4,349 book bans across 52 school districts in 23 states. U.S. school districts banned more books during...
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Republics need to “stop turning our libraries into political battlefields.” The Alabama Library Association and other critics...
Examining evidence wherein manuscripts self-document their own utility. Introduction Liturgical manuscripts—such as Gospels and missals—both betokened and...
They’ve faced criminalization and harassment and in some cases have been fired. Americans last year challenged more book...
Books have the power to transport us to different worlds, broaden our horizons, and deepen our understanding...
The Bardi bank had been one of the major players in the fourteenth century. By M.T.W. Payne...
Many had often read and frequently referred to well-known theories. Though religious works were almost surely throughout...
American soldiers devoured paperbacks on the front lines, spawning a new generation of readers. In January 1942,...
Books leave their traces in our minds, but often we leave traces of ourselves in books, too....
It takes a lot of steps – and help from other people – to make a physical...
Are you a bookworm in search of your next captivating read? Look no further! In this article,...
Outside groups are invading communities with demands to ban books and shut down services. Growing up in...
Examining his work as the librarian of the two most important 17th-century Roman collections. Introduction Seventeenth-century Rome...
What happened when Stéphane Mallarmé reimagined the book. French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé lived in culturally unsettled...
Literature has been a medium of escape for centuries, transporting readers to far-off lands, magical realms, and...
“This trend is not only deeply harmful, but it’s also unlawful.” The Biden administration is conducting a...
Typography seeks to balance the relationship of letterforms on a page to aid the reader in understanding...
How British colonialism impacted this special form of knowledge transmission. Palm-leaf manuscripts are one of humanity’s most...
The invention of moveable face type and the press meant that books could now be printed in...
Weston Brown thought he had fully come to terms with his mother’s anti-LGBTQ beliefs. Introduction Weston Brown...
Challenges to books are nothing new in American schools, but the tactics and politicization are. By Elizabeth...
They seek to impose an ideologically skewed version of the United States, its history, and its culture....
As communities and school districts push for book bans, some Texas librarians are nearing their breaking point....
What makes a book successful? This is a question that has been asked by writers and readers...
The arrival of mechanical movable type printing in Europe in the Renaissance introduced a new era of...
A group of moms are speaking out against the rising movement to ban books from schools and...
Students are forming banned-book clubs and distribution drives to contest restrictions. For high school senior Gabrielle Izu,...
Comparing the debates over banning books in school today to a similar conflictse during the Reagan era....
Procrastination, motivation, discipline… There are times in everyone’s life when exhaustion and emptiness set in. When your...
Anyone who has ever read a book knows that there are many pros of reading books. It...