McCarthy charged that the State Department and its Secretary, Dean Acheson, harbored “traitorous” Communists. McCarthy’s apocalyptic rhetoric made critics hesitate before …

Oct 14, 2014 · History records what resulted — investigations, witch hunts, blacklists, bullying from the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Army-McCarthy hearings in the …

The McCarthy era's anti-communist trials destroyed lives and friendships. Arthur Miller describes the paranoia that swept America - and the moment his then wife Marilyn Monroe became a …

Contains information regarding the Joseph McCarthy trial during the 1950s.

Kulakow’s 1989 documentary, Keeping in Mind: The McCarthy Era at the University of Michigan, revealed the trials and fallout of McCarthyism at U-M in the ’50s. His film resurfaced a …

Discover the formation of this dynamic department of East Asian Studies, teaching and researching the languages and cultures past and present of China, Japan and Thailand, …

During the 1950’s in America, McCarthyism arose as a judicial doctrine antagonizing any Americans suspected of sympathizing with Communist ideas.

It is impossible to fully grasp the motives of McCarthy in a vacuum, and an exploration of the Cold War, its causes and implications is necessary to understand McCarthy.

With McCarthy's censure, the Cold War paranoia was not dead, for HUAC could still try Arthur Miller in 1956. The Communist threat is likewise present in Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey's …

McCarthy on trial: an account of an investigation into the activities of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy conducted by a New York Trade Union Veterans Committee, relating the dramatic …

Franklin Roosevelt had promised an era of U.S.-Soviet collaboration, but President Truman now bitterly assails the Soviets for blocking free elections in Eastern Europe. Two spy scares …

Jun 1, 2024 · As with Donald J. Trump, discussed in the book's afterword, it becomes clear that at least some of McCarthy's contradictory or flat-out wrong statements resulted less from …

Partially in response to Republican Party victories, President Harry S. Truman tried to demonstrate his own concern about the threat of Communism by setting up a loyalty program …

The McCarthy Trials were a controversial time in US history. This programme, presented by historian and teacher Ben Walsh, uses footage from the North American Records …

In this volume, attorney Robert M. Lichtman provides a comprehensive history of the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in "Communist" cases during the McCarthy era.

Sep 18, 2015 · McCarthyism saw thousands of people lose their jobs and the imprisonment for years of more than a hundred people – the latter suspected or open members of the US …

May 31, 2007 · The institutions that most typified the McCarthy era were congressional investigating committees. They were also the most important vehicle for extending the anti …

The anticommunist crusader Senator Joseph McCarthy stepped into national prominence on February 9, 1950, when he mounted an attack on President Truman’s foreign policy agenda. …

Jan 26, 2025 · In 1955, Inherit the Wind debuted in Dallas, Texas, and it dramatized the events of the Scopes Trial and pointed to its influence on the Joseph McCarthy trials, or McCarthyism, …

McCarthyism saw thousands of people lose their jobs and the imprisonment for years of more than a hun-dred people – the latter suspected or open members of the US Communist Party …