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

In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy declared to Congress that Far East scholar Owen Lattimore was a "top Russian spy." Lattimore tried to clear his name before two congressional committees. He was ...

Nevertheless, “’Red Scare’ resonates because it speaks so directly to our current quandary of far left and far right.” Also, it is important that we remember Winston Churchill’s admonition, ...

In mid-1954, a riveted nation watched Senator Joseph McCarthy accuse the U.S. Army of being infiltrated by communists. But the army's lawyer, Joseph Welch, refused to be bullied and struck back.

In 1953, the author Langston Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The private, closed ...

The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the purpose of ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy hired Cohn in 1953 as Chief Counsel for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. McCarthy relied heavily on Cohn—for contacts, information, ideas, and ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...

McCarthy chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who led a Cold War crusade against Communists. His zealous campaign to root out those he viewed as enemies of the ...

McCarthyism was bigger than Joseph McCarthy—and it continued even after his personal disgrace. McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War ...