American Experiment (281 page)

German Ideology, The,
75
,
260

and IWW,
174

on Johnson (A.),
52

and Veblen, compared,
303–4

Wage Labour and Capital,
82

Marxist theory:

class system,
194

industrial labor,
112
,
259
,
489
; and class solidarity,
143
,
173
; proletarianization of,
260–1
,
382–3
; and trade unionism,
173

other socialist ideas,
174

production,
75–6

property, private,
154

technology,
76
,
82
,
289
,
382

see also
socialism

Masses, The
(periodical),
313–14

mass production:

of automobiles,
179–80

Ford develops,
480
,
484

of houses,
253

Maxim, Hiram,
81
,
290

May, Ernest,
439

Mayer, Louis B.,
526

McAdoo, William Gibbs,
385
,
388
,
429
,
469
,
473
,
500
,
555

McAllister, Ward,
117

McClellan, Gen. George B.,
33
,
205

McClure’s
(periodical),
345
,
346–7

McCombs, William F.,
370

McCormick, Cyrus Hall,
81
,
114
,
222

McCormick, Fanny,
185

McCormick, Col. Robert R.,
483

McCumber, Porter,
460

McKellar, Kenneth,
505

McKelvey, Blake,
248

McKinley, William,
198

death of,
241–2

as President,
234–5
; election of,
231–3
; foreign policy of,
236–41
; nomination of,
229–30
; reelection of (1900),
241

McLallin, Stephen,
185

McLemore, A. Jefferson,
417

McNary-Haugen bill (1927),
490

McPherson, Aimee Semple,
517

McPherson, James,
7
,
25
,
33
,
63

McReynolds, James,
391

McTeague
(Norris),
171–2

Meade, Gen. George Gordon,
11

Meat Inspection Act (1906),
348

Mellon, Andrew William,
458
,
485–6

and Depression,
550

on education,
513

as Secretary of State,
486
,
491
,
493
,
496–7

Mencken, Henry Louis,
315
,
316–17
,
533

Menlo Park (N.J.) “scientific factory,”
108–9

mergers,
216–17

of film studios,
526

of newspapers,
519–20

see also
combinations, industrial

Merton, Robert,
265

Mexico:

French invasion of (1861),
219–20

U.S. and,
403–6
,
498

Michelson, Albert,
289

Michigan Central Railroad,
87

middle class,
142–3

women in,
119–27

Midway Island,
220

migration:

northward, from country to city (by blacks),
136–7
,
149
,
197
,
247
,
431

westward,
128–9
,
219
; by blacks,
149

Miles, Gen. Nelson,
239

military courts,
49
,
54

military personnel,
see
armed forces, American

milk, pasteurized,
108

Mill, John Stewart,
156
,
158

On Liberty
,
192

milling machines,
78–9
,
381

Millis, Walter,
422

mining,
78
,
86–7

Minor, Virginia,
204

Missionary Ridge (Tenn.), battle of,
12

Mississippi River,
80–1

Mitchell, John,
333
,
393

Mitchell, Maria,
81

“Molly Maguires,”
175
,
176

Moltke, Helmuth von,
407

monetary system:

currency issues: Civil War period,
18
; 1870s,
213–14
; 1890s,
228
; populists and (subtreasury plan),
187
,
188
,
189

Wilson and,
387–8

“money trust,”
387
,
388
,
391
,
392

monopoly:

debated in 1912 campaign,
374–5
,
383

Lenin on,
409–10

Lloyd on,
166

resistance to,
see
antitrust movement

Wilson and,
389–91

see also
combinations, industrial

Monroe, Harriet,
315–16

Monroe Doctrine,
340
,
424

moral leadership,
41–2
,
274

see also
reform movement

Morgan, H. Wayne,
229

Morgan, John T.,
338
,
340

Morgan, J. Pierpont,
89
,
222
,
228

and Roosevelt (T.),
331–2
,
350

Wilson and,
418

Morgan, Thomas Hunt,
290

Morgan (J. P.) & Co.:

and “Black Thursday,”
542

Lenin on,
410

Roosevelt (T.) and,
350–1

speculation by,
541

Wilson and,
387

Morgenthau, Henry,
402
,
419

Morison, Elting,
343

Morley, Edward W.,
290

Morris, William,
167

Morrow, Dwight,
498

Morton, Levi P.,
89

motion pictures,
524–7

Mowry, George,
349
,
371

“Mugwumps,”
211

20th century,
357
,
359

Muir, John,
97

Mumford, Lewis,
254
,
312

Munsey, Frank A.,
160
,
520

Münsterberg, Hugo,
294

museums,
308–9

Muybridge, Eadweard,
309

Myers, George A.,
206

NAACP,
285

Nagel, Charles,
358

Nast, Thomas,
267

Nathan, George Jean,
315

Nation, Carrie,
279

Nation, The
(periodical),
69–70

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
285

National Association of Manufacturers (NAM),
548–9

National Bank Act (1863),
18

National Board of Arbitration,
233

National Broadcasting Company,
523

National Civic Federation,
282

National Colored Immigration and Commercial Association,
288

National Consumers League,
281

National Farmers’ Alliance and Cooperative Union,
183–4

in Midwest,
184–7
passim

in South,
187–90
passim

National Labor Reform party,
175

National Labor Union (NLU),
175

National Progressive Republican League,
361

National Reform Press Association,
189

National Union Convention (1866),
50

National Woman’s Party,
534

National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA),
61
,
209
,
445
,
446

National Women’s Trade Union League (NWTUL),
281

Native Americans,
see
Indians

natural selection,
157

economic interpretation of,
158–9

see also
Darwinism, Social

Navy, U.S.,
222–3

in Spanish-American War,
238
,
239

Washington Conference (1921) and,
493–5

world tour by (1907–08),
344

and World War I,
411

NAWSA,
61
,
209
,
445
,
446

Nevins, Allan,
14
,
15
,
25
,
92

New Democracy, The
(Weyl),
393

New England,
167–70

see also
Boston

New Historians,
297–302

Newman, Samuel Phillips,
155

New Republic
(periodical),
394–5

newspapers,
518–20

of minority groups,
522

New York City:

blacks in,
148

buildings in,
251
,
252

Central Park,
254

as financial capital,
88
,
117
,
248

fire companies in,
266

Greenwich Village,
306–8

intellectual life of,
291–2
,
306–8

Jews in,
145–7
,
255–7

Tammany Hall organization in,
263–4
,
266–7

upper classes in,
117–19

working-class conditions in,
137–40

Nicaragua,
403
,
418
,
498

Nicholas II, Czar,
408

Nicolson, Sir Harold,
451
,
456

nitroglycerine,
77

Nivelle, Robert,
426

Noble Order of the Knights of Labor,
176–8
,
551–2

Norris, Frank,
171–2
,
306

Norris, George,
372
,
422
,
425
,
501

Norris, Kathleen,
289

Northern Securities Company,
331–2
,
335

O’Gorman, James A.,
388–9

O’Hare, Kate Richards,
398

Ohio,
195–6

blacks in,
197

cities of,
196–7

industries of,
196–7

political “dynasty” from,
195–200

Olmsted, Frederick Law,
26
,
254

Oppenheim, James,
314

Orient,
221
,
495

see also
China; Japan: Korea; Philippines

Orlando, Vittorio,
450
,
451

Osbom, Henry Fairfield,
290

Osier, William,
108

Others
(periodical),
315

Otis. Gen. Elwell,
241

Otis Elevator Company,
108
,
251

Otken, Charles,
135

Overman, Lee,
427

Owen, Robert,
173

Owen-Class Act (1913),
387

Packers and Stockyards Act (1921),
490

padroni
,
257–8

Palace Car Company, boycott of,
227

Palmer, A. Mitchell,
469
,
473

Panama,
338
,
339
,
339–40
,
343

Panama Canal,
222
,
337–40
,
343

Pan-Americanism,
221

panics, economic,
74–5
,
542

see also
banks and banking: crises/failures of

Parker, Alton B.,
334
,
413

parks and green areas, urban,
254

Partington, Vernon,
168
,
192
,
507

party bosses,
263–7

and reformers,
266
,
267
,
268

party system,
205–6
,
499

see also
third parties, political; and specific political parties

patents,
74
,
91

Paterson Strike Pageant (1913),
323–4

Patrons of Husbandry (“Grangers”),
209

Patton, Gen. George,
433
,
436

Paul, Alice,
445

Peabody, Elizabeth,
168

Peace Democrats (“Copperheads”),
8
,
33

peace movement (1920s),
493–6

Peace Ship (sent by Ford, 1915),
480
,
483

Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil,
109
,
110

Peffer, William,
186

Peirce, Charles,
292
,
294

Pemberton, Gen. John,
9–10

Pennsylvania Railroad,
103
,
104

People’s Party (populists),
184–91
,
224

and election of 1896,
231–2

in Georgia,
187–8

internal crisis of (1890s),
228

of Kansas,
184–7

in South,
187–90

in Texas,
189

women in,
185–6

Pepper, George Wharton,
116

Perkins, George,
331
,
375

Perry, Arthur Latham,
155

Pershing, Gen. John Joseph,
239
,
406
,
432
,
433
,
436–7

Pétain, Gen. Henri,
427

Petersburg (Va.), siege of,
14
,
29

Phelan, James,
260

Phelps, William Lyon,
159