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

Properly understood, loyalty is neither a primary personal nor political virtue. And democratic loyalty requires attachment to the principles and procedures that are necessary to a government of, for ...

Teens do like historical fiction. It can sell. It will touch hearts in lasting ways. But... you must do it well, folks. This is a love letter to authors embarking on the fascinating, soul-stirring, ...

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

Newer versions of the story don’t place it in that period specifically, which sometimes removes the connotations of Red Scare and Cold ... he met with a “witch doctor” named Calypso, who ...

On September 25, the mayor of New York was indicted on criminal charges for the first time in the modern era. The charges marked the culmination of only one of four ongoing federal investigations into ...

Not long before he was gunned down by the Chicago police in 1969, Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party ...

A 1950s witch hunt for LGBTQ+ individuals in government positions was called the Lavender Scare. In the 1970s ... renovations and red tape, it took about three years to materialize.

"For me, the 1950s is one of the great peaks of American theatre – mainly because of how real and gritty it felt. The stories were not pretentious, they spoke in clear language about real situations ...

Ben Levitas says we should call the witch-hunt against Zionism what it really is In 1935 ... It was also known as the” Second Red Scare” because in 1946 Soviet Russia acquired the Atomic bomb. It was ...

Meanwhile, it fueled ungrounded suspicion and distrust, fracturing workplaces, communities, families, and personal relationships under the long shadow of the Red Scare while setting the tone for ...

Sacco and Vanzetti are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their executions — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought ...