Burns passed away unexpectedly in 1957 at just 56 years old. In 1986, his son Brian founded the John J Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections at Boston College, which he named after ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U ...