Curated OER
The Palmer "Red Raids"
Students explore how Americans reacted to communism. In this Red Scare instructional activity, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding the details of the Palmer "Red Raids" and its implications. Students respond...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Postwar Red Scare
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read about the Red Scare at the end of World War I where people were fraudulently charged with being anti-American. See how thousands of names of supposed Communists were collected.
George Mason University
George Mason University: Between the Wars: The Palmer Raids
Looks at the anti-communist 'Red Scare' that followed WWI with the upheaval of the Russian government, and includes Palmer's essay "The Case Against the Reds" and Emma Goldman's account of her deportation back to Russia.
Digital History
Digital History: The Postwar Red Scare
Presents factual information on the history of the Red Scare that caused hysteria and panic in the United States after World War I.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Postwar Blues and Reds
This tutorial looks at post-World War I America and the disturbing events that took place in 1919 and 1920, for example, racial discrimination, the KKK, backlash against immigrants, the Red Scare, etc. A PDF file of the tutorial is...
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: The Palmer Raids
Comprehensive summary presents facts and information pertaining to the Palmer Raids conducted by Federal Agents to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists.
George Mason University
George Mason University: Between the Wars: Fear of Dissent
An article, "The Case Against the 'Reds'" written by A. Mitchell Palmer, supporting the Palmer Raids as a method to fight Bolshevism in the United States.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Red Scare
A dark side to the Jazz Age was the increase in the fear of Communism. Read about the federal government's actions to stem anything that was thought to threaten American security.
OpenStax
Open Stax: The Great War 1914 1919: Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
Looks at the demobilization of the American war effort and the impact it had on people's lives, accompanied by the flu pandemic and fears of contagion, race riots, and the Red Scare. Also looks at the 1920 presidential election which was...
Digital History
Digital History: Sacco and Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti were caught up in anti-immigrant, Red Scare feelings in the 1920s. Read about their arrest and controversial trial filled with prejudice and errors.
PBS
Kqed: Russian American Immigration
A historic look at the earliest wave of Russian immigration to the United States, which began in the late nineteenth century and continued up to the passage of restrictive immigration laws in the 1920s. With details about how World War I...