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Defining Documents in American History: Domestic Terrorism & Extremism

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Early Ruptures in the Body Politic




Account of Shays’s Rebellion




House of Representatives Debate on the Second Amendment




The Whiskey Tax of 1791 and George Washington’s Proclamation regarding the Whiskey Rebellion




The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution




Militia Acts of 1792




Alien and Sedition Acts




James Madison on the Sedition Act of 1798




Ciphered Letter of Aaron Burr to General James Wilkinson




State v. Huntly




A Long History of Anti-Black Violence—and Reaction




The Confessions of Nat Turner




Speech to the Court that Sentenced Him to Death




A Voice from Harper’s Ferry




South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession




The Draft Riots




Account of the Lincoln Assassination




Notice from the Ku Klux Klan to Davie Jeems




A Contested Election: Report to Congress on the Activities of the Ku Klux Klan




Letter to Senator Joseph C. Abbott on the Ku Klux Klan




United States v. Cruikshank




Various Selections of Black Codes in the South




“Lynching: Our National Crime




NAACP: Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States




Elaine, Arkansas, Massacre Commemoration




“The Eruption of Tulsa”




Letter Regarding Ku Klux Klan Activity in Arkansas




The Klansman’s Manual




Memo regarding the Emmett Till Murder




FBI Documents Relating to 16th Street Church Bombing




Malcolm X: “The Ballot or the Bullet”




Huey Newton: A Black Panther on Self-Defense




Native American Trials and Tribulations




Worcester v. Georgia




Accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre




Trouble on the Paiute Reservation




Eyewitness to the Massacre at Wounded Knee




Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee




American Indian Movement—National Operational Goal




Religious, Ethnic, and Other Hatreds




Letters from the Mormon War




A Foreigner in My Own Land




A Chinese American Protest




On Seizing Land from Native Californians




Platform of the American Party




Affidavit Regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre




Two Radio “Sermons”




Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense League




Inside the Rajneeshee Secret Files




Letter of Protest regarding the Treatment of Undocumented Immigrants




FBI Background on Centennial Olympic Park Bomber




Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act




Anarchy, War, and Leftist Radicalism




“Account of the Haymarket Riot”




Espionage Act of 1917




The Sedition Act of 1918




German Enemy of US Hanged by Mob




Schenck v. United States




Wall Street Bombing of 1920




Gitlow v. New York




Smith Act (also known as the Alien Registration Act of 1940)




Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before the House Un-American Activities Committee




Testimony of Whittaker Chambers




Dennis v. United States




Weathermen Manifesto




Report of the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest, with Response from President Nixon




“I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight




Excerpts from the Unabomber Manifesto




9/11 and Domestic Terrorism




The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing: Report and Analysis




President George W. Bush’s Statement to the Nation on 9/11




Patriot Act




Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Charged




FBI Updates on Investigation into Boston Marathon Bombing




San Bernardino Shootings Investigated as Terrorism




The Orlando Nightclub Shooting




Recent Far-Right Terrorism and Extremism




Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial Prayer Service Address




Charleston Church Shooter Justifies His Actions




Remarks concerning the Standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge




President Donald Trump’s Remarks on the “Unite the Right” Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia




Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Victims’ Commemoration




Man Charged with Hate Crimes for El Paso Walmart Shooting




Charges Added in the Conspiracy to Kidnap Michigan Governor




Resolution Establishing the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol




Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland




Remarks by President Biden One Year after the January 6 Assault on the U.S. Capitol




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography