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Vandenberg, Arthur, 415

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 262

Vanderbilt family, 242

Van Every, Dale, 135–36, 137, 138–39, 142, 143, 146

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 376

Vesco, Robert, 544, 547

Vesey, Denmark, 171, 173–74

Vietnam/Vietnam war, 9, 366–67, 411, 469, 472–501, 542, 549–54, 556, 558, 563, 618, 618–19, 631, 652 opposition to, 461, 484–94, 500–01, 516, 518, 523, 541, 542, 554, 567

Pentagon Papers, 412, 470, 472, 473, 474, 476, 481, 488, 499, 500 War Powers Act, 588

Vincent, Henry, 286

Vinson, Fred, 434, 435

Virginia (Colonial era), 12, 13, 18, 25, 41–47 passim, 50, 55, 56, 68, 78, 82, 84, 86 Bacon’s Rebellion, 37, 39–42, 45, 54, 55, 59

House of Burgesses, birth of, 43

slavery, 25, 30, 32–38 passim, 47, 72

see also Jamestown

Vogel, Virgil, 15

voting: blacks, 65, 88–89, 198, 199, 203, 207, 291, 449, 454–55, 456, 458, 459, 461, 465–66, 610 Constitution, 96

15th Amendment, 198, 449

Indians, 65, 96

low voter turnout, 563

1960s and 1970s, 562

property qualifications, 49, 65, 83, 96, 214–16, 291

women, 65, 96, 110, 114, 123, 342, 343, 344–45, 384, 503

see also civil rights/civil rights movement

Wadsworth, James, 359

Wake Island, 312

Walker, Charles R., 394

Walker, David, 180, 184

Walker, Margaret, 446

Wall, John, 618

Wallace, Henry, 428, 449

Wampanoag Indians, 15–16, 40

War of 1812, 127

War on Poverty, 601

War Powers Act, 553, 588

War Resister’s League, 437

Washburn, Wilcomb, 40

Washington, Booker T., 208, 209, 348

Washington, George, 85, 91, 95, 97, 125, 126 Revolutionary War, 79–80, 81, 82, 145

Washington, Mrs. George (Martha), 110

Watergate, 488, 542–49 passim, 554, 558, 631

Watergate scandal, 563, 618

Watson, Tom, 291–92

Wayland, Francis, 156

Wayne, Anthony, 81, 87

wealth distribution, 571, 612, 629, 662–64, 668

Weatherby, William, 404

Weaver, James, 289

Webster, Daniel, 142, 145, 181, 216

Weems, John, 162, 166, 167

Weil, Simone, 420

Weinberger, Caspar, 584, 585, 605

Wiener, Jon, 595

Weinstein, James, 351, 353, 365

welfare, attack on, 578–79, 647–50

Welles, Sumner, 412

Welter, Barbara, 112

West Germany, 591

Westmoreland, William, 500, 550

Wheeler, Burton, 385

White, Walter, 419

Whitman, Walt, 154

Wicker, Tom, 521, 566

Wiebe, Robert, 350

Willard, Emma, 117–18

Williams, Roger, 16–17

Williams, William Applernan, 301–02

Wilson, Charles E., 425

Wilson, Darryl B., 530

Wilson, Edmund, 237–38

Wilson, James, 70, 80

Wilson, James Q., 587

Wilson, Woodrow, 347, 349, 350, 356, 362, 381 World War I, 361, 362, 364, 365

Winthrop, John, 13, 14, 48, 108–09

Winthrop, Robert, 158

Witt, Shirley Hill, 533

Wittner, Lawrence, 419, 425

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 111

women: abolitionists, 117, 120, 121, 122, 124 abortion, 509–10, 511

blacks, 32, 103, 105–06, 184–85, 193, 202, 347, 504

change in status, 503–14

Colonial Era, 43, 44, 49, 72, 73, 102, 104–11 passim

Declaration of Independence and Constitution, 72, 73, 96, 102

education, 110, 115, 118, 123, 509

exploitation and oppression, 9, 103–24 passim

feminist movements: 19th century, 117, 119–23 passim, 184–85, 202; early 20th century, 342–46, 349; 1960s and 1970s, 504–14; 1980s and 1990s, 616

Indians, 5, 7, 19, 20, 104

in antinuclear movement, 603

labor, 10, 32, 43, 44, 103, 104–05, 110, 111, 114–15, 123, 228–31, 234–35, 240–41, 253, 257, 267–68, 324–27 passim, 336, 338–39, 347, 406, 504, 506–11 passim; see also labor, factory and mill system

property ownership denied, 114, 123

rape, 510, 511

socialists, 341–46 passim

voting, 65, 96, 110, 114, 123, 342, 343, 344–45, 384, 503

World War II, 416

Wood, Leonard, 311, 312

Woodford, Stewart, 304

Woodward, C. Vann, 205, 206, 274–75, 292

Woodward, Carl, 545

Worcester, Samuel, 141

Workingmen’s party, 244–45, 248–49

World Bank, 566, 658, 674

World Trade Organization (WTO), 672–74

World War I, 10, 359–74, 376, 418, 492

World War II, 10, 407–25 passim, 492 Germany and Japan, bombing of, 9, 17, 421–23, 481

and labor, 402, 407, 415, 416, 417–18, 504

Wright, Frances, 121–22, 221

Wright, Margaret, 465

Wright, Richard, 446–47