The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...

Trump, through his strategy of fear and hatred, sacrificed the bodies of trans people, along with undocumented immigrants, as ...

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

Douglas MacArthur was drafting a new constitution for Japan, and Joseph McCarthy ... landed in Korea. McCarthy warned of “enemies from within,” and Nixon launched his 1950 Senate campaign ...

Three thousand died in the winter of 1950-1951, most from starvation ... Back home, the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings and Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s war on Communism loomed ...

There’s a golden age of television, generally regarded as the 1950s and early 1960s ... segregation, the McCarthy hearings and your home life if it didn’t look anything like the ones you ...

The Army-McCarthy hearings were superb political theater ... But in the later rounds, McCarthy begins to swing wildly, and Joseph N. Welch, the Army’s counsel, delicately cuts him into paper ...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, in concert with the military-industrial complex, the tech-industrial complex, and ...

The stifling intolerance that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WI) and his ideological allies fostered during the 1950s went far beyond the effort to purge government employees suspected of being part ...

Cohn then worked with J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI who recommended him to be Chief Counsel for Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist hearings. He investigated homosexuals as part of this work. Queerly, ...