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AskHistorians Podcast Episode 200 - American Higher Education with Dr. Ellen Schrecker

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The Age of Mc Carthyism

A, after i finished my big book, i then really wasn't interested in doing more on mc carthyism. So i decided to write another book, this one about universities, contemporary universities. Ah, so i decided i would write a book about the 19 sixties. But it was also a time when people in my academic cohort were writing memoirs. I didn't think my life was that interesting but i did think that the experiences of my cohort should have been studied somewhere and they weren't. Once there's this big hole in the historical record,. ah,  I'm not sure when it came out exactly, but it's in the sort of first decade of the 20

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