I12 Index
Democratic party (continued)
Jackson and, 260
in late-nineteenth century, 531
in post–Civil War period, 533
Prohibition and, 653
Whig party and, 262f
Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea, 745–747
Dempsey, Jack, 650
Denby, Edwin, 667
Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion, 327t
Dental cavities, 9
Department of Commerce and
Labor, 568
Department of the Interior, Indian
policy and, 439
Department stores, 471
Depression(s) economic, 680
See alsoGreat Depression
of 1819, 209–210, 211
of 1830s, 260, 263
of 1893, 545–546
War of 1812 and, 197–198
Deregulation, 808
Derivatives, 870
Derrida, Jacques, 861
Desegregation, 757–758, 757f,
774–775, 774m, 775m, 787
Desertion, during Civil War, 428–429
Desert Land Act, 453
Desert Storm, 817
Deslondes, Charles, 326
Deslondes’ Rebellion, 327t
De Soto, Hernando, 23, 25
Détente, 786–787, 803
Detroit, Michigan
blacks in, 718
in War of 1812, 200
de Vaca, Alvar Núñez Cabeza, 23
Dewey, George, 592–593
Dewey, John, 446, 512, 515, 524f,
525, 580
Dewitt, John L., 720
Dewson, Molly, 699
Díaz, Adolfo, 613
Díaz, Porfirio, 613
Dickens, Charles, 230, 278
Dickinson, Emily, 520f
Dickinson, John, 104, 116, 129
Die Hard (film), 837
Dien Bien Phu, 768
Dillingham, William, 578
Dillingham Commission, 578
Dillon, Sydney, 462
Dinwiddie, Robert, 92
Diphtheria, 25
Diplomacy
See alsoForeign policy
dollar diplomacy, 605–607
missionary, 612–613
moral diplomacy, 612–613
during World War II, 731–732
Direct primary system, 563
Discourse on Western Planting
(Hakluyt), 32
Discrimination
against African Americans, 657
against immigrants, 495
Diseases
in Africa, 13
among colonists, 56
in Eurasia, 12
European, and Indians, 16, 25,
26, 36, 56
urbanization and, 498–499
Disenfranchisement, of African
Americans, 537
Disney, Walt, 649
Distance education, 842
District of Columbia, 315
Divorce, 133, 268–269, 641, 646
Dix, Dorothea, 279
Dixiecrat party, 743
Dobyns, Henry, 26
Docherty, George, 756
Documentary History of American
Industrial Society(Commons),
514–515
Dodd, Samuel C. T., 469
Dodge Coronet, 740f
Doheny, Edward L., 667–669, 668f
Dollar
1860, 531f
Continental, 130
silver, 544–545
Dollar diplomacy, 605–607, 606f
Domestic Happiness(Martin), 275f
Domestic servants, in late-nineteenth
century, 487
Dominican Republic
annexation of, 586
U.S. policy toward, 599
Dominion of New England, 68, 82
Donnelly, Igantius, 543
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, 834
Dos Passos, John, 655, 692
Dot-com boom, 855
Douglas, Lewis, 690
Douglas, Stephen A., 314, 344–345,
349, 352, 360, 696
election of 1860 and, 363–365
Kansas-Nebraska Act and,
352–353
Lecompton constitution and, 359
Lincoln-Douglas debates,
344–345, 360–362Douglass, Frederick, 281f, 282–283,
350–351, 385
Dow, Neal, 281
Dower, John, 731
Downing, Andrew Jackson, 290f
Downtown business districts,
838–839
Draft, 706, 712
Draft riots, 384–385, 385f
Drake, Edwin L., 464
Drake, Sir Francis, 25, 31, 83
Dr. Dre, 838
Dreams of My Father(Obama), 825
Dred Scott decision, 358–359, 359f,
361, 365t
Dreiser, Theodore, 520–521
Drew, Charles, 719
Drew, Lori, 844
Drexel Burnham Lambert, 808, 817
Drive-by shootings, 837
Dr. Seuss, 703f
Drug trafficking, 814, 837
Du Bois, W.E.B., 413, 579–580,
580 f, 581, 626, 657, 658
Dukakis, Michael, 813
Dulles, John Foster, 750–752
Duncan, Isadora, 560
Dunham, Stanley (Ann), 824f
Dunmore, Lord, 132
Dunning, William A., 413
Dust Bowl, 688–689, 689f
Dutch colonies, 41–42, 90
Dutch merchants, 30, 84
Dwight, Timothy, 274
Dyer, Mary, 72f
Dysentry, 56Eakins, Thomas, 521, 522f, 524f
Earl, Ralph, 114f
Earth in the Balance(Gore), 855
East, linking of West and, 341
East Asia, U.S. interests in, 586,
588–589, 602–603
Eastern Europe
collapse of communism in,
813–814, 815m
Soviet Union and, 733, 741–743
Eastern Trunk Line Association, 460
Easter State Penitentiary, 279f
East Florida, 100, 206
East Germany, 814
East India Company, 30, 106–107
Eastman, George B., 458
Eastman, Max, 560, 560f
Eaton, John, 280
Eaton, Peggy, 255
Eccles, Marriner, 697
Eckford, Elizabeth, 757f