Do you teach your students about the Alien and #Sedition Acts of 1798? In the first episode of a new series on political campaigns, we examine the roots of the Sedition Act, and how negative attacks on political opponents through the press go back to the earliest days of American democracy. Learn more, and register to access related lesson plans: https://retroreport.org/subjects/u-s-history/mud-slinging-and-deadly-duels-how-negative-campaigning-evolved-2/ | Retro Report

The Alien and Sedition Acts signed by John Adams would forever tarnish his presidency, however, historian and author Gordon S. Wood said Adams wouldn’t be the last president to sign such a draconian measure. #JFKForum | JFK Library Foundation