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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Robert Sherwood), 113 American Ballet Caravan, 80 Abernathy, Thomas, 211 American Children’s Theater, 80 Abraham Lincoln: the Prairie Years (Carl American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 216 Sandburg), 109; 113 American Doctor’s Odyssey, An (Victor Heiser), Abraham Lincoln: the War Years (Carl 147; 251 Sandburg), 110 American Exodus, An (Dorothea Lange and Absalom, Absalom (William Faulkner), 158; Paul S. Taylor), 43; 48 159–161; 162–163 American Expeditionary Forces, 18 Academy Awards, 167 American Federation of Labor, 217 Action at Aquila (Hervey Allen), 100 American Grammar (Noah Webster), 119 Adamic, Louis, 4 American Guide Series, 53; 54; 172; 184; 227 Adams, Henry, 25; 84; 145 American Historical Association, 160; 194 Adams, James Truslow, 68; 211 American Historical Review 274.12;, 192 Adams, J. Donald, 163 American History (David Saville Muzzey), 68; Adding Machine, The (Elmer Rice), 241 170 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Mark American Humor: A Study of the National Twain), 42 Character (Constance Rourke), 120 Aeschylus, 94 American Institute of Planners, 240; 241 Age of Innocence, The (Edith Wharton), American Jitters (Edmund Wilson), 42 44; 138 American Negro Slavery (Ulrich B. Phillips), Age of Jackson, The (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.), 169; 176 114 American Novel, 1789–1939, The (Carl Van Agee, James, 35–36; 38; 39; 42; 70 Doren), 125 Aiken, Conrad, 54; 83 American Reader (Noah Webster), 119 Akers, Dwight, 80 “American Scholar, The” (Ralph Waldo Alabama Guide, The, 57 Emerson), 119 Albee, Edward, 47 American Society of Landscape Architects, 108 “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (Irving Berlin), 51 American Spelling Book (Noah Webster), 118 Alger, Horatio, Jr., 92; 140 American Tobacco Company, 176–177 Algren, Nelson, 54 American Tragedy, An (Theodore Dreiser), Alison’s House (Susan Glaspell), 128; 129 52; 216 All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria American Years (Harold Sinclair), 59 Remarque), 38 “Amos ’n’ Andy”, 192–193 All the King’s Men (Robert Penn Warren), Anabasis (Xenophon), 237 178 Anderson, Charity, 199 All This and Heaven Too (Rachel Field), 59 Anderson, Maxwell, 68; 70; 227 All Ye People (Merle Colby), 59 Anderson, Sherwood, 4; 42; 49; 155 Allen, Ethan, 64 Andrew Jackson: the Border Captain (Marquis Allen, Frederick Lewis, 22–24 James), 114 Allen, Hervey, 15; 96; 99–101 Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President America Now (Harold Stearns), 32; 33; 50 (Marquis James), 114

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Anointed, The (Clyde Brion Davis), 50–51 Battle Hymn (Michael Blankfort, Michael “Antebellum Sermon” (Paul Laurence Dunbar), Gold), 172 188 Battle of Saratoga, 63 Anthony Adverse (Hervey Allen), 52; 97–98; Becker, Carl, 160 99–100 Beecher Bible, 173 Apollinaire, Guillaume, 136 Bel Geddes, Norman, 243 Arlington National Cemetery, 10 Bell, Daniel, 208 Arnold, Benedict, 63; 67–68 Bellow, Saul, 54 Arnold, Matthew, 157 Bendiner, Robert, 8 Arrowsmith (Sinclair Lewis), 52 Benedict Arnold: Military Racketeer (Edward Art in France, 38 Dean Sullivan), 64 “Artist in His Museum, The” (Charles Willson Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (Oscar Peale), 72 Sherwin), 64 Arts and Crafts Movement, 151 Benedict Arnold: The Proud Warrior (Charles Arundel: A Chronicle of the Province of Maine Coleman Sellers), 64 and of the Secret Expedition led by Benedict Benedict, Ruth, 186 Arnold against Quebec (Kenneth Roberts), Bene´t, Stephen Vincent, 56 62–63 Benjamin, Walter, 219 Arvin, Newton, 145 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1; 39–42 As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner), 158; 159 Benton, William, 192 Asch, Nathan, 227 Beveridge, Albert, 211 Asgill, Charles, 70 Beyond the Horizon (Eugene O’Neill), 94 “Aspects of Negro Life” (Aaron Douglas), 203 Biddle, Nicholas, 115; 116 “Athenaeum” portrait of George Washington Big Money, The (John Dos Passos), 151; 227; 229 (Gilbert Stuart), 72–73 Big Sea, The (Langston Hughes), 30; 139–140 Atlanta Exposition, 188 Bigsby, C. W. E., 45 Atlanta University, 31 Birds of America (John James Audubon), 120 Atlantic Monthly, 69; 135 Birth of a Nation, The (D.W. Grifﬁths), 164; 168; Atlantic Monthly Press, 141 193 “Auction – Model 1934” (F. Scott and Zelda Bishop, Bridget, 86 Fitzgerald), 29 Bishop, Isabel, 73 Audubon, John James, 120; 122–125 Bisno, Beatrice, 61 Audubon Society, 125 Black Elk, 152; 153 Autobiography (Benjamin Franklin), 109; 146 Black Elk Speaks (John Neihardt), 152–153 Autobiography (Lincoln Steffens), 144 Black Reconstruction in America (W. E. B. Du Autobiography, An (Frank Lloyd Wright), Bois), 171; 191; 193–195; 211 149–150; 241 Black Thunder (Arna Bontemps), 61; 189–191 Autobiography of a Fox Indian Woman, 152 Blake, William, 90 Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (Gertrude Blankfort, Michael, 172 Stein), 135 Blitzstein, Marc, 96 Bloor, Mother, 219 Backward Glance, A (Edith Wharton), 137 “Blueprint for Negro Writing” (Richard Bacon, Francis, 157 Wright), 189 Bad Seed, The (William March), 11 Bly, Nellie, 80 Baker, Josephine, 140 Boas, Franz, 82; 185–186 Baldwin, James, 188 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 98; 100; 103; 107; 197 Ballad of Davy Crockett, The (Hoffman Hayes), Bontemps, Arna, 31; 54; 61; 140; 189–191; 197 96 Bonus Army, 214 “Ballads of Lenin” (Langston Hughes), 220 Book-of-the-Month Club, 83; 147 Bara, Theda, 52 Bookman, The, 9 Barnes, Djuna, 193 Books, 83 Barnes, Margaret Ayer, 44–45 Booth, John Wilkes, 112; 113 Barnes, Wald, 193 Borglum, Gutson, 68 Bartlett, Frederick, 160 Borsodi, Ralph, 48 “Bathing Beauties of History” (1934), 80 Boston (Upton Sinclair), 227

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Boston Transcript, 83 Carnegie, Dale, 4 Boswell, James, 90 Carnegie Foundation, 38 Both Your Houses (Maxwell Anderson), 95 Carnovsky, Morris, 240 Bottom Rail on Top: A Novel of the Old South Carter, Elliott, 80 (H. J. Eckenrode), 165 Cash, Wilbur J., 154 Bowers, Claude G., 168; 171; 192 Caste and Class in a Southern Town (John Brickell, Herschel, 27 Dollard), 206 Bricktop (Ada Smith), 140 Cather, Willa, 10; 101; 126 Bridge, The (Hart Crane), 80 Century of Progress Exposition (Chicago), 39 Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (Thornton Wilder), Chafee, Zechariah, Jr., 33 45 Chamberlain, John, 50; 89 Bright Skin (Julie Peterkin), 39 Chambers, Hubert, 59 Broadacre (Frank Lloyd Wright), 150 Chambers, Robert, 59 Brooks, Van Wyck, 32 Chaplin, Charlie, 244 Brother to Dragons (Robert Penn Warren), Charbonneau, Toussaint, 78 178 Charles Sheeler: Artist in the American Tradition Broun, Heywood, 227 (Constance Rourke), 122 Browder, Earl, 218 Chase, Stuart, 123 Browder, Littleberry, 218 Chiang Kai-shek, 141 Brown, Henry Kirke, 73 Chicago Daily News, 29 Brown, John, 69; 171–176; 202 Chicago Poems (Carl Sandburg), 110 Bruce, Philip Alexander, 80 “Chicago Renaissance”, 110 Brush, Katherine, 61 Christ in Concrete (Pietro Di Donato), 234 Bryan, William Jennings, 51 Churchill, Winston, 164 Bryant, William Cullen, 126 “City of Monuments” (Muriel Rukeyser), 214 Buck, Paul H., 169; 170; 171 City, The (Lewis Mumford), 240; 241 Buck, Pearl S., 96; 130; 134 Civic Repertory Theater, 129 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 152 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 123 Bugles Blow No More (Clifford Dowdey), 59 Civilization in the United States (Harold Bureau of American Ethnology, 153 Stearns), 32 Burgoyne, John, 62; 67 Clansman, The (Thomas Dixon), 162; 164; 195 Burlingame, Roger, 33 Clark, Harry Hayden, 125–127 Bush-Brown, Albert, 151 Clemens, Samuel, (see Mark Twain) Bynner, Witter, 226 Cleveland, Grover, 107; 114; 166; 188 Clinton, Henry, 63 Cabell, James Branch, 126 Colby, Merle, 59; 60 Cabell, Virginia Branch, 79 Collier, John, 76 Cadmus, Paul, 80 Collingwood, R.G., 160 Caldwell, Erskine, 39; 155 Collier’s, 70; 86 Call It Sleep (Henry Roth), 18; 88–89 Colonel George of Mount Vernon (August Calmer, Alan, 225 Thomas), 108 Calverton, V.F., 209 Colonial Gardens: the Landscape Architecture of Cambridge History of American Literature, George Washington’s Time, 108 The, 125 Colony, Horatio, 61 Cami, 101 Columbia Pictures, 15 Campbell, William Edward, 11 (see William “Columbian Ode” (Harriet Monroe), 137 March) Commune, 102 Candide (Voltaire), 93 Company K (William March), 11 Cannibals All! (George Fitzhugh), 117 Complete Poems, The (Emily Dickinson), 127 Cantwell, Robert, 225; 226 Compromise of 1877, 170 Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini), 75 “Condemned, The” (Witter Bynner), 226 “Captain Carpenter” (John Crowe Ransom), 156 Conkle, E. P., 113 Captain Caution (Kenneth Roberts), 63 Connecticut Guide, 54; 86 Cargill, Oscar, 8 Conquistador (Archibald MacLeish), 105 Carlyle, Thomas, 115 Conrad, Joseph, 136

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Convention Army, 67 Desportes, Henriette, 59 Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin, Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 197–198 A (Nathanael West), 17; 90; 92 “Detachment and the Writing of History” Coolidge, Calvin, 8 (Carl Becker), 160 Cooper, James Fenimore, 61; 123 De Tocqueville, Alexis, 32 Copland, Aaron, 105; 240 De Voto, Bernard, 227 Corell, Charles J., 192 Dewey, John, 134; 157 Cortez, Hernando, 106 Diaz del Castillo, Bernal, 105; 106 Cosmopolitan, 86 Dickinson, Emily, 126 Coue´, Emile, 22 Dictionary of American Biography, 5; 107; 125 Coughlin, Charles, 133 Dictionary of the English Language (Noah Country Life Commission, 243 Webster), 119 Courier, 193 Di Donato, Pietro, 234 Cowley, Malcolm, 4; 22; 24–25; 29 Dies, Martin, 96 Crack-Up, The (F. Scott Fitzgerald), 29 Diggins, John, 145 Cradle Will Rock, The (Marc Blitzstein), 96 Disappearing City, The (Frank Lloyd Wright), Crane, Hart, 80 150; 242 Craven, Thomas, 40 Disraeli, Benjamin, 39 Creek Nation, 116 Divine Comedy, The (Dante Alighieri), 73 Crisis, The (Winston Churchill), 164 “Divinity School Address, The” (Ralph Waldo Crosby, Harry, 24 Emerson), 119 Cullen, Countee, 31; 140; 189; 227 Dixon, Thomas, 162; 164; 195 Culture and the Crisis, 4; 212; 216; 222 Doctorow, E. L., 58; 243 Culture of Cities, The (Lewis Mumford), 241–242 Dollard, John, 206–207 Cummings, E. E., 9 Donne, John, 128 Current History, 3 Don’t Ever Leave Me (Katherine Brush), 61 Curry, John Steuart, 19–22; 173 Dos Passos, John, 8; 9; 17; 19; 29; 39; 55; 70; 151; Custer, George, 152 227; 228–230; 241; 244 Custom of the Country, The (Edith Wharton), 138 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 91 Douglas, Aaron, 140; 202–203 Daily Worker, 27; 31 Douglass, Frederick, 168; 205 “Dante and Virgil in Union Square” (Isabel Dowdey, Clifford, 59 Bishop), 73 Dream Life of Balso Snell, The (Nathanael West), Danton, Georges, 103 90–91 Darwin, Charles, 216 Dreiser, Theodore, 42; 138–139; 216–217 “Daughters of Revolution” (Grant Wood), 71 Dreyfus, Alfred, 232 Daumier, Honore´, 93 Drums at Dusk (Arna Bontemps), 191 Davidson, Donald, 156 Du Bois, W. E. B., 31; 171–172; 191; 193–196; 211 Davis, Clyde Brion, 50; 51; 53 Duffus, Robert, 60 Davis, David Brion, 169 Dumas, Alexandre, pe`re, 101 Davis, Jefferson, 165 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 188 Dawes General Allotment Act, 76 Du Pont, Henry Francis, 125 Dawn (Theodore Dreiser), 138 Du Pont, Pierre, 14 Dawson, William Levi, 185 Durham, Tempe Herndon, 201 Day of the Locust, The (Nathanael West), Durkheim, Emile, 233 90; 93 Dust Tracks on a Road (Zora Neale Hurston), Death and Life of Great American Cities, The 187 (Jane Jacobs), 242 Debs, Eugene V., 110; 208 East Goes West (Younghill Kang), 142; 143 Defender, The, 193 Eastman, Max, 146 Defoe, Daniel, 137 Eckenrode, H. J., 165–166; 171 De Gogorza, Maitland, 38 Eclipse (Dalton Trumbo), 16; 18 Degree of Pocahontas, 80 Edmonds, Sheppard Randolph, 196 “Democracity 2039”, 239 Edmonds, Walter D., 61; 62 Desiderio da Settignano, 93 Education of Henry Adams, The, 84

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Eiseley, Loren, 54 Fitzhugh, George, 117 El Salon Mexico (Aaron Copland), 105 Five Acres and Independence (M. G. Kains), 49 Eliot, Charles W., 107 Five Came Back (Dalton Trumbo and Nathanael Eliot, T. S., 95; 137 West), 17 Elizabeth the Queen (Maxwell Anderson), 95 Flaming Sword, The (Thomas Dixon), 195 Ellison, Ralph, 54; 121; 185; 189 Flanagan, Hallie, 53 Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis), 38 Fletcher, John Gould, 157 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 119; 126; 171; 175; 235 Flight from the City: the Story of a New Way to Emily Dickinson, Friend and Neighbor Family Security, The (Ralph Borsodi), 48 (MacGregor Jenkins), 127 Flood, a Romance of Our Time (Robert Penn Emily Dickinson: the Human Background of Her Warren), 178 Poetry (Josephine Pollitt), 127 “Flowering Judas” (Katherine Anne Porter), 105 Emperor of Haiti (Langston Hughes), 196–197 Foner, Eric, 6 “End of the War, The: Starting Home” (Horace Fontanne, Lynn, 95 Pippin), 202 Forbes, Esther, 75–77 Enormous Room, The (E. E. Cummings), 9 Ford, Henry, 49 Epic of America, The (James Truslow Adams), 68 Forge, The (T. S. Stribling), 166 Erwin, Joseph, 116 Fortune, 35; 38 Espionage Act (1917), 208 Foster, William Z., 4; 212 Esquire, 29 Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 182 “Eucharist” (E. Merrill Root), 234 Franco, Francisco, 14 Evans, Walker, 35; 38; 42; 44; 70; 155 Franco-Prussian War, Everest, Wesley, 219 Franklin, Benjamin, 107; 118; 146 Everybody’s Autobiography (Gertrude Stein), 135 Free Forester (Horatio Colony), 61 “Everyman His Own Historian” (Carl Becker), Freedmen’s Bureau, 164; 165; 192 160 Freeman, Joseph, 224 Exile, The (Pearl S. Buck), 130 Frost, Robert, 137 Exile’s Return (Malcolm Cowley), 22; 24 Frye, Roger, 136 Fugitive, The (Vanderbilt University), 156 Facing the Chair: The Story of the “Futurama” (Norman Bel Geddes), 243–244 Americanization of Two Foreignborn Workmen (John Dos Passos), 228 Gable, Clark, 167 Fallingwater (Frank Lloyd Wright), 150 Gallows Hill (Frances Winwar), 86 Farewell to Arms, A (Ernest Hemingway), 10; Garden Cities of Tomorrow (Ebenezer Howard), 19; 52 239 Farm Security Administration, 155 Garraty, John, 2 Farrell, James T., 89; 225 Gates, Horatio, 62; 67 Faulkner, William, 8; 10; 39; 83; 126; 155; Geddes, Patrick, 241 158–160; 162; 168; 196 Geertz, Clifford, 234 “Fear” (Edna St. Vincent Millay), 226 General Electric, 239 Fearing, Kenneth, 209 General Motors, 239; 243 Federal Arts Project, 53 General Washington’s Dilemma (Katherine Federal Music Project, 53 Mayo), 69; 70 Federal Theatre Project, 53; 172 George Washington Bicentennial Commission, Federal Writers Project, 54 108 “Femme au Chapeau” (Henri Matisse), 136 Giotto, 232 Field, Rachel, 59 Glasgow, Ellen, 83; 155; 165 Fighting Angel (Pearl S. Buck), 130; 131 Glaspell, Susan, 128 Fine Clothes to the Jew (Langston Hughes), 202 Go Down, Moses (William Faulkner), 158; 162 “Fire and Cloud” (Richard Wright), 188 Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin), 188 Fish, Hamilton, 107; 114 Goddard, Paulette, 244 Fisher, Rudolph, 31 Gods of the Lighting (Maxwell Anderson), Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 25; 31; 126 227–228 Fitzgerald, John C., 108 God’s Trombones (James Weldon Johnson), 202 Fitzgerald, Zelda, 25; 27; 29 Gold, Michael, 46; 172; 209; 223; 224–225; 229

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Goldman, Emma, 144; 145 Hay, Thomas Robson, 194 “Golgotha in Massachusetts” (Clement Wood), Hayes, Alfred, 214; 218 234 Hayes, Hoffman, 96 Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell), 117; Hayes, Rutherford B., 165 162–164; 167; 169; 183; 191; 195 Haywood, Bill, 146; 219 Good Earth, The (Pearl S. Buck), 96; 130; 131 Hazlitt, Henry, 83 Gordon, Ruth, 113 Heaven’s My Destination (Thornton Wilder), 46 Gorman, Herbert, 12–13; 58; 96; 101; 105 Heiser, Victor, 147 Gosden, Freeman F., 192 Hemingway, Ernest, 10; 17; 19; 39; 126; 136; 158 Gosselin, Louis, 103 Herbst, Josephine, 209; 218; 224; 226 Government Printing Office, 108 Hibben, Paxton, 229 Goya, Francisco, 93 Hickok, Lorena, 4 Grapes of Wrath, The (John Steinbeck), 70; 234 Hicks, Granville, 5; 215; 224 Grant, Ulysses S., 114; 214 Higham, John, 210 Grass Roof, The (Younghill Kang), 142; 143 Hill, Joe, 219–222 “Great American Novel–, The” (Clyde Brion “Hills around Centralia, The” (Robert Davis), 50–52 Cantwell), 225 Great American Novel, The (Philip Roth), 51 Hill’s Manual of Etiquette and Social and Great American Novel, The (William Carlos Commercial Forms, 139 Williams), 51 Historic American Buildings Survey, 5 Great Gatsby, The (F. Scott Fitzgerald), 25; 27; “Historical Imagination, The” (R.G. 29; 239 Collingwood), 160 “Green Pastures, The” (Marc Connelly), 189 Historical Records Survey, 5 Green, Paul, 96 History of American Life, 5 Grey, Zane, 39 History of the Life and Death . . . of General Griffiths, D. W., 164; 168 George Washington, The (Mason Locke Gropper, William, 228 Weems), 71 Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (Allan Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 150 Nevins), 114 Hitler, Adolph, 14; 186 Growth of the Soil (Knut Hamsun), 38 Hocking, Ernest, 132; 134 Gruening, Martha, 31 Hollywood Ten, 18 Guardi, Francesco, 93 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 126 Guns along the Mohawk (Walter D. Edmonds), Home Town (Sherwood Anderson), 49 61 Hoover, Herbert, 22 Guns of Burgoyne (Bruce Lancaster), 62 Hopkins, Harry, 4 Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca, 152 Hacker, Louis, 211 Horse Shoe Bottoms (Thomas Tippett), 61 Hale, Nathan, 214 Houghton Mifflin, 75 Hallgren, Mauritz, 24 House of Exile, The (Nora Waln), 141 Halper, Albert, 225 House of Mirth, The (Edith Wharton), 138 Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Houston, Sam, 114 Administration (Allan Nevins), 114 Hovenden, Thomas, 172 Hamsun, Knut, 38 How to Win Friends and Inﬂuence People Hanging on Union Square, The (H. T. Tsiang), 215 (Dale Carnegie), 4 Happiness in Marriage (Margaret Sanger), 39 Howard, Ebenezer, 239; 241 Harding, Warren G., 10; 22; 208 Howe, Quincy, 227 Hari, Mata, 13 Howe, William, 67 Harlem Riot of 1935, 30 Howells, William Dean, 126 Harper’ s, 22; 128 Huddy, Jack (Joshua), 69 Harper’s Ferry, 171; 172; 175 Hueston, Ethel, 78 Harriet Tubman (May Miller), 196 Hughes, James, 140 Harris, Elmer, 113 Hughes, Langston, 4; 30; 31; 139; 144; 196–197; Hart, Moss, 16 202; 220 Haven’s End (John P. Marquand), 86 Hurston, Zora Neale, 31; 54; 140; 185; 186–189 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 12; 32; 58; 125; 127 Hyde, Bennett, 52

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I, Henry IV (William Shakespeare), 198 Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo), 16–18 Iceman Cometh, The (Eugene O’Neill), 95 Johnson & Company Administration Building Idiot’s Delight (Robert Sherwood), 113 (Frank Lloyd Wright), 149 I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Johnson, Jack, 51 Tradition (multiple authors), 156–158 Johnson, James Weldon, 31; 196; 202 Improved Order of Red Men, 80 Johnson, Josephine Winslow, 49 “In a Coffee Pot” (Alfred Hayes), 214 Johnson, Leslie, 199 In Dubious Battle (John Steinbeck), 234 Johnson, Samuel, 119 In Our Time (Ernest Hemingway), 225 Johnstown Flood, 147 Index of American Design, 5; 59; 125 Joll, James, 146 Indian Removals Act, 116 Jonah’s Gourd Vine (Zora Neale Hurston), 187 Indian Reorganization Act, 76 Jonathan Bishop (Herbert Gorman), 101 Indiana Guide, The, 55 Jones, Mother, 219 Indians of the United States (Clark Wissler), 82 Jordana (Robert Duffus), 60 Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), 219 Josephson, Matthew, 34 Infants of the Spring (Wallace Thurman), 31; 189 Journal of Negro History, 196 Inferno (Dante), 105 Journals (Lewis and Clark), 78 International Church of the Foursquare Joyce, James, 12; 51; 83 Gospel, 22 Juvenal, 90 International Detective Magazine, 15 International Health Board, 147 Kahn, Otto, 81 International Socialist Review, 110 Kains, M. G., 49 “Iron Throat, The” (Tillie Lerner), 226 Kang, Younghill, 142–144 Irving, Washington, 127 Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, 173 Israfel (Hervey Allen), 15 Kantor, MacKinlay, 123 It Can’t Happen Here (Federal Theater Karamu House, 197 Project), 96 Kaufman, George S., 16 It Was Like This: Two Stories of the Great War Kazin, Alfred, 54 (Hervey Allen), 15 Keats, John, 26 Keynes, John Maynard, 2 Jackson, Andrew, 107; 114; 211 King Philip’s War, 77 Jacobs, Jane, 242 Kirstein, Lincoln, 80 James, Henry, 13; 32; 83; 126; 127; 158 Kitty Foyle (Christopher Morley), 16 James Joyce (Herbert Gorman), 12 Knopf, Alfred, 16 James Joyce, His First Forty Years (Herbert Kodak, 239 Gorman), 12 Kromer, Tom, 209; 225 James, Marquis, 114 Ku Klux Klan, 22; 40; 133; 164; 168; 194; 203 James, William, 107; 134; 157 Jeb Stuart (John W. Thomason, Jr.), 194 Lamb in His Bosom (Caroline Miller), 181–183 Jefferson, Thomas, 67; 68; 111; 211; 218; 242 Lancaster, Bruce, 62 Jeffries, Jim, 51 Landon, Alf, 38 Jenkins, MacGregor, 127 Lange, Dorothea, 36–37; 43; 48; 155 Jews Without Money (Michael Gold), 46; 225 Lanier, Lyle H., 157 “Joe Hill Listens to the Praying” (Kenneth Lanier, Sidney, 126 Patchen), 220–222 Lardner, Ring, 32 John Brown (W. E. B. Du Bois), 171 Larkin Building (Frank Lloyd Wright), 149 John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years Last Moments of John Brown, The (Thomas After (Oswald Garrison Villard), 171 Hovenden), 172 John Brown and the Legend of Fifty-Six (James Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel, C. Malin), 172 The (George Santayana), 82–85 John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (Robert Last Tycoon, The (F. Scott Fitzgerald), 25; 28 Penn Warren), 171; 175; 176 Late George Apley, The (John P. Marquand), 86 “John Brown on the Way to His Hanging” Latham, Harold, 183 (Horace Pippin), 173 Lawrence, D. H., 61; 109 John Henry (Frank Wells), 96 Lawrence, Jacob, 197; 202–206

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Laymen’s Inquiry Commission, 132 Longaker, Mark, 107 Le Gallienne, Eva, 129 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 12; 126 Le Notre, G., (see Louis Gosselin) Longstreet, James, 165 Le Sueur, Meridel, 209; 224 Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe), 52 League of Nations, 14 Lorentz, Pare, 240 “Lee in the Mountains” (Donald Davidson), 156 Los Angeles Times, 52 Lee, Robert E., 59; 107 Lost Colony, The (Paul Green), 96 Leigh, Vivien, 167 Louis XVI, 103 Lenin, Vladimir, 218; 220 L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 161; 190; 191; 197; 205 Lerner, Tillie, 226 Lowell, A. Lawrence, 227; 230 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (James Agee and Lowell, James Russell, 126 Walker Evans), 18; 35; 42; 43; 70 Lowenthal, David, 6; 70 Leutze, Emanuel, 71 Luce, Henry, 35; 38 Lewis and Clark Expedition, 78–79 Lucretius, 90 Lewis, Lloyd, 111 Ludlow, Louis, 14 Lewis, Sinclair, 23; 38; 126; 139 Lumpkin, Grace, 229 Lewis, Wyndham, 136 Lynd, Helen, 4; 24; 135 Life, 170 Lynd, Robert, 4; 24; 135 Life among the Paiutes (Sarah Winnemucca Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 157 Hopkins), 152 Life and Labor in the Old South (Ulrich B. Macbeth (Federal Theatre Project), 53 Phillips), 176 MacLeish, Archibald, 105–106 Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson, The MacMillan, 183 (Genevieve Taggard), 127 Macy’s, 105 “Life of Frederick Douglass, The” (Jacob Major American Poets (Harry Hayden Clark), Lawrence), 203 126 Life of George Washington (Jared Sparks), 108 Male Animal, The (James Thurber and Elliott “Life of Harriet Tubman, The” (Jacob Nugent), 227 Lawrence), 203 Malin, James C., 172 “Life of John Brown, The” (Jacob Lawrence), Malraux, Andre´, 191 203 Maltz, Albert, 225 Life of O-Gi-Maw-Kwe-Mit-I-Gwa-Ki: Queen of Man Who Killed Lincoln, The (Elmer Harris), 113 the Woods (Simon Pokagon), 152 Mangione, Jerre, 54 “Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, The” (Jacob Man’s Fate (Andre´ Malraux), 191 Lawrence), 203 Marat, Jean-Paul, 103 Light in August (William Faulkner), 158 March, William, 11; 12 Lin Family, 141 Marine Hospital Service, 147 Lincoln, Abraham, 49; 59; 68; 109–114; Marius the Epicurean (Walter Pater), 83 211; 218 Marks, Jeanette, 234 Lincoln, Mary Todd, 111; 113 Marquand, John P., 86 Lincoln the Man (Edgar Lee Masters), 111 Marx, Karl, 218; 220; 235; 238 Lindbergh, Charles, 22; 52; 235 Mary of Scotland (Maxwell Anderson), 95 Literary Guild, 125; 135 Massachusetts Guide, The, 57 “Literary Life, The” (Van Wyck Brooks), 32 Massey, Raymond, 113 Little Big Horn, 152 Masters, Edgar Lee, 111 “Little Wanton, The,” 80 Mather, Cotton, 86 Lively Lady, The (Kenneth Roberts), 63 Matisse, Henri, 136 Living My Life (Emma Goldman), 145 Matthews, John Joseph, 153 Living Newspaper, 53 Matthews, Shailer, 134 Locke, Alain, 202 Maurois, Andre´, 6 Lockridge, Ross, 54 May Fourth Movement, 142 London, Jack, 110 Mayo, Katherine, 69–70 Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Eugene O’Neill), McCarren-Walter Act of 1924, 62 94; 129 McClure’s, 128; 144 Long, Huey, 192 McGuffey, William H., 118

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McKay, Claude, 54 Museum of Modern Art, 105; 150 McPherson, Aimee Semple, 22 Mussolini, Benito, 14; 52 Melville, Herman, 126; 158 Muzzey, David Saville, 68; 170–171 Mencken, H. L., 23; 32; 158 My America (Louis Adamic), 4 Mercer, Henry Chapman, 125 My Experiences in the World War (John J. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 16; 28 Pershing), 18 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 3 Myers, Gustavus, 33 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 80 Myths After Lincoln (Lloyd Lewis), 111 Mexico: A Study of Two Americas (Stuart Chase), 105 NAACP, 196 Michelson, Truman, 153 Narrative of a Southern Cheyenne Woman, The Middletown (Robert and Helen Lynd), 24 (Truman Michelson), 153 Middletown in Transition (Robert and Helen Narrative of an Arpaho Woman, The (Truman Lynd), 4; 24 Michelson), 153 “Migrant Mother” (Dorothea Lange), 36 Nashville Fugitives, 156 “Migration of the Negro, The” (Jacob Nat Turner (Sheppard Randolph Edmonds), 196 Lawrence), 203; 205 Nation, 83; 98; 145 Mill, John Stuart, 145 National Academy of Design, 120 Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 226; 229 National Archives, 5 Miller, Caroline, 181; 183 National Association for the Advancement of Miller, May, 196 Colored People (NAACP), 31 Mind of the South, The (Wilbur J. Cash), 154 National Catholic Rural Life Conference, 48 Mirabeau, Honore´, 103 National Committee for the Defense of Political Miss Lonelyhearts (Nathanael West), 90–91 Prisoners, 216 Mississippi Guide, The, 56 National Council of Teachers of English, 119 Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 157 Native Son (Richard Wright), 139 Mitchell, Margaret, 62; 162–166; 168; 183 Negro Folk Symphony, 185 Modern Architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright), 150 Negro History in Thirteen Plays, 196 Modern Art (Thomas Craven), 40 “Negro Speaks of Rivers, The” (Langston Modern Times, 244 Hughes), 140 Monroe Doctrine, 197 Negro Theatre Unit, 96 Monroe, Harriet, 137; 138 Neibuhr, Reinhold, 134 Montezuma, 106 Neihardt, John, 152 Monticello, 150 Neugass, James, 235–237 Mooney, Tom, 232 Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1936, 14 Moral Man and Immoral Society (Reinhold Nevins, Allan, 114 Neibuhr), 134 New American History (W. E. Woodward), Morgan, J. P., Jr., 14 169 Morley, Christopher, 16; 84 New Faith for Old (Shailer Matthews), 134 Morris, William, 151 New Masses, 144; 209; 225; 228 “Moses” (Michelangelo), 173 New Negro, The (Alain Locke), 202 Moses, Man of the Mountain (Zora Neale New Republic, 24; 29; 83 Hurston), 188 New York City Guide, 55 Mother India (Katherine Mayo), 69 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, 227 Mount Rushmore, 68 New York Herald Tribune, 12; 55 Mountain and the Plain, The (Herbert Gorman), New York Post, 27; 69 103–104 New York Times, 12; 31; 89; 115; 191 Mounted Justice (Katherine Mayo), 69 New York Times Book Review, 163 Mourning Becomes Electra (Eugene O’Neill), New York Tribune, 114 94 New York World’s Fair (1939–1940), 80; 239 Mules and Men (Zora Neale Hurston), 187 New Yorker, 114 Mumford, Lewis, 32; 240–243 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 216 Murder in the Cathedral (T. S. Eliot), 95 Night Over Taos (Maxwell Anderson), 95 Murphy, Brenda, 95 Night Rider (Robert Penn Warren), 176–179 Murphy, Gerald, 26 Nineteen Nineteen (John Dos Passos), 10

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Noah Webster: Pioneer of Learning (Ervin Pater, Walter, 83 Shoemaker), 117 Patterns of Culture (Ruth Benedict), 186 Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America (Harry Pay Day (Nathan Asch), 227 Warfel), 117 Peale, Charles Willson, 72 Nobel Prize for Literature, 130; 139 Pendergast, Tom, 42 Nock, Albert Jay, 9 Pennsylvania Turnpike, 243 Noise of Their Wings, The (MacKinlay Kantor), People, Yes, The (Carl Sandburg), 110 123 Perelman, S. J., 92 North Star, 205 Perkins, Maxwell, 27 Northwest Passage (Kenneth Roberts), 65 Pershing, John J., 18–19 “Not Sacco and Vanzetti” (Countee Cullen), 227 Peterkin, Julia, 39 Novick, Peter, 7; 211 Peterson, Merrill, 110 Now in November (Josephine Winslow Petriﬁed Forest, The (Robert Sherwood), 113 Johnson), 49–50 Philadelphia Orchestra, 185 Nye, Gerald, 14 Phillips, Ulrich B., 169–171; 176 Phillips, William, 237 “Ode to the Confederate Dead” (Allen Tate), 156 Picasso, Pablo, 136 Odets, Clifford, 8; 213 “Pictorial History of America” (1939), 80 “Of the Dawn of Freedom” (W. E. B. Du Bois), Pinchot, Gifford, 123 192 Pippin, Horace, 172; 202 Ohio Guide, The, 55 Pirandello, Luigi, 46 Oliver Wiswell (Kenneth Roberts), 66–67; 69 Pocahontas, 79 Olson, Tillie, 209 “Pocahontas” (American Ballet Caravan), 80 “On a Replica of the Parthenon in Nashville” “Pocahontas Saving the Life of Captain John (Donald Davidson), 156 Smith” (Paul Cadmus), 80 One Man’s Initiation (John Dos Passos), 10 Poe, Edgar Allan, 15; 126 One of Ours (Willa Cather), 10 Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 137 One Third of a Nation (Federal Theatre Poet’s Life, A (Harriet Monroe), 137 Project), 53 Pokagon, Simon, 152 O’Neill, Eugene, 8; 129 Political History of Virginia During the O’Neill, Jamie, 94 Reconstruction, The (H. J. Eckenrode), 165 Only Yesterday (Frederick Lewis Allen), 22; 24 Pollitt, Josephine, 127 “Open Letter to President Lowell, An” (John Pontiac, 66 Dos Passos), 228 “Pop. 3,518”(Fortune), 38 Oregon Guide, The, 57 Porter, Katherine Anne, 105; 229 Oresteia trilogy (Aeschylus), 94 Post, Emily, 46 Origins of Class Struggle in Louisiana Pound, Ezra, 51; 137 (Roger Shuggs), 211 “Powhatan’s Daughter” (Hart Crane), 80 Orozco, Jose´, 105 Prix Femina, 181 Our Cities, Their Role in the National Proletarian Literature in the United States (1935), Economy, 243 209; 224 Our Daily Bread (King Vidor), 48 Proletarian Short Story, The (Alan Calmer), 225 Our Town (Thornton Wilder), 45–47 Prologue to Glory (E. P. Conkle), 113 Owsley, Frank Lawrence, 157 Prosser, Gabriel, 190 Prosser, Thomas, 190 Paine, Thomas, 103–104 Proust, Marcel, 83 “Parade to War” (John Steuart Curry), 19 Provincetown Players, 128 Paradise (Esther Forbes), 76 Pulitzer Prizes, 10; 44; 45; 87; 110; 129; 162; 166; “Parks, the Circus, the Klan, the Press” (Thomas 169; 181 Hart Benton), 40 Puzzled America (Sherwood Anderson), 42 “Parson Weems’ Fable” (Grant Wood), 71; 80 Quinn, Arthur Hobson, 68 “Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, The” (Ben Shahn), 232 Rabble in Arms (Kenneth Roberts), 63; 64 Patchen, Kenneth, 220–222 Ragged Dick (Horatio Alger, Jr.), 93

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Rahv, Philip, 27; 54; 237 Rousseau, Henri, 136 Ransom, John Crowe, 156–157 Royal Canadian Air Force, 159 Raven, The (Marquis James), 114 Royce, Josiah, 84 Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 179–181 “Ruggles of Red Gap”, 80 “Recent Problems of Revolutionary Literature” Rukeyser, Muriel, 214 (William Phillips and Philip Rahv), 237 Ruskin, John, 151; 157 “Reconstruction and Its Benefits” (W. E. B. Du Bois), 192 Sabatini, Rafael, 75 Red Cross, 187 Sacagawea, 78 Red Scare of 1919, 22 Sacco, Nicola, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 208; Reed, John, 146; 209 226–233; 234 “Religion as a Cultural System” (Clifford Sandburg, Carl, 109; 241 Geertz), 234 Sanger, Margaret, 38 Remarque, Erich Maria, 28; 38 Santayana, George, 82–85 Remembering (Frederick Bartlett), 160 Saratoga Convention, 67 Research Committee on Urbanism, 243 Sartoris (William Faulkner), 158 Re-Thinking Missions, 132 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 229 “Return of Private Davis from the Argonne, Saturday Evening Post, 62; 70; 86 The” (John Steuart Curry), 19 Schlesinger, Arthur M., 6 Reunion in Vienna (Robert Sherwood), 113 Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 114 Revere, Paul, 218 Schneider, Isidor, 224; 235 Revolt Against the City (Grant Wood), 4 Schulberg, Budd, 29 Reynolds, Mary, 201 Schuyler, George, 193 Rice, Elmer, 241 Schuyler, Philip, 64 Rich Land, Poor Land (Stuart Chase), 123 Scientiﬁc Dream Book, The, 38 “Right That Failed, The” (John P. Marquand), Scopes Trial, 134; 208 86 Scott, Walter, 58 Riis, Jacob, 144 Scottsboro Case, 184; 190; 196; 216 Rimbaud, Arthur, 90 Scribner’s, 69 Rivera, Diego, 105; 233 Second Bank of the United States, 115; 116 RKO Studios, 16 Secret Service Agent 13 (Hubert Chambers), 59 Road to Reunion, 1865–1900, The (Paul H. Buck), Seeds of Revolt (Mauritz Hallgren), 24 169 Sellers, Charles Coleman, 64 Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 80 Senate Munitions Committee, 14 Roberts, Kenneth, 62–68; 69 “Sermons on George Washington”, 108 Robespierre, Maximilien, 103 Shadows on the Rock (Willa Cather), 101 Robie House (Frank Lloyd Wright), 149 Shahn, Ben, 232–233 Robinson, Earl, 218 Shakespeare, William, 58 Rockefeller Foundation, 147 Shame of the Cities, The (Lincoln Steffens), 144 Rockefeller, John D., 92 Sheeler, Charles, 122 Rogers, Robert, 65 Sheldon, Edward, 44 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 196 Sherman, William T., 214 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 22; 23; 51; 64; 104; 110; Sherwin, Oscar, 64 114; 133; 155; 218 Sherwood, Robert, 113 Roosevelt, Theodore, 51; 68; 146; 243 Shoemaker, Ervin, 117 Roots, E. Merrill, 234 Shuggs, Roger, 211 Roots of America (Charles Morrow Wilson), Sinclair, Harold, 59 42–43 Sinclair, Upton, 227 Rope of Gold (Josephine Herbst), 218; 224 Siqueiros, David, 105 Rosenberg, Harold, 54 Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser), 216 Roth, Henry, 88–89 Sleepy Tom (Dwight Akers), 80 Roth, Philip, 51 Smith, Alfred, 133 Rothschild, Nathan, 99 Smith, John, 79; 80 Rothstein, Arthur, 155 “Social History of Indiana, A” (Thomas Hart Rourke, Constance, 120–123 Benton), 39

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“Social History of Missouri, A” (Thomas Hart Thalberg, Irving, 28 Benton), 42 Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Socialist Party of America, 208–209 Hurston), 18; 187 Soldier’s Pay (William Faulkner), 10 This Ugly Civilization (Ralph Borsodi), 48 Son of the Three Musketeers, The (Cami), 101 This Was a Poet (George Whicher), 128 Song in the Meadow (Elizabeth Madox Roberts), Thomas, August, 108 80 Thomas, M. Carey, 45 Soul of America, The (Arthur Hobson Quinn), Thomas, Norman, 209 68 Thomason, John W., 194 Souls of Black Folk, The (W. E. B. Du Bois), 192 Three Comrades, The (Erich Maria Remarque), Sound and the Fury, The (William Faulkner), 158 28 Sparks, Jared, 108 Three Plays (Thornton Wilder), 47 Spencer, Herbert, 216 Three Soldiers (John Dos Passos), 9–10; 52 Spengler, Oswald, 241 Thurman, Wallace, 31; 189 Spoon River Anthology (Edgar Lee Masters), 52 Time, 42; 83; 163; 166; 170; 242 St. Clair, William, 7 Tippett, Thomas, 61 Stalin, Joseph, 218 “To the Museums” (Isidor Schneider), 235 Stallings, Laurence, 95 Todd, Charles Burr, 64 Stanton, Edwin, 111 Toklas, Alice B., 136–137 Star of the West (Ethel Hueston), 78 Tolson, Melvin B., 167 Starobinski, Jan, 210 Tolstoy, Leo, 58; 145 Stearns, Harold, 32 Tomorrow’s Bread (Beatrice Bisno), 61 Steffens, Lincoln, 144; 220 Tompkins, Lucy, 191 Stein, Gertrude, 24; 135 Toomer, Jean, 140 Steinbeck, John, 70; 234 Toward the Flame: A War Diary (Hervey Allen), 15 Stern, Philip Van Doren, 113 Tragic America (Theodore Dreiser), 42; 216 Stevens, Thaddeus, 168 Tragic Era: The Revolution After Lincoln, The Stevens, Wallace, 137 (Claude G. Bowers), 168–169; 192 Stewart, Donald Ogden, 16 “Tragic Prelude” (John Steuart Curry), 173 Stiles, Laban, 153 Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The (John Fox), 52 Stokowski, Leopold, 185 Triple-A Plowed Under (Federal Theatre Store, The (T. S. Stribling), 166–167 Project), 53 Stover at Yale (Owen Johnson), 52 Triumph of American Capitalism (Louis Hacker), Strachey, William, 81 211 Stribling, T. S., 166–167 True History of the Conquest of New Spain Strong, Anna Louise, 209 (Bernal Diaz del Castillo), 105 “Student Strike Against War, A”, 14 Trumbo, Dalton, 15–18 Sullivan, Arthur Dean, 64 Tsiang, H. T., 215 Sullivan, Louis, 151 Tubman, Harriet, 205 Sun Also Rises, The (Ernest Hemingway), 10 Tunney, Gene, 22 Sun Yat-sen, 141 Turner, Frederick Jackson, 60; 75 Suzy (Herbert Gorman), 13; 101 Tuskegee Study, 184 Swope, Thomas, 52 Twain, Mark, 42; 65; 165; 179 Sydenstricker, Absalom, 133 “Two Crucified” (Jeanette Marks), 234

Taft, William Howard, 51 Ulysses (James Joyce), 51 Taggard, Genevieve, 127 Underground Railroad, 40; 196 Tate, Allen, 156 Unﬁnished Cathedral, The (T. S. Stribling), 166 Tattered Tom (Horatio Alger, Jr.), 93 Union Square, 73 Taylor, Paul S., 48 Unity Temple (Frank Lloyd Wright), 149 Teapot Dome, 22 Unvanquished, The (William Faulkner), 158 Tell My Horse (Zora Neale Hurston), 188 Up from Slavery (Booker T. Washington), 146; Tender is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald), 188 25–28 U.S.A. (John Dos Passos), 11; 70; 229–230; “Thalassa, Thalassa” (James Neugass), 235–237 235; 244

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Valley Forge (Maxwell Anderson), 68 Whistling Cat (Robert Chambers), 59 Van Doren, Carl, 108–109; 125; 127 White Desert (Maxwell Anderson), 95 Vance, Rupert, 157 White Horse Eagle, 153 Victoria, Queen of England, 107 Whitehead, Alfred North, 136 Vidal, Gore, 58; 113 Whitman, Walt, 110; 111; 122; 126 Vidor, King, 48 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 126 Villard, Osward Garrison, 69; 171; 196 “Wilder: Prophet of the Genteel Christ” Virginia Plutarch, The (Philip Alexander Bruce), (Michael Gold), 46 80 Wilder, Thornton, 12; 45 Virginian, The (Owen Wister), 52 Williams, Roger, 56 Voltaire, 93 Williams, William Carlos, 51 Wills, Gary, 217 Wah’Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man’s Wilson, Charles Morrow, 42–44 Road (John Joseph Matthews), 153 Wilson, Edmund, 1; 4; 9; 25; 26; 28; 42; 112 Waiting for Lefty (Clifford Odets), 213 Wilson, Lanford, 47 Waiting for Nothing (Tom Kromer), 225 Wilson, Woodrow, 208 Walker, Margaret, 54 Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson), 52; 225 Walled in this Tomb, 227 Winterset (Maxwell Anderson), 70; 227–228 Waln, Nora, 140–142; 144 Winwar, Frances, 86 War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy), 39 Wissler, Clark, 82 Warfel, Harry, 117 “Wolcott Case, The” (Dalton Trumbo), 15 Warner Brothers, 15 Wolfe, Thomas, 39; 126 Warren, Robert Penn, 159; 171; 175–179 Woman of Andros, The (Thornton Wilder), 46 Washington, Booker T., 146; 188 Woman’s Home Companion, 86 “Washington Crossing the Delaware” (Emanuel Wood, Clement, 234 Leutze), 71 Wood, Grant, 4; 70; 80 Washington, George, 64–65; 67–75; 80; 211; Woodson, Carter G., 196 218; 239 Woodward, C. Vann, 202 Washington Jitters (Dalton Trumbo), 16 Woodward, W. E., 169 Washington Tribune, 167 Woolf, Virginia, 39 Waterman Steamship Company, 11 Works Progress Administration (WPA), 53; We Accept With Pleasure (Bernard De Voto), 227 80; 198 We Indians: The Passing of a Great Race World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago), 137 (attributed to White Horse Eagle), 153 World’s Fair (E. L. Doctorow), 243 Webster, Daniel, 117 Wounded Knee, 152 Webster, Noah, 117–119 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 149–152; 241 Weeks, Edward, 141 Wright, Richard, 54; 139; 187–189 Weems, Mason Locke, 71; 73 Writings of George Washington (John C. Wells, Frank, 96 Fitzgerald), 108 Welty, Eudora, 155 West, Benjamin, 42 Xenophon, 237 West, Nathanael, 17; 90–93 Westcott, Glenway, 29 Yearling, The (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings), Wharton, Edith, 44; 137 179–181 “What Are Historical Facts?” (Carl Becker), 160 Years of Grace (Margaret Ayer Barnes), 44–45 What Price Glory? (Maxwell Anderson and Yezierska, Anzia, 54 Laurence Stallings), 95 Young, Art, 144 Whicher, George, 128 Young Communist League, 218