Book burnings has a long history of this happening some date all the way back to 213 BC in china. A recent time that book burning took place in the United States was in 1948. That year the residents of Binghamton, N.Y.were going house to house to gather books, But not any book they were focusing on one type and they were comic books. The people that were doing this were students there reason was that they felt the comic books were going to cause depravity to the youth. The American Library Association did a study from 1982 all way to 2015 to see how many books have been banned or criticized the number was over 11,300 books. One of those books is Mein Kampf (My Fight) written by Adolf Hitler. The book is a biography about adolf hitler
