Vidal, Gore, 21
Vietnam War, 56, 109, 135
Virginia, 70, 76, 78, 91, 169, 175; Shirtmen, 43; Military Institute, 101; Statute of Religious Freedom (1786), 165, 166, 168, 169, 171–74, 175, 177, 182; slavery, 176–77, 183, 194, 296; see also Arlington National Cemetery; Fredericksburg; Harpers Ferry; Monticello; Raven
Virginia, University of, 54, 165, 176
Walker, David: One Universal Cry, 183–84, 209
Walker, Francis A., 285, 286–87
Walker, Robert J., 257
Wall Street Journal, 296
Walter, Thomas U., 67, 68
Wang, Jinghzao, 307
War of 1812, 30, 36–37, 52, 61, 252
Ward, Robert DeCourcy, 285
Warnock, Reverend Raphael, 206–7, 209
Warren, Charles, 285
Washington, Booker T., 203, 205
Washington, President George, 32, 249, 305; in American Revolutionary War, 36, 39, 42, 43, 235; visits Newport, R.I., 161, 162, 164–65; and taxes and rebellions, 44–45; and funding for West Point, 45; and war with France, 49, 50; commands “volunteer” army, 50; and Cherokee Indians, 316, 318, 322, 325; death, 51
Washington, D.C., 63, 77, 78–79, 135–36, 192, 201, 369; Capitol, 67–68, 74, 88; Corcoran’s house, 94; Pension Building, 114; water supply, 64–67
Washington Post, 310
Washington State, 272, 279
Watner, Jowls, 144
Watson, Tom, 286
Watts, Isaac: hymns, 148
Wayne, General “Mad” Anthony, 36, 61–62
Webster, Daniel, 67, 326
Webster, Noah, 37
Weld, Theodore, 181–82, 184, 193, 253
Welsh Tract Baptists, 149
Wesley, John, 168, 179
West Point Academy, 32, 38–42, 45, 48, 50–51, 53–54, 58, 59–60, 62, 78, 109, 110
Whiskey Rebellion (1791), 30, 44
White, George, 201–2
White Path see Meigs, Return Jonathan, Sr.
Whitefield, George, 168, 179
Whitman, Walt, 255, 256
Wilderness, the, battle of (1864), 98, 123
Wilentz, Sean, 13
Wilhelm I, Kaiser, 115
Williams, Jonathan, 54
Williams, Mary (née Barnard), 154
Williams, Reverend Richard, 189
Williams, Roger, 152–59, 160, 163, 166, 167, 170, 171; The Bloudy Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience, 156–57; The Bloudy Tenet Yet More Bloudy, 163
Wilson, Senator Henry, 98
Wilson, Washington, 194
Wilson, President Woodrow, 288, 290, 292, 308
Wimbs, Addison, 205
Winona, Mississippi, 134
Winthrop, Governor John, 153, 155, 166
Wirt, William, 327
Wirtz, Willard, 135
Wise, John H., 281–82
Wong Kim Ark, 281–82
Wong Sic Chien, 268
Wood, Major General Leonard, 116, 117
Woodstock, Georgia: First Baptist
Church, 140–45, 149, 206
Woolwich: Royal Military Academy, 47
World, 121
World Wars: First, 288, 290, 347; Second, 109, 110, 123–25
Wright, Reverend Jeremiah, 140, 206, 209
Wyoming (steamer) 284
Wyoming 259, 272, 337; see also Rock Springs
xerigraphic landscaping, 356
Yale and alumni, 11, 37, 285, 290
Yorktown, battle of (1781), 43, 46
Zanesville, Ohio, 210
About the Author
SIMON SCHAMA is a professor of art history and history at Columbia University, and is the author of numerous award-winning books; his most recent history, Rough Crossings, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. He is a cultural essayist for the New Yorker and has written and presented more than thirty documentaries for the BBC, PBS, and the History Channel, including The Power of Art, which won the 2007 International Emmy for Best Arts Programming.
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