Free Speech: Core Court Cases (Second Edition) is the third of three volumes of Supreme Court cases in Teaching American History’s series of document collections covering major periods, themes, and institutions in American history and government. The goal of the second edition is to provide students with the basic texts and tools for understanding the Supreme Court’s evolving jurisprudence on the right of free speech. Free Speech was preceded by Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases and The Supreme Court: Core Cases. These volumes provide an indispensable education in both the Court’s role in American history and in its reasoning about our most fundamental freedoms. Together with The Judiciary: Core Documents, the volumes provide an understanding of the American judicial system and its role in American life.
Illegal Advocacy
- Schenck v. United States, 1919
- Abrams v. United States, 1919
- Gitlow v. New York, 1925
- Whitney v. California, 1927
- Dennis v. United States, 1951
- Brandenburg v. Ohio, 1969
Symbolic and Offensive Speech
- Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 1942
- Beauharnais v. Illinois, 1952
- Cohen v. California, 1971
- Texas v. Gregory Lee Johnson, 1989
- Virginia v. Black, 2003
- Snyder v. Phelps, 2011
- Matal v. Tam, 2017
Press
- Near v. Minnesota, 1931
- New York Times Company v. Sullivan, 1964
- New York Times Co. v. United States, 1971
- Branzburg v. Hayes, 1972
Educational Setting
- Tinker v. Des Moines, 1969
- Bethel v. Fraser, 1986
- Morse v. Frederick, 2007
- Mahanoy v. B.L., 2021
Broadcasting and Commercial Speech
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Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation, 1978
Obscenity, Violent Video Games, the Internet
- Miller v. California, 1973
- Reno v. ACLU, 1997
- Brown v. Entertainment Merchants, 2011
- 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, 2023