On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

In ‘The Book at War,’ Andrew Pettegree examines the historical role of literature on both the battlefield and the home front Four USS Lexington crewmen sit at the edge of the ship's elevator and read ...

For as long as long as there have been books, there have been those who have tried to destroy them. And in his critically acclaimed 2020 book Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction ...