Index 345
Bank of the United States: First,
57 – 59 , 75 , 79 ; Second, 79 , 99 – 100 ,
105 – 10 , 122
banks and banking, 76 , 110 – 11 , 167 , 171 ,
178 , 184 , 198 – 99 , 215 – 17 , 220 – 21 , 223 ,
225 , 301
Barbary states, 67 – 68
Baring Brothers, 184
Barkley, Alben, 251 , 257
Barksdale, William, 139
Barnett, Ross, 268
Baruch, Bernard, 202
Bay of Pigs invasion, 266
Beatles, 261
Beauregard, Pierre G. T., 142 , 144
beef industry, 182 , 196
Begin, Menachem, 290 – 91
Belgium, 202 – 3 , 232 , 247
Belgium Relief Commission, 202
Belknap, William, 170
Bell, John, 141
Belmont, August, 185
Bennett, Robert E., 318
Bentsen, Lloyd, 302
Berger, Victor, 211
Berkeley, Lord John, 19
Berle, Adolph A., 219
Berlin, 244 , 260 ; airlift, 246 , 250 ;
Wa l l, 267 , 298 , 303
Berlin, Irving, 208
Berlin and Milan decrees, 70 – 71
Bessarabia, 231
Biddle, Nicholas, 105 , 107 – 9
big business and corporations, 166 – 73 ,
176 – 78 , 183 , 186 – 88 , 194 – 96 ,
198 – 99 , 202 , 217 , 302 , 324. See also
monopolies and trusts
Bill of Rights ( 1789 – 91 ), 51 – 54 ,
307 – 8
bills of attainder, 50
Bingham, John A., 163 , 169
Bin Laden, Osama, 325 , 326
Birds of America (Audubon), 118
Birmingham demonstrations, 268
Birney, James G., 112
Birth of a Nation, The (movie), 207
bit uminous coal case, 226
Black, James, 169
Black Codes, 157 – 58
blacklist, 246
Blaine, James G., 164 , 167 , 171 , 173 , 177 ,
179 , 263
Blair, Francis P., 164
Bland, Richard P. “Silver Dick,” 172
Bland-Allison Act, 181
Bloody Sunday (Selma, 1965 ), 273
Boland Amendment ( 1984 ), 298 , 300
Bolivar, Simon, 93
Boll Weevil Democrats, 294
Bonus March, 216 – 17
boom: post–Civil War, 187 – 88 ;
post–WW I, 206 – 7 , 209 , 213 ;
post–WW II, 247 – 48 ; of 1990 s, 312
Booth, John Wilkes, 153
bootlegging, 207 – 208
Borah, William E., 211
Bork, Robert H., 284 , 301
Bosnia, 304 , 312
Boston, 14 , 24 , 35 – 36 , 131 ; Massacre,
35 ; Tea Party, 36
Boston Whig, 128
Boutwell, George, 163 , 167
Bowdoin, James, 46
boycotts, 248
Bradley, Joseph P., 174
Bradley, Gen. Omar N., 256
Brady, James S., 295 , 308
Brady Bill, 308
Brandywine Creek, Battle of, 43
Braun, Carol Moseley, 307
Brazil, 84
Breckinridge, John, 69 , 141
Bremer, Paul, 330 , 333
Bricker, John W., 243
Brisbane, Albert, 113
Brook Farm, 113
Brooks, Preston S. “Bully,” 138 , 157
Brown, B. Gratz, 169
Brown, John, 140
Brownson, Orestes, 112
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,
261 , 262 – 63