Press and Speech Freedoms in America, 1619-1995 A Chronology

Subjects:

• History » American History (General)
• Communications » Communications Law
• Communications » Journalism
• Law » Constitutional Law

Reviews:

• By its very nature, the strength of the work is, of course, as a source book for research and teaching.... Because of those strengths, the book should find its way into the university library and the collections of those scholars focusing on freedom of expression.
  —The Law and Politics Book Review

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Freedom of Expression in the Twentieth Century
• The Colonial Beginnings: 1619 Through 1699
• Agitation for Press Freedom: 1700 Through 1759
• The Patriots and Their Revolution: 1760 Through 1786
• The First Amendment Tangles with Sedition: 1787 Through 1799
• Re-Emergence of Free Expression: 1800 Through 1824
• The Bitter Causes and Bitter War: 1825 Through 1867
• The Fourteenth Amendment: 1868 Through 1899
• World War I and Censorship: 1900 Through 1924
• Achieving New Concepts of Free Expression: 1925 Through 1949
• Freedom of Expression at Mid-Century: 1950 Through 1959
• The Decade of the 1960s: 1960 Through 1969
• The Decade of the 1970s: 1970 Through 1979
• The Decade of the 1980s: 1980 Through 1989
• The Beginnings of the 1990s: 1990 Through 1994
• The Turbulent Year of 1995
• Supreme Court Selected Cases: 1812 Through 1995
• The Promise of the Twenty-first Century
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index of Supreme Court Selected Cases
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Persons