Document Type
Interview
Abstract
Ellen Schrecker, an historian who teaches and lives in New York City, is the author of two seminal works on the impact of McCarthyism. No Ivory Tower (New York: Oxford UP, 1986) provides an invaluable look into the workings of McCarthyism in a single institution - academia in the United States - and Many are the Crimes (Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1998) expanded that analysis into a comprehensive look into the history of McCarthyism as a whole. She has recently edited a collection of essays on the impact of the Cold War on American life - Cold War Triumphalism (New York: The New Press, 2004). With Corey Robin, a political theorist at CUNY, she is currently working on a history of political repression in the United States since the nation's beginning, as well as writing a book about the current state of academic freedom.
Repository Citation
Cohen, Victor. "Our History of Political Repression: An Interview with Ellen Schrecker." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1–12. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss1/22