I4 Index
Baer-Braddock fight, 708–709
Bailyn, Bernard, 128
Bainbridge, William, 199
Baird, Richard, 150
Baker, Newton D., 624
Bakker, Jim, 842
Bakker, Tammy, 842
Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de, 22
Balfour Declaration, 631
Ball, Lucille, 826
Ballinger, Richard A., 574
Ballinger-Pichot controversy, 574
Ballot initiatives, 543
Baltimore, Lord, 40, 41f, 64
Baltimore, Maryland, in War of
1812, 202
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
337, 460
Bancroft, George, 261
Bank failures, during Great
Depression, 677, 686
Banking Act, 690f
Bank of North America, 130
Bank of Philadelphia, 211f
Bank of the United States, 156–157,
160, 210, 298, 576, 677
Democratic party and, 262f
Jackson and, 259
Marshall court and, 242
second, 211, 252–254, 252f
Whig party and, 262f
Banks and banking
See alsoFederal Reserve
2008–2009 financial crisis and,
869–870, 871
Democratic party and, 262f
Jackson and, 252–254, 259–260
Marshall court and, 242
national bank, 156–157
online, 840
Van Buren and, 262–263
during War of 1812, 210–211
Whig party and, 260, 262f
Bank war, 252–253
Barbados, 41, 84
Barbary pirates, 177
Barbed wire, 453
Barbed-wire wars, 453–454
Barbusse, Henri, 624
Barkley, Alben, 724f
Barlow, Joel, 137
Barnard, Henry, 291–292, 490
Barnard College, 513
Barron, James, 188
Barry, James, 98, 99f
Barton, Bruce, 659
Barton, Clara, 391, 408
Bartram, John, 89
Baruch, Bernard, 740–741
Baseball, 502–503, 650
Basketball, 502–503
The Battle of Cowpens(Ranney), 138f
The Battle of Princeton(Mercer), 122f
The Battle of Sand Creek(Lindneux),
438 f
Baum, L. Frank, 544f
Bayard, James A., 203
Bayard, Thomas, 567
Bay of Pigs, 766–767
Beard, Charles, 354
Beard, George M., 508
Beard, Mary, 354
Bear Stearns, 870
Beat movement, 778–780
Beat school, 778
Beaumont, Gustave de, 270
Beavers, 4
Becker, Carl, 128
Beecher, Catherine, 271, 274
Beecher, Henry Ward, 505
Beer-Wine Revenue Act, 690f
Begin, Menachem, 803
Beirut, Lebanon, 806
Belknap, William W., 424
Bell, Alexander Graham, 464, 470
Bell, John, 365
Bellamy, Edward, 473–474, 473f,
475 f, 508
Belmont, Alva, 567
Beloved(Morrison), 346
Ben Hur (Wallace), 518
Benin, 13
Benjamin, Regina, 842
Benton, Thomas Hart, 252, 306,
308, 639
Beresford, Bruce, 46
Bering, Vitus, 207
Beringer, Richard, 394
Beringia, 4
Bering Strait, 6m
Berkeley, Sir William, 61, 62f
Berkhofer, Robert F., Jr., 861
Berle, Adolf A., Jr., 690
Berlin, closing of, 742–743
Berlin, Ira, 494
Berlin airlift, 742–743, 743m
Berlin Decree (1806), 186
Berlin Wall, 814f
Bernard, S., 258f
Berners-Lee, Tim, 855
Bernstein, Barton, 698
Bessemer, Henry, 461
Bessemer steel, 461, 467
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 701
Bethune-Cookman College, 701
Beuregard, Pierre G. T., 376Beverly, Robert, 56
Bezos, Jeff, 855
Bible
evolution and, 524
historical origins of, 523
King James Version, 35
Biddle, Nicholas, 253–255, 259
Bifocals, 89
Big box retailers, 457–458, 840
Big Four, 629f, 630
Bill of Rights, 154
Biltmore Estate, 471f
Binding machines, 458
Bingham, George Caleb, 237, 237f
Bin Laden, Osama, 856, 857,
858, 862
Birch, William Russell, 146f, 155f
Birchbark canoe, 48
Birmingham, Alabama, 425f, 464
Birney, James G., 282
Birth control, 565, 646
The Birth of a Nation(film), 413, 648
Birthrate
in 19th century, 229
New England colonies, 66
Black Americans. SeeAfrican
Americans
Black Ball Line, 239–240
Black Belt, 233
Black Codes, 407, 409
Blackfoot Indians, 436
Black Hand, 613
Black Hawk, 256
Black Hills Indian reservation,
440, 444
Black militancy, 579–581, 657, 777
Black Muslims, 777
Black nationalism, 234, 539
Black Power movement, 777
Black Robe(film), 46–47
Black separatism, 539
Black Star Line Steamship
Company, 658
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 391
Blaine, James G., 425–426,
535–536, 587
Blanco, Kathleen, 864
Bland-Allison Silver Purchase Act, 545
Blind, schools for the, 278
Blitzkrieg, 705
Bloody shirt, 531–532
Board of Customs
Commissioners, 104
Board of Trade, 82–85, 100
Bodnar, John, 494
Boeing, William E., 662
Bohemianism, 560, 643
Bok, Edward W., 672