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• Originally published 05/18/2018

  UK's Index on Censorship warns history is under threat worldwide

  In a special edition the non-profit looks at how governments and other powers across the globe are manipulating history for their own ends. Authors include Lucy Worsley and Margaret MacMillan.

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• Originally published 01/23/2017

  Historian’s Latest Book on Mao Turns Acclaim in China to Censure

  “I wrote this book to expose lies and restore the truth,” Yang Jisheng writes in the book.

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• Originally published 01/03/2017

  Facebook 'censors' nude statue of sea god Neptune, the well-known Renaissance symbol of northern Italian city

  In a statement, Facebook told her: “The use of the image was not approved because it violates Facebook’s guide lines on advertising. It presents an image with content that is explicitly sexual and which shows to an excessive degree the body, concentrating unnecessarily on body parts..."

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• Originally published 09/09/2016

  Mark Zuckerberg accused of abusing power after Facebook deletes 'napalm girl' post

  Norway’s largest newspaper published a front-page letter to the Facebook CEO lambasting the company’s decision to censor a photograph of the Vietnam war

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• Originally published 04/13/2016

  Report: Historians in 107 countries were subject to censorship or persecution in 2016

  Antoon De Baets

  The report contains 123 pages of news about the domain where history and human rights intersect, especially involving the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists around the globe, as reported by various human rights organizations.

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• Originally published 10/07/2015

  The New Censors: Facebook and Instagram

  Brian Hoffman

  In the social media age, it is not necessarily morality that determines what we can see, it’s branding.

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• Originally published 03/10/2015

  Historians are defending a publisher reprimanded by Japan's prime minister

  Textbook publisher McGraw-Hill was rebuked for refusing to drop a reference to comfort women in World War II. 

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• Originally published 12/29/2014

  The Censoring of History and Politics Takes Us Back to the Dark Ages

  Bruce Chadwick

  Those who ban, censor or pervert history destroy it.

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• Originally published 10/24/2013

  The Banal Reality of Censoring Books in China

  David Austin Walsh

  For a Western academic, publishing in China is a painful process of back-and-forth between editors and authors. Just like everywhere else.

• Originally published 07/21/2013

  Book on Hong Kong history withdrawn after censorship from mainland China

  A translated work that apparently censored remarks on politics - such as Democratic Party founding chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming comparing the handover of Hongkongers to China to "surrendering Jews to Adolf Hitler's Germany" - will be recalled after its writer cried foul over the unapproved changes.The book's mainland-funded local publisher, Chung Hwa Book Company, agreed last night to withdraw the Chinese edition of A Concise History of Hong Kong from sale. It also apologised to the history professor who penned the work in English.Professor John Carroll, associate dean of the University of Hong Kong's arts faculty, earlier said he was "shocked and disappointed" about the changes....

• Originally published 03/19/2013

  BBC gets heat for censoring Elvis Costello’s 1979 hit “Oliver’s Army”

  The BBC is fielding complaints for editing the 1979 Elvis Costello hit “Oliver’s Army” on a 6 Music radio broadcast last week. The Mail reports that BBC censored the “one more widow, one less white n****r” lyric, despite the fact that the song has generally played uncensored on the radio for more than thirty years.According to the Telegraph, one listener said, “‘Although it is not a nice phrase and I wouldn’t condone the use of the word these days, it is an anti-war song as far as I believe, arguing against British colonialism and the word would be appropriate for that song.”

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• Originally published 12/28/2015

  This Is Why Historian Ari Kelman Decided to Write a Graphic History of the Civil War (Interview)

  Robin Lindley

  Click here to read this interview.

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• Originally published 11/18/2015

  These Are the Five Revolutions of the 1990s (And One Counter-Revolution)

  Gil Troy

  Coming to grips with them is necessary to understanding Bill Clinton.