AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS FOUNDATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION Sign up for the ABFFE UPDATE newsletter: E-mail address: ABFFE Warns Against Making War on Free Speech On April 25, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression joined other free expression groups in warning that some of the anti-terrorist measures adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks pose a serious threat to free speech.

Presents BANNED BOOKS ONLINE Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of The Online Books Page. (See that page for over 14, 000 more online books!) This page is a work in progress, and more works may be added to this page ...

Freedom to Read Week encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom.

Every year, books in the U.S. and around the world are challenged. Some of the challenged books are banned, some aren't. The punishment for ignoring these bans range from almost nonexistent to severe. Here are some sites that deal with who bans these books, and why.

As long as humans have sought to communicate, others have sought to prevent them. Every day someone tries to restrict or control what can be said, written, sung, or broadcast. Almost every idea ever thought has proved objectionable to one person or another, and almost everyone has sometimes felt the world would be a better place if only so and so would go away. Perhaps because of their ubiquity, ...

This page is dedicated to author Salman Rushdie Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Heinrich Heine Nazis burn books in Berlin in 1933. Burning is no answer. Camille Desmoulines reply to Robespierre, January 7, 1794, on burning his newspaper Vieux Cordelier Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a ...

Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections He who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe Robert Vosper had, above all, a commitment to the library as the home of free and open inquiry. During the McCarthy reign of terror, early in Vosper's tenure1951 to 1960as Director of Libraries at KU, he and the equally committed Chancellor, Franklin D. Murphy, supported what ...

Humanities Interactive presented by The Texas Humanities Resource Center Bonfire of Liberties CENSORSHIP OF THE HUMANITIES An Interactive Humanities Exhibition Digital Media Production by DIGITAL ARTS CONSULTING Tools for Electronic Enlightenment The bonfire was a very efficient form of censorship in an age when books were handwritten and existed in few copies. But in the era of printing and ...

Winter 1996 Volume 23, Number 2 M. Jerry Weiss, Editor Jersey City State College, Jersey City, New Jersey WHAT JOHNNY CAN'T READ Censorship in American Libraries by Suzanne Fisher Staples Among my happiest memories are of rainy summer days tuck-ed up under the eaves of our family's rustic lake cottage, a gentle patter overhead, reading a book. The Hardy Boys. Black Beauty. Treasure Island. The ...

Banned Books Week 1998 September 26 - October 3 Celebrate the Freedom to Read The St. Charles Public Library DOES NOT BAN these books or any others. Modern Library's 66* Best Books of the the Twentieth Century *These 34 books on the list of 100 have been banned or challenged at some time in their printed life. #1 Ulysses by James Joyce #2 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald #4 Lolita by ...

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