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Season 2 Episode
- Season 2 The Case for Fan Fiction
- Season 2 Afrofuturism From Books to Blockbusters
- Season 2 How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing
- Season 2 Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later
- Season 2 The Byronic Hero: Isn’t it Byronic?
- Season 2 The Constructed Languages of JRR Tolkien
- Season 2 War and Peace and Everything Else
- Season 2 The It’s Lit! Musical Episode
- Season 2 The Fiery History of Banned Books
- Season 2 The (Stephen) King of Horror
- Season 2 Are Graphic Novels... Novels?
- Season 2 Dune, The Most Important Sci Fi Series Ever?
- Season 2 Anne Rice, The Queen of Literary Monsters
- Season 2 Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance
- Season 2 How Do You Write a Bestseller?
It's Lit! - Season 2 Episode 9 The Fiery History of Banned Books
9.00 6 minutes Since at least 213 BCE, book burnings have been a reaction to the power of the written word. When roasting paper in a giant circle went out of style (at least in the intellectual sphere), the governments would take it upon itself to ban books. However, when we talk about book bannings today, we are usually discussing a specific choice made by individual schools, school districts, and libraries made in response to the moralistic outrage of some group. This, while still hotly-contested and controversial, is still nothing in comparison to the ways books have been removed, censored, and outright destroyed in the past. So on that happy note, let’s … explore how the seemingly innocuous book has survived centuries of the ban hammer.
