Libraries Without Borders invites you to join us for an intimate discussion with author MATTHEW BATTLES about his book Library: An Unquiet History. Battles will share insights about his research into how libraries have “not only accumulated and preserved, but also controlled, inspired, shaped, hidden, and obliterated knowledge.” We will then have an open exchange of ideas […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.