Central part of the country. 202 7488001 for the Mountain Time zone. Send us a text, tell us where you are texting from and your name at 202 7488003. We also welcome your comments on twitter and on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. In many parts of the country, decent weather over the weekend, drawing people out, combined with looser restrictions in some states. An Associated Press story and the Washington Times, wellbehaved crowds coming to beaches and parks. Everyoneweather to seemed to cooperate at an oceanfront park on saturday as new jersey reopened its state parks, people itching to get sand between their toes after months of being cooped up. Island beach state park was among the parks to reopen, drawing several hundred to a beach that routinely handles thousands during the summer. Hours, almost all of the crowd stated six feet apart. They also right that the new jersey governor said he was pleased with the initial reports, not only from the beachfront park, but other state resorts
Class for 2020 and we are talking about free speech, incitement, tree threats and will get started on obscenity. True threats. We will be less socratic than usual because the cspan people asked me to be. And heres a task text we are using, demings constitutional law, a good casebook. The first time i have used it so we are learning our way. Today we talk about free speech and we havent talked about it will protection and race discrimination, gender and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights, a different section about free speech. The framers valued free speech highly. Itthe extent they talk about , they saw as mostly political, more than artistic or expressive. The interesting thing about the First Amendment is the courts did little with it for the First Century of its existence. Fromt all case law comes the 20th century or that when he first. R the 21st. Or that when he First Century. 21st century. E many matters were not federal issues incitement w
Here we are viewed here we are. The first class went pretty well. We are being recorded for cspan. For the folks at cspan, i am university of Tennessee College of law professor glenn harlan reynolds. This is our standard law class for 2020 and we are talking about free speech, incitement, true threats and will get started on obscenity. We will be less socratic than usual because the cspan people asked me to be. Here is the textbook we are using, constitutional law, a good casebook. The first time i have used it so we are learning our way. It is going just fine. We have been talking about free speech, equal protection, race discrimination, gender and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights, a different section about free speech. The framers valued free speech very highly. To the extent they talked about it, they saw it as mostly political, more than artistic or expressive. The interesting thing about the First Amendment is the courts did little with it
To be with you because really there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with than teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from college, and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working in museums and historical sites, and so forth. All of that has had a huge influence on my life. I dont think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers that i had when i was in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject that im going to talk about today. I have, for a long time, as long as long as i can remember, been obsessed with the First World War. I had relatives on both sides of my family who fought in several different armies. And it has always sort of seemed to me, as one historian put it best when he described the First World War as the original sin of the 20th century, and so much of what has afflicted us in the last 100 years comes direc
A little bit of housekeeping before we start , please silence your cell phone we appreciate it. Please remember to step up to the microphone. Before asking your question so we can enjoy the conversation and ensure this will beon recorde recorded. To buy copies of the book at the Cash Register up front. We will be doing a signing so if youre like to have a signed lineup next to the podium and please keep your chairs where they are we will have another event after this one. The reason we are all here it pleased to introduce stephen to all ofl you. A historian biographer and writer appearing in many publications including the atlantic and New York Times and washington post. In 2011 he received a guggenheim fellowship also the author of 17 books including cold warriors the codebreakers this afternoon he will talk about his new book Oliver Wendell holmes. He tells the story of one of the mosthe influential and one of the Supreme Court justices is in history and a definitive biography from t