# Ellen Schrecker
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Ellen Wolf Schrecker (born August 4, 1938) 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."
== Background ==
Schrecker graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1960 and earned her M.A. in 1962 and her doctorate in 1974, both from Harvard University.
“Much Much Worse than McCarthyism, But with a Big Positive Difference”: A Conversation with Legendary Historian Ellen Schrecker
Today I have the immense honor and privilege to speak with Ellen Schrecker, who has been referred to as “the dean of the anti-anti-Communist historians.” Well known for her classic studies of McCarthyism, today Schrecker explains how much worse Trump’s regime is than what we saw in the 1950s and 6…
STRAIGHT at Penn State and anti-gay backlash in the 1990s with Richard S. Price
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The straight college strikes back!
References and suggested readings:
Richard S. Price. October 6, 2025. The straight college strikes back: 1990s backlash against inclusive campuses. Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Megan Brenan. May 29, 2025. “Record Party Divide 10 Years Aft…
Anti-Intellectualism in America (feat. C. Derick Varn)
We discuss the roots of anti-intellectualism in American life for the first episode in a four-part series co-created and presented with C. Derick Varn, "The Problem of Intellectuals."
Learn more about C. Derick Varn by checking out his show "VarnVlog" https://www.patreon.com/c/varnvlog/posts
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Much Worse than McCarthyism: Resisting the Right-Wing War on Academic Freedom w/ ELLEN SCHRECKER
“We're looking at a lot of bad things in American history that we should have been thinking about over the past 50 years. What McCarthyism did, what it targeted with regard to the academic community—and that's really what I know the best—is that during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the focus of p…
Calculated Efforts to Preserve Power: TV Women Blacklisted
The topic of Hollywood Blacklisting has recently added a chapter - the impact it had on the budding TV industry, and more specifically, women. Researched and backed by FBI files of author/scholar Dr. Carol Stabile (University of Oregon), this 4 episode series mentions names of talented women whose …
Is Trump overseeing a new 'Red Scare'?
The Trump administration is increasingly conflating communism and the political left, casting them as threats to American national security.
The rhetoric is beginning to take institutional form. The administration has directed federal agencies to investigate networks it says facilitate political v…
The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies Panel Discussion
Panelists:
Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona
Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego
Sugata Bose, Harvard University
Lien-Hang Nguyen, Columbia University
Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago
Moderator: Karen Thornb…
The Cold War - An Ideological War | 1
For nearly 50 years, the United States and Soviet Union waged a global war of ideas fueled by politics, intrigue, and nuclear weapons. But how did the polarized ideologies of these two global powers threaten the existence of the entire world?This is Episode 1 of a six-part series on the Cold War. W…
The Cold War - An Ideological War | 1
For nearly 50 years, the United States and Soviet Union waged a global war of ideas fueled by politics, intrigue, and nuclear weapons. But how did the polarized ideologies of these two global powers threaten the existence of the entire world?This is Episode 1 of a six-part series on the Cold War. W…
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