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What You Need to Know About the Book Bans Sweeping the U.S.

As school leaders pull more books off library shelves and curriculum lists amid a fraught culture war, we explore the impact, legal landscape and history of ...

Book Ban Data | Banned Books - American Library Association

The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has released new data documenting book challenges throughout the United States, ...

Book Bans and the Librarians Who Won't Be Hushed

Suddenly book bans and other forms of censorship in schools and libraries are ascendant across the country, led by organized groups and politicians.

Banning Books is an Act of Censorship and it Can Take Many Forms

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that those protections are broad under the First Amendment, and necessary for self-expression. But attempts to ...

Book Bans - PEN America

Book Bans. PEN America tracks book bans and fights censorship in public schools and libraries across the country. Books are under profound attack in the United ...

Report: Last year ended with a surge in book bans - NPR

According to PEN America, 4349 books were banned from schools between July and December 2023, more than the entire previous school year.

Unite Against Book Bans

United Against Book Bans is a national initiative to empower readers everywhere to stand together in the fight against censorship. Join us.

Banned in the USA - PEN America

Book bans occur when those choices are overridden by school boards, administrators, teachers, or even politicians, on the basis of a particular ...

Banned & Challenged Books - American Library Association

Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical ...

How Do Books Get Banned? - First Amendment Museum

“Challenging” a book is the attempt to ban a book from a library, school district, institution, organization, government entity, retailer, or publisher based ...

US public schools banned 10000 books in most recent academic year

US public schools banned 10,000 books in most recent academic year ... More than 10,000 books were banned in US public schools from 2023 to 2024, ...

Book Banning | The Free Speech Center - MTSU

Book banning, a form of censorship, occurs when private individuals, government officials or organizations remove books from libraries, school reading lists or ...

Book censorship in the United States - Wikipedia

List of other banned books · Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian · And Tango Makes Three · Black Boy · Candide · The Canterbury Tales · Carrie · Catch-22 · The ...

History of Book Banning - Research Guides at Harvard Library

What is considered the first book ban in the United States took place in 1637 in what is now known as Quincy, Massachusetts. Thomas Morton ...

Book Bans Continue to Surge in Public Schools - The New York Times

The rise in book bans has accelerated in recent years, driven by conservative groups and by new laws and regulations that limit what kinds of ...

Banned Books – Top 3 Pros and Cons - ProCon.org

Sexually explicit content, offensive language, and “unsuited to any age group” are the top three reasons cited for requesting a book be removed.

Challenged & Banned Books List | Barnes & Noble®

Discover our list of the top banned & challenged books from today and the past at Barnes & Noble. Read our wide list of books that were ...

Book Banning - The Authors Guild

Book banning, whether challenged by the right or the left, interferes with those rights, not only by suppressing free speech and freedom of expression but by ...

Book banning | Definition, Examples, & Facts | Britannica

Book banning, the practice of prohibiting or restricting the reading of certain books by the general public or by members of a local ...

Banned Books Week | Mid-Continent Public Library

Mid-Continent Public Library highlighted banned books of years past, with each branch home to one book you may be surprised to see on a list of censored books.