It's been almost 70 years since America first awoke to that famous question. It was February 1950 when Joseph McCarthy, the Republican Senator from Wisconsin, brandished a list of 205 suspected ...

In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy declared to Congress that Far East scholar Owen Lattimore was a "top Russian spy." Lattimore tried to clear his name before two congressional committees.

Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the ...

Kate Quinn will talk in Naples for lunch, a lecture and a booking signing to launch the 22nd Annual Nick Linn Lecture Series.

Joe McCarthy, the notorious perpetrator of America's 1950s "Red Scare." "Welcome to the new House Committee on Un-American Affairs and the new McCarthyism," she said. "We have arrived here today ...

Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who had purportedly come here to speak in behalf of Sen. George W. Malone, now seeking re-election. Instead of speaking for Malone the Wisconsin senator leveled his ...

Launching with three powerful narratives: Joseph McCarthy, whose anti-communist crusade terrorized 1950s America; media titan William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper mogul whose empire shaped ...