Book banning in America: Censoring literature in US dates back centuries, but this time is different: experts
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Nearly 1,600 individual books were challenged or removed in libraries and schools in 2021, the highest number since the American Library Association started tracking bans 30 years ago.
‘New English Canaan,’ by Thomas Morton. (Culture Club/Getty Images) Cpt. Miles Standish and his men observing the 'immoral' behavior of the Maypole festivities at ‘Merrymount.’ (ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) 'To Kill A Mockingbird,' by Harper Lee. (Nate Parsons/The Washington Post via Getty Images) American novelist Harper Lee receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 5, 2007. (Reuters) "Whether you're liberal or conservative, you need to understand that that that ax swings two ways." "This is America. We don't ban books." Paul Best is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to Paul.best@fox.com and on Twitter: @KincaidBest.
After being banished from the colonies multiple times and traveling back to England, Morton wrote the "New English Canaan" around 1633 about his travails across the pond, a book that offered a scathing critique of the Pilgrims and is widely considered to be the first banned book in America.
Morton returned to the colonies 10 years later, but his reputation preceded him, and Massachusetts leaders exiled him to what would eventually become Maine due to the "mocking accusations Morton had hurled against them in print," University of Southern California history professor Peter Mancall writes in "The Trials of Thomas Morton."
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