{"id":16135,"date":"2026-08-03T11:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=16135"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:42:06","slug":"damsel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/damsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2026 &#8211; Damsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2026\/author\/\">2026 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2026\/title\/\">2026 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2026\/08\/damsel.jpg\" alt=\"damsel cover\" width=\"304\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabe.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=damsel&amp;qf=AUTHOR%09Author%09Arnold%2C+Elana+K.%09Arnold%2C+Elana+K.+%7C%7C+Arnold%2C+Elana+K.%2C%09Arnold%2C+Elana+K.%2C&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle\">Held at Cabell County Public Library.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2026<\/h2>\n<p>20 challenges, including 20 multi-title challenges.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the pressure group Daviess County Citizens for Decency (DCC4D) began demanding the censorship of hundreds of titles from the collection of the Daviess County Public Library (KY). According to their website, DCC4D \u201care unapologetically Christian conservatives.\u201d  They submitted challenges to 234 titles in 2023 and continue to harass and threaten library workers and board members. During the period from 2023\u20132025, as board members\u2019 terms expired, Daviess County Judge-Executive Charlie Castlen rejected candidates who were historians, librarians, archivists, and professors, instead appointing DCC4D\u2013backed candidates. After a conservative pastor\u2019s appointment on October 2, 2025, the board began censoring library material without following policy. They restricted access by relocating 34 young adult titles to the adult section of the library. The relocated books included <strong>Damsel<\/strong> and 20 other titles that were challenged and retained without restriction in 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>August 3, 2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16139,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16135\/revisions\/16139"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}