McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage.

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

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With that speech, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy seized the nation’s attention ... suggest that he painted a dark picture of the Cold War. The senator asserted that five years after winning ...

The academy did not fight McCarthyism. It contributed to it.” That was historian Ellen Schrecker’s devastating conclusion in her classic study No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, which ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin took advantage of ... Due process under the law was one of the victims of this Cold War hysteria. A fire department officer wrongly accused of membership ...

Hank Greenspun confronts Sen. Joseph McCarthy during a Republican rally at the War Memorial Building in Las Vegas in October 1952. McCarthy unintentionally calls Greenspun an ex-communist during ...

Murrow did Senator Joseph McCarthy — and emerge a triumphant ... a climactic battle for the soul of American democracy. The Cold War set the ideological framework. The junior senator from ...

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.

The biggest U.S. law firms are trying to avoid a confrontation with Trump's unconstitutional demands. They can run, but they can't hide.

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy upended the nation The 86,000-square-foot labyrinth was ...