• Bell, Jonathan, The Liberal State On Trial: The Cold War And American Politics In The Truman Years, Columbia University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-231-13356-2
• Birdnow, Brian, E., Communism, Anti-communism, And the Federal Courts in Missouri, 1952–1958: The Trial of the St. Louis Five, E. Mellen Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-7734-6101-7
• Caute, David, The Great Fear: the Anti-Communist purge under Truman and Eisenhower, Simon and Schuster, 1978, ISBN 978-0-671-22682-4
• McKiernan, John, "Socrates and the Smith Act: the Dennis prosecution and the trial of Socrates in 399 B.C.", Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, Vol. 15 (Fall, 2005), pp 65–119
• Schrecker, Ellen, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America, Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-691-04870-3
• Smith, Craig R., Silencing the Opposition: How the U.S. Government Suppressed Freedom of Expression During Major Crises, SUNY Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4384-3519-0
• Steinberg, Peter L., The Great "Red menace": United States Prosecution of American Communists, 1947–1952, Greenwood Press, 1984, ISBN 978-0-313-23020-2
• Stone, Geoffrey R., Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, W. W. Norton, 2004, ISBN 978-0-393-05880-2

Phân tích pháp lý đương thời

• Boudin, Louis B. "'Seditious Doctrines' and the 'Clear and Present Danger' Rule: Part II", Virginia Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 3 (April, 1952), pp 315–356
• Nathanson, Nathaniel, "The Communist trial and the clear-and-present-danger test", Harvard Law Review Vol. 63, No. 7 (May, 1950), pp 1167–1175
• Wormuth, Francis D., "Learned Legerdemain: A Grave but Implausible Hand", The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 3 (September, 1953), pp 543–558

Một số tác phẩm chọn lọc của các bị cáo theo Đạo luật Smith

• Davis, Benjamin, Communist Councilman from Harlem: Autobiographical Notes Written in a Federal Penitentiary, International Publishers Co, 1991, ISBN 978-0-7178-0680-5
• Dennis, Eugene, Ideas They Cannot Jail, International Publishers, 1950
• Dennis, Eugene, Letters from Prison, International Publishers, 1956
• Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, et al., 13 Communists Speak to the Court, New Century Publishers, 1953
• Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, My Life as a Political Prisoner: The Rebel Girl Becomes No. 11710, International Publishers, 2019, ISBN 978-0-7178-0772-7
• Foster, William Z., History of the Communist Party of the United States, Greenwood Press, 1968, ISBN 978-0-8371-0423-2
• Gates, John, The Story of an American Communist, Nelson, 1958
• Green, Gil, Cold War Fugitive: a Personal Story of the McCarthy years, International Publishers, 1984, ISBN 978-0-7178-0615-7
• Healey, Dorothy; and Isserman, Maurice, California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party, University of Illinois Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-252-06278-0
• Lannon, Albert, Second String Red: The Life of Al Lannon, American Communist, Lexington Books, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7391-0002-8
• Nelson, Steve, Steve Nelson, American Radical, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-8229-5471-2
• Scales, Junius Irving, and Nickson, Richard, Cause at Heart: A Former Communist Remembers, University of Georgia Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8203-2785-3
• Williamson, John, Dangerous Scot: the Life and Work of an American "Undesirable", International Publishers, 1969
• Winston, Henry, Africa's Struggle for Freedom, the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.: a selection of political analyses, New Outlook Publishers, 1972

Một số tác phẩm chọn lọc của các nhân chứng truy tố

• Budenz, Louis, This is My Story, McGraw-Hill, 1947
• Budenz, Louis, The Techniques of Communism, Henry Regnery, 1954, ISBN 978-0-405-09937-3
• Calomiris, Angela, Red Masquerade: Undercover for the F. B. I., Lippincott, 1950
• Philbrick, Herbert, I Led Three Lives: Citizen, "Communist", Counterspy, Hamilton, 1952

Phim tài liệu

• Strange, Eric; Dugan, David, Love in the Cold War, 1991, American Experience (PBS) và Windfall Films. Một bộ phim tài liệu về Eugene Dennis và vợ của ông, Peggy Dennis, trong thời kỳ Chủ nghĩa McCarthy.