Conspiracy theories in American history : an encyclopedia

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Foreword / David Brion Davis

Preface / Peter Knight

Contributors

Conspiracy Theories in America: A Historical Overview / Robert Alan Goldberg

Making Sense of Conspiracy Theories / Peter Knight

Abolitionism

Abortion

African Americans

Agent Orange

AIDS

Alien and Sedition Acts

American Indian Movement

American Protective Association

American Revolution

Anarchists

Anti-Catholicism

Anticommunism

Anti-Federalists

Anti-Masonic Party

Anti-Rent War

Antisemitism

Apocalypticism

Area 51

Arnold, Benedict

Aryan Nations

Asian Americans

Atomic Secrets

Aurora

B-25 Ghost Bomber

Bacon's Rebellion

Banco Nazionale del Lavoro

Bank of Credit and Commerce International

Bank of England

Bank of the United States

Bank War

Barruel, Abbé

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Beam, Louis

Bell, Art

Berg, Alan

Biddle, Nicholas

Bilderbergers

Black Helicopters

Black Panthers

Booth, John Wilkes

Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party

British Royal Family

Brown, John

Brown Scare

Brussell, Mae

Bryan, William Jennings

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

Burr, Aaron

Burroughs, William S

Bush, George

Cambodia, Secret Bombing of

Castro, Fidel

Cattle Mutilations

Central Intelligence Agency

Chambers, Whittaker

Chappaquiddick

Chicago 7

Christian Identity

Christian Science

Church of the SubGenius

Civil Rights Movement

Clan of the Mystic Confederacy

Clinton, Bill and Hillary

Clinton Body Count

Cocaine

Coercive Acts

cointelpro

Cold War

Constitution, U.S

Contrails

Conway Cabal, The

Copperheads

Corporations

Coughlin, Father Charles

Council on Foreign Relations

Covert Action Quarterly

Crédit Mobilier Scandal

Cronenberg, David

Cuban Missile Crisis

DeLillo, Don

Democratic-Republican Societies

Dick, Philip K

Disunion, Fears of

Dollar Bill

Domestic Terrorism

Dominion Theology

Donnelly, Ignatius

Dorr War, The

Drugs

Encryption

Eugenics

Executive Intelligence Review

Farrakhan, Louis

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Reserve System

Film and Conspiracy Theory

Fluoridation

Ford, Henry

Foster, Vince

Freemasonry

Freemen

Fugitive Slave Act

Genet, Citizen Edmond Charles

German Americans and World War I

Ghost Dance Religion

Gold Standard

Green Corn Rebellion, The

Gulf War Syndrome

Hackers

Hamilton, Alexander

Harding, Warren G

Hartford Convention

Hawaii, Attempted U.S. Takeover of

Haymarket Bombing

Health Scares

Hearst, William Randolph

Hiss, Alger

Hoffa, Jimmy

Hollywood Ten

Holocaust, Denial of

Hoover, J. Edgar

House Un-American Activities Committee

Hughes, Howard

Hutchinson, Anne

Identification Cards

Illuminati

Illuminatus! Trilogy, The

Income Tax and the Internal Revenue Service

Industrial Workers of the World

Internet

Iran-Contra

Irish Republican Army

Iron Heel, The

Jackson, Andrew

Japanese Americans

Jefferson, Thomas

Jesuits

Jewish Defense League

John Birch Society

Johnson, Lyndon Baines

Jonestown

KAL 007

Kennedy, John F., Assassination of

Kennedy, Robert F., Assassination of

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Assassination of

Kissinger, Henry

Know-Nothings

Koch Brothers

Ku Klux Klan

LaRouche, Lyndon

Leisler's Rebellion

Lennon, John, Shooting of

Lewis, Meriwether

Libertarianism

Liberty Lobby

Liddy, G. Gordon

Lincoln, Abraham, Assassination of

Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping

Lindsey, Hal

Long, Huey

LSD

Lusitania, Sinking of

Mafia

Mailer, Norman

Malcolm X, Assassination of

Manchurian Candidate, The

Manson, Charles

McCarthy, Joseph

Mexican-American War

Microsoft

Militias

Millenarianism

Millerites

Mind Control

MJ-12

mk-ultra

Molly Maguires, The

Monk, Maria

Monroe, Marilyn

Moon Landings

Moonies

Morgan, John Pierpont

Morgan, William

Mormonism

Morse, Jedidiah

MOVE

Muhammad, Elijah

Nation of Islam

National Rifle Association

National Security Agency

Native Americans

Nativism

Neo-Nazis

New World Order

Newburgh Conspiracy

Nixon, Richard

Nuclear Freeze Movement

Nullification

October Surprise

Octopus

Oil Industry

Oklahoma City Bombing

Onassis, Aristotle

One-World Government

Operation Paperclip

Opinion Polls about Conspiracy Theories

Oswald, Lee Harvey

Pakula, Alan J

Pan Am 103

Panama Canal

Paranoia

Patriarchy

Pearl Harbor

Pentagon Papers

Philadelphia Experiment

Pierce, William L

Pontiac, Chief

Populism

Posse Comitatus

Pound, Ezra

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Puritans

Pynchon, Thomas

Quebec Act

Rap

Reagan, Ronald, Attempted Assassination of

Red Scare

Red Summer of 1919

Regulator Movement

Report from Iron Mountain

RICO

Robertson, Pat

Robison, John

Rockefeller Family

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Roswell

Ruby, Jack

Ruby Ridge

Sacco and Vanzetti

Salem Witch Trials

San Francisco Vigilance Committee

Satanic Ritual Abuse

Savings and Loan Crisis

Scaife, Richard Mellon

Scientology

Secular Humanism

September 11

Seventh Day Adventists

Shakur, Tupac

Shays' Rebellion

Silver Shirts

Skolnick, Sherman

Skull and Bones Society

Slave Power

Slave Revolts

Smith, Gerald L.K

Society of the Cincinnati

Spotlight

Stamp Act

Steamshovel Press

Stock Market Crash of 1929

Stone, Oliver

Stono Rebellion

Students for a Democratic Society

Subliminal Advertising

Survivalism

Tobacco Industry

Toledo War

Tonkin Gulf Incidents

Torbitt Document

Trilateral Commission

Trusts

Turner, Nat

TWA 800

UFOs

Unabomber, The

United Nations, The

Universal Price Codes

USS Maine

Venona

Vesey, Denmark

Waco

Walker, William

Wall Street

Warren Commission Report

Watergate

Weathermen

Whiskey Rebellion

White Slave Trade

Whitewater

Witchcraft

X-Files, The

XYZ Affair

Y2K

Yalta Conference

Yellow Journalism

Yippies

Zenger, John Peter

Zimmermann Telegram

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