The primary targets were government employees, those in the entertainment industry, academics, liberals, and labor union activists....
Red Scare
Explore America’s Red Scares, from the repression following World War I to McCarthyism and the anticommunist campaigns of the Cold War.
By January 1954, a Gallup poll found that only 50 percent of the American public supported McCarthy....
Two distinct and contradictory images dominate our understanding of Eisenhower, McCarthy, and the communist question. On March...
He ruined the reputations and lives of many people by accusing them without credible evidence. Introduction McCarthyism...
One from 1917 to 1920, and another longer one from 1947 to 1957 with Joseph McCarthy’s infamous...
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?” Introduction In the...
Trump has learned very well from prior anti-Communism crusaders, and it requires vigilance and activism to cope...
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?” Introduction In the...