“This remarkable volume breathes with the spirit of resistance and resilience embodied by the distinguished activist Chandler Davis, whose lifelong commitments of principle offer an inspiring and daunting model to us all as we strive to stand up against today’s official assault on academic and intellectual freedom.”— Howard Brick, Professor of History Emeritus, University of Michigan

• Contributors’ BiographiesIntroductionChapter 1 | A Professor’s Fight Against McCarthyism Resonates TodayChapter 2 | Experiencing Exclusion: Scholarship after InquisitionChapter 3 | U- M Faculty Political Activism in the Late Twentieth CenturyChapter 4 | No More Chandler Davises! Academic Freedom Needs Collective Action, Not HeroesChapter 5 | Gender Studies, Academic Freedom, and the Autumn of 2024Chapter 6 | On Further Investigation: The AAUP Affiliation with the AFTChapter 7 | Academic Freedom and Moral Courage: North Carolina’s Speaker BanChapter 8 | Campus Activism in Images: Past and PresentChapter 9 | Into the Gray Future, or: The University Is DeadChapter 10 | Schoolbook Censorship: Untangling the Pico ParadoxChapter 11 | Choice, Responsibility, and NeutralityChapter 12 | The New McCarthyism: Academic Freedom and PalestineChapter 13 | The Other Israel– Gaza Conflict: On CampusChapter 14 | An Ann Arbor AppealNotes AppendixList of Davis Markert Nickerson Speakers

“This remarkable volume breathes with the spirit of resistance and resilience embodied by the distinguished activist Chandler Davis, whose lifelong commitments of principle offer an inspiring and daunting model to us all as we strive to stand up against today’s official assault on academic and intellectual freedom.”— Howard Brick, Professor of History Emeritus, University of Michigan

• Contributors’ BiographiesIntroductionChapter 1 | A Professor’s Fight Against McCarthyism Resonates TodayChapter 2 | Experiencing Exclusion: Scholarship after InquisitionChapter 3 | U- M Faculty Political Activism in the Late Twentieth CenturyChapter 4 | No More Chandler Davises! Academic Freedom Needs Collective Action, Not HeroesChapter 5 | Gender Studies, Academic Freedom, and the Autumn of 2024Chapter 6 | On Further Investigation: The AAUP Affiliation with the AFTChapter 7 | Academic Freedom and Moral Courage: North Carolina’s Speaker BanChapter 8 | Campus Activism in Images: Past and PresentChapter 9 | Into the Gray Future, or: The University Is DeadChapter 10 | Schoolbook Censorship: Untangling the Pico ParadoxChapter 11 | Choice, Responsibility, and NeutralityChapter 12 | The New McCarthyism: Academic Freedom and PalestineChapter 13 | The Other Israel– Gaza Conflict: On CampusChapter 14 | An Ann Arbor AppealNotes AppendixList of Davis Markert Nickerson Speakers

“This remarkable volume breathes with the spirit of resistance and resilience embodied by the distinguished activist Chandler Davis, whose lifelong commitments of principle offer an inspiring and daunting model to us all as we strive to stand up against today’s official assault on academic and intellectual freedom.”— Howard Brick, Professor of History Emeritus, University of Michigan

• Contributors’ BiographiesIntroductionChapter 1 | A Professor’s Fight Against McCarthyism Resonates TodayChapter 2 | Experiencing Exclusion: Scholarship after InquisitionChapter 3 | U- M Faculty Political Activism in the Late Twentieth CenturyChapter 4 | No More Chandler Davises! Academic Freedom Needs Collective Action, Not HeroesChapter 5 | Gender Studies, Academic Freedom, and the Autumn of 2024Chapter 6 | On Further Investigation: The AAUP Affiliation with the AFTChapter 7 | Academic Freedom and Moral Courage: North Carolina’s Speaker BanChapter 8 | Campus Activism in Images: Past and PresentChapter 9 | Into the Gray Future, or: The University Is DeadChapter 10 | Schoolbook Censorship: Untangling the Pico ParadoxChapter 11 | Choice, Responsibility, and NeutralityChapter 12 | The New McCarthyism: Academic Freedom and PalestineChapter 13 | The Other Israel– Gaza Conflict: On CampusChapter 14 | An Ann Arbor AppealNotes AppendixList of Davis Markert Nickerson Speakers