| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1 | The History Cooperative

*Academic Freedom Imperiled: The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada*. By J. Dee Kille. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004. 139 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
For the past several years numerous stories have appeared describing how some tenured faculty members have been fired or threatened by college administrators. This is a trend that is disturbing but not new. J. Dee Kille, a history graduate student at the University of Nevada, Reno, describes a similar situation that occurred at UNR in the mid-1950s.	1
Academic Freedom Imperiled focuses on the struggles (between 1952 and 1957) of a conservative Board of Regents, a new presidential appointment to UNR, and faculty and students. McCarthyism, academic freedom, and shared governance became "the vortex" within which the controversies of the 1950s rotated at UNR (p. 3). These controversies threatened the academic integrity of this land-grant institution and raised concerns about its future viability.	. . .

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