In wartime America, free speech was limited.

The year is 1917. The air is thick with the smell of ink, paper, and the summer heat. The communist party of Philadelphia has produced more than 15,000 pamphlets discouraging the draft, led by Charles T. Schenck.

In 1917, the United States had entered World War I. Dissent was dangerous, and the government was suspicious.

From a printing press in Philadelphia full of pamphlets to majority decisions against free speech, explore how free speech was tested, limited, and tested again-- changing how the law views free speech forever.