Plato's Apology of Socrates
The ministry of St. Paul
Thomas More and parliamentary immunity (1521)
John Milton's Areopagitica (1644)
William Blackstone, Patrick Henry, and Edmund Burke on liberty (1765-1790)
The Declaration of Independence (1776), the Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Constitutionalism and the workings of freedom of speech
The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1785)
The emergence of a national bill of rights (1789-1791)
The organization of the First Amendment
The Sedition Act of 1798
John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859)
Freedom of speech and the coming of the Civil War
The naive folly of realists : a defense of Justice Black (1937-1971)
Schenck v. United States (1919), Abrams v. United States (1919)
Debs v. United States (1919), Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Winston S. Churchill and the cause of freedom
Dennis v. United States (1951), the Rosenberg Case (1950-1953)
Cohen v. California (1971), Texas v. Johnson (1989)
The Pentagon Papers Case (1971)
Obscenity and the law
Private property and public freedom
Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
The regulation of commercial speech
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
The future of the First Amendment?.