The Online Books Page

Academic freedom -- United States

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Academic freedom
• Freedom of information -- United States
• Liberty -- United States
• United States

• Academic freedom -- United States -- Periodicals
• Teaching, Freedom of -- United States
• University autonomy -- United States
• Academic freedom -- California
• Academic freedom -- Illinois
• Academic freedom -- New York (State)
• Academic freedom -- North Carolina
• Academic freedom -- Wisconsin

• What is Academic Freedom? A Century of Debate, 1915-Present (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), by Daniel Gordon (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by John Palfrey (illustrated HTML at bravespaces.org)
• The Limits of Religious Tolerance (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2016), by Alan Levinovitz (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• And Campus for All: Diversity, Inclusion, and Freedom of Speech at U.S. Universities (2016), by American Center of P.E.N. (PDF with commentary at pen.org)
• Cold War on the Campus (New York: Socialist Youth League, 1950), by Robert Martinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Academic Epidemic: A Study in Self-Expression (ca. 1940), by Maia Turchin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Important Articles on Academic Freedom (ca. 1950), by National Council for American Education (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Faculty freedoms and institutional accountability : interactions and conflicts (Association for the Study of Higher Education, 1984), by Steven G. Olswang, Barbara A. Lee, and ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Is intellectual diversity an endangered species on America's college campuses? : hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, on examining intellectual diversity on America's college campuses, focusing on the problem of freedom of expression, politicized instruction, and core curricula, October 29, 2003. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hearing on the rights of artists and scholars to freedom of expression and the rights of taxpayers to determine the use of public funds : hearing before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, November 15, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposed Academic freedom protective act of 1969. Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, first session, on S. 1988. August 5, 1969. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws (page images at HathiTrust)
• Is intellectual diversity an endangered species on America's college campuses? : hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, on examining intellectual diversity on America's college campuses, focusing on the problem of freedom of expression, politicized instruction, and core curricula, October 29, 2003. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposed Academic Freedom Protective Act of 1969 : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee To Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Ninety-First Congress, first session, on Aug. 5, 1969. (U.S. G.P.O., 1969), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws (page images at HathiTrust)
• Expanding the power of big labor : the NLRB's growing intrusion into higher education : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions and the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, September 12, 2012. (Washington : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office., 2012), by Employment United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Health and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training (page images at HathiTrust)
• Academic freedom and academic responsibility : their meaning to students, teachers, administrators and the community : a statement of principles concerning the civil liberties and obligations of students and teachers in public and private schools, colleges, and universities. (American Civil Liberties Union, 1953), by American Civil Liberties Union (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Academic freedom and civil liberties of students. (American Civil Liberties Union, 1956), by American Civil Liberties Union. Committee on Academic Freedom (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Red teachers and educational freedom (Editorial Research Reports, 1953), by Helen B. Shaffer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Journal of Academic Freedom (full serial archives)

• Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, by American Association of University Professors (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin 1943-1955. (The Association, 1915), by American Association of University Professors (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Association of University Professors bulletin (American Association of University Professors., 1915), by American Association of University Professors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of Committee on Tenure (Washington, D.C. : The Association, between 1000 and 1999), by National Education Association of the United States. Committee on Tenure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulletin 1943-1955 ([Boston?] : The Association, [1916-1955?], 1915), by American Association of University Professors (page images at HathiTrust)

• Towards the New Education: The Case Against Autocracy in Our Public Schools (Being a Reply to a Pamphlet Issued by the Schoolmasters' Association of New York and Vicinity and the American Defense Society, Entitled, "Unpatriotic Teaching in Public Schools") (ca. 1918), by Teachers' Union of the City of New York
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The mighty medicine : superstition and its antidote : a new liberal education (Macmillan, 1929), by Franklin Henry Giddings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oaths of loyalty for teachers. (American federation of teachers, 1935), by Henry R. Linville and American Federation of Teachers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberty and learning; the activities of the American civil liberties union in behalf of freedom of education (American council on public affairs, 1942), by David Edison Bunting and American Council on Public Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• American inquisitors; a commentary on Dayton and Chicago (Macmillan, 1928), by Walter Lippmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The school administrator and subversive activities; a study of the administration of restraints on alleged subversive activities of public school personnel. (Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1951), by E. Edmund Reutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Order and freedom on the campus; the rights and responsibilities of faculty and students. (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 1965), by Institute on College Self Study for College and University Administrators, W. John Minter, Owen A. Knorr, Berkeley. Center for Higher Education University of California, and Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report on some problems of personnel in the Faculty of arts and sciences by a special committee appointed by the president of Harvard university. ([Printed at the Harvard university press], 1939), by Harvard university. Committee to investigate the cases of Drs. Walsh and Sweezy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outside demands and pressures on the public schools (Teachers College, Columbia University, 1932), by James Flint Waller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Teachers' oaths and related state requirements. (Washington, 1949), by National Education Association of the United States. Committee on Tenure and Academic Freedom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cold war in the classroom (Masses & Mainstream, 1950), by Samuel Sillen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Permit Communist-conspirators to be teachers? (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1953), by Hamilton Abert Long (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors ([Washington, etc.], 1915), by American Association of University Professors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the terminating appointments of Dr. J.R. Walsh and Dr. A.R. Sweezy (Printed by the Harvard University Press, 1938), by Harvard University. Committee to Investigate the Cases of Drs. Walsh and Sweezy, Alan Richardson Sweezy, and John Raymond Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extra-curricula activities and academic freedom (Clark university library, 1922), by Wallace Walter Atwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom of teaching in the United States (n.p., 1914), by Ulysses Grant Weatherly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Committee of Economists on the dismissal of Professor Ross from Leland Stanford Junior University. (The Committee?, 1901), by Committee of Economists and Edwin R. A. Seligman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Student involvement in extra campus affairs; sessions number one [- five] Duke University, February 24-26, 1962. (United States National Student Association, 1962), by Carolinas-Virginia Academic Freedom Seminar (1962 : Duke University) and United States National Student Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Academic freedom and academic responsibility : their meaning to students, teachers, administrators and the community : a statement of principles concerning the civil liberties and obligations of students and teachers in public and private schools, colleges, and universities. (American Civil Liberties Union, 1953), by American Civil Liberties Union (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Toward the new education; the case against autocracy in our public schools (being a reply to a pamphlet issued by the Schoolmasters' Association of New York and Vicinity and the American Defense Society, entitled, "Unpatriotic Teaching in Public Schools."). ([New York], 1918), by Teachers' Union of the City of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Academic freedom. (Wilson, 1925), by Julia E. Johnsen (page images at HathiTrust)

• A list of references on college and university government and administration, 1819-1920 (Vassar College, 1921), by Vassar College. Library and Fanny Borden (page images at HathiTrust)

• The fundamental issue: documents and marginal notes on the University of California loyalty oath. (Parker Printing Co., 1950), by Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personnel Problems Subcommittee. ([Sacramento, 1964), by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Education. Subcommittee on Personnel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The consequences of the abrogation of tenure : an accounting of costs. (Northern Section of the Academic Senate, University of California], 1951), by Ewald Theophilus Grether, William Ray Dennes, James Ralston Caldwell, and University of California (System). Academic Senate. Northern Section (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Big Business and the American University (New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1966), by Bettina Aptheker (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)
• Faculty freedoms and institutional accountability : interactions and conflicts (Association for the Study of Higher Education, 1984), by Steven G. Olswang, Barbara A. Lee, and ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (page images at HathiTrust)

• Personnel Problems Subcommittee. ([Sacramento, 1964), by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Education. Subcommittee on Personnel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

More items available under narrower terms.