More than 50 years after a North Dakota school district burned copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ the anti-war novel is still being censored

By Susan Farrell, Professor of English, College of Charleston, The Conversation · October 2, 2026

The battle over the novel offers a window into America’s long-running fight over what students should be allowed to read.

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