Trachtenberg, Marvin, 186
Transcontinental Railroad, 119
Trinity Church, New York City, 73–74, 75, 76, 85
Tubman, Harriet, 4, 134, 135, 136–38
biography of, 137
“Moses” as alias of, 135, 137
Tubman, John, 134
Twain, Mark, 159
Uncle Sam, 197–99, 198
Underground Railroad, 4, 31, 115–16, 132–34, 138, 139
and Exodus, 124, 128, 134, 136, 151–52
Moses as metaphor for, 107
and North Star as navigation aid, 134
and Ohio River, 106–9, 119
and spirituals, 107, 120–21, 123, 130, 136
Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 127
United States:
and discipline of freedom, 97
and exceptionalism, 33, 301
Great Seal of, 4, 36, 63–69, 64, 85, 202, 213, 239, 296
and manifest destiny, 148
pluralism in, 203
presidency of, 277–78, 281–83
religion in, 79, 144–46, 153, 160–62, 164–65, 167–68, 237, 276–77, 285–86
Supreme Court cases in, 243, 245, 284–87
Vesey, Denmark, 125
Villanova University, 46
Virginia:
Jamestown colony in, 8
slavery in, 110
Vitagraph Company, 213
Voltaire, 61
Voting Rights Act (1965), 256
Wallace, George, 249
Walzer, Michael, 95–98, 134, 300, 307
Exodus and Revolution, 96
War of Independence, see American Revolution
Warwick, Charles, 51
Washington, George, 4, 19, 49
and American Revolution, 52, 58, 75
and biblical quotations, 82–84, 160
death of, 99, 100, 101–5, 172
inauguration of, 73, 76–80, 78, 82–83, 85, 199, 241, 282, 293
leadership of, 75, 76
as Mason, 76, 86, 90, 101
memorials to, 101–5, 171, 173, 266, 274
as Moses, 33, 58, 59, 74, 76, 85, 102–4, 199, 266, 282, 296
portraits of, 279, 282
as president, 63, 69, 75–76, 84
and religion, 79
retirement of, 98
slaves held by, 99
Washington, Martha, 99
Washington Bible, 80–85
Washington Monument, 81
Washington’s Birthday, 46
water, 205–7
Watson, John, 18
Wayne, John, 208
Weinstein, Rabbi Simcha, 222–23, 224–26
West, Rev. Samuel, 61
Westmoreland, Carl, 127–28, 130–32, 139
White, Theodore, The Making of the President, 277
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 44, 45, 85
Whitefield, George, 4, 38, 39, 54, 62, 134, 165
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 193
Wilcoxon, Henry, 226
Wildavsky, Aaron, Moses as Political Leader, 282
Wills, David, 158
Wilson, “Uncle” Samuel, 198
Wilson, Woodrow, 4, 220
Wise, Rabbi Isaac Mayer, 199
Wood, Gordon, 88, 144
Wood, Natalie, 215
World, 181
World Trade Center, New York, 81–82
Yale University, 95
Yom Kippur, 203–4
Youkilis, Kevin, 287
Young, Andrew, 6, 253–57, 260, 271
An Easy Burden, 254
lessons from King, 264–65, 267–69
Zipporah, 14
Zukor, Adolph, 227
About the Author
BRUCE FEILER is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, and Where God Was Born, as well as the host of the documentary series Walking the Bible on PBS. An award-winning author, journalist, and speaker, Feiler is a graduate of Yale and Cambridge universities. He is a frequent contributor to NPR, CNN, and Fox News. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and twin daughters.
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