Schrecker

Ellen Schrecker, a professor of history at Yeshiva University, who had announced plans to return an honorary degree to John Jay, said it was "gratifying" to see the CUNY board prepare to reverse itself.

CUNY to vote on controversial honorary degree to playwrite 2011

Ellen Schrecker is a professor of history at Yeshiva University who has written extensively about higher education and about the Cold War-era Red Scare.

Where's My Professor? 2010

As to this, Schrecker asserts, (a) the spies believed that no country should have a monopoly on the bomb, and (b) many leading scientists themselves felt that no one country should have the bomb.

IsThatLegal? 2003

The first speaker on this second afternoon panell is historian Ellen Schrecker of Yeshiva, one of the leading historians of the McCarthy era.

IsThatLegal? 2003

These spies, Schrecker asserts, did not successfully subvert American policy.

IsThatLegal? 2003

In a fascinating aside, Schrecker reports that in October 1939 Trotsky accepted an invitation to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

1984 and All That 1998

Do the signatories dispute this point or my observation that the archival record contradicts Schrecker?

'The Red Scare': An Exchange Alperovitz, Gar 1999

I noted that in common with many revisionists Schrecker "tilts the balance of blame heavily toward the United States" and argues that Stalin's goal in the immediate aftermath of World War II was simply to "ensure [Soviet] security."

'The Red Scare': An Exchange Alperovitz, Gar 1999

CUNY's actions prompted outrage from a number of notable people, including Ellen Schrecker, a history professor at Yeshiva University who received an honorary degree from John Jay in 2008.

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If they accepted the failure of their old narrative that Delton summarizes so well, it would interfere with their cherished and still held view that all anti-Communism, as Schrecker wrote, "was misguided or worse," that the anti-Communist or Cold War liberals were just as bad as the McCarthyites of the Right, and in fact served them intelligence agents who identified Reds, and who "tapped into something dark and nasty in the human soul."

History News Network 2010