Author Tevi Troy talked about the Sedition Act and the role tthat an infleunza epidemic played in its passage. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text was compiled ...

Historically, charges of sedition have just as often been used to quash dissent (the Sedition Act of 1918, for example, made it illegal to “willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal ...

On this day in 1918, Congress extended the Espionage Act ... came to be known as the Sedition Act. It was tied to the U.S. entrance into the World War I in April 1917 and orchestrated largely ...

Congress upped the ante the next year, when it passed something called the Sedition Act of 1918, which further made it a crime to 'willfully under print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, ...

The Montana law became the model for the Federal Sedition Act of 1918. The same state legislative ... Montanans imprisoned for sedition were on poster boards, along with a large poster quoting ...

The more restrictive Sedition Act of 1918 went further, amending the Espionage Act to criminalize “disloyal, profane, scurrilous or abusive” speech about the United States or its symbols ...

“Now for a round-up by W.A. Rogers,” a cartoon depicting recently passed laws, including the 1918 Sedition Act. (Library of Congress) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...