McCarthyism and the universities with Ellen Schrecker

On the post-World War II Red Scare and its consequences for American higher education.

• 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.
• Ellen Schrecker’s website

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