The book talk is c osponsored by the Robert M. Schrecker, a leading expert on McCarthyism, will discuss the forces behind a turbulent decade that turned the “ivory tower” and the outside world around it upside down. In dialogue with Paula Geyh, Associate Professor of English at YU, Dr. But within a few years that support had disappeared, as the nation’s most intractable social and political problems – the war in Vietnam and the struggle for racial equality - spilled onto unprepared campuses, turning formerly prestigious institutions into battlegrounds. It doubled and tripled in size and enjoyed widespread public support. The early sixties were a Golden Age for higher education. Her new book, The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press) , is a gripping account of the radical changes that swept through most colleges and universities. Ellen Schrecker – Professor Emerita of History at Yeshiva University, 1987-2013 - examines the turmoil that rocked American campuses in the 1960s.
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