The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...

Out of 28 chapters, three concern the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers Case. The literature on this historical episode is sadly ...

McCarthy’s rhetoric ... and personal relationships under the long shadow of the Red Scare while setting the tone for the Cold War. The China-U.S. Trade War and China Initiative More than ...

Trustees, the most urgent quality you must search for in our next president is courage. Cornell has weathered the political storm before, and we must do it again. Just as your predecessors in 1951 ...

The remark disgusted some Foreign Service officers, infuriated others, and displeased even those who were looking forward to the new administration.” So began what — until now — was the largest purge ...

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

President Harry S. Truman’s “loyalty checks” began with an executive order declaring that “there shall be a loyalty ...

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The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...