Richard Freeland is the President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University. He teaches the introductory survey of American history.  He has also taught a variety of courses in 20th century American history and is an historian of American higher education. He has published three books: The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism (Knopf), a study of the politics on American foreign policy at the beginning of the Cold War; Academia’s Golden Age (Oxford), a study of eight universities in Massachusetts between 1945 and 1975; Transforming the Urban University (Penn), an account of Northeastern University between 1996 and 2006.