12 results found

• 

  Article

  BANNED: And Tango Makes Three

  Published in 2005, complaints about the book include that it is “unsuitable for young children” and has "homosexual overtones.”

• 

  Article

  BANNED: Of Mice and Men

  The book debuted to instant acclaim, and was soon adapted for the screen and stage. But that didn’t insulate it from censorship challenges.

• 

  Article

  Books Behind Bars

  Every year, the American Library Association publishes a list of banned and challenged books. This is the man who edits the list. 

• 

  Article

  BANNED: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Just a month after its publication, librarians in Concord, Massachusetts deemed it “trash” and “suitable only for the slums.”

• 

  Article

  BANNED: The Bluest Eye

  Since its publication, Toni Morrison's first book has consistently landed on the American Library Association’s list of most challenged books.

• 

  Film

  Race to the Moon

  On Christmas Eve 1968, one of the largest audiences in television history tuned in to an extraordinary sight: a live telecast of the moon's surface as seen from Apollo 8, the first manned space flight to orbit the moon.

• 

  Film

  Coney Island

  Coney Island is the story of a tiny spit of land at the foot of Brooklyn that at the turn of the century became the most extravagant playground in the country. In scale, in variety, in sheer inventiveness, Coney Island was unlike anything anyone had ever seen, and sooner or later everyone came to see it. 

• 

  Film

  The Perfect Crime

  The shocking story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.

• 

  Film

  Rachel Carson

  An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking writings revolutionized our relationship to the natural world and launched the modern environmental movement.

• 

  Film

  The Vote

  One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

• 

  Film

  Casa Susanna

  In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves.

• 

  Film

  Sandra Day O'Connor: The First

  Discover the story of the Supreme Court’s first female justice. A pioneer who both reflected and shaped an era, she was the deciding vote in cases on some of the 20th century’s most controversial issues—including race, gender and reproductive rights.