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Unconstitutional acts passed by Congress to control dissent and foreign influence

The threat of war, combined with the fear of foreign immigrants, prompted Congress to enact laws that placed severe restrictions on the newly won freedoms of Americans.

As America entered into its undeclared war with France, decisions made by the Federalist leadership in Washington assured the eventual destruction of their own party.

Following the declaration of war, Congress passed numerous acts designed to increase the president's war powers over virtually every aspect of American society.

Who's more patriotic, 2008 presidential candidate John McCain or Barack Obama, America's new president-elect?

The history of the first amendment right of free speech goes back to Colonial America, before it was codified by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in the Bill of Rights.

The Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798 were the first threat to constitutional guarantees in America and led to calls for state sovereignty over federal authority.

While John Adams is today remembered as having been a great President, his status was once mired by his association with the controversial policies of other Federalists.

The response of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts

Our founders based their commitment to a free press on their knowledge and personal experience with a society that strictly prohibited it.

Students that memorize the presidents by their term in office can more easily relate key events and concepts in American History and better understand cause and effect.

The media has said that the partisan bickering in the United States has reached new levels of vitriol, but the war has been raging since the nation was founded.

Press censorship and attacks on newspapers began with the founding of the nation and always involved political ideals or social controversies like abolition of slavery.

Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was as much a political philosopher as he was a politician and the second President of the United States.

During the years immediately leading up to the 19th century, America suddenly found standing at the doorstep of war with a leading European power.

The presidential election of 1800 was the first truly disputed election in our nation's history, and became a defining event in shaping the United States Constitution.

James Madison retires to Virginia but returns to politics when John Adams and his Federalists threaten the freedoms that were guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.

U.S. Marshals began serving the United States in the 18th century and continues to perform their duties today.

Abigail Adams' values regarding domesticity, women's rights, slavery and politics were shaped by society but changed to leave her revolutionary ideals incomplete.

The "Revolution of 1800" marked the first time in U.S. history that a faction in power voluntarily stepped down after losing a popular election.

Censorship is often practiced by those in power to limit social discourse by those who disagree with them.

In the early years of the Republic, factionalism over Constitutional interpretation divided Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson resulting in the birth of parties.

Woodrow Wilson had no choice but to send America to war in 1917, though he did so in hopes that he could perhaps prevent all such wars in the world's future.

Some of the great US presidents have entered office with great resumes. So have some of the failures and mediocre ones. Does experience matter and, if so, what kind?

Anti-communists efforts in the United States following World War I.

The U.S. government has honored its people's civil liberties through most of its history, allowing some serious infringements in time of actual or perceived peril.

The Nullification Crisis resulted from federal passage of two protective tariffs, prompting men like John C. Calhoun to assert state sovereignty over federal law.

Presidents of the United States have largely been chosen for what they could do for the economy and society. Some notable elections have turned on events far from home.

This new book is an inspiring look at one of the greatest American politicians. Mr. John Q. Adams is shown as the extraordinary personification of genuine Civil Service!

From his essays on the handicapped to multiculturalism to his opposition to WWI, Randolph Bourne represents the young intellectual of the progressive era.

America's third president was a follower of the European philosophy of enlightenment, and a staunch believer in states rights.