In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

In February 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia. He claimed that over 200 communists held jobs at the State Department.

McCarthyism was bigger than Joseph McCarthy—and it continued even after his personal disgrace. McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War ...

McCarthy chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who led a Cold War crusade against Communists. His zealous campaign to root out those he viewed as enemies of the ...

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.