Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works

From Shakespeare to Harry Potter and beyond, trace the history of book banning and censorship in the English-speaking world and see why it continues today.

• By This Professor
• 01: Bowdlerizing the Bard
• 02: Ulysses on Trial
• 03: The Defense for Lady Chatterley’s Lover
• 04: Censors from the Inquisition to the Puritans
• 05: Anthony Comstock’s Moral Crusade
• 06: Books on Fire: The Reformation to Rushdie
• 07: Allen Ginsberg’s Alarming “Howl”
• 08: Holden Caulfield’s Subversive Voice
• 09: Artistry, Morality, and Nabokov’s Lolita
• 10: Authors Who Censor Themselves
• 11: The Hidden Dangers of Fairy Tales
• 12: Contested Classics of Children’s Literature
• 13: New Kids’ Books, Old Objections
• 14: Canceled Authors
• 15: Huckleberry Finn and Race in America
• 16: To Kill a Mockingbird, Then and Now
• 17: Young Adult Fiction and Its Discontents
• 18: Attempts to Suppress #MeToo Books
• 19: The Battle over Critical Race Theory
• 20: Alice Walker and Toni Morrison under Attack
• 21: The Textbook Wars
• 22: The Backlash against Harry Potter
• 23: Fun Home: An All-Too-Graphic Memoir
• 24: Contesting the Great American Novel