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The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University
- E. Schrecker
- Education
- 24 August 2010
No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities
- E. Schrecker
- Education
- 1 September 1988
This is the first systematic study of McCarthyism - the attempt to label people as communists or communist sympathizers, and so hold them up to public scorn and deprive them of their livelihood.…
Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
- E. Schrecker
- Political Science
- 1998
The McCarthy Era was a bad time for freedom in America. Encompassing far more than the brief career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was the most widespread episode of political repression in the…
Academic Freedom in the Corporate University
- E. Schrecker
- Education
- 26 April 2012
38 J Hong was a tenured professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of CaliforniaIrvine. He had several concerns about his department, chiefly its overuse of adjuncts…
The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition
- E. Schrecker
- History
- 1988
In 1925 J. Edgar Hoover secretly began to maintain in his own office the "Obscene File"and two other files which were kept separate from the FBI's central records system and which recorded accounts…
The Cold War Comes to Main Street: America in 1950. By Lisle A. Rose. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. x, 404 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-0928-8.)
- E. Schrecker
- History
- 1 March 2000
Archival Sources for the Study of McCarthyism
- E. Schrecker
- History
- 1 June 1988
McCarthyism is a loaded word, but such a useful one that it should become part of our regular historical discourse. All the available substitutes -the great fear, the red scare, the anticommunist…
The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945–1975. By Michael Schudson (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2016) 348 pp. $29.95
- E. Schrecker
- HistoryJournal of Interdisciplinary History
- 28 July 2016
Academic Freedom in Conflict: The Struggle over Free Speech Rights in the University ed. by James L. Turk (review)
- E. Schrecker
- History
- 2015
in the workplace and during their education, and some maintained that social stratification was reinforced by Catholic institutions. David Toms’ interesting chapter brings to light the local soccer…
McCarthyism: Political Repression and the Fear of Communism
- E. Schrecker
- HistorySocial Research: An International Quarterly
- 1 December 2004
I would like to know whether I will be able to work." Unfortunately, as his attorney explained, Parker could not clear his record because "there are no facts which have been alleged anywhere ... to…
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