Exhibit A

“Spies, Traitors and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America”

Photo: Courtesy of Illinois Holocaust Museum

“Spies, Traitors and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America” packs its twisting displays with U.S. history’s dark moments—foreign-born attacks long forgotten (the Black Tom bombing in New Jersey) or still haunting (9/11). Those acts share a spotlight with domestic terrorists, including the KKK, the left-wing Weather Underground (Chicagoan Bernardine Dohrn appears via video) and the right-wing militias that helped spawn the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The handsomely designed exhibit, born in D.C. and now visiting the Illinois Holocaust Museum, excels because it also depicts our government’s zealous responses, and asks how we balance safety and liberty. We’re clearly still trying to puzzle that out.