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Ellen Schrecker

Ellen Schrecker
Ellen Schrecker is a retired professor of history at Yeshiva University and the author of numerous books, including No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America, and The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University.


Activist Learning: How Anti-Vietnam War Academics Reinvented the Strike

Ellen Schrecker on the American Tradition of Campus Protest
February 14, 2022  By Ellen Schrecker
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