From 20th Century Red Scares to the Blue Scare of Today: A Historical Perspective on the State of American Civil Liberties

December 8th from 11:30 pm – 1:00 pm

with author and Professor Emeritus Warren Goldstein

Please register by Monday, December 1st.

Most Americans who care about free speech have at least a passing acquaintance with the Red Scare of the 1950s, known popularly, if inaccurately, as McCarthyism. Fewer know anything about the first Red Scare, launched in 1919-1920 against radicals, socialists, and union activists. In this presentation, US historian Warren Goldstein will try to connect the historical dots of state-sponsored repression of free speech, from the first Red Scare to the current Blue Scare. He promises that this will not simply be an “ain’t it awful” lament, but will also provide hopeful lessons from history that can help us today, in our current multiple crises.

SPEAKER BIO

Warren Goldstein taught US history for 30 years at in the State University of New York and the University of Hartford, where he chaired the Department of History for 25 years. He is the author of 6 books, including Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball; the biography William Sloane Coffin: A Holy Impatience; and For the Love of Physics, with astrophysicist Walter Lewin. He has published numerous reviews, essays, and op-eds for the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Gettysburg Review, Newsday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Hartford Courant, Tikkun, Commonweal, and the Christian Century.

DETAILS

• Mon, Dec 1st – Registration deadline
• Mon, Dec 8th – Luncheon at Institute of Culinary Arts at Eastside High School
• 11:30 – Lunch (Our wonderful EHS Culinary hosts will be preparing a special holiday meal for us.)
• 12:00 – Presentation begins

Advance Registration Required

Due to enhanced security in public schools, The Florida Free Speech Forum now requires event attendees to register in advance. Proof of identity may also be required upon entry to the Institute of Culinary Arts at Eastside High School. In addition, the number of attendees may be limited by the capacity of the venue.

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