Interdisciplinary Studies

The American Civil Liberties Union's page on free speech, artistic expression, and banned books.

A public scholarship project by students at Carnegie Mellon University. In honor of the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week, each student in CMU English’s Banned Books course has selected a banned and/or challenged book to profile. These profiles provide readers with information about the books, their authors, and their histories of controversy and censorship.

Website for the annual celebration of Banned Books Week. Learn about the history of censorship in the United States and find a variety of resources.

Non-profit organization devoted to the protection of first amendment rights of people working in the comics/graphic novel medium. Get information on the anti-comics censorship movement of the 1950s and development of the Comics Code Authority.

Affiliated with the American Library Association, FtRF protects and defends the First Amendment to the Constitution and supports the right of libraries to collect - and individuals to access - information.

The American Library Association's collection of information pages on banned and challenged books. Includes list of the most frequently challenged titles by year.

Blog devoted to intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information--from the Office of Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association.

Organization devoted to the freedom of expression and literature. When there's the freedom to read, there must also be the freedom to write.

THE BOOK THAT SHOOK THE WORLD is a historical essay film that delves into the controversy and uproar brought about by the publication in Australia and in Europe of The Little Red Schoolbook by Soren Hansen and Jesper Jensen, where in many countries it was banned while also looking at the repressive censorship laws Australia lived under in the sixties and early seventies.

This program discusses censorship from the viewpoints of authors, students, educators, and society. It considers common bases for censorship and features a debate between pro-censorship and anti-censorship points of view.

This video presents a condensed version of a seminar that was given at the 1982 conference of the National School Boards Association. Among the topics discussed are selection, utilization, and removal of school library materials and whether students have the constitutional right to read.

Explores the ways in which teachers can authenticate the use of censored books in the classroom. Topics of discussion include the importance of keeping up-to-date on a book’s censorship status, some reasons why teachers may want to use a banned book and the ways in which parents and community organizations can help teachers change public attitudes about banned books.

Battles have erupted at schools, school boards and library meetings across the country as parents, lawmakers and advocacy groups are debating books. The American Library Association documented more than 1,200 demands to censor books and resources last year, the highest since it started collecting data 20 years ago. Jeffrey Brown discussed more with the group's director, Deborah Caldwell-Stone.