Allan L. Damon

Allan L. Damon was a teacher of American Studies at Horace Greeley High School and a Contributing Editor of AMERICAN HERITAGE. Mr. Damon authored The Great Red Scare in 1968.

Articles by this Author

A Look At The Record:, December 1981 | Vol. 33, No. 1

The Facts Behind the Current Controversy Over Immigration

Veteran’s Benefits, June 1976 | Vol. 27, No. 4

The Cabinet, April 1976 | Vol. 27, No. 3

The Supreme Court, October 1975 | Vol. 26, No. 6

Lobbies, August 1975 | Vol. 26, No. 5

Defense Spending, February 1975 | Vol. 26, No. 2

Filibuster: A Look at the Record, December 1975 | Vol. 27, No. 1

The filibuster has played a key role in the enactment of federal law since 1789, but is rarely used outside the U.S. Senate.

Pederal Bureaucracy, August 1974 | Vol. 25, No. 5

Presidential Expenses, June 1974 | Vol. 25, No. 4

George Washington wouldn't believe it

Presidential Accessibility, April 1974 | Vol. 25, No. 3

Veto, February 1974 | Vol. 25, No. 2

Surgeon Thompson’s Separate Peace, December 1974 | Vol. 26, No. 1

Amnesty, October 1973 | Vol. 24, No. 6

Impoundment, December 1973 | Vol. 25, No. 1

“A Melancholy Case”, February 1970 | Vol. 21, No. 2

In reprisal for a Tory atrocity, Washington ordered the hanging of a captive British officer chosen by lot. He was nineteen.

The Great Red Scare, Februrary 1968 | Vol. 19, No. 2

In 1919 the U.S. Attorney General swooped down on a alleged Bolshevik revolutionaries and deported them by the boatload. For a while he was a national hero; he dreamed of the White House. But then…

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