Many people believe that some books are too graphic to be taught in primary or secondary education. But does this negatively affect the students' learning?

Apr 4, 2011 - Kathleen Szeluga

Countless ancient texts have been lost because their existence posed a threat to prevailing views, often religious. Book burning and censorship continues in modern times.

Jan 4, 2010 - Michael Streich

The classroom has long been a battle ground for First Amendment rights, including the right to read. Censorship in the classroom is no exception.

Dec 13, 2010 - Kimberly Jeans

Censorship is often practiced by those in power to limit social discourse by those who disagree with them.

Jan 20, 2009 - Martha R. Gore

In conjunction with the celebration of Banned Books Week, here are ten some simple ways readers can fight literary censorship.

Aug 31, 2008 - Lisa Rufle

In 2007, the ACLU and other groups pushed against censorship of religious books in American prisons; but, does religious censorship still linger today?

Dec 3, 2009 - Brenna Coleman

Why censorship is a crime against the human mind, and a request for people to stand against it in all forms.

Nov 25, 2010 - Gareth Perkins

Press censorship and attacks on newspapers began with the founding of the nation and always involved political ideals or social controversies like abolition of slavery.

Sep 21, 2009 - Michael Streich

Robert Walpole was powerful enough to excite many satirists, but also to punish them. Here's how one politician changed the course of theatre history in the UK.

May 11, 2007 - Beverley Davies

Since 1982, Banned Books Week has been celebrated in the United States during the last week in September. It reminds Americans of the freedom of speech and of the press.

Jul 11, 2009 - Suzanne Pitner

With the best of intentions, people frequently challenge and ban books. In 2007, over 420 books were challenged or banned from schools and libraries.

Jul 11, 2009 - Suzanne Pitner

Here are some of literature's most controversial books, along with the reasons they were banned.

Apr 13, 2010 - Alice Robinson

Every year the American Library Association receives requests for literary works to be banned, since 1982 libraries and groups have protested by celebrating these books.

Sep 28, 2008 - Michelle Lee Lutz

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five was not only banned in schools and libraries, it was also burned on political, religious and vulgarity grounds.

Sep 17, 2010 - Martha R. Gore

Vladimir Nabokov's book about the affair between a twelve-year-old girl and a middle-aged man was banned because it was considered pornography.

Sep 8, 2010 - Martha R. Gore

Brief biography and works of American novelist Philip Roth.

Feb 25, 2009 - Tel Asiado

Have you ever read any books in the Harry Potter or Gossip Girl series? If you have, then you have read one of the top banned or challenged books of the 21st century.

Oct 1, 2008 - Heather Kemp

The week of September 25, 2010 to October 2, 2010, is known as Banned Book Week. From 1984 to Catcher in the Rye, which Banned book is your favorite?

Sep 30, 2010 - Kevin Dillon