American Campus Podcast
on the social and political history of higher education
American Campus Podcast
McCarthyism and the universities with Ellen Schrecker
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
Ellen Schrecker discusses the post-World War II Red Scare and its consequences for American higher education. She walks us through her 1986 book, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Nearly four decades after publication, it is no less timely.
- Ellen Schrecker. 1986. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Oxford University Press.
- Ellen Schrecker. 2021. The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo119945783.html
- Ellen Schrecker’s website with links to previous books: https://www.ellenschrecker.com/books
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