{"id":28472,"date":"2025-06-06T09:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28472"},"modified":"2025-06-09T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:49:57","slug":"are-there-any-books-currently-banned-by-the-us-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/06\/06\/are-there-any-books-currently-banned-by-the-us-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there any books currently banned by the US govt?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw060625-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw060625-1.jpg\" alt=\"Are there any books currently banned by the US govt? and why\" class=\"wp-image-28469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw060625-1.jpg 318w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw060625-1-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw060625-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aw060625-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Are there any books currently banned by the US govt? and why<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are no books currently banned by the United States government on a federal\/national level. However, the American Library Association does keep track of bans and challenges on the school\/district\/state level, which you can find here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/book-ban-data.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/book-ban-data.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no books currently banned by the United States government on a federal\/national level. However, the American Library Association does keep track of bans and challenges on the school\/district\/state level, which you can find here: https:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/book-ban-data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28474,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28472\/revisions\/28474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}