Publications and Research
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
Winter 12-4-2025
Abstract
The Red Scare at CUNY is a comprehensive guide to archives documenting anti-communist political repression of faculty, staff, and students at CUNY, primarily from the 1930s-1960s. Organized by repository, it highlights relevant collections within CUNY, evaluated by the authors in consultation and collaboration with archivists at Brooklyn College, City College, Hunter College, and Queens College in 2025. Each entry is accompanied by a description that incorporates information from finding aids and other published research. These collections include faculty personal and professional papers, student activist materials, and oral histories. The guide also includes collections from other repositories within New York City and New York State, as well as an abridged bibliography of published writings on higher education, the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
Comments
This project was created in conjunction with the CUNY Cultivating Archives and Institutional Memory Project.
An interactive version of this comprehensive research guide is available on CUNY Manfiold at Red Scare at CUNY on CUNY Manifold