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The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University
Schrecker, the leading historian of the McCarthy-era witch hunts, examines both the key fronts in the present battles over higher ed, and their historical parallels in previous eras - offering a deeply-researched chronicle of the challenges to academic freedom, set against the rapidly changing struc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Many Are the Crimes
It all seems like so much ancient history -- the "red scare", black lists; even Senator Mccarthy. Yet, in truth, the so-called "Mccarthy period" -- during which people were persecuted and investigated for what they thought -- is one of the most shameful periods of our history. In her book, ellen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s
The Lost Promise is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students. The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia’s golden age, when universities—we... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s
The Lost Promise is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students. The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia’s golden age, when universities—we... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
by Alice Goode-Elman • Kelli Dunham • Penelope Dugan • Melanie K Finney • Ellen Schrecker • Raquel Ramkhelawan • Maxine Marshall • Lauren Vanett • Alice Derry • Michele Neff Hernandez • Elisa Clark Wadham • Deborah E Kaplan • P. C. Moorehead • Mimi Schwartz • Anne Bernays • Edie Butler • Debby Mayer • Sonia Jaffe Robbins • Barbara Marwell • Maggie Madagame • Roni Sherman Ramos • Doris Friedensohn • Nancy H Womack • Joan Michelson • Tracy Milcendeau • Merle Froschl • Andrea Hirshman • Molly A McEneny • Heather Slawecki • Kathleen Fordyce • Patricia Life • Nancy Shamban • Susanne Braham • Alice Radosh • Parvin Hajizadeh • Jean Y Leung • Joan Gussow • Kathryn Temple • Carrie L West • Lise Menn • Christine Silverstein • Tara SabharwalBecoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words. Some were widowed young, while others were married... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents
Incorporating important recent scholarship, this popular supplement combines a comprehensive essay on the history of McCarthyism with compelling documents that trace the course of anti-Communist furor in the U.S. The volume's 95-page essay follows the campaign against domestic subversion from its or... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017