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Discussion reading for the week
- Creel, George. “Public Opinion in War Time.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Vol. 78, Mobilizing America's Resources for the War (July 1918): 185-194. Online.
- Vaughn, Stephen. “First Amendment Liberties and the Committee on Public Information.” The American Journal of Legal History. Vol. 23, no. 2 (April 1979): 95-119. Online.
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The lesson's learned from the brutal crackdown and censorship of the First World War were extremely prevelent. It was during the 1920's that most Americans realized how many of their basic freedoms had been stripped away during the hysteria of wartime. You can see this realization in the writings of George Creeel during the Second World War. Although he attributes the mistakes made in the previous conflict to rather vague sources, he does acknowledge that mistakes were made, which was a step in the right direction. And, to be fair, the incidences of violence against citizens decending from one of the belligerent nations in World War II were far lower. (With the notable and tragic exception of our Japanese American population)
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