Forty-three years ago this month, libraries around the country observed the first Banned Books Week. Its co-founder, Judith Krug, was the director of the American Library Association’s Office for ...
On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...