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 ...

May 5 -- For the first time in 50 years, nearly 9,000 pages of McCarthy-era secret session transcripts came to light today, released from the National Archives. The wide-ranging transcripts, published ...

Point of Order. The Army-McCarthy hearings were superb political theater. In this fascinating film, a 97-minute précis of what television audiences saw at the time, the theater is heightened by ...

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 ...

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 ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Nov. 14, 1908, former Republican U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy was born in Grand Chute. Before his time in the Senate, McCarthy served for three years as the 10th ...