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Ellen Schrecker discusses the post-World War II Red Scare and its consequences for American higher education. She walks us through her 1986 book, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Nearly four decades after publication, it is no less timely.

• Ellen Schrecker. 1986. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Oxford University Press.
• Ellen Schrecker. 2021. The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo119945783.html
• Ellen Schrecker’s website with links to previous books: https://www.ellenschrecker.com/books

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Matthew C. Ehrlich tells the story of krebiozen, a fraudulent cancer cure, and the frenzy it wrought through the University of Illinois in the 1950s. His book, The Krebiozen Hoax, helps us contextualize decades of conflicts surrounding medical ethics, pseudoscience, and health disinformation through the setting of a postwar midwestern campus.

• Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2024. The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine. University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088117
• David F. Labaree. 2017. A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo19995111.html
• Julie Schumacker. 2024. The English Experience. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730658/the-english-experience-by-julie-schumacher/
• Julie Schumacker. 2019. The Shakespeare Requirement. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550580/the-shakespeare-requirement-by-julie-schumacher/
• Julie Schumacker. 2015. Dear Committee Members. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/232129/dear-committee-members-by-julie-schumacher/

Kelly L. Marino discusses college women's role in the suffrage movement. Listen to hear more about her new book, Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign (New York University Press, 2024).

• Kelly L. Marino. 2024. Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign. New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479825196/votes-for-college-women/
• Michael Roy. 2024. Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement. New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479830091/young-abolitionists/
• Paul M. Renfro. 2024. The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469680859/the-life-and-death-of-ryan-white/

Katherine Rye Jewell "hits" the high notes of the history of college radio. Listen to her discuss her new book, Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (University of North Carolina Press, 2023).

• katherinejewell.com
• Katherine Rye Jewell. 2023. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469677255/live-from-the-underground/
• Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087257

Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva discuss their book, The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (University of North Carolina Press, 2024).

Follow Nathan, Derek, and their co-host Johanna Mellis on The End of Sport podcast.

• Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva. 2024. The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/
• Derek Silva, Johanna Mellis, and Nathan Kalman-Lamb. 2024. The End of Sport podcast. https://theendofsport.podbean.com/

Crystal Sanders discusses her book, A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (University of North Carolina Press, 2024).

• Crystal R. Sanders. 2024. A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469679808/a-forgotten-migration/
• Dylan C. Penningroth. 2023. Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights. Liveright. https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093107
• Tikia K. Hamilton. Forthcoming. “Making a Model System: The Battle for Educational Equality in the Nation’s Capital before Brown.” https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/hamiltontikiak.shtml
• Ketanji Brown Jackson. 2024. Lovely One: A Memoir. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737094/lovely-one-by-ketanji-brown-jackson/

Gregg Michel discusses his book, Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South (Louisiana State University Press, 2024).

• Gregg L. Michel. 2024. Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South. Louisiana State University Press. https://lsupress.org/9780807182222/spying-on-students/
• Gregg L. Michel. 2004. Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969. Palgrave MacMillan. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/struggle-for-a-better-south-g-michel/1123854008
• Andrew C. McKevitt. 2023. Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469677248/gun-country/
• Christina Greene. 2022. Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671314/free-joan-little/

Sharon Stein discusses her book, Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).

• Stein's Academia page: https://ubc.academia.edu/SharonStein
• Sharon Stein. 2022. Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12600/unsettling-university
• Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. 2021. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675703/hospicing-modernity-by-vanessa-machado-de-oliveira/