American Campus Podcast

McCarthyism and the universities with Ellen Schrecker

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.

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