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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to censorship
2Breastfeeding
Censorship for military reasons
3American Civil War (1861-1865): Censorship
4U.S. Army: Analysis of why photographs were censored during the First World War (1926)
5Censorship of war photography
6Iraq War (2003-2011): Abu Ghraib
Censorship for political reasons
7White House Correspondents Association (21 November 2013)
Censorship and taboo
8Taboos

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