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  • 31 Aug 2010
    Stephen H. Norwood

    Nazi sympathy in 1930s American Universities

    It was just a few decades ago that elite education institutions in this country were placing quotas against Jewish students, encouraging students to visit Nazi Germany on exchange programs, refusing to hire Jewish refugee scholars fleeing Hitler, and punishing both faculty and students who protested the school’s friendly relations with the Nazi regime.

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  • 30 Mar 2010

    Calling Columbia’s Bluff

    Calling Columbia’s bluff: Cambridge author Stephen Norwood responds to President Lee Bollinger’s article representing the university as a champion of free speech and press. Not so fast. Exhibits A & B – from Norwood’s recent book, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower – Columbia ruined the academic careers of Robert Burke and Jerome Klein […]

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  • 1 Dec 2009
    Stephen H. Norwood

    Shades of 1938: Colleges quiet a critic of Islam

    In last Friday's Daily News, Stephen Norwood attacks Princeton and Columbia universities for their cancellations of speeches by Nonie Darwish - feminist and critic of radical Islam.

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  • 4 Nov 2009

    A Nazi at Harvard

    In Anthony Grafton's review of "The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower" for the NYRBlog, the indictment and complexities of US-German ties in academia in the buildup to World War II.

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  • 11 Aug 2009

    Norwood gets the Page 99 Test

    Stephen Norwood applied the Page 99 Test to his The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower. It “focuses on Columbia University president Nicholas Murray Butler’s expulsion of Robert Burke for leading a student protest against his sending a delegate to Germany to celebrate Heidelberg University’s 550th anniversary, a carefully orchestrated Nazi propaganda festival.”

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  • 27 Jul 2009

    Boston Globe Reviews Norwood

    The Boston Globe reviewed Stephen Norwood's The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower yesterday. Norwood's book is an extensively researched indictment of American Universities' cooperation with Nazis in the buildup to World War II.

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  • 18 Jun 2009

    Inside Higher Ed Reviews Norwood

    Inside Higher Ed reviews the latest book by Stephen Norwood, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower. Norwood's research uncovers years of complicity and cooperation between American Universities and Nazi Germany in the years running up to WWII.

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