Reference Library

Below are publications that I found useful in the research for this site as well as others that may be helpful.  If the listing is shown as a hyperlink, it will go to Amazon.com or other on-line retailer and will provide the opportunity to purchase. I may receive a small commission if purchased via the link.

The Monroe Doctrine: Origins

  • Bemis, Samuel Flagg. A Diplomatic History of the United States. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.

  • Borstelmann, Thomas. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena. Harvard University Press, 2001.

  • Brands, H. W. The Strange Death of American Liberalism. Yale University Press, 2001.

  • Daalder, Ivo H., and James M. Lindsay. America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy. Brookings Institution Press, 2003.

  • Rojas, Carlos. “China’s Strategic Engagement with Latin America.” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 39, no. 4 (2010): 3–19.

  • Rosenberg, Emily S. Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945. Hill and Wang, 1982.

  • Smith, Gaddis. The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine, 1945–1993. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994.

  • Trump, Donald J. “Remarks on Enhanced Counternarcotics Operations in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.” White House, April 1, 2020.

  • U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. “Monroe Doctrine, 1823.” history.state.gov.

  • Wright, Thomas C. Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution. Praeger, 2001

The Monroe Doctrine and President Trump

  • Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy. New York: Knopf, 1949.

  • Perkins, Dexter. The Monroe Doctrine, 1823–1826. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927.

  • Sexton, Jay. The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2011.

  • Smith, Gaddis. The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine, 1945–1993. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.

  • United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., 299 U.S. 304 (1936).

  • De Lima v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 1 (1901).

  • Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino, 376 U.S. 398 (1964).

  • Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1 (1957).

  • May, Ernest R. The Making of the Monroe Doctrine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975.

  • Tulchin, Joseph S. The United States and Latin America in the 1980s: Contending Perspectives on a Decade of Crisis. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986.

Freedom of Religion

  • Paul Finkelman, Religion and American Law: An Encyclopedia (various entries summarizing cases and statutes).
  • John Witte Jr., Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (scholarly overview of religion clauses and history).
  • Philip Hamburger, Separation of Church and State (critical historical account; useful for context and debate).

Freedom of the Press

  • Blasi, Vincent. “The Checking Value in First Amendment Theory.” American Bar Foundation Research Journal (1977).

  • Stone, Geoffrey R. Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terror. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.

  • Chemerinsky, Erwin. First Amendment Law. New York: Wolters Kluwer, multiple editions.

  • Lewis, Anthony. Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. New York: Vintage, 1992.

  • Schauer, Frederick. Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

The History of Free Speech

  • Levy, Leonard W. Emergence of a Free Press. Oxford University Press, 1985.

  • Stone, Geoffrey R. Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime. W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.

  • Curtis, Michael Kent. Free Speech, “The People’s Darling Privilege”: Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History. Duke University Press, 2000.

  • Goldberg, David. First Amendment Law: Freedom of Expression & Freedom of Religion. Foundation Press, 2012.