Free speech and censorship : a documentary and reference guide / Cari Lee Skogberg Eastman.
| Author/creator | Eastman, Cari Lee Skogberg, 1974- author, compiler. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2022] |
| Copyright Date | ©2022 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xxiii, 371 pages) : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Documentary and reference guides Documentary and reference guides. ^A1093580 |
| Contents | Censorship and suppression of speech in early America (1776-1920) -- Debating the extent of free speech rights (1920-1950) -- Momentous rulings amid political and cultural change (1950-1980) -- Culture wars, student rights, and challenges to free speech (1980-2000) -- The First Amendment in the post-9/11 era (2001-2015) -- Freedom of the press and censorship during the Trump years (2016-2021). |
| Contents | First Amendment of the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights (1791) -- Sedition Act of 1798 (1798) -- President Lincoln's Letter on Habeas Corpus to Erastus Corning (1863) -- Anthony Comstock's "Vampire Literature" (1891) -- Espionage Act of 1917 (1917) and Sedition Act of 1918 (Amendment to 1917 Espionage Act) (1918) -- New York Times Article "Emma Goldman and A. Berkman behind the Bars" (1917) -- Justice Holmes Presents the "Clear and Present Danger" Rule in Schenck v. United States (1919) -- Zechariah Chafee Jr.'s "Freedom of Speech in War Time" (1919) -- "A Case against the Reds" by U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer (1920) -- Gitlow v. New York: Public Safety and the Fourteenth Amendment (1925) -- Supreme Court Concurring Opinion in Whitney v. California (1927) -- Motion Picture Production Code (The Hays Code) (1930) -- Message from President Roosevelt to Congress Recommending Creation of a Federal Communications Commission (1934) -- Letter from Ten-Year-Old William Gobitas to the Minersville School Board (1935); Justice Stone's Dissent in Minersville School District v. Gobitis -- Alien Registration Act of 1940 (1940) -- President Roosevelt's Letter to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (1941) -- President Roosevelt Establishes the Office of Censorship (1941) -- Supreme Court's Majority Opinion in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942) -- President Truman's Veto of the Internal Security Act (McCarren Act) (1950) -- Senator McCarthy's "Enemies From Within" Speech (1950) ; Excerpts from the Declaration of Conscience Speech Given by Senator Margaret Chase Smith -- Supreme Court's Majority Decision in Roth v. United States (1957) -- Supreme Court's Majority Opinion in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) -- President Johnson's Statement upon Signing the Freedom of Information Act (1966) -- Supreme Court's Majority Decision in Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) -- Supreme Court's Majority Opinion in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) -- Speech Given by Ohio Governor Rhodes after Kent State Shootings (1970); Excerpts from the 1970 Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest (1970) -- Morality in Media Cofounder Condemns the Final Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (1970) -- Amicus Brief Filed by ACLU for New York Times Co. v. United States (the Pentagon Papers Case) (1971) -- Supreme Court Majority Opinion in Miller v. California (1973) -- Supreme Court Ruling in Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation (1978) -- Supreme Court Decision in Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico (1982) -- Excerpts from New York v. Ferber Supreme Court Ruling (1982) -- Excerpts from the Supreme Court Ruling in Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986) -- Excerpts from the Supreme Court Decision in Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell (1988) -- A Narrow Supreme Court Decision on Flag Burning in Texas v. Johnson (1989) -- Senators Condemn Using Federal Funds to Support "Abhorrent" Art (1989); Letter from Harvey Lichtenstein, President and Executive Producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Defending the National Endowment for the Arts -- Congressional Hearing on "Violent Video Games: What Parents Need to Know" (1993) -- Cyberporn and Children: The Scope of the Problem, the State of the Technology, and the Need for Congressional Action (1996) -- "On Opposing the USA PATRIOT Act" by Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin (2001); Testimony of Attorney General John Ashcroft to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the PATRIOT Act -- Editorial Cartoon by Ann Telnaes Titled Adulterer? (2001) -- Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition Supreme Court Decision (2002) -- Arkansas District Court Strikes Down Harry Potter Book Banning in Counts v. Cedarville School District (2003) -- Testimony of James E. Hansen on Science Censorship to Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (2007); Statement Issued by Presidents of National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine: "NAS and NAM Presidents Alarmed by Political Interference in Science amid Pandemic" -- President Obama Calls for Increased Openness and Transparency in Government (2009); Letter from Journalists to President Obama Accusing His Administration of Straying from Its Vows of Government Transparency -- Obama White House Press Reaction to Wikileaks Release of Classified Documents (2010) -- Excerpts from Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court Decision (2010) -- Syllabus from Supreme Court Case Elonis v. United States (2015) -- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) President Greg Lukianoff Decries Free Speech Restrictions on College Campuses (2015) -- The Committee to Protect Journalists Calls Trump "a Threat to Press Freedom" (2016); Selected Tweets from President Donald J. Trump's Twitter Account -- Summary of "Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017" (2018) -- Statement in Support of Freedom of the Press from Eighty Organizations "Committed to the First Amendment" (2017) -- Selected Tweets of President Trump Regarding the NFL National Anthem Controversy (2017-2020); Excerpt from The Congressional Record: "Kneeling in Recognition of the Glory of Our Nation" -- "Truth and Democracy" by Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona (2018) -- Statement by Senator Feinstein at Congressional Hearing on "Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data" (2018) -- Amicus Brief Written by First Amendment Scholars and Media Law Scholars for Gilmore v. Jones (2018) -- Lawsuit Filed by Black Lives Matter (BLM) Activists against the Iowa State Patrol (2020). |
| Abstract | "This annotated document collection surveys the history and evolution of laws and attitudes regarding free speech and censorship in the United States, with a special emphasis on contemporary events and controversies related to the First Amendment"-- Provided by the publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 8, 2022). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Eastman, Cari Lee Skogberg, 1974- Free speech and censorship Santa Barbara : Greenwood, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2022] 9781440865381 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021032131 |
| ISBN | 9781440865398 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1440865396 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9798216086963 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9798400653780 (online) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.5040/9798400653780 |