The daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter who was imprisoned and blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare has decried Florida's new social studies teaching standards that other critics have ...

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 ...

Jul. 20—The Dayton Flyers alumni team, the Red Scare, took control with a 23-0 run and cruised to an 88-74 victory against DaGuys STL in the first round of The Basketball Tournament on Saturday at UD ...

Writer Clay Risen describes a political movement which destroyed the careers of thousands of teachers, civil servants and artists whose beliefs or associations were deemed un-American. His book, Red ...

Since Donald Trump retook office on January 20, he’s weaponized the federal government to execute his war on “woke,” targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, LGBTQ+ rights, and higher ...

Jul. 23—The question comes up every year after the Red Scare exits The Basketball Tournament: Will they run it back next year? Jeremiah Bonsu, who helped form the first Dayton Flyers alumni team in ...

“I was struck this summer when [now Vice President] JD Vance was talking about these Haitian immigrants in Ohio who are supposedly eating pets,” says Nashville native Risen, a historian and editor at ...

Ever wonder who those people decked out in blue paint and flight crew outfits at the front row of UD sporting events are? If so, you've come to the right place. Those extra passionate Flyer fans are a ...

HARI SREENIVASAN: Bianna, thanks. Clay Risen, thanks so much for joining us. First, I guess for our audience that might not have paid attention in history class, the Red Scare. Why did it happen? What ...

Early in “Red Scare,” Clay Risen’s thorough, impassioned but even-handed study of Cold War hysteria in the U.S., the author makes a point of explaining what his subject is — and isn’t. “There is a ...