A Club, 36–38
Abbott, Grace, 88
Academy Delecluse, 17
Addams, Jane, 77, 88, 92, 122, 148, 182, 268
Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 262, 266
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 162–163, 167–169, 264
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 162, 171–172, 202, 243, 268
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 52, 54–55, 155, 165–167, 230, 264, 266, 273, 292, 293–294
American Fund for Public Service, 197, 202
American Relief Administration (ARA), 129–130, 138, 139, 140, 141, 144, 148–149, 178
American Union Against Militarism, 88
Ames, Elizabeth, 248–249
Amherst, Mass., 3–5, 20, 25–26, 27, 36
Anastasia, Anthony, 313
Anderson, Mary, 261
Anderson, Sherwood, 215, 241, 252, 317
Andrews, Fannie Fern, 88
Andrews, Jeannette, 314
Art Students’ League, N.Y.C., 21, 22
Avrich, Paul, 84
Bachelor Girl, 23
Balabanoff, Angelika, 127
Baldwin, Roger, 148
Barry, Griffin, 135
Beach, Alice, 72
Beach, Holly and Sylvia, 131
Beal, Fred, 215–216, 218, 219, 220, 225, 226, 228, 237
Beals, Carleton, 234
Beard, Charles, 241
Beauchamp, Jack, 259, 291, 302
Becker, Maurice, 72
Bentley, Elizabeth, 180
Berkman, Alexander, 180
Bingham, Alfred, 254, 255, 302
Blankenhorn, Ann Craton. See Craton, Ann
Blankenhorn, Heber, 168, 260, 302
Bliven, Bruce, 290
Boyce, Neith, 75, 81, 82, 98–100, 102, 107; death of, 310
Boyd, Fred, 86–87
Boyden, Frederick (“Archie”), 311
Boyesen, Bayard, 86–87
Breckenridge, Sophonisba P., 88, 90
Brenner, Anita, 303
Brooks, Van Wyck, 62
Brophy, John, 270–271, 292, 293
Bruere, Martha, 37
Bryant, Louise, 106
Buch (Weisbord), Vera, 216, 218, 219–220, 221–222, 224–225, 237
Buffum, Emily and Vryling, 12
Buhle, Paul, 217
Bullard, Arthur, 37, 43, 77, 116
Bureau of Investigation, 70, 118, 171–172, 267. See also Federal Bureau of Investigation
Burt, Frederick, 107
Canfield, Dorothy, 105
Carlin, Terry, 107
Carter, Bertha, 37
Cather, Willa, 183
Catholic Worker movement, 235, 253
Chamberlin, William, 257
Chase, Stuart, 254
Chavez, César, 324
Cheever, John, 249
Coe, Fleeta Springer. See Springer, Fleeta
Colby, Frank Moore, 24
Commager, Henry Steele, 14
Committee of Industrial Organization (CIO), 283–284, 289–290, 292–295, 309–310; organization of, 266, 270–272; and steel workers, 285–287. See also Lewis, John L.; United Auto Workers
Committee on Public Information (CPI), 115–116, 122, 158
Communism, 147, 164, 253–254, 293, 303, 317, 322–323; and Gastonia, N.C., 216–217; and Josephine Herbst, 302–303; and 1919 steel strike, 155–156; and unemployed, 251–253. See also Vorse, Mary Heaton, and communism
Cook, George “Jig” Cram, 62, 75, 81–82, 83, 99–100, 107
Coolidge, A. C., 140, 141, 144
Corley, Don, 345n5
Cothren, Marion, 90–91, 108, 110
Cowley, Malcolm, 11, 244, 245, 246, 252, 317
Craton, Ann, 163–167, 260, 302, 306, 314, 323, 324
Creel, George, 116–117
Curran, Joe, 317
Darrow, Clarence, 73
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), 267
Dawson, Ellen, 216
DeCaux, Len, 270–271, 292, 293
Dell, Floyd, 62–63, 64, 72, 76, 81–82, 106, 118, 146, 262
Dennett, Mary Ware, 69
Dennett, Tyler, 114
de Vere Taylor, Kathleen, 68
Dewson, Mary W., 261
Dickinson, Emily, 4
Dodge (Luhan), Mabel, 63, 67, 70, 71, 81, 97–99, 106, 107, 234
Dos Passos, John, 135–136, 234, 236, 249, 254, 256, 273, 292, 303; and The Big Money, xi, 159–160, 185–186, 351n12; 368nn24, 25, and Chosen Country, xi, 159, 315–317, 319; and Gastonia, N.C., 225, 226; and Harlan County, Ky., 239–240, 241, 243
Draper, Theodore, 137, 214, 248
Dreiser, Theodore, 37, 63, 239, 241–242, 249
Dubinsky, David, 264, 270, 273, 293
Duncan, Winifred, 204
Eastman, Crystal, 69, 71, 88, 118
Eastman, Max, 65, 72–73, 82, 86, 106, 118, 146
Ecole des Beaux Arts, 18
Edel, Leon, xvii
Farmers’ Holiday Movement, 251
Farrell, Jim, 317
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 70, 118, 267, 269, 287, 302–303, 304–306, 367nn7, 8
Federated Press, 162, 168, 241, 243, 251, 260
Field, Eugene, 4
Filene, Peter, 15
Fine, Sidney, 279
Flint, Mich., sit-down strike (1937), 275–282, 292
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 68, 69, 70, 171, 174, 239, 265, 283, 322; and amnesty campaign, 182; and Carlo Tresca, 203–204; at Lawrence, Mass., textile strike, 55, 57–58; at Mesabi Range strike, 107–108, 110–111; at Passaic textile strike 196–197
Forbes, Beatrice, 68
Foster, William Z., 154, 160, 239, 248, 293
Frank, Waldo, 136, 244, 246, 247, 249, 250, 252
Free, Edward E., 346n16
Freeman, Joseph, 65, 66, 136, 238
Frey, John, 293–294
Gale, Zona, 68
Gastonia, N.C., textile strike (1929), 213–225, 227, 256; trial in, 226–228
General Federation of Women’s Clubs, 14
Gibson, Lydia, 174, 183–184, 235, 250, 354n6
Gilder, Richard Watson, 37
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 13, 68, 70
Gitlow, Benjamin, 201
Glackens, William, 37
Glaspell, Susan, 63, 64, 68, 75, 80–82, 83, 236; and Joe O’Brien, 100–101; and Provincetown Players, 99–100, 106–107; death of, 310
Gold, Michael, 237–238
Gompers, Samuel, 122, 158, 160
Gorky, Maxim, 37–38
Greenwich Village, N.Y.C., 28–29, 47, 62–74
Greenwood, Marion, 249
Gregory, T. T. C., 139–140, 143, 144–145, 149
Gutterson, Herbert L., 149
Hale, Robertson, 68
Halladay, Polly, 86
Hamilton, Alice, 88
Hapgood, Hutchins, 25, 26, 63–64, 66, 71, 75, 80–81, 83, 86–87, 98–100, 102; death of, 310
Hard, William, 158
Harding, Warren, 181–182
Harlan County, Ky., 60, 239–240, 241–248
Harn, Josie, 149, 170, 195, 208, 234; death of, 310
Harriman, Mrs. J. Borden, 48
Harrison, Constance Cary, 23
Hawthorne, Hazel, 236
Haywood, William (Big Bill), 55, 57–58, 59, 62, 70, 73, 107, 118, 215
Heaton, Ellen (mother), 5–9, 11–14, 20–21, 30, 47, 125; death of, 44
Heaton, Hiram (father), 5–6, 12–13, 20, 47
Hemingway, Ernest, 256, 274, 287–288
Herbst, Josephine, 249, 251, 265, 272–273, 307, 308, 314, 335n18; and FBI, 302–303, 366n3, 367n14; at Flint, Mich., sit-down strike, 280; and Ware group, 262–263
Herrmann, John, 251, 262–263, 272
Heterodoxy Club, 63, 66–72, 299, 342n10
Hickerson, Harold, 244
Hillman, Sidney, 164, 168–169, 264, 293, 309
Hinkle, Beatrice, 68
Hirsch, Charlotte Teller, 37
Hiss, Alger, 262–263, 317, 367n14
Hochman, Julius, 273
Hollingsworth, Leta, 68
Hook, Sidney, 249
Hoover, Herbert, 129–130, 138, 140, 144, 148, 151, 178
Hoover, J. Edgar, 148, 161–162, 269, 305–306
Hopkins, Alison Turnbull, 69
Hopkins, Harry, 265
Horthy, Miklos, 143
House, Edward, 145
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 268, 269, 284, 293–294, 317
Howe, Marie Jenney, 66, 67, 69, 70, 259
Howe, Quincy, 244
Howells, William Dean, 23, 37, 40
Hull, Helen, 68
Huneker, Clio, 24
Huneker, James, 21, 22, 24, 25, 29
Hutcheson, William, 266
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 118, 147, 166, 314, 318, 320; at Lawrence textile strike, 51, 54–55; at Mesabi Range strike, 109, 111
Interchurch World Movement, 155, 156, 158
International Council of Women, 15
International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), 264, 293
International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), 312–313
International Socialist Conference (1919), 126–128
International Woman Suffrage Alliance Meeting (1913), 76–79; and International Congress of Women (1915), 87–93, 127
Irwin, Inez Haynes Gillmore, 63, 68, 71, 72
Isserman, Maurice, 323
Jakobi, Paula, 69
James, Henry, 40
Jemison, Alice Lee, 268–269, 294
Jennison, Midge, 37
Johnson, Genora, 277–280
Johnson, Malcolm, 312
Jones, Ellis O., 72
Josephson, Matthew, 266
Kalinin, Mikhail, 177
Kazin, Alfred, 62
Kempton, Murray, xi, 312, 320; and Part of Our Time, 315, 317–319
Kraus, Dorothy, 280
Kun, Bela, 130, 140, 141, 142, 143, 148
La Follette, Fola, 68, 70, 71, 259
Labour Party (British), 121–123, 240
Langer, Elinor, 263
Langer, Lawrence, 72
Lansbury, George, 127–128
Larkin, Margaret (Maltz), 229, 309, 324
Lawrence, Mass., textile strike (1912), 51–61
League of American Writers, 273, 286
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 140, 146, 172, 176, 178, 179
Lewis, John L., 264, 266, 270–271, 283, 293, 294–295, 302
Lewis, Kathryn, 302
Lewis, Sinclair, 75, 230, 238, 256, 292
Liberal Club, 36, 63, 64, 71–72
Lieder, Benjamin, 244
Lippmann, Walter, 322
Little Steel Strike (1937), 284–286, 290
Lohse, Dora, 165–166
Lovett, Robert Morse, 252
Lowell, Amy, 69
Lyons, Eugene, 257
MacArthur, Mary, 122–123
MacCameron, Robert, 19
McCarthy, Mary, 303
Marvin, Sidney (stepbrother), 9–10
Masses, the, 62–63, 64, 72–74, 118, 314
Matson, Norman, 192–193, 204, 236
Melvin, Sophie (Gerson), 225
Mesabi Range, Minn., mining strike (1916), 107–114
Milburn, George, 249
Milholland, Inez, 69
Minor, Robert, xiv, 135–138, 145–147, 161, 170–177, 181, 190–191, 195, 201, 235, 248, 349nn18, 19; and The Big Money, 159, 186; and Chosen Country, 315–316; and Emma Goldman, 180; and Lydia Gibson, 174, 183–184; and Part of Our Time, 319; death of, 310
Montgomery, David, 58
Murray, Phillip, 293, 310, 317, 318
Muste, A. J., 264
National American Woman Suffrage Association, 14
National Hunger March, 251–253
National Recovery Administration (NRA), 260–261
National Textile Workers Union, 216, 229
National Woman’s Party, 69
New York (City) Milk Committee, 48–49
New York City Woman Suffrage Party, 88
Nordfeldt, Bror, 39
Norris, Kathleen, 105
Norton, Mary T., 261
O’Brien, Joe (husband), 61, 74–76, 80–81, 82–85, 87, 97–102, 107, 125, 137; at Lawrence textile strike, 56–57, 59; death of, 100–101
O’Brien, Joel (son), 84–85, 105, 106, 114, 234, 236, 253, 260, 302, 306, 308, 312
O’Carroll, Joe, 86
O’Connor, Harvey and Jessie, 243, 260
O’Hare, Kate Richards, 182
O’Neill, Eugene, 107, 235, 314
O’Neill, Rose, 37
Parsons, Elsie Clews, 68
Passaic, N.J., textile strike (1926), 196–203
Pearson, Drew, 131
Perkins, Frances, 37, 100, 106, 260
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline, 90
Pinchot, Amos, 106
Pinchot, Cornelia, 292
Platten, Fritz, 127–128
Plotkin, Abe, 165–166
Poole, Ernest, 37
Potter, Grace, 68
Provincetown, Mass., 35–36, 39–40, 81–87, 97–100, 106–107, 225, 236, 291–292, 294, 320, 321, 325, 327
Provincetown Players, 63, 75, 80, 99–100, 105–107, 161, 314
Putnam, Nina Wilcox, 68
Red Scare, 147, 148, 161–162, 165
Reed, John, 114, 118, 135, 196–197, 257; and Greenwich Village, 63–64, 312; and John Reed Clubs, 294; and Provincetown, 97, 98, 106–107
Reuther, Roy, 317
Reuther, Walter, 317, 325, 326
Robeson, Paul, 317
Robinson, Herbert, 131
Rodman, Henrietta, 64, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72
Rodman, Selden, 254
Rogers, Lou, 68
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 261, 266, 325
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 264, 294–295
Roosevelt, Theodore, 26, 38, 51, 88
Sacco-Vanzetti case, 171–172, 202
Sand, George, 29
Sandburg, Carl, 73
Sanger, Margaret, 53, 56, 67, 106, 148
Schneiderman, Rose, 51
Scott, Leroy, 37
Scott, Miriam, 37
Scottsboro Boys trial, 253–254
Scudder, Vida, 59
Shaw, Anna, 77
Siegel, Morton, 198
Sloan, Dolly, 37
Smith, Hilda Worthington, 261, 302
Smith, Jessica, 262–263
Soule, George, 254
Springer, Fleeta, 260, 302, 303
Steel strike: of 1919, 149, 154–160, 271–272; of 1937, 284–286, 290
Steele, Wilbur Daniel, 39, 43, 74, 99–100
Steffens, Lincoln, 26, 34, 59, 63–64, 85, 106, 145, 262
Stokes, Rose Pastor, 69, 70, 71
Stolberg, Benjamin, 288–289
Strunsky, Anna, 37
Sutton, Vida, 69
Todd, Mabel Loomis, 4
Treadway, Allen T., 287
Tresca, Carlo, 58, 84, 108–109, 111–112, 171, 196
Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire, 49–51
Twain, Mark, 37
United Auto Workers (UAW), 275–276, 278–282, 309, 310, 311, 324–326
United Garment Workers, 165, 167
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), 167, 242, 248, 264
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), 303–307
United Textile Workers, 165, 266
Van Tyne, Walter, 283
Veblen, Thorstein, 122
Vietnam War, 325–326
Vorse, Albert (husband), 25–27, 28–40; death of, 43–44
Vorse, Heaton (son), 249, 253, 260, 277, 291, 302, 311–312, 313; birth of, 29; childhood and youth of, 39, 43, 114, 115, 119, 149; in MHV’s old age, 325–326; and Robert Minor, 174; and wounding of, in strike, 282–283
Vorse, Mary Ellen (daughter), 187–188, 234, 235–236, 253, 259, 291, 302, 311–312; birth of, 38; childhood of, 40, 114; in Europe (1927), 204–206
Vorse, Mary Heaton: and Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 162–169; and amnesty campaign, 181–183; as art student, 17–19, 21–25; in Austria, 138–141, 143–144; in Big Money, xi, 159–160, 185–186, and character in Chosen Country, xi, 159, 314–317, 319, 368–369n24; childhood and youth of, 3–10, 12–16; and Cold War, 302–303, 307–310, 322–323; and Committee on Public Information, 115–117; and communism, xvi, xvii–xviii, 201–203, 238–239, 248, 284, 286–289, 294–295; and communism—Cold War, 308–309, 322–323; and communism—Common Sense, 254–255, 263; and communism—Josephine Herbst, 302–303; and communism—redbaiting, 267–270, 293–295, 304–306; and communism—Soviet Union, 172–173, 257–258; and Farmers’ Holiday Movement, 251; at Flint, Mich., sit-down strike, 275–284; at Gastonia, N.C., textile strike and trial, 213–225, 226–229, 256; and Germany (1933), 255–257; in Greenwich Village, 63–67, 71–74; in Harlan County, Ky., 239–240, 241–248; in Hungary, 140–143; and Indian Bureau, 267–270; and International Longshoremen’s Assoc., 312–313; at International Socialist Conference, 126–128; at International Woman Suffrage Alliance and International Congress of Women, 76–79, 87–93; at Lawrence, Mass., textile strike, 51–61; at Marion, N.C., textile strike, 230–232; at Mesabi Range, Minn., mining strike, 107–114; and morphine addiction, 102, 184–186, 191, 195–196, 208; as mother, 187–189, 193–194, 204, 236, 250, 259–260, 290–291, 311–312; at 1919 steel strike, 149, 154–160, 271–272; at 1937 steel strike, 284–286, 290; and old age, 307, 314, 320, 321–322; in Part of Our Time, 315, 317–319; at Passaic, N.J., textile strike, 196–203; and Sacco-Vanzetti case, 171–172, 202; at Scottsboro Boys trial, 253–254; in Serbia, 128–134; in Soviet Union, 175–181, 257–258; and suffrage, 87–90, 105; at Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire, 49–51; and unemployment movement, 84–85, 251–253; and United Auto Workers Social Justice Award, 324–325; and UNRRA, 304–307; at Venice general strike, 32–33; and Ware group, 262–263; works of: Footnote to Folly, A, 61, 262, 269; Labors New Millions, 288–290; Men and Steel, 170, 172; Second Cabin, The, 181, 209; Strike!, 235, 236–238; Time and the Town, 291–292; as writer, 30–32, 41–43, 60–61, 114–115, 189–190, 192, 197, 301–302; at Yaddo colony, 248–250, 313–314
Wald, Lillian, 148
Wales, Julia Grace, 88–89
Walker, Adelaide, 239, 241, 243, 244, 260
Walker, Charles, 239, 241, 243, 244, 249, 260, 303
Walling, William English, 37
Ware group, 262–263
Weisbord, Albert, 196, 203, 217, 218, 220–221
Westley, Helen, 68
Weyl, Nathaniel, 262–263
White, Sue Shelton, 261
White, William Allen, 59, 105, 158
Wiggins, Ella May, 223, 229, 237, 244, 358n38
Wilson, Edmund, 147, 236, 249, 250, 252, 259–260, 292, 303, 317; at Harlan County, Ky., 243–244, 245, 246, 247
Wilson, Woodrow, 51, 92, 123–124, 140, 144
Winant, John Gilbert, 296–297
Winslow, Horatio, 72
Winter, Charles, 72
Winter, Ella, 71
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 14
Women’s Emergency Brigade, 276–277, 278–280
Woman’s Peace Party, 69, 87–88
Wycherly, Margaret, 68
Wylie, Ida, 68
Zetkin, Clara, 179