American Experience spoke with her about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Jocelyn A. Chadwick Why has Huck Finn consistently landed on the list of banned and challenged books? I think that it’s ...

Still, it’s one of the most banned books. Here’s why. ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ was first published in the United States on 18 February 1885 and the following month librarians ...

The fog scene, in which Jim upbraids Huck for playing a cruel trick on him and elicits an apology, Fishkin points out, is a rare moment in 19th century American fiction in which an enslaved Black man ...