1. For an overview, see James D. Startt, “The Media and National Crises, 1917–1945,” in William David Sloan and James D. Startt, eds., The Media in America: A History, 3rd ed. (Northport, Ala.: Vision Press, 1996), 386–97. The definitive account of the Committee on Public Information is Vaughn, Holding Fast the Inner Lines.
2. See Harry N. Scheiber, The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties, 1917–1921 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1960),
3. and Donald Johnson, “Wilson, Burleson and Censorship in the First World War,” Journal of Southern History 28 (February 1962): 46—58,
4. as well as James R. Mock, Censorship 1911 (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1941).
5. George Creel, Rebel at Large: Recolledions of Fifly Crowded Years (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1947), 157. Creel’s involvement in censorship is described in Vaughn, Holding Fast the Inner Lines, 214–32.