At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...

Kennedy Sr., had roles in the Red Scare. What did their actions reveal about them? Truman was a very capable leader, but he was dropped in midstream to a lot of issues that even a year before he ...

The closest analogue to this squalid moment is the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, when the right exploited widespread fear of communist infiltration to purge leftists from government and ...