Books and other art are often censored for covertly racist reasons.

The Hays Code kept Hollywood on a short leash until the Supreme Court decided in 1952 that films were protected by the First Amendment.

Censorship isn't just redacted text and banned words. What happens when censorship is furtive, flying under the radar as much as possible?

Americans will rail against the government at First Amendment infringements. But the government isn't the only entity that can censor speech or ideas.

During the Cold War years, the distribution and selection of American books had to change with changing objectives overseas.

Gustave Flaubert was put on trial for obscenity. Why didn't he fight government censorship harder?

Victoria Woodhull who was known to her enemies as "Mrs. Satan," was the first woman to run for president of the United States.