Students in Florida’s public schools will soon be learning an interpretation of McCarthyism and the Cold War that is steeped ...

“Have you no sense of decency?” Joseph Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, asked Senator Joseph McCarthy on live TV during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. In his efforts to root out alleged ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In an unprecedented step, the Department of Defense announced online on Nov. 24, 2025, that it was reviewing statements by U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat, who is a retired Navy ...

Clay Risen discusses his new book "Red Scare." The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 was passed amid anti-communist fears during the early Cold War. That period of history is the focus of the ...

The new standards the board voted for on Thursday offer deeper analysis of the topic, guidelines for specific courses, ...

“First they came for the Jews.” Many Americans remember that line as the beginning of a confession, offered in 1946 by Martin ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Laura Gail Miller, Seattle University (THE CONVERSATION) Texas A&M University ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The student questioned whether it was “legal” to be teaching about gender identity, ...