I24 Index
League of Nations (continued)
rejection of, by Senate, 632–634,
633 f
Wilson’s idea for, 628–629
League of Women Voters, 647
Leary, Timothy, 779, 779f
Lease, Mary Elizabeth, 543f
Leaves of Grass(Whitman), 289–290
Lebanon, 806
Leclerc, Charles, 178–179
Lecompton constitution, 359, 365t
Lee, Ann, 276–277
Lee, Arthur, 123
Lee, Higginson, 466
Lee, Richard Henry, 115, 117, 152
Lee, Robert E., 362, 381f, 579
at Antietam, 382–383
as commander of Confederate
army, 381, 391, 394
Gettysburg campaign, 387–388
secession crisis and, 366–367
surrender by, 392m
Leeches, 88f
Le Feu (Barbusse), 624
Legislatures
colonial, 82
state, 130–131
Lehman Brothers, 869–870, 871
Leisler, Jacob, 74
Leisler’s Rebellion, 74
Leisure activities, in late-nineteenth
century, 502–504
Le Jeune, Paul, 46, 47, 47f
Lend-Lease Act, 707
Lenin, Vladimir, 620
Leopard(ship), 188–189
Lesbian rights, 832–833
Leslie, Frank, 525
Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 590
“The Lesson of History”
(Marshall), 741
“Letter from Birmingham Jail”
(King), 770
Leuchtenburg, William, 648, 698
Leutze, Emanuel, 120f
Levant Company, 30
Lever Act, 622, 653
Levittown, New York, 739f
Lewinsky, Monica, 852, 853f
Lewis, John L., 688, 716
Lewis, Meriwether, 182–185
Lewis, Sinclair, 656
Lewis and Clark expedition,
182–185, 182f, 301
Lexington, battle of, 114–115
Leyte Gulf, Battle of, 729
Liberal Republicans, 424–425
The Liberator, 282
Liberia, Republic of, 234
Liberty party, 282
Liberty University, 842
Libraries, public, 291, 525
Lichtenstein, Roy, 98, 99f
Lieberman, Joseph, 855
Life expectancy, in Chesapeake
colonies, 56
Life insurance, 470
Life on the Mississippi(Twain), 519
Life span, 845
Lightbulb, 464–465, 500, 508
Light in August(Faulkner), 692
Lightning rod, 89
Liliuokalani, Queen, 588–589,
588 f, 606f
Lin, Maya, 2f, 3
Lincoln, Abraham, 395f
assassination of, 404–405
Cabinet of, 371–372
Civil War and, 372–376, 378, 395
election of 1860 and, 363–365
election of 1864 and, 392
Emancipation Proclamation and,
383–384
emergence of, 359–360
on Know-Nothings, 355
on Reconstruction, 404, 406
secession crisis and, 365–367
slavery issue and, 360
on wage labor, 334
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 344–345,
360–362
Lindbergh, Charles A., 661–662
Lindneux, Robert, 438f
Lindsey, Benjamin B., 641
The Lion of the West, 265
Lippmann, Walter, 682
Literacy
in New England colonies, 70
in North, 324
Literacy tests, 414, 495, 537
Literature
in 1920s, 654–656, 659
of the beats, 778–779
during Great Depression, 692
in late-nineteenth century,
560–561
realism in, 518–521
romanticism and, 285–290, 518
Little Bighorn, battle of, 440
Little Big Horn Casino, 435
Little ice age, 41
Little Lord Fauntleroy
(Burnett), 518
Little Rock, Arkansas, 758, 775
Little Turtle, 157
Little Women (Alcott), 274Living standards
of African Americans, 539
during World War II, 717
Livingston, Robert, 117
Livingston, Robert R., 178–179,
236, 242
Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 469, 474,
475 f, 557
Lochner v. New York, 564, 565, 570
Locke, Alain, 659
Locke, John, 40, 88, 100, 147,
219, 233
Lockheed, Haimes, 661
Lockheed, Malcolm, 661
Locofoco, 260
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 508
on collegiate sports, 511
on Harding, 666
League of Nations and, 632–634
Navy and, 587–588
on Philippines, 595
Roosevelt and, 574
United Nations and, 732
Lodge Reservations, 633, 634
Log Cabin(newspaper), 263
London, England, cholera epidemic
in, 498
London Company, 32, 33, 34, 35,
40, 61
London Crystalk Palace
Exhibition, 331
Long, Huey, 692–693
Long, Jefferson, 416f
The Longest Day(film), 98
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 518
Long Island, battle of, 120
Longstreet, James, 414
The Long Valley(Steinbeck), 692
Looking Backward (Bellamy),
473–474
Looms, 225
Los Angeles gangs, 837
Lost generation, 655
Louisbourg, 90
Louisiana
colony of, 54
exploration of, 182–183, 184–185
Louisiana Purchase, 177–181, 180m,
208, 300
Louis XVI (king), 123, 158f, 160
Louverture, Toussaint, 178–179, 179f
Love
marriage and, 641
sex and, 643
Love, Nat, 452
Lovejoy, Elijah, 282
Loving, Oliver, 450
Low, Seth, 561