HUM 6 - Independent Research - Spring 2022

This article from The New York Times discusses the movement to ban books in some regions of the United States.

This article from Teen Vogue outlines some examples of student protests over book banning locally and nationally.

This article from Vox puts the issue of book banning in the larger context of current and past efforts by American conservative groups to gain political power and control content they view as harmful to students.

This short piece in The Atlantic unpacks how book banning can deny young people the opportunity to learn from past atrocities, such as the Holocaust.

This article in The Daily Beast talks about what authors of banned books doing to protest the bans and help get their books into schools and libraries.

This article from NPR highlights which types of books are being banned today and which have been banned through the decades, using the annual Banned Books Week for context.

This article from PBS NewsHour discusses the recent efforts to ban books and the growing movement to oppose these bans.