In a September news release, U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Hays County, announced that he has asked U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

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 ...

When Jean is remembered at all, she is often dismissed simply as a supporter of her husband. But she was Joe’s indispensable ...

Michigan State University Libraries received a $1 million federal grant to digitize early WKAR-TV programs from the 1950s and ...

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 ...

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 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter who was imprisoned and blacklisted during the anti-communist ...

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 ...

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 ...