General

Unit One

Unit Two

Unit Three

Unit Four

Other

Related Sites, Banned Books and Novel Ideas


Banned Books, GeneralReturn to top of directory

The American Library Association's Banned Books Week and Challenged and Banned Books pages
Index on Censorship journal
Banned Books On-line
Bookwire.com's recent Banned Books Week site
Books A to Z's index on banned books--a very complete index of links to pertinent material on the WWW
The File Room, an illustrated archive of censorship cases
Bonfire of the Liberties, a censorship of the humanities site
The Banned Books and Novel Ideas site at the University of Texas at Austin--you will, of course, find many similarities between this site and the VU one

Unit One: Trials of Speech and SilenceReturn to top of directory

Clark College's The Last Days of Socrates site--complete with audio clips and annoted excerpts from the Apology, Euthyphro, Crito, and Phaedo
Rice University's Galileo Project home page
homepage on the Hollywood blacklist
McCarthy site--complete with audio files and much more


Unit Two: Free Expression and State Repression
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Manuel Puig page--from a Contemporary Argentinian Literature site
Freedom of Expression Institute of South Africa pages


Unit Three: Between the Lines/ On the Margins
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Subir Grewal's Salman Rushdie page--a very thorough index to Rushdie material on the Web
A 1996 interview with Rushdie from Salon magazine--complete with photos


Unit Four: Monitoring Young MindsReturn to top of directory

A University of Texas literature class's Angelou page
Maya Angelou page, complete with sound file, from the Michigan State University Celebrity Lecture Series
July 3, 1995 Time Cover Story, "On a Screen Near You: Cyberporn"
Project 2000 site responding to Time's Cyberporn cover story
University of Texas at El Paso professor Christina Ross's response to the Time cyberporn article
Julian Dibbel's essay "A Rape in Cyberspace"
Sandra Stone's essay "Violation and Virtuality"
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Global Internet Liberty Campaign


OtherReturn to top of directory

Description of Leslea Newman's children's book, Heather Has Two Mommies by Amazon.com
Brief article of Leslea Newman's visit to Lesley College on the same lecture circuit as her visit to Valparaiso University
Description of Michael Willhoite's children's book, Daddy's Roommate, by Amazon.com
Report of one incident of moving Daddy's Roommate and Heather's Two Mommies out of the children's section of the Mercer County Library in Lawrence, New Jersey, brought to you by The File Room (see above)
Wiesenthal Center's Cyberwatch on hate speech on the internet
Silencing the Net, a special release from the human rights journal Monitors
Vincent Blasi's speech on John Milton's Areopagitica--a Yale law professor comments on this very famous treatise's relevance to the First Amendment


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