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Defining Documents in American History: Censorship

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Full Table of Contents


The Colonial Era and the Early United States (1607–1829)


Transcript of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson


Roger Williams: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution


In Defense of John Peter Zenger and the Press


First Draft of First Amendment Rights


Alien and Sedition Acts


Letter from A. C. Hanson, Esquire


Speech to Congress about the Tallmadge Amendment


An Act to Amend an Act Entitled, “an Act Reducing into One the Several Acts Concerning Slaves, Free Negroes and Mulattoes, and for Other Purposes”


Debates over the Circulation of “Incendiary Publications”


The Gag Rule Debate


“The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions”


Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction Eras (1840–1877)


The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, Prohibiting Private Mails


Letter of Committee to Cassius M. Clay


“Address to the Virginia Court”


“A Plea for Free Speech in Boston”


Habeas Corpus Suspension Act


Executive Order—Arrest and Imprisonment of Irresponsible Newspaper Reporters and Editors


The Comstock Act


Industrialization and Reform (1878–1918)


Letter to the Editor regarding the Censorship of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass


Sanger v. United States Indictment


Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio


Espionage Act of 1917


Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten


“Blow to I.W.W., 168 Are Indicted”


Interwar Period and WWII (1919–1945)


Schenck v. United States


Court Decision in the Scopes Trial


Near v. Minnesota


United States v. One Book Called “Ulysses”


Farmers Score Steinbeck Book: Kern Association Calls Grapes of Wrath Vilest Propaganda


Executive Order 8985: Establishment of the Office of Censorship


Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire


Letter to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) about “Alien Enemy Detainees”


Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry


Cold War and Red Scare (1946–1950s)


Testimony Regarding Communist Investigations


Internal Security Act of 1950


Comic Book Code of 1954


“A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy”


People of the State of California v. Ferlinghetti


Roth v. United States


Volume 2



Full Table of Contents


Civil Rights, Vietnam, and Culture Wars (1960s–1990s)


Newton Minow: “Television and the Public Interest”


People v. Lenny Bruce


Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District


Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC


New York Times Co. v. United States


Miller v. California


FCC v. Pacifica


Senate Hearing on the Contents of Music and the Lyrics of Records


“Church Declares Last Temptation Morally Offensive”


Hazelwood School District et al. v. Kuhlmeier et al


Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell


Texas v. Johnson


Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union


Post-9/11 Security, the Digital Age, Book Bans, and Social Media (2000s–2025)


Patriot Act


Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission


Statement on the Cancellation of Ann Coulter’s Speech at UC Berkeley


National Football League (NFL) National Anthem Policy


United States v. Julian Assange Indictment


Free Speech Comes with Consequences


Montana Attorney General’s Opinion on Critical Race Theory


Richmond City Council Confederate Monuments Vote


Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill


McMinn County Board of Education banning of Maus Graphic Novel


Florida Higher Education Curriculum—Senate Bill 266


U.S. Department of Education “Dear Colleague” Letter to Colleges and Universities


Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography