Banned Books - Community

I earned an English Literature BA degree in 1992.  My plan was to teach high school English.  So literature is very important to me and I know how close it is to history.  Even though Uncle Tom's Cabin was fiction, Harriet Beecher Stowe was able to show though the written word what a slave experienced and felt.  She opens the book with a run away slave trying to run to freedom but behind the desperate slave, dogs are barking and evil men on horses are closing in on the slave.  The idea of what slavery was came to life and it moved the heart of the nation.  Abraham Lincoln when meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe said to her "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."  In high school we read Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 was about a future time when books were banned.  People preserved books by memorizing them.  Strange thing... this book is on the book ban list, as well as Uncle Tom's Cabin.  History is how we can learn and not make the same mistakes.  I know Tom Sawyer has words we don't call people any more... but it show the truth and how ugly it was.  To Mark Twain his work was contemporary.  Politics... I will be watching about this issue as well as gun control and abortion rights.