edition, Levy added an extensive preface discussing and responding to the criticism that the book received for being critical of Jefferson. In 1985 after nearly two decades of research, Levy published Emergence of a Free Press, a thorough and wide-ranging revision of Legacy of Suppression. Emergence of a Free Press received the 1986 Mencken Award for Best Book from the Free Press Association. While maintaining that his earlier views of the state of the law were correct, Levy acknowledged the criticisms posed by historians of journalism, who stressed the difference between "law on the books" and "law as applied". Thus, Levy conceded that in actuality freedom of the press may well have been wider and more generous than his earlier book had posited. In 1990 Levy was appointed a distinguished scholar in residence; adjunct professor of history and political science at Southern Oregon State College in Ashland, Oregon. He died August 24, 2006, in Ashland. Works The Law of the Commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw (Harvard University Press, 1957) Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in Early American History (Harvard University Press, 1960) Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side (Harvard University Press, 1963) Freedom of the Press From Zenger to Jefferson: Early American Libertarian Theories (Carolina Academic Press, January 1, 1966) Judicial Review and the Supreme Court (1967) Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination (Oxford University Press, 1968) (1969 Pulitzer Prize for History) The Supreme Court Under Earl Warren (1972) Judgements: Essays on American Constitutional History (1972) Treason Against God: A History of the Offense of Blasphemy (1981) A Conversation with Bernard W. Levy by George Forsyth (1982) Emergence of a Free Press (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985) Religion and the First Amendment (1986) The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment (1989) Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993) The Origins of the Bill of Rights (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1999) Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution (Ivan R. Dee Publisher, January 1, 2000) The Palladium of Justice: Origins of Trial by Jury (Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2000) References Mencken Awards list of winners External links R. B. Bernstein, "Distinguished historian Leonard W. Levy dies at 83" Ronald Collins, "Famed First Amendment scholar Leonard W. Levy dies" Stanley N. Katz, "Remembering Leonard W. Levy" Adam Liptak, "Leonard Levy, 83, Expert