the junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph R. McCarthy. The trial, held from May to July 1946 in the former concentration camp at Dachau, Germany, charged German generals along with rank-and-file ...

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.

In his book, "Red Scare," Clay Risen examines the history of the 1950s anti-Communist witch hunt and connects it to Trump and ...

During the "Lavender Scare" incited by Senator Joseph McCarthy, many gay Americans were harassed, arrested, and put on trial ...

In February 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia. He claimed that over 200 communists held jobs at the State Department.

Recently, a global alliance of civil society organizations called CIVICUS added the United States to a global watchlist, ...

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.

But when a Republican senator, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, stood up to Joseph McCarthy in 1950, attacking him for his shameful reliance on “the Four Horsemen of Calumny — Fear, Ignorance ...

It was very interesting to see what was happening behind the scenes as Murrow went against McCarthy and tried to use journalism.

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 ...

George Clooney’s drama about straight-shooting newsman Edward R. Murrow exposing Senator Joseph McCarthy’s lies and cruelties draws clear parallels to Trump’s tyrannies. A Republican ...