In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

Fights over how American history is taught. Labels of “communist” and “socialist” used to smear. Civil rights gains seen as a loss for the “real” America. While all that might sound like last week’s ...

The New York Historical prepares to examine the campaign against Communism that once shook Hollywood and beyond.

As Attack pertains to the Red Scare and the renegotiation of New Deal politics specifically, Aldrich speaks to an ...

Bush donned a flight suit and gave his premature "Mission Accomplished" speech on an aircraft carrier, Republicans were ...

Ann Foley, a part-time real estate agent, lived a middle-class, all-American lifestyle with her husband, Don, and their two ...

The ongoing mass firings of federal employees (over 100,000 at last count), arrests of activists and attacks on universities have rightly been compared to the Red ... end of World War II with ...

“During the Great Depression, that coalition’s partners were routed by mass working-class movements and new federal policy, only to resurge with the Red Scare after World War II, then be beaten back ...