The Strange Death of American Liberalism
H.W. Brands

Research Team Members

Report Kit

Introduction to Topic

First-Order Document:

• The Constitution of the United States

• The Alien and Sedition Act, 1798
• Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, 1862
• Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
• U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, 2001

• Amendment XVIII (1919)
• Schenck v. United States (1919)
• Images from Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)
• Image from the Democratic convention (1968)
• Images from Kent State University (1970)
• Amendment XXVI (1971)
• Public Defenders Political Cartoon (1986)

Other Possible Third-Order Documents:

• Supreme Court Decisions 1950s-60s
• Brown v. Board of Education II
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Escobedo v. Illinois
• Gideon v. Wainwright
• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Eisenhower speech on September 24, 1957 Public papers
• Foreign Intelligence Service Act (1978)
• Dudziak, Mary. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2000).
• United States Sedition Act of 1918
• Schenk v. United States
• Abrams v. United States
• Gitlow v. New York
• Espionage Act of 1917 & 1918
• Ex Parte Milligan
• General Order, No. 38
• Executive Order 9066
• Bush apology to Japanese internment survivors
• Children Pledge
• Korematsu vs. United States
• Haymarket Affair
• House Committee on Un-American Activities
• Herbert Hoover (info. on postwar America)
• FBI San Diego press release on 50th Anniversary of Top Ten Fugitive List
• Jose Padilla
• Senator Joe McCarthy’s speech at Wheeling, WV (February 9, 1950)