Jasmine Harris discusses the historic experiences of Black women students and faculty at predominantly white colleges.

• Jasmine L. Harris. 2024. Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education. Broadleaf Books. 
• Jasmine L. Harris’s website
• Heather Terrell and Victoria Christopher Murray. 2022. The Personal Librarian. Penguin Random House.

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On the post-World War II Red Scare and its consequences for American higher education.

• Ellen Schrecker. 1986. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Oxford University Press.
• Ellen Schrecker. 2021. The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press.
• Ellen Schrecker’s website

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The story of krebiozen, a fraudulent cancer cure, and the frenzy it wrought through the University of Illinois in the 1950s.

• Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2024. The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine. University of Illinois Press.
• David F. Labaree. 2017. A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press.
• Julie Schumacher. 2024. The English Experience. Penguin Random House.
• Julie Schumacher. 2019. The Shakespeare Requirement. Penguin Random House.
• Julie Schumacher. 2015. Dear Committee Members. Penguin Random House.

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Kelly L. Marino discusses college women's role in the suffrage movement. Listen to hear more about her new book, Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign (New York University Press, 2024).

• Kelly L. Marino. 2024. Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign. New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479825196/votes-for-college-women/
• Michael Roy. 2024. Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement. New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479830091/young-abolitionists/ 
• Paul M. Renfro. 2024. The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469680859/the-life-and-death-of-ryan-white/ 

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Katherine Rye Jewell "hits" the high notes of the history of college radio. Listen to her discuss her new book, Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (University of North Carolina Press, 2023).

• katherinejewell.com 
• Katherine Rye Jewell. 2023. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469677255/live-from-the-underground/ 
• Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087257 

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva discuss their book, The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (University of North Carolina Press, 2024).

• Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva. 2024. The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game. University of North Carolina Press. 
• Derek Silva, Johanna Mellis, and Nathan Kalman-Lamb. 2024. The End of Sport podcast. 

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Crystal Sanders discusses her book, A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (University of North Carolina Press, 2024).

• Crystal R. Sanders. 2024. A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs. University of North Carolina Press. 
• Dylan C. Penningroth. 2023. Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights. Liveright. 
• Tikia K. Hamilton. Forthcoming. “Making a Model System: The Battle for Educational Equality in the Nation’s Capital before Brown.”
• Ketanji Brown Jackson. 2024. Lovely One: A Memoir. Penguin Random House. 

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Gregg Michel discusses his book, Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South (Louisiana State University Press, 2024).

• Gregg L. Michel. 2024. Spying on Students: The FBI, Red Squads, and Student Activists in the 1960s South. Louisiana State University Press. 
• Gregg L. Michel. 2004. Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969. Palgrave MacMillan.  
• Andrew C. McKevitt. 2023. Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America. University of North Carolina Press. 
• Christina Greene. 2022. Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment. University of North Carolina Press.

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Sharon Stein discusses her book, Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).

• Sharon Stein's Academia page 
• Sharon Stein. 2022. Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press.  
• Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. 2021. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. Penguin Random House. 

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