Ep. 191 Civil liberties and Civil War

In the last episode of the “So to Speak” podcast, we traced the
dramatic story of free speech in the United States from colonial
America to the abolitionists' campaign to abolish slavery. In
this week’s episode, we pick up where we left off and explore the
complicated history and legacy of civil liberties during the
American Civil War.


Professor and author Joseph R. Fornieri and FIRE Chief Counsel
Robert Corn-Revere join the show this week to unpack Abraham
Lincoln’s justifications for suspending civil liberties and the
important lesson that, in war, civil liberties can be hard to
uphold, and our rights can be difficult to defend. 


Show notes:


Transcript



“Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and
Reconstruction” by Allen Guelzo




“Lincoln’s First Amendment Record” by Eve Errickson (The
Lincoln Cottage)




“The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties” by
Mark E. Neeley, Jr.




“All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime” by William
H. Rehnquist




“Did Abraham Lincoln Exceed His Presidential Powers during
the Civil War?” (The Bill of Rights Institute)




“Lincoln and Civil Liberties” (The Gilder-Lehrman Institute)




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a special live-streamed episode of the "So to Speak" podcast
about the Supreme Court's free speech decisions from this past
term. 


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London on what these decisions mean for free expression, (and
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