First Amendment Conference

• 9:30 a.m. |  Introductory Session | Matthew Brogdon | The Declaration and a Free Press
• 10 a.m. | Session 1 | Greg Jackson | "That rascal Freneau!": The Partisan Press and Free Speech in the Early Republic
• 11 a.m. | Session 2 | Presenter TBD | The Place of a Free Press in America
• 12:15 | Lunch Break
• 2 p.m. | Session 3 | Carson Holloway and TBD Panelists | Libel and the New York Times v. Sullivan decision
• 3 p.m. | Session 4 | Journalist Panel | Press Access and the Federal Government: Violation of Free Press or No?

Presenters and Panelists

• Matthew Brogdon  |  Has served as senior director of the Center for Constitutional Studies (CCS) since 2023. Previously, he was an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he taught broadly in the fields of American politics, constitutionalism and political philosophy. As a teacher, he has been recognized for excellence in service to students by the National Society of Leadership and Success and for his contribution to academic integrity by Baylor University, where he previously taught. His scholarship examines American constitutionalism with special attention to the federal judiciary. He has published on the constitutional origins of judicial federalism and the development of the federal courts, among other topics. 
• Greg Jackson  |  Professor Greg Jackson is best known as the creator, host, and head writer of the U.S. history podcast, History That Doesn't Suck. He's a regular on History Channel documentaries and makes appearances on other major history podcasts and radio. He also tours nationally with his live-stage show, The Unlikely Union. He is an associate professor at Utah Valley University, where he's a senior fellow in National Security Studies and a fellow in Integrated Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Utah as a Burton Scholar. He earned his M.A. in French Studies and B.A. in History from Brigham Young University.
• Carson Holloway  |  A visiting fellow at Utah Valley University and a Washington Fellow at The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life. His research focuses on American constitutionalism and the liberal nationalism of the American Founding. He is the Ralph Wardle Diamond Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at University of Nebraska, Omaha. He is co-editor, with Bradford P. Wilson, of the two-volume work The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is also the author of Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration: Completing the Founding or Betraying the Founding? (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His scholarly articles have appeared in the Review of Politics, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, and Perspectives on Political Science, and he has written for The Wall Street Journal, First Things, The New Criterion, National Affairs, Law & Liberty, Public Discourse, The Federalist, and National Review.