No Ivory Tower oral history collection, 1977-1983

Scope and Contents

Collection is comprised of interviews taken by Ellen Schrecker for her monograph No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, published by Oxford University Press in 1986. The collection's narrators are: Lloyd Barenblatt, Robert Bedell, Robert N. Bellah, Gerald E. Brown, Paul Buck, Courtney Cazden, Norman Cazden, Chandler Davis, Horace B. Davis, R.G. Davis, Wendell H. Ferry, Ralph Fuchs, H. Bentley Glass, Harry Grundfest, Sydney James, Leon Kamin, Abraham Keller, Corliss Lamont, Lee Lorch, Saul Maloff, William Marbury, Clement Markert, George Markham, Robert Morris, Phillip Morrison, Talcott Parsons, Stefan Peters, Isidore Pomerance, Bernard Reiss, Paul Rosenkratz, Richard Schlatter, and Harry Slochower

Subjects

• Academic freedom--United States--History--20th century.
• Anti-communist movements--United States--History.
• College teachers--United States--Political activity--History--20th century.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)