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    • Free Speech in an Age of Rage
    • By: Jonathan Turley
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Turley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Jonathan Turley takes a timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others....

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    • Breaking Free from the First Amendment
    • By: Mary Anne Franks
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Mary Anne Franks
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Fearless Speech, Dr. Mary Anne Franks emphasizes the distinction between what speech a democratic society should protect and what speech a democratic society should promote.

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    • The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
    • By: Cameron McWhirter
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Author Cameron McWhirter chronicles the unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings that swept the country for eight months, from April to November of 1919, while also exploring the first stirrings of a civil rights movement that would transform American society 40 years later....

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    • The First Post-Civil War Battle over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression
    • By: Scott Farris
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Highlighting forgotten Black and White civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn...

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    • The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
    • By: Charles Lane
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era US Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitle....

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    • The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Fergus Bordewich
    • Narrated by: Peter J. Fernandez
    • Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change....

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    • America's First Civil Rights Movement from the Revolution to Reconstruction
    • By: Kate Masur
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, North and South, in the decades before the Civil War....

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    • Lessons in Leadership and Legacy from Today's Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Steven L. Reed, Fagan Harris
    • Narrated by: Steven L. Reed
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first Black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, shares his story of making his way in a world that wasn’t built for him, drawing on his rich heritage as the son of a civil rights leader....

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    • The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
    • By: P. E. Moskowitz
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of free speech - and how we can reclaim it....

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    • How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind and Changed the History of Free Speech in America
    • By: Thomas Healy
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 262 ratings
    • No right seems more fundamental to American public life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the 20th century, that freedom was still an unfulfilled promise....

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    • America’s First Women Soldiers
    • By: Elizabeth Cobbs
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the US Army....

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    • The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
    • By: Mark Bowden
    • Narrated by: Mark Bowden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 408 ratings
    • The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in American history....

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    • The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
    • By: Jonathan Eig
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-16-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history....

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    • The Boundaries and the Boundlessness of Our First Amendment Right
    • By: Lynn Greenky
    • Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When Freedom Speaks chronicles the stories behind our First Amendment right to speak our minds. Lynn Levine Greenky's background as a lawyer, rhetorician, and teacher gives her a unique perspective on the protection we have from laws that abridge our right to the freedom of speech....

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    • Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
    • By: Justin Driver
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school stu­dents, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Nadine Strossen
    • Narrated by: Nadine Strossen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
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    • This concise but comprehensive book lays out specific answers to myriad topical questions about free speech law, and also general explanations of how and why the law distinguishes between protected and punishable speech.

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    • Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
    • By: Charles Slack
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Liberty's First Crisis, writer Charles Slack tells the story of the 1798 Sedition Act, the crucial moment when high ideals met real-world politics and the country's future hung in the balance....

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    • How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump
    • By: Stanley Fish
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From celebrated public intellectual, New York Times best-selling author, and “America’s most famous professor” (BookPage) comes an urgent and sharply observed look at freedom of speech and the First Amendment....

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    • Elizabeth Jennings, Chester A. Arthur, and the Early Fight for Civil Rights
    • By: Jerry Mikorenda
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • On February 22, 1855, the Elizabeth Jennings v. Third Avenue Rail Road case was settled: The jury stunned the courtroom with a $250 verdict in Lizzie’s favor. Future US president Chester A. Arthur was Jennings’ attorney, and their lives would be forever onward intertwined....

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