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According to Wikipedia, Ellen Wolf Schrecker is an American professor emerita of American history at Yeshiva University. She has received the Frederick Ewen Academic Freedom Fellowship at the Tamiment Library at NYU. She is known primarily for her work in the history of McCarthyism. Historian Ronald Radosh has described her as "the dean of the anti-anti-Communist historians."

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Ellen Schrecker's Published Works

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No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities (1988) (264)
Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998) (191)
The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University (2010) (145)
The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition (1988) (64)
The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (1994) (57)
The Soviet World of American Communism (2017) (35)
McCarthyism: Political Repression and the Fear of Communism (2004) (23)
Academic Freedom in the Corporate University (2012) (21)
"Many are the Crimes. McCarthyism in America", Ellen Schrecker, Boston–New York–Toronto–London 1998 : [recenzja] / Włodzimierz Batóg. (2000) (16)
Academic Freedom in Conflict: The Struggle over Free Speech Rights in the University ed. by James L. Turk (review) (2015) (13)
Archival Sources for the Study of McCarthyism (1988) (11)
Worse than McCarthy. (2006) (10)
Regulating the intellectuals : perspectives on academic freedom in the 1980s (1983) (8)
The New McCarthyism in Academe. (2005) (7)
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 (2016) (6)
Immigration and Internal Security: Political Deportations During the McCarthy Era (1996) (5)
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.) (2000) (4)
The Roots of the Right-Wing Attack on Higher Education. (2010) (4)
Subversives, Squeaky Wheels, and “Special Obligations”: Threats to Academic Freedom, 1890–1960 (2014) (4)
History in Red—and White and Blue (2005) (3)
McCarthyism and the Red Scare (2007) (3)
The Bad Old Days: How Higher Education Fared during the Great Depression. (2009) (3)
Soviet Espionage in America: An Oft-Told tale (2010) (3)
McCarthyism and Organized Labor (2000) (3)
American Labor and the Cold War (2020) (3)
Going into the Family Business: Academic Parents, Academic Children. (1999) (2)
The hired money: The French debt to the United States, 1917-1929 (1978) (2)
McCarthy Era Blacklisting of School Teachers, College Professors, and Other Public Employees: The FBI Responsibilities Program File and the Dissemination of Information Policy File. 8 reels with printed guide. 35mm microfilm. $840. (Bethesda, Md.: University Publications of America, 1989.) (1994) (2)
Moses Finley and the Academic Red Scare (2013) (1)
Academic Scoundrel Time@@@No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. (1987) (1)
Soviet Espionage on American TV: The VENONA Story (2003) (1)
II. The Career (1994) (1)
This Nest of Vipers: McCarthyism and Higher Education in the Mundel Affair, 1951-52. (1990) (1)
Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America. By Ted Morgan. (New York: Random House, 2003. xiv, 685 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-44399-1.) (2004) (1)
Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists (2004) (1)
The Decline of the Professions: Introduction (2014) (1)
The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s (2003) (1)
James L. Turk, Ed., Academic Freedom in Conflict: The Struggle over Free Speech Rights in the University (2015) (1)
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power [Book Review] (2013) (0)
Arthur Herman. Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator. New York: Free Press. 2000. Pp. 404. $26.00 (2001) (0)
John Connelly and Michael Grüttner, editors. Universities under Dictatorship. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 305. $55.00 (2006) (0)
Session 6.7: Middle Class? Working Class? What's the Difference? Why Does It Matter? (2014) (0)
Labor and the Cold War: The Legacy of McCarthyism (2020) (0)
BOOK REVIEW (2003) (0)
Corporate Bondage (2011) (0)
Rejuvenating the High Schools: The History Teacher Institutes of New York. (1986) (0)
Widows' Words (2019) (0)
Rude Awakenings: An American Historian’s Encounters with Nazism, Communism, and McCarthyism by Carol Sicherman (review) (2013) (0)
Victor Silverman, Imagining Internationalism in British and American Labor, 1939–49. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 298 pp. $59.95 cl. $24.95 ppr. (2002) (0)
More than marching: two cases of nonviolent resistance against the Vietnam War (2014) (0)
The History Teacher Institutes of New York. (1986) (0)
Revolutionary Sparks: Freedom of Expression in Modern America. (1993) (0)
In the Archives: A User's Perspective (2016) (0)
Stealing Secrets: Communism and Soviet Espionage in the 1940s (2004) (0)
william l. o'neill. American High: The Years of Confidence, 1945–1960. New York: Free Press of Macmillan. 1986. Pp. xi, 321. $19.95 (1988) (0)
Please Join Us For a session on The American Association of University Professors at 100: A Century of Activity in Defense of Academic Freedom. (2015) (0)
The Disciplines and the Left: The Radical Caucus Movement (2019) (0)
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist. Prod. by Judy Chaikin. One Step Productions, 1987. 60 mins. (Direct Cinema Limited, P.O. Box 69799, Los Angeles, CA 90069) (1988) (0)
Tributes to Dick Ohmann: Special Session, Modern Language Association, January 7, 2022 (2022) (0)
The Decline of the Professions (2022) (0)
The Soviet World of American Communism. By Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. xxxviii, 378 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-07150-7.) (1999) (0)
Stuart J. Foster. Red Alert! Educators Confront the “Red Scare” in American Public Schools, 1947-1954. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. 274pp. Paper $29.95. (2001) (0)
Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism (2014) (0)
The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945–1975 by Michael Schudson (review) (2016) (0)
Kenneth O'Reilly. Hoover and the Un-Americans: The FBI, HUAC, and the Red Menace. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1983. Pp. xiii, 411. $34.95 (1984) (0)
Book Review (1998) (0)
Book Review:American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War Jessica Wang (2000) (0)
Correspondence: McCarthyism and the Universities (1987) (0)
Caught in the Crossfire (1992) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Imagining Internationalism in British and American Labor, 1939–49 (review) (2002) (0)
COURSE OBJECTIVE : Through readings, lectures, videos, discussion, and written assignments, students will achieve a deeper understanding of the major developments of American life in the 1950s. (2014) (0)
McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks by Raymond Caballero (review) (2020) (0)

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