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• Commercial distribution of material harmful to minors on World Wide Web : report of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on S. 1482. (U.S. G.P.O., 1998), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship (second edition; New York: Free Expression Policy Project, c2003), by Marjorie Heins and Christina Cho (PDF at fepproject.org)
• Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen (New York: Privately printed for the Emergency Committee, 1920), by Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen, contrib. by James Branch Cabell, Barrett H. Clark, Padraic Colum, Edward Hale Bierstadt, Arnold Bennett, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Joseph Hergesheimer, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Christopher Morley, Hugh Walpole, Kate Douglas Wiggin, and Owen Wister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who is the Enemy: Anthony Comstock Or You? (New York: Edwin C. Walker, 1903), by Edwin C. Walker (page images at Google; US access only)
• To the pure ... A study of obscenity and the censor, by Morris L. Ernst and William Seagle. (Kraus Reprint, 1969), by Morris Leopold Ernst and William Seagle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Who is the enemy; Anthony Comstock or you? (E.C. Walker, 1903), by Edwin C. Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our advancing postal censorship (Public Publishing, 1905), by Louis F. Post (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congress and the administration's secrecy pledges : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, August 10, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1988), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military cold war education and speech review policies. Hearings before the Special Preparedness Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1962), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military cold war education and speech review policies. Hearings before the Special Preparedness Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session... (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1962), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules for operating companies. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1942), by United States. Office of Censorship (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report on the Office of Censorship. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1945), by United States. Office of Censorship (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military cold war education and speech review policies. Report by Special Preparedness Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, (87th Cong., 2d sess.) on the use of military personnel and facilities to arouse the public to the menace of the cold war and to inform and educate armed services personnel on the nature and menace of the cold war (including individual views) . . . (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1962), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the pure ... A study of obscenity and the censor (The Viking press, 1929), by Morris L. Ernst and William Seagle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The KGB and the library target, 1962-present : (effective date of study, January 1, 1988) (Intelligence Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1988), by United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Intelligence Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defense Secretary McNamara on S. Res. 191. Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session, on S. Res. 191, a resolution to authorize the Committee on Armed Services to study the use of military personnel and facilities to arouse the public to the menace of the cold war. September 6 and 7, 1961. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1961), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and Robert S. McNamara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armed forces censorship (The Depts., 1964), by United States. Department of the Army, United States Department of the Air Force, and United States Navy Department (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trial of D.M. Bennett (The Truth seeker office, 1879), by De Robigne Mortimer Bennett, S. B. Hinsdale, Samuel B. Hinsdale, and United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Born to trouble : one hundred years of Huckleberry Finn (Library of Congress, 1985), by Justin Kaplan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Attacks on the freedom to learn. (People for the American Way, in the 20th century), by Inc Citizens for Constitutional Concerns and People for the American Way (page images at HathiTrust)

• Attacks on the Freedom to Learn (1996), by People for the American Way (HTML at archive.org)

• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)
• First Amendment: Cases, Controversies, and Contexts (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2016), by Ruthann Robson (revised first edition: multiple formats at archive.org)
• Confessions of a Presidential Speechwriter (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2014), by Craig R. Smith (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Samuel Medary and The Crisis: Testing the Limits of Press Freedom (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Reed W. Smith (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Post Office Ban on "Revolutionary Age" (1931), by American Civil Liberties Union (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press (1911), by Theodore Schroeder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Censorship of Comic Books: A Statement in Opposition on Civil Liberties Grounds (1955), by American Civil Liberties Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crimes of the "Times": A Test of Newspaper Decency (Pasadena: The author, 1921), by Upton Sinclair
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• Prejudice and the press; a restatement of the principle of freedom of the press with specific reference to the Hutchins-Luce Commission. (Devin-Adair, 1950), by Frank L. Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberty and the press, a history of the Chicago tribune's fight to preserve a free press for the American people (The Chicago tribune, 1944), by Philip Kinsley and Tribune Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The liberty of the press in the American colonies before the revolutionary war. With particular reference to conditions in the royal colony of New York. (T. Whittaker, 1905), by Livingston Rowe Schuyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stop the press! (Fairplay Publishers, 1953), by George Marion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom of speech and press in America (Public Affairs Press, 1963), by Edward G. Hudon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The people's right to know; legal access to public records and proceedings. (Columbia University Press, 1953), by Harold L. Cross and American Society of Newspaper Editors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom of expression hearings before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on freedom of expression, September 28, 30, and November 19, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Print and electronic media the case for first amendment parity (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• The CIA and the media : hearings before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first and second sessions .... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Subcommittee on Oversight (page images at HathiTrust)
• First amendment clarification act of 1977 hearing before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session, on S. 22 ... June 7, 1978. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by Science United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reporters' privilege legislation : preserving effective federal law enforcement : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, September 20, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2007), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reporters' privilege legislation : issues and implications : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, July 20, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2009), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reporters' privilege legislation : an additional investigation of issues and implications : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, October 19, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2009), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contempts by publication; the law of trial by newspaper (Priv. print. [Yale University Press], 1940), by Harold Wadsworth Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of journalism; including matters relating to the freedom of the press, libel, contempt of court, property rights in news, and regulation of advertising (Washington Law Book Co.;, 1940), by Robert William Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Victory in Oklahoma over Hitlerism in America. (Allied printing trades council, 1943) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Libel law and the First Amendment : hearings before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on ... June 27 and July 18, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by Civil Liberties United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libel : hearing before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session ... February 26, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• The freedom of the press. Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker's message approving the bill in restraint of its liberty and Charles Emory Smith's editorial in protest. ([s.n.], 1903), by Charles Emory Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Are foreign libel lawsuits chilling America's First Amendment rights? : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, February 23, 2010. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Survival of a free, competitive press : the small newspaper: democracy's grass roots ; report of the chairman to the members of the committee of the Special committee to study problems of American small business, United States senate. (Govt. print. off., 1947), by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dissertation upon the constitutional freedom of the press in the United States of America. (Printed by David Carlisle, for Joseph Nancrede, no. 49, Marlborough street., 1801), by Joseph Nancrede, James Sullivan, and Impartial citizen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of libel and the liberty of the press; showing the origin, use, and abuse of the law of libel: with copious notes and references to authorities in Great Britain and the United States: as applicable to individuals and to political and ecclesiastical bodies and principles. (G. F. Hopkins, 1830), by Thomas Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old battle renewed for the freedom of the press (Atkinson, 1907), by Wilmer Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom of the press. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-second Congress, first and second sessions. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1972), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sochinenīi︠a︡. (Tip. V.S. Balasheva, 1887), by K. N. Bati︠u︡shkov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subpenaed material re certain TV news documentary programs. Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Special Subcommittee on Investigations (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dissertation upon the constitutional freedom of the press in the United States of America (Printed by David Carlisle, for Joseph Nancrede ..., 1801), by Impartial citizen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the indignation meeting held in Faneuil Hall, Thursday evening, August 1, 1878 : to protest against the injury done to the freedom of the press by the conviction and imprisonment of Ezra H. Heywood. (B.R. Tucker, 1878), by Benjamin Ricketson Tucker and John Wilson and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bench, the bar and the press : the main currents of our democracy (Kingsport Press, 1951), by Henry Clay Greenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom of expression : hearings before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on freedom of expression, September 28, 30, and November 19, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Act to Limit Governmental Search and Seizure of Documentary Materials Possessed by Persons, to Provide a Remedy for Persons Aggrieved by Violations of the Provisions of This Act, and for Other Purposes. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1980), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contempt of court by publication. (Maryland Press Association, 1951), by Alfred Crowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom of speech and of the press; speech in the Senate of the United States, January 18, 1934. (Government Printing Office, 1934), by Arthur R. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What the lawyer wishes from the newspaper ... ([n.p., 1924), by Guy A. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The regional director and the press. (Printed and distributed for the ICP by Polygraphic co. of America, 1952), by Inter-university Case Program (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on the liberty of the press; respectfully inscribed to the republican printers throughout the United States. / By Hortensius. (Philadelphia: : Printed at the Aurora office,, 1799), by George Hay and John Adams (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The political happiness of nations; an oration. Delivered at the city of New-York, on the Fourth July, twenty-fourth anniversary of American independence. / By Elihu Palmer. ; The press--The friend of liberty and the scourge of tyrants. ([New York? : s.n., 1800?]), by Elihu Palmer (HTML at Evans TCP)
• True interest of Britain (Philadelphia: : Printed, and sold, by Robert Bell, in Third-Street., MDCCLXXVI. [1776]), by Josiah Tucker, Robert Bell, and Benjamin Franklin (HTML at Evans TCP)

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