Brought to you by:

Explore Our Curricula:

  1. Being An American
  2. Being An American ELL
  3. Founders and the Constitution
  4. Heroes and Villains
  5. Preserving the Bill of Rights
  6. Supreme Court Document Based Questions
  7. Liberty and Security in Modern Times
  8. Religious Liberty: An American Experiment
  9. Congress and the Constitution
  10. Immigration and Citizenship
  11. Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  12. Votes for Women
  13. Additional Resources

Explore Our American Portraits:

Engaging narratives from across American History that allow your students to step into the past and meet the men and women, both well-known and forgotten, who have helped shape our history.

Expansion of Expression

Expansion of Expression

Schenck v. United States (1919)

Case background and primary source documents concerning the Supreme Court case of Schenck v. United States. Dealing with the First Amendment’s free speech protections and whether it has limits during wartime, this lesson asks students to evaluate the Supreme Court’s limitations of free speech set forth in Schenck.

Founding Principles

Freedom of Speech image

Freedom of Speech

The freedom to express one's opinions without interference from the the government is critical to the maintenance of liberty within a free society.

Sign In / Sign Up

Close

Give Feedback

Send us your comments or questions using the form below.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Close