http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:26:54 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/two-recommendations.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Chris Finan) http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/two-recommendations.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/two-recommendations.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:26:54 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00fa9681fc0f0003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00fa9681fc0f0003-50si" alt="Dalton Trumbo" /></a> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00fad6938d270005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00fad6938d270005-50si" alt="Barry Siegel&#39;s &quot;Claim of Privilege&quot;" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/two-recommendations.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00fa9681fb910003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/ala-honors-finan-book.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Chris Finan) http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/ala-honors-finan-book.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/ala-honors-finan-book.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:26:03 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/ala-honors-finan-book.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00fad690c61e0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> award ala finan from the palmer raids http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/beacon-press-announces-series-on-free-speech-history.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Chris Finan) http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/beacon-press-announces-series-on-free-speech-history.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/beacon-press-announces-series-on-free-speech-history.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:06:58 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398f1b3d00005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398f1b3d00005-50si" alt="Beacon Press" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/beacon-press-announces-series-on-free-speech-history.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f48cf00f9d0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> beacon press http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/a-governor-who-makes-you-laugh.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Chris Finan) http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/a-governor-who-makes-you-laugh.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/a-governor-who-makes-you-laugh.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:46:15 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f48cea05820002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f48cea05820002-50si" alt="The Happy Warrior: Alfred E. Smith" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/a-governor-who-makes-you-laugh.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f48d08c0050001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-10.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Chris Finan) http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-10.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-10.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:36:54 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398def0c20004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398def0c20004-50si" alt="Justice Felix Frankfurter" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-10.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f48cfbc8130001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> michigan children frankfurter obscenity http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-9.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Chris Finan) http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-9.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-9.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:11:32 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f48cfbc3d70001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f48cfbc3d70001-50si" alt="James Joyce in 1926" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398deab440005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> ulysses obscenity censorship james joyce http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-6.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Chris Finan) http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-6.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-6.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:38:33 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398dbede20002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398dbede20002-50si" alt="Senator Joseph McCarthy" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-6.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398dbee100002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mccarthy communism joseph communists red scare federal government http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-5.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Chris Finan) http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-5.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-5.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:40:25 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f30f57166a0001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f30f57166a0001-50si" alt="Woolworth&#39;s, Greensboro, NC" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-free-speech-5.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00f30f571ab20001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> civil rights demonstration sit-in http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/a-librarian-to-remember.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Chris Finan) http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/a-librarian-to-remember.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/a-librarian-to-remember.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:06:29 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398d7b6cc0002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398d7b6cc0002-50si" alt="Jeanne Layton, 1930-2008" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/a-librarian-to-remember.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398d7e0770003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> library librarian free speech censorship library bill of rights freedom to read statement http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/face-of-evil.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Chris Finan) http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/face-of-evil.html?_c=feed-rss http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/face-of-evil.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:39:51 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398c6e1c80004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398c6e1c80004-50si" alt="Terry Lucas, Open Book" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://chrisfinan.vox.com/library/post/face-of-evil.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7b270abe2b00e398c6d35d0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> censorship book ban westhampton beach terry lucas read-in