The Political History Leading to Free Speech Movement

Learners conduct research into looking at a free-speech issue. They role play the events surrounding a court case. The lesson includes guiding questions to help create context and determine areas of further study. The presentation...

Explore these primary resources to learn about the free speech movement, particularly in California, determine who the leaders were, where the center of activity was, and what the message was that students were trying to convey.

This site offers a nearly exhaustive list of web resources on the subject of the Free Speech Movement of the sixties and seventies.

This is an article written about a study done at Ohio State University that discovered that hostile political television leads to negative attitudes about politics.

The First Amendment does not always protect free speech. An informative video focuses on how the government has interpreted free speech over the years and efforts like the Sedition Act to limit free speech. Academics learn how our...

What was the most beneficial policy for nineteenth-century African Americans: to stay in the United States and work for freedom, or to immigrate to a new place and build a society elsewhere? Your young historians will construct an...

Relevant resource on free speech in which students examine how different societies define freedom of expression. Through multi-media sources students look at historical sources as well as current controveries over free speech.

Students weigh rights of students and others to free speech versus the responsibilities that come with those rights.

Three activities focus on the First Amendment, especially the freedom of speech. Scholars craft a letter to the President of the United States and express their views about a topic important to them. Another activity has participants...

Find out about historical events leading to the creation of the atomic bomb, beginning with ancient history.