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In the fall of 1973, North Dakota’s Drake school district burned 32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ in a school furnace. Kristina Kokhanova/iStock via Getty Images

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

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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