Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture attention.

The second Trump presidency recalls Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunts, and the American Nazi movement of ...

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 ...

Murrow’s withering broadcast report about Cold War demagogue Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, a program that has been called television’s “finest half-hour.” Legendary though it may be ...

Sen. Joseph McCarthy The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wisconsin. The end of World War II saw the United States defeating two enemies -- Germany and Japan -- and gaining a new one, the Soviet Union.

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 ...

Joseph McCarthy, by no means the only man to exploit the nation's latent fears, gave the era his name since he, more than any one else, had, to borrow Richard Rovere's phrase, "surer, swifter ...

A native of Watkins, Minnesota, Eugene Joseph McCarthy graduated from St. John's University in 1935. After teaching high school while earning a master's degree at the University of Minnesota ...

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 ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...