An American History

INDEX ★ A-111

prisoners as, 660

and Prohibition, 752

racially integrated, 640

radicals, 852, 854, 856

railroads and, 656

Reagan and, 1062–63

reform, 730–31

segregation and, 661

unemployment and, 729, 731, 812, 814,

815, 822, 825, 833, 836, 837, 841,

845 , 846, 849, 850, 858, 942, 1000,

1045, 1095, 1095 , 1120, 1129

women and, 640, 717, 723–24, 761, 862,

1100, 1101

and work hours, 611, 634, 637, 699, 716,

723–24, 749, 761, 830, 844, 883

working conditions and, 704, 719–20,

723–24, 747, 761, 786

and working hours, 618

workmen’s compensation and, 724

and World War II, 873, 875–76, 922–23

see also child labor; unions

Labor Department, U.S., 830, 845, 846,

852, 1033

labor movement, 704, 821

decline of, 1062

World War I and, 743

see also unions

Laboulaye, Édouard de (1811–1883), 603

Labour Party (Great Britain), 900

La Follette, Robert M. (1855–1925), 717,

719, 794, 794 , 856

La Guardia, Fiorello (1882–1947), 852

laissez-faire economics, 647, 728, 840,

883

Lakotas, 628

Land Commission, 593

Landes, Bertha, 722

Land of the Free (MacLeish), 839

Landon, Alfred (1887–1987), 841

Lange, Dorothea (1895–1965), 813 , 849 ,

851 , 853

Lansing, Robert (1864–1928), 773

Laos, 869, 1043

Lardner, Ring, Jr. (1915–2000), 929

Las Vegas, Nev.:

nuclear tests in, 928

segregation in, 969

Lathrop, Julia (1858–1932), 720

Latin America, 795, 864, 896, 909, 1007–8,

1049, 1072, 1082, 1117

JFK and, 989–90

Liberation theology and, 1013

Poor People’s March and, 1025
Selma campaign of, 995–96
King, Rodney (1965–), 1097
Kiowas, 621
Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936), 684, 688
Kirk, Russell (1918–1994), 956
Kirkpatrick, Jeane (1926–2006), 1066
Kissinger, Henry (1923–), 1038, 1047
kitchen debate, 941, 942
Knights of Labor, 640–41, 644, 645, 646,
660, 673, 703, 896
Know-Nothing (American) Party, 646
Koehler, Robert (1850–1917), 640
Korea:
immigrants from, 890, 1092
see also North Korea; South Korea
Korean War, 914–16, 915 , 925, 930, 958,
964
armistice in, 961
casualties in, 915–16
Korematsu, Fred (1919–2005), 892–93
Korematsu v. United States, 892–93
Kosovo, 1080
Kremlin, 914
Kroc, Ray (1902–1984), 948
Kroeber, Alfred (1876–1960), 806
Ku Klux Klan, 595–96, 596 , 598, 646, 664,
763 , 802 , 806, 807, 810, 924, 985, 993
reemergence of, 802–3
Kursk, Russia, 872
Kuwait, 1073
Kyoto Protocol (1997), 1111
Kyrgyzstan, 1075 , 1113

labor, 637–47, 830–33, 906, 960
African-Americans and, 855–56, 969,
988
agricultural, 848–49
capitalism vs., 639–47
capital vs., 634
civil liberties and, 709, 855–57
contracts, 636–37, 641, 960, 969
“cross of gold” speech and, 657
decline of, 787
dignity of, 637
Fordism and, 702
in Gilded Age, 639–47
globalization and, 1091
government and, 656
migrant, 785
New Deal and, 825, 880
and politics, 833
Populist Party and, 653