Modern scholar.

Compact discs

Produced by David Markowitz; directed by Matthew Carver; course guide edited by James Gallagher

Professor Ellen Schrecker of Yeshiva University lectures

McCarthyism is the longest and most widespread of political repression in American history. A basic understanding is established as to what occurred during the Cold War red scare of the late 1940's and 1950's. This issue is analyzed from the perspectives of victims and perpetrators. How such a politically repressive movement evolve in modern post-World War II America becomes the object of study

Lecture 1.

Junius Scales and my sixth-grade teacher: two stories of the McCarthy era --

Lecture 2.

Communism in America: the world of the witches --

Lecture 3.

Anticommunism in America: the world of the witch hunters --

Lecture 4.

Rehearsal of McCarthyism: anticommunism and political repression before the Cold War --

Lecture 5.

Cold War comes to Washington --

Lecture 6.

Orchestra leader: J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the machinery of McCarthyism --

Lecture 7.

Soviet espionage and internal security: the the big spy cases and the political impact --

Lecture 8.

Committees and their witnesses: "Are you now or have ever been--?" --

Lecture 9.

Joe McCarthy and the loss of China: anticommunism as partisan politics --

Lecture 10.

Hollywood blacklist and beyond: the entertainment industry under fire --

Lecture 11.

On the waterfront and in the schools: political tests for employment --

Lecture 12.

Dog that didn't bark: the collapse of the liberals --

Lecture 13.

Collateral damage: private lives during the red scare --

Lecture 14.

McCarthyism and American democracy: what were the costs?