Background information as to why and how books are banned in the US, from PEN America.
Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Ban Books - PEN America
Banned in the USA: State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools | Pen America
An in-depth article from PEN America analyzes the current state of book banning and examines trends in censorship.
Book Ban Data | American Library Association
Data and infographics outlining the reasons for challenges.
Local Libraries Have Become a Major Political and Cultural Battleground
Read or listen to this piece from National Public Radio about how libraries are increasingly on the front lines of "culture wars."
PEN America's Banned in the USA: State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools
The 2022-2023 showed expanded censorship efforts in schools, centering on themes of race, history, sexual orientation, and gender.
Access to scholarly journal, magazine, and newspaper articles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences from Gale's General OneFile and Academic OneFile.
A good place to find scholarly articles for a variety of disciplines.
A single searchable source for scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, reports, working papers, and datasets along with millions of pages of digitized historical primary sources.
Learn how to you can get access to the New York Times through NMH.
Book resumes are a tool developed to help readers, librarians, teachers, and others defend their right to read. Each book listed on the Unite Against Book Bans Book Resume page has been challenged somewhere in the United States and gathers relevant information to help highlight the book's value.
From the Unite Against Book Bans' website:
Nationwide “Freedom to Read Day of Action” Will Unite Communities to Stand Up for Libraries and Against Censorship.
The Freedom to Read Community Day of Action will unite readers everywhere to support the freedom to read as a popular, nonpartisan, fundamental American right essential to supporting an informed citizenry. The Freedom to Read Community Day of Action will elevate the voices of readers who believe that public and school libraries must remain safe havens of knowledge and community and that the freedom to access books and information from diverse viewpoints is an essential American value that must be protected. As events unfold on Saturday, October 19, a social media campaign will provide an additional opportunity for supporters to use the hashtag #FreedomToRead to decry censorship and stand with their public and school libraries.