Recent years have seen a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books. Here's how book banning emerged—and how it turned school libraries into battlegrounds.
Book banning is more common than ever. Stories featuring LGBTQ+ issues are often targets today—including these five books that survived an attempt to remove them from the shelves of the library at North Hunterdon Regional High School in Annandale, N.J.Recent years have seen a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books. Here's how book banning emerged—and how it turned school libraries into battlegrounds.Mark Twain. Harriet Beecher Stowe. William Shakespeare.
Though censorship is as old as writing, its targets have shifted over the centuries. Here’s how book banning emerged in the United States—stretching as far back as when some of the nation’s territories were British colonies—and how censorship affects modern readers today.Most of the earliest book bans were spurred by religious leaders, and by the time Great Britain founded its colonies in America, it had a longstanding history of book censorship.
Meanwhile, obscenity was also a prime target in Boston, the capital of the state that had sanctioned the first book burning in the U.S. Boston’s book censors challenged everything they considered “indecent,” from Walt Whitman’sat Sotheby's on June 3, 2022, in New York City. This fireproof edition of the often-banned book was created to raise awareness about the proliferation of censorship.
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