The Wake County School Board is considering making decisions on book challenges binding for two years before parents could challenge the text again.

The school board is considering parameters for how schools should select -- or remove -- books from classrooms and libraries. Board members are hung up on how to define them.

Harvard removes book binding made from dead woman's skin from library. The skin-bound version of "Des destinées de l’âme" was at Harvard since 1934. By Leah Sarnoff. March 28, 2024, 6:06 PM.

The book arrived at Harvard in 1934, via the American diplomat John B. Stetson, an heir to the hat fortune. It had been bound by its first owner, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, a French doctor, who inserted ...

The Harvard Library announced this week it had removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century French philosophy book after a review uncovered multiple ethical concerns about the skin’s ...

The book's first owner, French physician Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839–1933), created the binding with the skin of a deceased patient in the hospital where he worked while he was a medical student.