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  • Here's a timeline of book bannings, and burnings.

    Book Banning & Burning Throughout History

  • This Book is Banned_The New English Canaan

    The New English Canaan: The first book banned in the United States

  • Love Letters to the Library. What's at stake when state-sponsored censorship comes into play.

    Love Letters to the Library

  • This Book is Banned_Roald Dahl's publisher back pedals

    Roald Dahl’s publisher back pedals.

  • This Book is Banned_Banned Comic Books

    Banned Comic Books panel discussion – Washington University in St. Louis

  • Reclaiming Claims: What English Students Want from English Profs

  • This Book is Banned_The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter: A – for Adultery, Antinomian, or America Itself?

  • This Book is Banned_The Catcher in the Rye

    The Catcher in the Rye: A Twentieth-century Jeremiad

  • This Book is Banned_Maus

    Maus: Why it Should be Unbanned.

  • Pull yourself up by your Bootstraps post image

    Aphorisms and Idioms: Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps.

  • This Book is Banned Go the Extra Mile

    Aphorisms and Idioms: Go the Extra Mile.

  • This Book is Banned_ The Lottery

    The Lottery: Who’s the Lucky Scapegoat?

  • This Book is Banned Blood is Thicker than Water aphorism 2

    Aphorisms and Idioms: Blood is Thicker Than Water

  • This Book is Banned Baack to School in Platos Republic

    Back to School in Plato’s Republic: Lesson Plan, or Censorship?

  • Einstein, champion of a liberal arts education

    Einstein… Champion of a Liberal Arts Education?

  • Purposes literature does serve.

    We May Read for Enjoyment, but Literature Isn’t Written Just to Entertain Us.

  • Like birthday cake, layers give a book substance.

    Novels are Like Layer Cake – Be Sure to Get Every Bite.

  • Like luggage, symbolic language needs to be unpacked... here's how.

    If You’re Not Engaging a Book’s Symbolic Language, You Aren’t Really Reading It.

  • This Book is Banned My Country Right or Wrong aphorism

    Aphorisms and Idioms: My Country Right or Wrong

  • This Book is Banned Carpe Diem

    Aphorisms and Idioms: Carpe Diem

  • Life Liberty Pursuit of Happiness post image

    Aphorisms and Idioms: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

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