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

We really need more Republican members of Congress speaking up. I know they have nice jobs — little to do, decent ...

Apr. 2—"Why are there so many songs about rainbows?" Kermit the Frog once sang. Well, it's because of Yip Harburg. Although not a household name, Harburg is the lyricist behind "Over the Rainbow." He ...

Joseph J. McCarthy is provost and senior vice chancellor at the University of Pittsburgh and one of our 20 People to Know in ...

Nevertheless, “’Red Scare’ resonates because it speaks so directly to our current quandary of far left and far right.” Also, ...

In 1949, New York State passed the so-called Feinberg Law, which made membership in any group labeled subversive by the U.S. attorney general grounds for a teacher’s dismissal. A year later, the New ...

Joseph McCarthy has written 6 shows including Oh, Look! (Lyricist), Ziegfeld Follies of 1924 (Lyricist), Rio Rita (Lyricist), Cross My Heart (Lyricist), John Murray Anderson's Almanac (Composer ...

A native of Watkins, Minnesota, Eugene Joseph McCarthy graduated from St. John's University in 1935. After teaching high school while earning a master's degree at the University of Minnesota ...

Disappointed youths who worked for the presidential nomination of Sen. Eugene McCarthy, D-M.N., sit on the steps of his headquarters in a hotel in Chicago, Ill., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 1968.