Ellen Schrecker

Ellen Schrecker is a professor of history at Yeshiva University who has written extensively about the Cold War red scare. Among her books are No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents, and Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America, and Cold War Triumphalism: Exposing the Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism. Schrecker is the former editor of the American Association of University Professors’ magazine, Academe. She lives in New York City.

Books by Ellen Schrecker