Prescott, William H., 120

Proust, Marcel, 23

Pulitzer, Joseph, 64

Rhodes, James Ford, 121

Riis, Jacob, 238

Riley, James Whitcomb, 260

“Rochester Knockings,”, 140–141, 157

Rockefeller, John D., 232

Rohrbach, Augusta, 244

Roosevelt, Theodore, 18

Rosenfield, Morris, 278

Said, Edward, 26, 165

Savage, Kirk, 208, 213, 230, 287n3

Schock, George, 261

Schouler, James, 121

Schudson, Michael, 51

Scott, Sir Walter, 121, 128, 160, 193, 206

Shi, David, 89, 193

“social Darwinism,”, 131, 233

Spanish-American War, 59–62, 65–67, 76

Sparks, Jared, 120

spiritualist movement, 157–168, 178, 184

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 238

Storrs, Richard (Rev.), 232

Sumner, William Graham, 233

Sundahl, Daniel, 126–127

Sundquist, Eric, 20, 25, 47, 262

Susman, Warren, 119–120

Terdiman, Richard, 3, 118, 125, 135–136, 142, 144

Tolstoy, Leo, 1, 119, 163, 200, 216

Tourgee, Albion, 215

Trachtenberg, Alan, 76, 236, 241

transcendentalism, 191

Trites, William, 261

Turner, Bryan, 246

Turner, Fredric Jackson, 33

Twain, Mark, 58, 82, 85–88, 92, 119, 160, 237, 260, 262

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 232–233

Veblen, Thorstien, 172

Von Holst, Hermann, 121

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 211–213, 215–216, 228

Warner, Charles Dudley, 238

Washington, George, 152–153, 251

Weinstock, Jeffery, 169

Wendell, Barrett, 260–261, 284

White, Hayden, 123–125, 137

Whitlock, Brant, 261

Williams, Raymond, 56

Wonham, Henry, 19

World’s Fair (1876), 251

World’s Fair (1893), 75

Wyatt, Edith, 261

Zamora, Lois-Parkinson, 158, 168–169

Zangwill, Israel, 278

Zitkala-Sa, 260

Zola, Emile, 239