- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Oft-banned book - (Click on first bullet for 174 first-edition illustrations)
- Book Burning: Through the ages, governments have exerted control over people by burning books
- Censorship in America: Examples of banned books in the United States
- German Book Burning: On May 10, 1933 German professors encouraged their students to burn university books. The event was a precursor to Nazi terror, recalling the 1821 words of Heinrich Heine: "Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."
- Hus, John: Burned at the stake for his writings
- Luther, Martin: Translations into German, burned
- Mayan Books: Burned, causing loss of historical records
- Prior Restraint: Concept of preventing publication of written materials
- Nazis and Book-Burning: Destruction of classic books
- Roger Williams: Banished from Massachusetts, he started Rhode Island
- Tyndale, William: Burned at the stake for translating Bible
- Wycliffe, John: Fourteenth-century books banned; body exhumed and burned