New York Times Book Review, 3.1
New York Times Magazine, 5.1, 5.2
New York World’s Fair (1939)
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story (Moore), 3.1
Nilsson, Lennart, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, nts.1n
Nixon, Richard, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
Noll, Henry
Nordic race, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Nordstrom, Ursula, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Nuremberg trials, 5.1, 9.1, nts.1n
Obama, Michelle, 2.1, 2.2
Obama administration
obscenity laws, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1
Sanger and, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
sexual explicitness vs.
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), 3.1
old age
debilities of, 4.1, 8.1
as disease
increased longevity in, 8.1, 8.2
productivity and retirement in
as senescence, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, nts.1n
as stage of life, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
wisdom of, 8.1, 8.2
“Old Age” (Hall)
Old Man’s Honour, The (Mather), 8.1
Onania (Weems), 4.1
“Once More to the Lake” (White)
On the Generation of Animals (Aristotle), 1.1
On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow! (Madaras), 4.1
organ transplants, 9.1, 10.1
orgasms, 1.1, 4.1
women’s inadequate
O’Rights, William Constitution “Bill,” 187–8
Origin of Species, The (Darwin), 1.1
ovaries, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1
ovulation, 1.1, 5.1
pachisi board game, xvii
Palin, Sarah, 2.1, 9.1
Paradise Lost (Milton), itr.1
Paradise of Childhood, The (Bradley), itr.1, 3.1
“Paranoid Style in American Politics, The” (Hofstadter), 9.1, nts.1n
parenthood, parenting, prf.1, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1
by amateurs
demographic change and
by fathers, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
manuals for, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
playing board games in, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4
of poor vs. wealthy parents, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9
quality time in
as stage of life, 7.1, 7.2
see also contraception
Parents Magazine, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
conquest-of-disease stories in
editorial policy of, 7.1, 7.2
editor of, see Littledale, Clara Savage
fathers addressed by, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
parental anxieties fed by
products advertised in, 7.1, 7.2
science reporting in
success of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Park and Shop board game, xvi
Parker, Dorothy
Parker-Pope, Tara
parrot fever (psittacosis), 7.1, 10.1
Passing of the Great Race, The (Grant), 5.1, 5.2
Pasteur, Louis
Patent Office, U.S., itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Paul, Alice
Paul VI, Pope, 7.1, 9.1
Pelosi, Nancy
“Penultimate Trump, The” (Ettinger), 10.1, 10.2
Percy, George
Perry v. Schwarzenegger, 5.1
personhood amendments
pessaries, 7.1, 7.2
Phillips, Kevin
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 3.1, 8.1
Pill (oral contraceptive), 1.1, 4.1, 5.1
Pincus, Gregory, 1.1, 1.2
Piper, Leonora, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
piss prophecy
Pius XII, Pope
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 7.1, 7.2
funding of, 7.1, 7.2
National Negro Advisory Committee of
Plato
Plessy v. Ferguson, 5.1
Poe, Edgar Allan, 10.1, 10.2
Pohl, Frederik
Poor Richard’s Almanac (Franklin), itr.1
Popenoe, David
Popenoe, Paul, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
background of
birth control opposed by, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2
books by, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
“Can This Marriage Be Saved?” column of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
computer dating launched by
death of
forced sterilization advocated by, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
as marriage counselor, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
marriage of
Nazi Germany defended by
see also eugenics movement
Popp, Adelheid, 7.1, 7.2
population control
Porzio, Ralph, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Possibility of Not Dying, The (Kirk), 8.1
Pratt Institute
prenatal development, prf.1, 1.1
conception in, 1.1, 1.2
ectogenetic, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 10.1
embryos in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 9.1, 10.1
fetuses in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8
in science fiction, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
as stage of life
see also generation, secrets of; Nilsson, Lennart
Primer on Scientific Management (Gilbreth), 6.1, 6.2
Principles of Psychology (James), 8.1
Principles of Scientific Management, The (Taylor), 6.1, 6.2
progress, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1
Progress and Poverty (George), itr.1
Progressivism, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
pro-life movement, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Prospect of Immortality, The (Ettinger), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Pruette, Lorine, nts.1n, nts.2n, nts.3n, nts.4n
Psalms
psychical research, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Psychology of Management, The
(L. Gilbreth), 6.1
Pulitzer, Joseph, 7.1, 7.2
Puritans, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 8.1
“Purple Death, The” (Barnette),
Quayle, Dan
Quinlan, Julia and Joseph, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Quinlan, Karen Ann
condition of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
court-appointed guardian of, 9.1, 9.2
court decisions on
eventual death of
life-support machines hooked to, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, nts.1n
Nuremberg trials and, , nts.1n
press coverage of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, nts.1n–6n
significance of
trial of
see also right to die
Race Betterment Foundation
racial theories, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 7.1, 8.1
railroads
efficiency of, 6.1, 6.2, nts.1n
Ramthun, Roy
Read, Mary L.
Reader’s Digest, 7.1, 7.2
Ready, Set, Grow! (Madaras), 4.1
Reagan, Ronald
Reed, James
refrigerators
Republic, The (Plato), itr.1
resurrection, itr.1, 9.1; see also cryonics
Retzsch, Moritz
“Revised Catechism, The” (Twain)
Rice, Thurman B.
right to die, prf.1, 9.1
of deformed newborn infants, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2
life-support machines vs.
and paranoid political style
in political history, 9.1, 9.2
see also Quinlan, Karen Ann
right-to-die movement, 9.1, nts.1n–8n
right to life, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
right to privacy, 9.1, 9.2
right to property, 9.1, 9.2, nts.1n
right to refuse medical treatment, 9.1, 9.2
Rock, John
Roe v. Wade, 1.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Theodore, 7.1, 8.1
Ross, Dorothy, 8.1, 8.2, nts.1n
Ross, Harold, 3.1, 7.1
Luce’s battle with, 3.1, 3.2
Stuart Little and, 3.1
Roth, Philip
Rothman, David
Roth v. United States, 4.1
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Royal College of Physicians
Royal Game of Goose board game
Royal Society
Rush, Benjamin
Rush University Medical Center,
Sa’id Pasha
Sagan, Carl
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Salinger, J. D.
sanctity of life, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, nts.1n–9n
Sandburg, Carl
Sanger, Margaret, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
background of
birth control clinics opened by, 7.1, 7.2
death of
obscenity laws violated by, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
poor women counseled by, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Saxton, Eugene, 3.1, 3.2
Sayers, Frances Clarke, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Schiebinger, Londa
Schlafly, Phyllis
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Schwartz, Pepper
science fiction, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
films, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1
immortality in, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, nts.1n
science journalism
conquest-of-disease stories in
Science Service, 7.1, nts.1n
scientific management
of arsenal molders, 6.1, 6.2
of coal shoveling
exhaustion produced by, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
at Ford Motor Company
as gospel of efficiency
House investigation of
of housekeeping
IQ and
of ironworkers, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
labor unions’ resistance to, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
motion study in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
naming of, 6.1, 6.2
of railroads, 6.1, 6.2, nts.1n
task timing in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
therbligs in, 6.1, 6.2
work-to-rest ratio in, 6.1, 6.2
see also Brandeis, Louis; Gilbreth, Frank; Gilbreth, Lillian; Taylor, Frederick Winslow
Scott, William R.
Scripps, E. W., 7.1, nts.1n
Second Great Awakening, 4.1, 7.1
Second Life virtual world, itr.1
segregation, racial
Selchow & Righter, xvii
semen
ejaculation of, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
nocturnal emissions of, 4.1, 4.2
Senescence: The Last Half of Life (G. S. Hall), 8.1, 10.1
“Sentinel, The” (Clarke)
Servatius, Robert
Sex, Puberty, and All That Stuff (Bailey), 4.1
sex education, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1
battle over
children’s literature for, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8
curiosity satisfied by, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
explicit, obscenity laws and
homosexuality in, 4.1, 4.2
Progressive-era, 4.1, 4.2
in public schools, 4.1, 4.2
stork myth and, 4.1, 4.2
see also Graham, Sylvester
sexual abstinence, 4.1, 7.1
sexual intercourse, 1.1, 4.1
benefits of, 4.1, 4.2
marital, 4.1, 5.1
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
Sexual Knowledge (Hall), 4.1
Shakespeare, William, 4.1, 10.1
Shop Management (Taylor), 6.1
“Skeptic, The” (Ettinger)
Sleeper, 10.1
Slosson, Edwin E., 7.1, nts.1n
Smith, John
Snakes and Ladders board game, xvii
social Darwinism, 5.1, nts.1n
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Locke), 3.1
space age, prf.1, prf.2, 1.1
Spencer, Herbert, 5.1, 5.2
sperm, 1.1, 4.1
as animalcules
Spilsbury, Louise
“Spirit of Life Entering into the Spiritually Dead, The” (Mather)
Stanford-Binet intelligence test, 5.1, 5.2
Staton, Mick
Stearns, Lutie
Stein, Gertrude
Steinach, Eugen, 10.1, 10.2
Steinbeck, John
“Step Nurse” (Linnaeus)
sterilization, forced, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
Sterilization for Human Betterment (Popenoe and Gosney), 5.1
St. Nicholas, 3.1
stork myth, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2
“black stork” in
“Storks, The” (Andersen)
Stuart Little (White), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
alternate ending written for, 3.1, nts.1n
content of
dream origin of
final lines of
illustrations of
Moore’s opposition to, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Newbery Medal denied to
publication of, 3.1, 7.1
reviews of, 3.1, 3.2
sex education and
success of, 3.1, 3.2
title character’s advent in, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
“Sublimation” (Littledale)
Subtreasury of American Humor, The (White and White), 3.1, 3.2, nts.1n
suggestion box
Supreme Court, U.S., 7.1, 9.1, 9.2
Brandeis on
forced sterilization laws endorsed by, 5.1, 5.2
Roe v. Wade ruling of, 1.1, 4.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Systema Naturae (Linnaeus), 2.1
Taft, Mel
Talbot, Fritz
taxonomy, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
books of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
death of
fees charged by, 6.1, 6.2
at House Committee investigation
memorial service of, 6.1, 6.2
methods of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7
tombstone epitaph of, 6.1, nts.1n
see also scientific management
Ten Talks Parents Must Have with Their Children About Sex and Character (Schwartz and Cappello), 4.1
Terman, Lewis M., 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, nts.1n
Thoreau, Henry David, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3
“Thousand Deaths, A” (London)
Thurber, James, 3.1, 4.1, nts.1n
Tilden, Samuel, 3.1, 3.2
Time, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, nts.1n
Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S.
Trans Time, 10.1, 10.2
Trapasso, Thomas, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, nts.1n
Travels of Babar (de Brunhoff), 3.1
Treatise on Domestic Economy, A (Beecher), 6.1
Truman, Harry
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Twain, Mark
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1
undulant fever
United Nations, 2.1, 9.1
U.S.A. v. Karl Brandt et al., 9.1
U.S. v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries, 7.1
Utopia (More), xviii
vaccines
venereal diseases, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1
Verducci, Tom
Victorian era, itr.1, itr.2, 3.1, 8.1
Viguerie, Richard
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft), 2.1
Virgil
Voltaire
von Baer, Karl,
Wallace, DeWitt
Wallis, John, itr.1, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1
War in Cartoons, The (Hecht), 7.1
Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (Kingsley), 1.1
Watertown Arsenal strike (1912), 6.1, 6.2
Weems, Parson
Weil, Elizabeth
Wells, H. G., 10.1, 10.2
Welty, Eudora
wet nurses, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Weyrich, Paul
“What Can We
Do About Marriage?” (Littledale)
“What Every Girl Should Know” (Sanger), 7.1, 7.2
What’s Going on Down There? Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask (Gravelle), 4.1
What’s Happening to Me? (Mayle), 4.1
When the Sleeper Wakes (Wells), 10.1, 10.2
Where Did I Come From? (Mayle), 4.1
White, E. B., 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1
“Birth of an Adult” lampoon written by
Moore’s correspondence with, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, nts.1n–20n
at New York World’s Fair
see also Stuart Little
White, Joel
White, Katharine Angell, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1
children’s literature reviewed by, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
Whitney, Eli
“Why Old Age Ends in Death” (Nascher)
Will, George
Williams, Garth
Williams, Ted, 10.1, 10.2
Wilson, Edmund, 3.1, nts.1n
Wilson, William Bauchop
Window into an Egg: Seeing Life Begin (Flanagan), 4.1
“Winter Walk, A” (White)
Winthrop, John
withdrawal, contraceptive
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, The (La Leche League), 2.1
Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology
Worcester Telegram, 8.1, 8.2
workplace, prf.1, 4.1, 4.2
breast-feeding and, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
maternity leave from, 2.1, 2.2
see also scientific management
World Is Round, The (Stein), 3.1
Worlds of Tomorrow, 10.1
World War I, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
World War II, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
Wynne, Shirley
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include The Whites of Their Eyes; New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ALSO BY JILL LEPORE
· NONFICTION ·
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution
and the Battle over American History
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy
in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters
in the Newly United States
The Name of War: King Philip’s War
and the Origins of American Identity
· FICTION ·
Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile
and a Lady in Disguise (with Jane Kamensky)