Stephen 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.
WKAR Under the Radar Reviews The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower
Stephen Norwood’s The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower was recently reviewed on Michigan NPR affiliate, WKAR’s Under the Radar. Listen here as book reviewer Lev Raphael and correspondent Melissa Ingells discuss Nazi Germany’s attempt to influence Americans by getting cozy with some of the most highly regarded universities in the country.
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 [...]
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.
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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