Introduction --

1. Orientation and theory --

The paranoid style in American politics / Richard Hofstadter --

Some themes of countersubversion: an analysis of anti-Masonic, anti-Catholic, and anti-Mormon literature / David Brion Davis --

2. Conspiracy in the American Revolution (1763-1783) --

A note on conspiracy / Bernard Bailyn --

The American alarm (1773) / John Allen --

The heavy grievances the colonies labor under (1774) / Ebenezer Baldwin --

There has been a regular, systematic plan (1774) / George Washington --

3. Ideological responses to the French Revolution (1795-1802) --

Proofs of conspiracy (1797) / John Robison --

An American Thanksgiving for divine favor (1795) / David Osgood --

The present dangers and consequent duties of the citizens (1799) / Jedidiah Morse --

A warning to Harvard seniors against world revolution (1798) / David Tappan --

Laocoon (1799) / Fisher Ames --

A republican view of federalist conspiracy (1802) / Abraham Bishop --

4. New threats to internal security (1825-1860) --

A Jacksonian attack on monopoly (1834) / Frederick Robinson --

The Address of the United States Anti-Masonic Convention (1830) --

Debates at the Anti-Masonic Convention (1830) --

Masonry proved to be a work of darkness (1830) / Lebbeus Armstrong --

An anti-Masonic call for perseverance (1834) --

A plea for the West (1835) / Lyman Beecher --

A foreign conspiracy against the liberties of the United States (1834) / Samuel F.B. Morse --

Popery compared with Mormonism (1854) / William Hogan --

5. The widening conflict over slavery (1835-1865) --

Slavery at war with our liberties (1839) / William Goodell --

The role of the slave power in American history (1852) / William Goodell --

The alarming progress of the slave power (1851) / John Gorham Palfrey --

The strength and weakness of the slave power (1852) / George W. Julian --

Thoughts on the new assault upon freedom in America (1854) / Theodore Parker --

The irrepressible conflict (1860) / Carl Schurz --

A republican appeal for unity (1855) / Charles Sumner --

The great conspiracy to overthrow liberty in America (1866) / John Smith Dye --

Abolitionism is the product of a foreign plot (1836) / John Kirke Paulding --

Abolitionism is equivalent to revolution (1835) / Harrison Gray Otis --

From the sinks of Europe a plotter has come (1835) / John Tyler --

A northern party is seeking to convert the government into an instrument of warfare upon slavery (1850) / Robert Mercer Hunter --

A southern response to John Brown and Black republicanism (1859) / Sydenham Moore --

6. Enemies old and new in the Gilded Age and beyond (1865-1908) --

A voice from the past (1870) / Gerrit Smith --

A new plea for the West (1885) / Josiah Strong --

The identification of America's true enemy (1884) / Richard Ely --

Why America is particularly vulnerable to socialism (1885) / Josiah Strong --

The Haymarket Riot (1886) / Michael J. Schaack --

The aims and methods of the A.P.A. (1894-1896) / W.J.H. Traynor --

The conspiracy against silver (1886) / E.J. Farmer --

A fervent appeal for free silver (1889) / Thomas Fitch --

The British plot to enslave the world (1892) / A.J. Warner and H.C. Baldwin --

Shylock as banker and conspirator (1894) / Gordon Clark --

The problem of civilization solved (1895) / Mary Elizabeth Lease --

A small group of men hold in their hands the business of this country (1908) / Robert M. La Follette --

7. Responses to international involvement and ethnic pluralism (1918-1948) --

Shall it be again? (1922) / John Kenneth Turner --

The Hun within our gates (1917) / Theodore Roosevelt --

Awake! America (1918) / William T. Hornaday --

The web (1919) / Emerson Hough --

A program for counteracting seditious activities (1920) / Clayton R. Lusk --

The case agains the Reds (1920) / A. Mitchell Palmer --

'The Dearborn Independent': the international Jew: the world's foremost problem (1920) --

'The Dearborn Independent': Jewish activities in the United States (1921) --

What price tolerance? (1928) / Paul M. Winter --

The conspiracy against labor (1922) / Samuel Gompers --

The menace of the World Court (1935) / Charles E. Coughlin --

American in danger! (1940-1941) / Charles B. Hudson --

The ruling oligarchy wants to engage in a foreign war (1941) / Carl H. Mote --

A study in appearances and realities (1948) / Charles A. Beard --

8. Toward the end of consensus? (1936-1968) --

Democratic despotism (1936) / Raoul E. Desvernine --

The Roosevelt Red record and its background (1936) / Elizabeth Dilling --

A Communist view of right-wing conspiracy (1938) / Earl Browder --

House Committee on un-American activities: the Trojan Horse (1939) --

Communist influence in high places (1940) / Martin Dies --

The Fascists' conspiracy against the people (1938) / George Seldes --

The Cold War a product of Wall Street conspiracy (1949) / William Z. Foster --

The Communist Party is a secret conclave (1949) / Robert H. Jackson --

To secure the existing order against revolutionary radicalism (1950) / Robert H. Jackson --

Communism in our schools (1946) / George A. Dondero --

Communism and the colleges (1953) / J.B. Matthews --

Modern art shackled to Communism (1949) / George A. Dondero --

A conspiracy of blackest infamy (1951) / Joseph McCarthy --

Interlocking subversion in the government (1953) --

Communist pressure by transmission belts (1954) / Louis F. Budenz --

The "independence" maneuver (1956) / Louis F. Budenz --

Communist America, must it be? (1960) / Billy James Hardis --

Civil rights myths and Communist realities (1963) / Medford Evans --

The need for Black power (1967) / Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton --

More stately mansions (1964) / Robert Welch --

The truth about Vietnam (1967) / Robert Welch --

The internal threat today (1964) / Ezra Taft Benson --

Marxmanship in Dallas (1964) / Revilo P. Oliver --

Thomas G. Buchanan: who killed Kennedy? (1964) --

The Ku Klux Klan as a subversive, conspiratorial organization (1966) / Irving Kaler --

Suppression of antiwar protest (1966).