Index 357
Ku Klux Klan Act ( 1871 ), 165
Kuwait, 303 – 4 , 306 , 329
Kyle, James, 183 , 7
Labor and Commerce Department, 194
labor movement, 86 – 87 , 183 – 84 ,
193 , 223 , 225 , 229 – 30 , 248 – 49 , 253 ;
unions, 217 , 225 , 229 – 31 , 248 , 313
Ladd, William, 115
La Follette, Robert M., 196 – 97 , 211 – 12
La Guardia, Fiorello, 211 , 217
Landon, Alfred M., 226
Lane, Joseph, 141
Laos, 280
Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper), 76
Latin America, 84 – 85 , 93 – 94 ;
immigrants from, 317 – 18
Laurens, Henry, 45
League of Nations, 202 – 5
Lease, Mary Elizabeth, 183
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 118
Lebanon, 300 , 304 ; hostages, 298
Lee, Mother Ann, 114
Lee, Richard Henry, 37 , 39 – 40
Lee, Gen. Robert E., 147 , 149 – 50 ,
152 – 53
legislative branch, executive power vs.,
48 – 50 , 67 , 159 – 63 , 223 , 228 , 282
Lend-Lease Act ( 1941 ) 234 – 35
L’Enfant, Pierre Charles, 64
Leningrad, siege of, 241 , 243
Letters from an American Farmer
(Dickinson), 34
Lewinsky, Monica, 318
Lewis, John L., 229 , 248
Lewis, Meriwether, 39 , 69
Lexington, Battle of, 37 , 41
Leyte Gulf, Battle of, 242
Libby, I. Lewis “Scooter,” 334 – 35
Liberal Republican Party, 169
Liberator, The, 135
Liberia, 134
Liberty Party, 112 , 128
Libya, 304
Lieberman, Joseph, 321
Liliuokalani, queen of Hawaii, 189
Lincoln, Abraham, 67 , 84 , 131 , 135 , 137 ,
141 – 47 , 149 – 54 , 162 , 165 , 189 , 269 ;
assassination of, 153 – 54 ; -Douglas
debates ( 1858 ), 140
Lincoln, Gen. Benjamin, 44 , 46
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 145
Lindbergh, Charles A., 207
Lippmann, Walter, 268
literature, 75 – 76 , 117 – 18 , 209
Lithuania, 231 , 303
Little Rock integration, 262 – 63
Livingston, Bob, 319 – 20
Livingston, Robert R., 40 , 53 , 68 , 75
Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 196
Lloyd George, David, 203
lobbyists, 97 , 110 , 178 , 180 , 323
Locke, Alain, 209
Locke, John, 17
Lodge, Henry Cabot (elder), 204
Lodge, Henry Cabot (younger), 257 ,
263
Logan, John A., 179
London Company, 10 – 13
Long, Huey P., 224
Long, Jefferson F., 164
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 118
Longstreet, Augustus B., 118
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 208
Longworth, Nicholas, 208
Lookout Mountain, Battle of, 150
Louisiana, 28 , 82 , 134 , 141 , 155 , 162 , 178 ,
271 , 273 ; Purchase, 39 , 68 – 69 , 77 ,
82 – 84 , 188
Lowell, James Russell, 118
Lumpkin, Wilson, 102
Lusitania (RMS), 200
Luther, Martin, 5
Luxembourg, 232 , 247
Luzon, Battle of, 242
lynching, 165 , 251MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 216 – 17 ,
237 , 241 – 42 , 244 , 256
MacFarlane, Robert, 298 , 299
Macon, Nathaniel, 88
Macon’s Bill No. 2 , 71