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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Postwar Red Scare

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read about the Red Scare at the end of World War I where people were fraudulently charged with being anti-American. See how thousands of names of supposed Communists were collected.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Postwar Red Scare

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents factual information on the history of the Red Scare that caused hysteria and panic in the United States after World War I.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: The Palmer Raids

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive summary presents facts and information pertaining to the Palmer Raids conducted by Federal Agents to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists.
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Digital History

Digital History: Sacco and Vanzetti

For Students 9th - 10th
Sacco and Vanzetti were caught up in anti-immigrant, Red Scare feelings in the 1920s. Read about their arrest and controversial trial filled with prejudice and errors.
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PBS

Kqed: Russian American Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
A historic look at the earliest wave of Russian immigration to the United States, which began in the late nineteenth century and continued up to the passage of restrictive immigration laws in the 1920s. With details about how World War I...