Subject
Research Guides
First Year Seminars:
Banned: Censorship in the United States
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of censorship issues.
Background Information Sources
| Encyclopedia of Sociology v.1 (Censorship and the Regulation of Expression) | REF HM 425 .E5 2000 v.1 |
| Encyclopedia of Communication and Information v.1 (First Amendment and the Media) and v.2 (Intellectual Freedom and Censorship) | REF P 87.5 .E53 2002 |
| Banned in the Media: Reference Guide to Censorship in the Press, Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and the Internet | REF P 96 .C42 U654 1998 |
| Encyclopedia of Television v.1 (Censorship) | REF PN 1992.18 .E53 2004 v.1 |
| Encyclopedia of Censorship | REF Z 657 .G73 1990 |
| Censorship: Opposing Viewpoints | REF Z 658 .U5 C433 2005 |
| Free Expression and Censorship in America | REF Z 658 .U5 F644 1997 |
| Banned Books Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds | REF Z 658 .U5 P65 1998 |
| Banned Books Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds | REF Z 658 .U5 R45 1998 |
| Banned Books Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds | REF Z 658 .U5 S49 1998 |
| Banned Books Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds | REF Z 658 .U5 S69 1998 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers Z 657-Z 658.
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
- CQ Researcher: in-depth reports on current, hot, and controversial topics.
- LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.
- General Reference Center/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles
Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Communications or Law.
- First Amendment Center
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/
information on First Amendment issues, topics, and news - ACLU Free Speech Section
http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/freespeechMain.cfm
free speech news and resources from the American Civil Liberties Union - ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/
American Library Association’s office for fighting censorship in libraries - St. Ambrose Univ./Censorship Info
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/censor.htm
lists other web resources