CSPAN3 February 25, 2012
military governors, we can add the following to the litany. participating in or failing to prevent mob attacks against newspaper offices. official censorship, the of battlefield reports, the banishment of some, the humiliating punishment of others. if anything, i think historians have not made a full audit. they focused on two or three landmark cases which are often viewed as mistakes later corrected. most scholars have assessed the curtailment of press liberty during the civil war as surprisingly infrequent and usually justified. i'm going to suggest tonight the effort was actually ...