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The Confederate Flag in the Capitol and the Future of American Expression
Recent Presentation on Art Censorship and Social Media at the York Festival of Ideas
Just published: “The Influence of Art Censorship on New York Collectors in the Gilded Age”
New article on John Haberle’s ‘A Bachelor’s Drawer’ in the Metropolitan Museum Journal
My Fulbright Lecture at the Benjamin Franklin House is Online. What would BF think about Facebook?
Praise in the American Historical Review
Winner of the Peter C. Rollins Book Prize of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association
Appreciative Review in the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy
First Amendment Salon with Nadine Strossen at Ballard Spahr LLC is Now Live
Mary Campbell reviews Lust on Trial in Panorama
The Past Present and Future of American Free Speech, at FIT
“Richly detailed, deeply researched and lavishly illustrated.” Immoral Rubber: The Times Literary Supplement Review
Interview at Notches: (re) marks on the History of Sexuality
“An amazing feat of pop-cultural scholarship” The Los Angeles Review of Books
Praise at the Gotham Center for New York City History for “provocative, cutting-edge work.”
How Comstock Changed Law – Podcast with Lee Rawles for the American Bar Association
“Posterity Applies a Disinfectant” Another Smart Take on Lust on Trial @ Inside Higher Ed
“Portrait of a Puritanical Knucklehead” Review @ Inside Higher Ed
So to Speak PODCAST: A great conversation with Nico Perrino
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Author: Amy Werbel

Lust on Trial Featured on Concurring Opinions

Posted on April 11, 2018April 11, 2018Categories Uncategorized

Author Q and A in the Christian Science Monitor

Posted on April 11, 2018April 11, 2018Categories Uncategorized

Lust on Trial Featured on First Amendment Watch

Posted on April 7, 2018April 11, 2018Categories Uncategorized

Lust on Trial is Now Shipping. Save money with discount code CUP30.

Posted on April 5, 2018April 7, 2018Categories Uncategorized

Praise in Publisher’s Weekly for Lust on Trial

Posted on February 5, 2018February 5, 2018Categories Uncategorized

The Cynical Saga of Fearless Girl

Posted on January 28, 2018January 30, 2018Categories Uncategorized

Great Review at Kirkus! “An incisive history of the futility of censorship.”

“A richly detailed examination of Comstock’s life and mission.” READ MORE

Kirkus Reviews, Jan. 22, 2018 (online) for February 15, 2018 edition

Posted on January 23, 2018January 23, 2018Categories Uncategorized

Lessons from Comstock re: Confederate Monuments

Posted on October 9, 2017October 9, 2017Categories Uncategorized

Miss Bentham’s Body in Art and Law: My lecture at the Barber Art Institute now on Vimeo

George Bellows, Nude, Miss Bentham, 1906, Barber Art Institute

Posted on June 16, 2017June 19, 2017Categories UncategorizedTags Censorship, George Bellows, nude in art

Trumpism is the New Comstockery

Louis M. Glackens in Puck, 1906

Posted on June 7, 2017June 21, 2017Categories Anthony ComstockTags Anthony Comstock, Donald Trump, Trumpism

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