Athan Theoharis, the Glossary
Athan George Theoharis (August 3, 1936 – July 3, 2021) was an American historian, professor of history at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[1]
Table of Contents
30 relations: Albert J. Beveridge, American Bar Association, American Civil Liberties Union, Church Committee, City University of New York, Civil and political rights, Cold War, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fifth column, Frank Church, Freedom of Information Act (United States), House Un-American Activities Committee, Institute for Humane Studies, Intelligence agency, J. Edgar Hoover, Jeanne Theoharis, Kenneth O'Reilly, Liz Theoharis, Marquette University, McCarthyism, Milwaukee, National Endowment for the Humanities, Syracuse, New York, Texas A&M University, United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security, University at Buffalo, University of Chicago, Walter Johnson (academic), Wayne State University, Yalta Conference.
- American historians of espionage
- Historians of the Central Intelligence Agency
Albert J. Beveridge
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (October 6, 1862 – April 27, 1927) was an American historian and United States Senator from Indiana.
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American Bar Association
The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students; it is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States.
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American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920.
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Church Committee
The Church Committee (formally the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) was a US Senate select committee in 1975 that investigated abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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City University of New York
The City University of New York (CUNY, spoken) is the public university system of New York City.
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Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Fifth column
A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation.
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Frank Church
Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was an American politician and lawyer.
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Freedom of Information Act (United States)
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or uncirculated information and documents controlled by the U.S. government upon request.
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House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.
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Institute for Humane Studies
The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) is a non-profit organization that promotes the teaching and research of classical liberalism in higher education in the United States.
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Intelligence agency
An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, public safety, and foreign policy objectives.
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J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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Jeanne Theoharis
Jeanne Theoharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College.
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Kenneth O'Reilly
Kenneth O'Reilly is an American professor emeritus of 20th-century U.S. history who has written several books on the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its impact on the Federal government of the United States of America. Athan Theoharis and Kenneth O'Reilly are Marquette University faculty.
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Liz Theoharis
Elizabeth Armen "Liz" Theoharis (born February 18, 1976) is an American theologian who is the co-chair (along with William Barber II) of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival, and the Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary.
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Marquette University
Marquette University is a private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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McCarthyism
McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by the, dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
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Syracuse, New York
Syracuse is a city in, and the county seat of, Onondaga County, New York, United States.
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Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas.
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United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security
The United States Senate's Special Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, 1951–77, known more commonly as the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) and sometimes the McCarran Committee, was authorized by S. 366, approved December 21, 1950, to study and investigate (1) the administration, operation, and enforcement of the Internal Security Act of 1950 (also known as the McCarran Act) and other laws relating to espionage, sabotage, and the protection of the internal security of the United States and (2) the extent, nature, and effects of subversive activities in the United States "including, but not limited to, espionage, sabotage, and infiltration of persons who are or may be under the domination of the foreign government or organization controlling the world Communist movement or any movement seeking to overthrow the Government of the United States by force and violence".
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University at Buffalo
The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Walter Johnson (academic)
Walter Johnson (June 27, 1915 – June 14, 1985) was a noted historian of the United States and a political scientist, who believed that given political developments in post-Second World War America, there should be no strict separation between academics and politics. Athan Theoharis and Walter Johnson (academic) are historians of the United States.
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Wayne State University
Wayne State University (WSU or simply Wayne) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan.
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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference (Yaltinskaya konferentsiya), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
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See also
American historians of espionage
- Allen Weinstein
- Amir Weiner
- Anthony Cave Brown
- Athan Theoharis
- David Kahn (writer)
- Fred J. Cook
- Harvey Klehr
- Howard Blum
- Jack Koehler
- James Gannon (author)
- John Barron (American journalist)
- John Earl Haynes
- Liza Mundy
- Mark Riebling
- Richard O. Collin
- Ronald Radosh
- Shane Harris
- Winifred Meiselman
Historians of the Central Intelligence Agency
- Athan Theoharis
- Benjamin Fischer (historian)
- Brian Freemantle
- David Talbot
- David Wise (journalist)
- Evan Thomas
- Frances Stonor Saunders
- Frank Snepp
- John Prados
- John Ranelagh
- John Stockwell (CIA officer)
- Mark Riebling
- Mikel Dunham
- Philip Agee
- Ralph McGehee
- Robert Baer
- Ronald Kessler
- Stansfield Turner
- Stephen Kinzer
- Thomas Powers
- Tim Weiner
- Victor Marchetti
- Warren H. Carroll
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athan_Theoharis
Also known as Athan G. Theoharis, Athan George Theoharis.