The Espionage Act of 1917
and
The Sedition Act of 1918
Presentation
1.Review of the topic
2.Thesis
3.Zechariah Chafee Jr.
4.Reception of Chafee’s Work
5.Later Work
6.Conclusion
The Espionage and Sedition Acts
Mailing privileges for newspapers taken away.
Dissidents imprisoned.
Albert Burleson,
Postmaster General
Eugene V. Debs
Victor Berger
A Timeline
July 28,
1914
World War One
begins
April 6,
1917
June 15,
1917
May 16,
November 11,
1918
1918
Espionage Act passed
Sedition Act passed
US enters WWI
World War
One ends
December 14,
1920
Sedition Act
repealed
Thesis
History reflects the time it was written in.
Timeline
Freedom of Speech
1919 Zechariah Chafee Jr. 1938
1920
Freedom of
Speech and of
the Press in
War Time: The
Espionage Act
Thomas Carroll
Free Speech in
the United States
Zechariah Chafee Jr.
American Political
Prisoners: Prosecutions
Under the Espionage and
Sedition Acts
Stephen Kohn
1996
Newspaper Editorial 2008
1994 Support for
Freedom of Expression
During World War I
Matthew Matsuzak
1941
A History of National
Espionage Legislation and its
Operation in the United
States during the World War.
Chester Millham
Yellow: Articles
Unsafe for Democracy :
World War I and the
U.S. Justice
Department's Covert
Campaign to Suppress
Dissent
Geoffrey Stone
Blue: Dissertations
White: Monographs
Zechariah Chafee Jr.
Freedom of Speech (1920)
Free Speech in the United States (1941)
Zechariah Chafee
John Wertheimer
1994 Review of Chafee’s Work
Chafee in the 1920s
Schenck v. United States
“Clear and present danger”
Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr.
Chafee in the 1940s
Positive reviews and reception
Chafee in the 1950s
McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy
Chafee’s Legacy
Espionage and Sedition Acts forgotten
Correcting Chafee
Later Literature
1994
2004
2008
Conclusion
Gap in literature
Distance from Espionage and Sedition Acts