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Two hundred and twenty-eight years ago, Virginia successfully enacted legal protections for religious minorities, establishing the precursor to the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Read More

This is a case for the Supreme Court. Read More

Something more than fires and rage has been sparked in the streets of Ferguson. The First Amendment, like the city, is now a rallying cry and a hashtag for protesters exercising their rights to peaceably assemble and to petition the government. Read More

On Dec. 6, 1884, after 36 years of delays and interruptions caused by politics, a lack of funds and the Civil War, the Washington Monument in the nations capital was finally completed. Read More

A bipartisan list of politicians, media stars and special guests gathered at the Newseum Nov. 17 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of CBS Newss long-running Sunday news program, Face the Nation. Read More

On Nov. 17, 1734, before there was a First Amendment, newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger became a free-press hero when he was jailed for printing truthful articles in his New-York Weekly Journal accusing British Colonial governor William Cosby of being corrupt. Read More

On Nov. 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, one of the worlds first female reporters and the New York Worlds intrepid stunt girl, embarked on an ambitious mission to circle the globe in less time than Phileas Fogg, the hero of Jules Vernes novel Around the World in Eighty Days. It was her latest attempt to dazzle readers and keep Joseph Pulitzers No. 1 daily on top of the newspaper world. Read More

On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. East German authorities opened the border between East and West Berlin and the door to the fall of tyranny. The wall went up in the early morning darkness of Aug. 13, 1961, to keep millions of people from fleeing communist East Germany after World War II. It fell as suddenly as it had been built. Read More

Going viral might seem like a modern, Internet-era concept, but Orson Welles and CBS Radio mastered it 76 years ago this week. Read More

Presses passes held in a hand or slung around the neck give journalists front-row seats at the events that shape our times. The events end, but the press passes remain, like Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlees press pass from 1972. Read More

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