The acclaimed Showtime limited series “Fellow Travelers” tells the decades-long love story of two closeted men, Hawk Fuller (Matt Bomer) and Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey) who meet in 1950s Washington ...
The McCarthy hearings in the 1950s and investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1930s and 1940s have come to be seen as sordid, painful chapters in the congressional past, a ...
It was an electric, historic moment. I was 13 and watching the Army-McCarthy hearings with my mother in June, 1954. Sen. Joseph McCarthy had engineered hearings investigating the Army for supposedly ...
Thrill-thriving U.S. radio commentators and newspaper columnists could hardly conceal their chagrin last week at the course of the coldly efficient, seemingly drab censure hearings against Senator ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, offered an introduction to the McCarthy Era and Sen. Joseph McCarthy. While there ...
June 9 marks 70 years since the moment America came back to its senses following a four-year period when a demagogue exploited fears and told lies to gain a following and wield cruel and unusual power ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ron Barrett, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) The day before Charlie Kirk was ...