Chris Finan’s blog Vox 2008-06-25T22:26:58Z Chris Finan http://chrisfinan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d09e7b270abe2b/ Two recommendations tag:vox.com,2008-06-24:asset-6a00d09e7b270abe2b00fa9681fb910003 2008-06-24T16:26:54Z 2008-06-25T22:26:58Z Chris Finan http://chrisfinan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Dalton Trumbo Barry Siegel's "Claim of Privilege"

The new documentary, "Trumbo," is terrific. Based on a play by Dalton Trumbo's son, it draws heavily on the writer's wonderful letters, which are read by Donald Sutherland, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, Paul Giamatti and Joan Allen. Trumbo...

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]]> Librarians Honor "From the Palmer Raids" tag:vox.com,2008-06-12:asset-6a00d09e7b270abe2b00fad690c61e0004 2008-06-12T16:26:03Z 2008-06-12T16:30:06Z Chris Finan http://chrisfinan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Contact: Jen Hammond Program Coordinator, OIF (312) 280-4223 jhammond@ala.org NEWS For Immediate Release June 10, 2008 Christopher M. Finan receives Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award CHICAGO –Christopher M. Finan has been chosen the winner of t...

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]]> Beacon Announces Series on Free Speech History tag:vox.com,2008-04-19:asset-6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f48cf00f9d0002 2008-04-19T23:06:58Z 2008-04-21T17:24:54Z Chris Finan http://chrisfinan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Beacon Press

Beacon Press, an independent publisher of serious non-fiction and fiction for over 150 years, announced today that it will publish a series of books about the history of freedom of speech in the United States. The Beacon series will explore the...

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]]> A Governor Who Makes You Laugh tag:vox.com,2008-03-31:asset-6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f48d08c0050001 2008-03-31T21:46:15Z 2008-03-31T21:46:15Z Chris Finan http://chrisfinan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Happy Warrior: Alfred E. Smith

David A. Paterson is not the first governor of New York who could tell a joke. In 1918, New Yorkers narrowly elected Alfred E. Smith as governor. Smith had learned to crack “wise” growing up on the streets of the Lower East Side. His h...

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]]> This Day in Free Speech tag:vox.com,2008-02-20:asset-6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f48cfbc8130001 2008-02-20T21:36:54Z 2008-02-21T19:35:42Z Chris Finan http://chrisfinan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Justice Felix Frankfurter

February 22 In 1957, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Michigan obscenity law that made it a crime to publish, print or sell any work containing " obscene, immoral, lewd or lascivious language....tending to incite minors to violent or depraved...

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James Joyce in 1926

February 21st In 1921, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap are convicted of obscenity in New York for publishing an excerpt from James Joyce's novel Ulysses in their magazine, Little Review. The excerpt described indirectly but clearly a middle-a...

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Senator Joseph McCarthy

February 8 In 1950, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy charged in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, that the State Department was full of Communists and Communist sympathizers who were shaping American policy in ways that aided an internat...

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]]> This Day In Free Speech tag:vox.com,2008-01-30:asset-6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f30f571ab20001 2008-01-30T23:40:25Z 2008-02-02T15:45:07Z Chris Finan http://chrisfinan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Woolworth's, Greensboro, NC

February 1 In 1960, four African-American students from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College sat down at a segregated lunch counter at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Black students were soon staging "sit-ins" at se...

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]]> A librarian to remember tag:vox.com,2008-01-30:asset-6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398d7e0770003 2008-01-30T22:06:29Z 2008-01-30T23:52:18Z Chris Finan http://chrisfinan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Jeanne Layton, 1930-2008

One of the questions I most enjoyed answering in my history of free speech was, "Since when did librarians become champions of free speech?" There was a time in this country when the leaders of the book community believed it was their job to hel...

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]]> Face of evil tag:vox.com,2007-12-11:asset-6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398c6d35d0002 2007-12-11T16:39:51Z 2007-12-11T17:39:36Z Chris Finan http://chrisfinan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Terry Lucas, Open Book

I thought you might like to see the face of the Westhampton Beach, N.Y., bookseller who defended the use of "salacious" books at the local high school. Terry Lucas is the woman in white. This picture was taken last weekend during the Christmas on...

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