“The so-called ‘Red Scare’ has been the main focus of most historians of that period of time," said Senator Alan K. Simpson. ...

In "American Scare," Fieseler writes about a period in Florida toward the end of McCarthyism, when a legislative inquest ...

One section of the exhibit, titled “Talented and Targeted,” focuses on artists whose careers were upended by the blacklist.

The rollback of LGBTQ rights and inclusion echoes an often overlooked, but deeply consequential, chapter of American history: ...

In 1954, Wyoming U.S. Sen. Lester C. Hunt committed suicide. The tragedy came about after his 20-year-old son was arrested for soliciting services from a male ...

Cohn served as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when the Wisconsin senator was riding roughshod over the ...

We need a new profile in courage who will stand up to Donald Trump as a leader propagator of this polarization and violence.

Shaken Senator Sounds Alarm On Political Violence Day After Dinner With Slain Lawmaker Sen. Amy Klobuchar had dinner with Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman on Friday night, June 13. Early the next ...

Culture A new exhibit on Red Scare blacklists presents chilling parallels to our current era It’s hard not to see echoes between ‘Blacklisted: An American Story’ at the New York Historical ...

The retribution is now under way. Mr Trump’s administration has withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants from prestigious schools, mostly in the Ivy League, and threatened to yank ...

If returned to power with our support, they will use that support to neuter and diminish the rollback of this era’s McCarthyism just as their predecessors did following Senator McCarthy’s eclipse.