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The Cost of Freedom - Civil Liberties, Security and the USA PATRIOT Act

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BOOKS
Brogan, Hugh. The Pelican History of the United States of America. London, England: Penguin Books, 1985.

Brown, Cynthia, ed. Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom. New York: The New Press, 2003.

Cole, David. Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism. New York: The New Press, 2003.

Cole, David and Dempsey, James X. Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security. New York: The New Press, 2002.

Copper, Phillip J. By Order of the President: The Use & Abuse of Executive Direct Action. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2002.

Dudziak, Mary L., ed. September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2003.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

Fisher, Louis. Nazi Saboteurs on Trial: A Military Tribunal and American Law. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2003.

Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.

Foerstel, Herbert N. Surveillance in the Stacks: The FBI's Library Awareness Program. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Goldberg, Danny, and Goldberg, Victor and Greenwald, Robert, eds. It's a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America after September 11. New York: RVD Books, 2002.

Heymann, Philip B. Terrorism, Freedom, and Security: Winning Without War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003.

Hoyt, Edwin P. The Palmer Raids 1919-1920: An Attempt to Suppress Dissent. New York: Seabury Press, 1969.

Jones, Maldwyn A. The Limits of Liberty: American History 1607-1980. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Keller, William W. The Liberals and J. Edgar Hoover: Rise and Fall of a Domestic Intelligence State. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Mayer, Kenneth R. With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Milkis, Sidney M. and Nelson, Michael. The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776 - 1990. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1990.

Olmsted, Kathryn S. Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Olshansky, Barbara and The Center for Constitutional Rights. Secret Trials and Executions: Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy. New York: Seven Stores Press, 2002.

O'Reilly, Kenneth. Hoover and the Un-Americans: The FBI, HUAC and the Red Menace. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1983.

Paolucci, Henry and Clark, Richard C. Presidential Power and Crisis Government in the Age of Terrorism. Smyrna, Delaware: Griffon House Publications, 2003.

Pessen, Edward. Losing Our Souls: The American Experience in the Cold War. Chicago, Illinois: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1993.

Preston, William, Jr. Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963.

Redden, Jim. Snitch Culture: …how citizens are turned into the eyes and ears of the state. Venice, California: Feral House, 2000.

Rosen, Jeffrey. The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age. New York: Random House, 2004.

Schlesinger, Arthur M. The Imperial Presidency. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifllin Co, 1973.

Schmidt, Regin. Red Scare: FBI and the Origins of Anticommunism in the United States, 1919-1943. Copenhagen, Denmark: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000.

Schulhofer, Stephen J. The Enemy Within: Intelligence Gathering, Law Enforcement, and Civil Liberties in the Wake of September 11. New York: Century Foundation Press, 2002.

Smith, Jeffery A. Printers and Press Freedom: The Ideology of Early American Journalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Smith, Jeffery A. War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Vile, John R. A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments. 3rd ed. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2001.

Wlaker, Samuel. In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU. 2nd ed. Carbondaale, Illinois: Southern University Press, 1999.

REPORTS
American Civil Liberties Union. Freedom Under Fire: Dissent in Post-9/11 America.
New York: ACLU. www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12666&c=206

American Civil Liberties Union. Seeking Truth From Justice: PATRIOT Propaganda: The Justice Department's Campaign to Mislead the Public About the USA PATRIOT Act. New York: ACLU, 2003.

Beeson, Ann and Jaffer, Jameel. UnPatriotic Acts: The FBI's Power to Rifle Through Your Records and Personal Belongings Without Telling You. New York: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), July 2003

The Center for Constitutional Rights. The State of Civil Liberties: One Year Later Erosion of Civil Liberties in the Post 9/11 Era.

Heritage Foundation. Bringing Al-Qaeda to Justice: The Constitutionality of Trying Al-Qaeda Terrorists in the Military Justice System. November 5, 2001.

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. Imbalance of Powers: How Changes to U. S. Law & Policy Since 9/11 Erode Human Rights and Civil Liberties. September 2002-March 2003.

ARTICLES

Ashcroft, John. "Is the Patriot Act Worth Keeping? It's a Strong Tool Against Terror." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel October 25, 2003. October 27, 2003. www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/oct03/179826.asp?

CQ Researcher. "Civil Liberties in Wartime." CQ December 14, 2001. Volume 11, No 43. Pages 1017-1040. www.cqpress.com

Hentoff, Nat. "Justice Denied at the Source: Considered Guilty Until Proven Innocent." The Village Voice. June 20, 2003. July 28, 2003 www.villagevoice.com/issues/0326/hentoff.php

Lee, Chisun. "Devil in the Details: Patriot Act II, and Means To Weigh It, Emerges In Bits. The Village Voice. June 18-24, 2003. July 28, 2003. www.villagevoice.com/issues/0325/lee.php

McElroy, Wendy. "World War I and the Suppression of Dissent, Part 1." Freedom Daily. April 2002, October 10, 2003. www.fff.org/freedom/fd0204f.asp

McElroy, Wendy. "World War I and the Suppression of Dissent, Part 2." Freedom Daily. May 2002, October 10, 2003. www.fff.org/freedom/fd0205f.asp

Neas, Ralph G. "Two Years after 9/11: Ashcroft's Assault on the Constitution." People for the American Way Foundation, September 9, 2003.

O'Harrow Jr., Robert. "Six Weeks in Autumn." The Washington Post. October 27, 2002. Magazine Section, p. W06.

Posner, Richard A. "Security Versus Civil Liberties." The Atlantic. December 2001. p. 46.

Rose, David. "Guantánamo." Vanity Fair. January 2004.

Shenon, Philip. "Report on USA Patriot Act Alleges Civil Rights Violations." The New York Times July 21, 2003. July 28, 2003. www.nytimes.com/2003/07/21/politics/21JUST.html

Toner, Robin. "Civil Liberties vs. Security: Finding a Wartime Balance." The New York Times, November 18, 2001. p. A1.

TIMELINES/CHRONOLOGIES

Chronology - Key Events Since 1791
Civil Liberties in Wartime
CQ Researcher. CQ December 14, 2001. Volume 11, No 43. p. 1027
www.cqpress.com

Civil Liberties and National Security Timeline
NOW with Bill Moyers. 2.07.03 Politics and Economy. Civil Liberties After 9/11
www.pbs.org

WWII Japanese American Internment Timeline
President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 - February 19, 1942
Children of the Camps Internment History
www.pbs.org/childdofcamp/history/timeline.html

IWW Chronology (1916-1920)
Industrial Workers of the World
www.iww.org/culture/chronology/chronology3.shtml

WEBSITES

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
www.aclu.org
"The American Civil Liberties Union is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization devoted to protecting the basic civil liberties of all Americans, and extending them to groups that have traditionally been denied their basic civil rights."
Resource areas of possible interest - Keep America Safe and Free campaign.
Topical issue areas - USA PATRIOT Act and Dissent.

Center for Democracy & Technology
www.cdt.org/security/usapatriot/analysis
Analysis of USA Patriot Act by CDT and Others

EDSITEMENT
edsitement.neh.gov/
Site designed for teachers, students and parents - offers links to over 100 of the top humanities Internet sites. The link sites have been "reviewed for content, design and educational impact in the classroom."
"The best of the Humanities on the web from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities and the MarcoPolo Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions and universities"
Lesson plans of particular interest - Regulation Freedom of Speech; Constitutional Convention: What Founding Fathers Said; First Amendment What's Fair in a Free Country; Balancing Three Branches at Once: Our System of Checks and Balances; and Certain Crimes Against the United States: The Sedition Act (1798)

Heritage Foundation
www.heritage.org
"Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense."
Topical issue areas - Homeland Security and Terrorism

PBS
www.pbs.org
NOW with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers "anchors an hour-long weekly news series offering fresh perspectives and analysis on today's events, issues, and the ideas that are shaping our world." NOW's "goal is to illuminate news and ideas that can help viewers become more engaged and active citizens at the grassroots of democracy." The series is a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. for PBS. NOW is a national presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York.
Topical issue areas - Politics and Economy. Civil Liberties after 9/11.
Liberty and Security: A special panel of experts of all stripes discuss civil liberties after 9/11.
A Delicate Balancing Act. Civil liberties in wartime lesson plan for high school students.

Spartacus Educational
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
"Spartacus Educational: Established in September 1997, the Spartacus Educational website provides a series of history encyclopedias. Titles currently include British History: 1750-1960, United States:1840-1980, First World War, Second World War, Russia: 1860-1945, Germany: 1900-1945 and France:1900-1945. Entries usually include a narrative, illustrations and primary sources. The text within each entry is linked to other relevant pages in the encyclopedia. In this way it is possible to research individual people and events in great detail. The sources are also hyper-linked so the student is able to find out about the writer, artist, newspaper and organization that produced the material."