The Destruction of Academic Freedom: Campus Crises in Historical Perspective
Part of 139th AHA Annual MeetingPresented by Gosse, Van E.
Friday 9 January 2026·1:30 pm
Historians from various universities will gather to discuss the state of repression at their respective schools and the relevant institutional antecedents: Do attacks on academic freedom, free speech, and faculty governance constitute a break with precedents, or are there continuities from either the recent past or earlier in their institution's history?
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