Four USS Lexington crewmen sit at the edge of the ship's elevator and read in November 1943. (Corbis/Getty Images) Review by Makana Eyre When news broke in May 1933 that Nazis had staged book burnings ...

Hundreds gather in Hamtramck to support the Muslim community, but threats by anti-Islam activists to burn Qurans did not ...

My candidate for an issue that encapsulates the ignorance, fear, intolerance, and social engineering of our time, is the ...

The temperature at which books burn is 451 degrees Fahrenheit; "Fahrenheit 451" is the title of the famous (banned) book about a society that turns book-burning into a goal and destroys itself in the ...

Fire has always been a political tool. Long before governments used surveillance or digital censorship, they used flames. Throughout history, the burning of books has served a single, consistent ...

Jonah Winter, the author of more than 45 children’s books, has teamed up with illustrator and muralist Gary Kelley for the nonfiction picture book The Burning of the Books. Centering on Nazi Germany ...

“Don't join the book burners.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953. Combustion is feeble compared to the tools of today’s information arsonists. Now that the Republican war on ...