History of Academic Freedom

To submit an incident of academic freedom to this website, email collegefreedom@yahoo.com.

Websites about the history of academic freedom:

Early History:

Philip E. Wentworth, "What College Did to My Religion" The Atlantic Monthly, June, 1932. 149(6), p.679-688.: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/95nov/warring/whatcoll.htm

McCarthyism

Anticommunism at Columbia University (1953): http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/columbia.html

Communists Should Not Teach at American Colleges (1949): http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/raymond-allen.html

CCNY in the 1950s: http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ccny-alcove.html

Higher Education's Appalling Responsibilities: Correcting the Cultural Lag (1951): http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/education.html

"The Politics of Scholarship: Liberals, Anti-Communism, and McCarthyism" by Athan Theoharis: http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/theoharis.html

THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM: A BRIEF HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS by Ellen Schrecker (1994): http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schrecker-age.html

http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

Cold War resources: http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war.html

1956 article on academic freedom at Calvin College: http://www.visi.com/~contra_m/cm/features/cm11_academic.html

Academic Freedom Lecture Fund (Univ. of Michigan): http://www.umich.edu/~aflf/

Can We Afford Academic Freedom? (1951 Harvard Law School forum): http://www.law.harvard.edu/studorgs/forum/Academic.html

1960s & 1970s

San Francisco Chronicle series in 2002 on FBI files and COINTELPRO: http://www.sfgate.com/campus

1960s Anti-War Resources (photos): http://ftp.std.com/obi/Emi.Anthology/tears.html

1960s: Free Speech Movement (Berkeley) Archives: http://www.fsm-a.org/

Free Speech Movement: http://lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/FSM.html

A Case of Academic Freedom (Emory University, Altizer, 1965, religion): http://www.emory.edu/history/altizer.html

1990s

Teachers for a Democratic Culture 1995 Report on the State of Academic Freedom by John K. Wilson

The File Room An illustrated archive on censorship.

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