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

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Americans in their childbearing years had weathered the Depression and a devastating war, and they were living under a cloud of possible nuclear war.

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 ...

“Let’s Have a Party” by Wanda Jackson (1958) Of all the early rockabilly queens of 1950s music, none was more important than ...

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.