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1850–1915 (1973). My thanks to all of these authors—and to many others whose works appear in the endnotes—for creating so many fine ingredients.
    My greatest debt is to my wife, Sarah Skillin Woodard, who shared in this project’s many stresses while in graduate school and, much of the time, pregnant. As fate would have it, American Nations and our first child wound up being due at the same time, and Sarah continued editing the manuscript and offering me active support and assistance at a time when these roles should have been reversed. Thank you, my love; you know this would never have been finished without your many contributions and sacrifices. Our son, Henry, who ultimately beat this book into the world, has been a joy and inspiration, even if his editorial advice is sometimes difficult to interpret.
    My friend and journalistic colleague Samuel Loewenberg—who splits his time between Berlin, Geneva, and the relief camps of Africa—took the time to read sections of American Nations and offered invaluable advice at a time when it was needed; thanks much, Sam, I owe you yet another one. My agent, Jill Grinberg, not only continued to provide me with stellar representation, but at a critical juncture, provided assistance that went far beyond the call of duty; no author could ask for a better person in his corner. At Viking, I am grateful to my editor, Rick Kot, for his support and sound advice on both this book and The Lobster Coast . Thanks also to designers Paul Buckley at Viking and Oliver Munday in Washington, D.C. (for the cover); to Viking’s Francesca Belanger (for designing the book itself); to Sean Wilkinson of Portland, Maine (for creating the maps and patiently revising them); and to copy editor Cathy Dexter (wherever you are).
    And thanks to you, the reader, for taking this journey with me. If you enjoyed the trip, do tell your friends.
    April 2011
Portland, Maine

INDEX
    Page numbers in Italics refer to maps.

    Acadia
    Act of Abjuration (1581)
    Adams, Charles Francis Jr.
    Adams, John
    Adams, John Quincy
    Adams, Samuel
    African Americans:
    and civil rights
    free blacks
    and Reconstruction
    and slavery, see slavery
    in the South, see Deep South; Dixie
    and voting rights
    and World War I
    Alabama:
    Borderlanders in
    and Civil War
    and Deep South
    and westward expansion
    Alamo, Battle of
    Alaska
    Alberta
    Alcorn, James
    Alexander VI, Pope
    Algonquin people
    Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
    American Creed
    American Dream
    American Exceptionalism
    American Revolution
    British surrender
    and Canada
    Continental Army/militias in
    and Continental Congress
    and Deep South
    and English control
    and Greater Appalachia
    and Midlands
    and Native Americans
    and New Netherland
    separate wars in
    and Seven Years’ War
    and Tidewater
    and Yankeedom
    Amherst, Baron Jeffrey
    Amish
    Anaconda Copper
    Andros, Sir Edmund
    Anheuser, Eberhard
    Anthony, Susan B.
    Anti-Imperialist League
    Anti-Saloon League
    Appalachia, see Greater Appalachia
    Appalachian Mountains
    Arizona:
    and El Norte
    and Far West
    and Spanish culture
    U.S. acquisition of
    Arkansas:
    Anti-evolutionary views in
    and Civil War
    and Deep South
    and education
    and El Norte
    and Greater Appalachia
    Armey, Dick
    Ãrpád, king of Hungary
    Articles of Confederation
    Austin, Moses
    Austin, Stephen
    Aztecs

    Baltimore, Cecilius Calvert, Lord
    Bankruptcy Act (1800)
    Barbados, slavery in
    Barrasso, John
    Barton, Joe
    Barton, Roger
    Beck, Glenn
    Beecher, Lyman
    Bell, John
    Bennett, Robert
    Bensel, Richard Franklin
    Berkeley, Sir William
    Berlin, Ira
    Bible, allegorical vs. literal interpretation
    Bill of Rights
    Birney, James G.
    Bishop, Bill
    Blackwell, John
    Blue Nations
    Boone, Daniel
    Borah, William
    Borderlanders:
    clans of
    combative culture of
    and Continental Congress
    and Greater Appalachia; see also Greater Appalachia
    influence of
    in Pennsylvania
    public stories about
    and religion
    and Revolution
    taking law into their own hands
    and