Read more about the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2021 and libraries' response to the pandemic in the State of America's Libraries Special Report: Pandemic Year Two. Diverse books create a better ...

According to a recent PEN America report, his 2000 novella, which was turned into a film of the same name, was among over 300 titles banned in the county's public school libraries. The books were ...

the highest number of demands to ban books reported since they began compiling data about censorship in libraries. But despite all these challenges, libraries thrived, pivoting to offer new and ...

Books were rare and expensive in colonial America, but Franklin had an idea. He conceived of a library with a subscription fee, the Library Company of Philadelphia, which he founded in 1731.

America needs "third places" like our libraries more than we ever have, both functionally and philosophically.

Since 1982, Robert P. Doyle has edited the American Library Association's Banned Books, a collection of thousands of titles that have been subject to censorship challenges. American Experience ...