Ellen Schrecker
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Ellen Schrecker shows how universities shaped the 1960s, and how the 1960s shaped them. Teach-ins and walkouts-in institutions large and small, across both the country and the political spectrum-were only the first actions that came to redefine universities as hotbeds of unrest for some and handmaidens of oppression for others. The tensions among speech, education, and institutional funding came into focus as never before-and the reverberations remain...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
The professor and historian delivers a major critique of how political and financial attacks on the academy are undermining our system of higher education.
Making a provocative foray into the public debates over higher education, acclaimed historian Ellen Schrecker argues that the American university is under attack from two fronts. On the one hand, outside pressure groups have staged massive challenges to academic freedom, beginning in the 1960s...
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, LLC
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
McCarthyism is the longest and most widespread of political repression in American history. A basic understanding is established as to what occurred during the Cold War red scare of the late 1940's and 1950's. This issue is analyzed from the perspectives of victims and perpetrators. How such a politically repressive movement evolve in modern post-World War II America becomes the object of study.
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Publisher's description: "Liberals lie about Reagan's victory because when Reagan won the Cold War, he proved them wrong on everything they had done and said throughout the Cold War. It is their last defense to fifty years of treason." -Ann Coulter. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservatives have seized on the collapse of Communist states to argue more generally for the shortcomings of the Left. Having declared victory in the Cold War, the ideologues...
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Becoming 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 for decades. Some cared for their late partners through long terminal illnesses, while others lost their partners suddenly. Some had male partners, while...
