Thursday, November
17, 2005
Place: Mills College, Bender
Room in Carnegie Hall
5000 MacArthur Blvd. (directions.pdf
)
Oakland, CA
Time: 8:30 AM – 3:30
PM
Speaker:
Caroline Winterer, Stanford
University link
“Freedom of Expression
in 18th-Century America: The
Case of Peter Zenger, 1735” ...more
information
10:30
-10:45
Break
10:45
– 11:00
Evaluation
update – Matt Russell,
Center for Evaluation and
Research
11:00
– 12:00
Lesson
Study – Beginning
to translate “The
Case of Peter Zenger”
into Classroom Practice
5th
grade Freedom of Expression
- Trial of John Peter Zenger,
1735
Zenger’s case is useful
for understanding the origins
of the notion of freedom
of expression. Zenger was
a German-born printer who
published scathing criticisms
of New York governor William
Cosby. The New York council
ordered copies of his paper
burned and had Zenger arrested
on charges of seditious
libel. In the partisan conflicts
of the day, the jury sided
with Zenger and he was acquitted,
although for many years
thereafter libel laws continued
to keep a check on a free
press.
