Between June 13 and June 30, 1971, the country compressed a fundamental argument about the freedom of the press into fifteen days. This is the story of those days, told as they happened, from the first New York Times installment to a Supreme Court that interrupted its own recess to rule. A companion to the prior-restraint essay, told as narrative.

Field Notes on the Republic was written and read by Michael Fowler. It was produced for Quorum (Supply Co.), an American civic purveyor. Music is "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," performed by the U.S. Military Academy Band, West Point.