McCarthyism Bibliography 

• Abrams, F. (2005). Speaking freely: trials of the First Amendment. New York: Viking.
• Doherty, T. P. (2003). Cold War, cool medium : television, McCarthyism, and American culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Evans, M.S. (2007). Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies. New York: Random House.
• Fariello, G. (1995). Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition an Oral History. New York: Norton. (This book contains an interview with Oscar Shaftel)
• Heins, M. (2013). Priests of our democracy : the Supreme Court, academic freedom, and the anti-communist purge. New York: New York University Press.
• Morgan, T. (2003). Reds: McCarthyism in twentieth-century America. New York : Random House.
• Murphy, B. (1999) Congressional theatre : dramatizing McCarthyism on stage, film, and television. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
• Root, E.M. (1955). Collectivism on the campus; the battle for the mind in American colleges. New York: Devin-Adair Co. 
• Schrecker, E. (1998). Many are the crimes: McCarthyism in America. New York: Little Brown and Company. 
• Schrecker, E. (2002). Age of McCarthyism: a brief history with documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins.
• Schrecker, E. (1986) No Ivory Tower: McCathyism and the universities. New York: Oxford University Press. 
• The struggle for free speech at CCNY (digital exhibit).

Resources held by Queens College Special Collections and Archives

• Oscar Shaftel Papers
• Recording of Dr. Lawrence Kaplan, Dr. Frank Warren Roundtable (published by Queens Memory)
• Yearbooks
• The People's College on the Hill (50th Anniversary Publication)
• Student Publications Collection

Contact Information

• Make a research appointment or provide remote research assistance
• Request a guest speaker (Ann Shaftel may be able to speak over Zoom)
• Request an instruction session using the Oscar Shaftel papers