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MCCARTHYISM, THE COLD WAR, AND AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, 1945-60
MCCARTHYISM, THE COLD WAR, AND AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, 1945-60
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Nearly seventy-five years before the war on “woke” entered schools and universities, Joseph McCarthy’s paranoid hunt for communists in the 1950s introduced unprecedented anxieties in U.S. colleges and universities. This lecture explores how academic institutions responded, and in many cases capitulated, to the mass hysteria which demanded that not just communists but anyone who shared sympathies with ideologies deemed undesirable or subversive be purged from faculty ranks. McCarthy-era loyalty oaths, seemingly a relic of a distant past, illuminate the pervasive threat that political tests pose to academic freedom today.
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About the lecturer(s)
Willie Hiatt
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Sessions
1 lecture(s)
Day & Time
Friday, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Date(s)
Dec 15, 2023