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.

1. The very first UK chart was published in 1952 in NME: all forms of music were present (film themes, comedy songs, ballads, teen idol finger-snappers) and the charts would stay that way for the ...

When you picture the quintessential 1950s family, Leave It to Beaver and I Love Lucy come to mind. The reality of life in the 1950s was shockingly different. Sure, the porcelain veneer of the ...

To herald the opening of his unprecedented new theme park in 1955, Walt Disney broadcast a series of popular television shows. In March, the segment "Man in Space" touted one of Disneyland's most ...

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