Get out of the heat this summer and feel your blood boil – come to New York Historical’s new exhibit, “Blacklisted: An American Story” and be horrified by the recognition that the assault of civil ...

One section of the exhibit, titled “Talented and Targeted,” focuses on artists whose careers were upended by the blacklist.

An American Story — explores the Red Scare era of American history through posters, newspaper clippings, political pamphlets and video clips from the time. While Joseph McCarthy eventually lent his ...

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage. But the movement was bigger than Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Known as HUAC, the powerful congressional committee held hearings in Milwaukee March 28-30, 1955. A four-member subcommittee camped out in the Federal Building, 517 E. Wisconsin Ave.

Using tactics borrowed directly from HUAC, the committee interrogated dozens of faculty members and administrators; three professors lost their jobs, and many others had their careers derailed.

No one has been more baffled by Ronald Reagan than the scholars who have devoted their lives to making sense of his. The book still hailed as the most definitive biography, Lou Cannon’s 1991 ...

Richard Nixon (third from right) and other Republican candidates filing their papers to run for U.S. Congress in 1946. “Real Quakers look at men with a level eye,” one former classmate said ...

This summer marks the 75th anniversary of a secret FBI file becoming public—one that named well-known Hollywood figures, including screenwriter and former University of Colorado Boulder student Dalton ...

The studio heads’ 1947 agreement to bar all members of a constitutionally protected political party from employment – based on little more than innuendo — preceded both the House Un-American ...