American Studies Websites – Salem Witch trials, etc

American Studies – The Crucible and Injustice

Walker / Kennedy

General

http://www.justicelearning.org/ViewIssue.aspx?IssueID=2

Center for Justice Learning – Civil Liberties in Wartime

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/mccarthy/mccarthy.htm
Great general site about many topics: McCarthy, McCarthyism, Blacklisting, fear of Soviet and American Communists

http://iws.ccccd.edu/kwilkison/Online1302home/20th%20Century/redscare.html
a good overview of Red Scare, McCarthy, Hollywood Blacklisting written by a college history professor

Scottsboro Trials

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

UMissouri/Kansas City law school site – timelines to their own words.

Follow the links on the left.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/

pbs discussion of the boys and their trial

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/scottsboro.html

don’t forget the ‘sketch’ that can be opened at the top

http://www.thatsalabama.com/civilwrongs/scottsboro/

Alabama website

Sedition and Espionage Acts (WWI)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman/peopleevents/e_redscare.html

pbs American Experience, good illustrations, portraits

http://law.jrank.org/pages/6568/Espionage-Act-1917.html

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=562

Sedition Act day in history

http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/espionageact1918.htm

text of acts

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWespionage.htm

Follow the highlighted related links for people and other topics

http://modern-us-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/espionage_and_sedition_acts_in_world_war_one

online version of print source

Palmer Raids

http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/red.html

thumbnail sketch

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/dec07/palmerraids122807.html

FBI site and description

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4993/

Attorney General Palmer’s essay The Case Against the Reds

http://www.crf-usa.org/america-responds-to-terrorism/the-palmer-red-raids.html

Constitutional Rights Foundation

Sacco and Vanzetti

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm

famous American trials

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0823.html#article

article from NY Times on their execution

http://www.virginiawestern.edu/faculty/vwhansd/HIS122/Sacco-Vanzetti.html

http://alliance.ed.uiuc.edu/cdrom/Hononegah/Sacco_Vanzetti/Sacco_and_Vanzetti.htm

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070827/temkin

The Nation periodical article online – implications today

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm

a whole website dedicated to their memory – good pictures!

Haymarket Riots in Chicago

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/haymarket.html

collection of primary documents, pictures, maps of this famous trial

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/sfeature/sf_haymarket.html

American Experience program; links to info on each of the anarchists

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/web/20060504-haymarket-riots-chicago-albert-parsons-anarchism-august-spies-charles-harrison-louis-lingg-labor-union-strike-samuel-gompers-american-federation.shtml

American Heritage periodical article

Note: ABHRS Library has print copy of this periodical – more pictures

http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/overview/over.htm

Drama of Haymarket in the history of Chicago, open all the entries for full story

http://chicagology.com/notorious-chicago/haymarket/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5369420

interview on npr of author of Death in the Haymarket

Japanese Internment

http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/overview.html

National Museum of History -- Smithsonian

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/anthropology74/ce3.htm

National Park Service describes the history of internment camps

http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/

UCalifornia digital history, including primary sources

McCarthyism / HUAC / Blacklisting

http://www.historypoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=1062&column_type=hpfeature

general info on McCarthy, the Red Scare and blacklisting

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/mccarthy/mccarthy.htm
Great general site about many topics: McCarthy, McCarthyism, Blacklisting, fear of Soviet and American Communists

http://iws.ccccd.edu/kwilkison/Online1302home/20th%20Century/redscare.html
a good overview of Red Scare, McCarthy, Hollywood Blacklisting written by a college history professor

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/18/newsid_2749000/2749961.stm

BBC summary of McCarthy’s actions

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html

HUAC and the Blacklist

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6459

Presents many primary source speeches by and brief overviews about those involved in the Red Scare and the HUAC hearings;

particularly good for those who stood up against accusations – SCROLL to bottom for full list.

http://www.authentichistory.com/1950s/redchannels/redchannels.html

The Blacklist-primary source

Alger Hiss Spy Trial

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hiss.html