Alien and Sedition Acts: Resources

This gives a nice overview of what the Acts did. The links kind of put them in context, too.

The defining TV depiction of the second president. Adams tends to get passed over in favor of the more famous two-term names that surround him. But in this miniseries, he's the main character.

Just read this article. That will update you.

Here's a list of people who got charged with violating the acts.

In this clip from HBO's John Adams miniseries, Adams first debates the need for the acts, then talks it over with Thomas Jefferson. And yes, Jefferson is totally Stannis Baratheon.

You know all this stuff already, but it can't hurt.

He kind of looks like someone's chubby uncle.

This is how he looked in 1800, right around when the Alien and Sedition Acts were signed.

Our smallest president.

Here's what they actually looked like.