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.

Folk group The Weavers, who had an international hit with Goodnight Irene in 1950, received an almighty ... glamorous of the UK's female stars of the early fifties. 35. Lita was terrified at ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when Walt Disney was making plans for a safe and clean family park, amusement parks had a reputation for being dirty, dangerous, and run down. Disney envisioned ...

Nevertheless, “’Red Scare’ resonates because it speaks so directly to our current quandary of far left and far right.” Also, ...

Pearson cautioned against succumbing "to the black madness of the witch hunt" when Canada began to track down homegrown communists in the early 1950s. (National Archives of Canada, PA-126393 ...

Burnley in the 1950s was a town in transition. Like much of Britain, it was still emerging from the shadow of the Second ...