At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

Writer Clay Risen describes the anti-Communist frenzy that destroyed the careers of thousands of teachers, union activists and civil servants — and connects that era to our current political moment.

In 1949, New York State passed the so-called Feinberg Law, which made membership in any group labeled subversive by the U.S.

(National Archives of Canada, PA-126393) Communism was a dirty word in Canada ... She and her family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter ...

In the late 1940s and the early 1950s, academic freedom across the country came increasingly under threat as McCarthyism and anticommunism took hold during what would be known as the second Red Scare.