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A display of formerly banned books at a US library. Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives. This ...
During the 17th century, a typical form of book censorship in the United States was book burning. What is considered as the first book ban in what is now known as the United States was of Thomas Morton's New English Canaan or New Canaan, published in Amsterdam in 1637. That same year, the Puritan government in Quincy, Massachusetts, banned it ...
The Banned Book Club, an online resource that allows readers to check out books banned by local libraries [55] Queer Liberation Library, is an LGBT digital library that aims to provide resources representing LGBT communities that is accessible to those living in areas where physical access to LGBT books is limited [42]
The ALA revealed in an earlier news release this year that 17 U.S. states challenged more than 100 book titles in 2023. Florida and Texas, by far, challenged the most books in 2023 with a combined ...
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According to the Miami Herald, since July 2022, Florida has added more than 1,300 books to its book ban list, making it the state with the highest number of banned books. Texas came in second with ...
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Efforts to ban these books have permeated public libraries and school board meetings in various states, including in Minnesota where parents, students and free speech groups have clashed over what ...