493

Levy, Leonard, 100

Lewinsky, Monica, 659

Lewis, John, 457

Lewis, John L., 399, 401

Lewis, Mollie, 405

Lewis, Sinclair, 383–84

Liddy, G. Gordon, 543

Lincoln, Abraham, 130, 153–54, 238, 631 slavery and Civil War, 171, 187–92 passim, 194, 197, 233, 410

Lincoln, Benjamin, 94, 95

Lingg, Louis, 271

Link, Arthur, 364

Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 293, 294–95

Locke, John, 47, 73–74

Lockridge, Kenneth, 50

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 158–59, 299, 300, 301, 305, 351

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 11, 366, 444, 474–75, 499

Logan, Rayford, 347

Loguen, J. W., 181–82

London, Jack, 322, 365

Louisiana Purchase, 126, 149, 685

Lowell, James Russell, 155

Lowell, Robert, 487

Lowell (Mass.): textile mills, 10, 115, 116–17, 228–29, 230, 263, 397, 418

Ludlow Massacre, 355–57

Lusitania, 362

Luther, Seth, 214, 224

Lynd, Alice, 406

Lynd, Helen, 383, 503

Lynd, Robert, 383, 503

Lynd, Staughton, 85, 99, 406, 486

MacArthur, Arthur, 316–17

MacArthur, Douglas, 391

McAlister, Elizabeth, 601

McCarthy, Joseph, 428, 431

McCone, John, 548

McCord, James, Jr., 542, 543

Macdonald, Dwight, 420

McFarlane, Robert, 587

McGovern, George, 545, 553

McKay, Claude, 444

McKinley, William, 295, 299, 303, 304, 305–06, 312–13, 314, 320

McKinnon, Cynthia, 621

McKissick, Floyd, 464

MacLeish, Archibald, 414

McLoughlin, William G., 83–84

MacMichael, David, 618

McNamara, Robert, 475–76, 484, 550

McNaughton, John, 481, 499

McPherson, James, 194

Macune, Charles, 287

McVeigh, Timothy, 646, 649

Madison, Dolly, 110

Madison, James, 33, 91, 96, 97–98, 132, 632

Mahan, A. T., 298, 300

Maier, Pauline, 67–68

Mailer, Norman, 418–19

Main, Jackson, 80, 98

Malcolm X, 457–58, 461

Manning, Robert, 560–61

Marcos, Ferdinand, 572

Markham, Edwin, 324

Marshall, George, 422, 438

Marshall, Thurgood, 574, 548–49

Marshall Plan, 438

Martin, Luther, 91

Martineau, Harriet, 113

Martinez, Elizabeth, 616

Marx, Karl, 12, 242, 243, 250, 258, 293

Maryland, Colonial era, 34, 35, 44, 46, 47, 50, 57, 68, 82, 83

Mason, John, 14–15

Massachusetts: Colonial era 13–17 passim, 21, 47–54 passim, 65–67, 69–70, 71, 72, 78, 83, 91–95 labor (19th century), 222–23, 228–33, 234, 236, 241, 243–44

reform movements, 115, 119, 120–21

see also Boston

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 13, 15–16, 47–48, 108–09

Mather, Cotton, 15

Matthews, Mary Musgrove, 109