Sam Tanenhaus' new biography examines the life and influence of the political commentator, magazine editor and TV debater who ...

Get out of the heat this summer and feel your blood boil – come to New York Historical’s new exhibit, “Blacklisted: An ...

After her husband was killed and her son wounded on a Long Island commuter train in 1993, she went to Congress on a mission ...

Federal Judge William Young’s recent words from the bench sounded a lot like Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke of Senator Joe ...

Murrow vs. McCarthy, Live Good Night, ... known for his live World War II reporting and later for confronting Senator Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare.

Months earlier, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) had made an outrageous claim in Wheeling, W.V.: that there were 205 communists working within the State Department.

The mythology of Sen. Joseph McCarthy — in fresh focus as the Broadway version of George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” smashes box-office records — gets it right that a legendary ...

On June 9, 1950, four months after his breakout speech about Communists in the federal government, Joseph McCarthy was the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Republican Party's convention in Milwaukee.

Joseph McCarthy had engineered hearings investigating the Army for supposedly harboring communists. McCarthy was known for conspiracy theories, groundless accusations, and slandering people.

The RKP Production follows senator Joseph McCarthy’s abuses of power during the Red Scare’s anti-communist crackdown and senator Margaret Chase Smith’s efforts to counter him.

Madison's connections to Murrow and McCarthy Seeing "Good Night, and Good Luck" on Broadway reminds Doug Moe of local ties to Murrow's history-altering, on-air takedown of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Joseph McCarthy in March 1994 standing in front of the J.C. Penney store at the Carousel Center in Syracuse. He had just announced his retirement after 49 years with the store.