In his book, "Red Scare," Clay Risen examines the history of the 1950s anti-Communist witch hunt and connects it to Trump and ...

America has periodically faced great national tests. The Civil War and Reconstruction. The Great Depression. McCarthyism and ...

Ever since I was a child, Oklahoma schools have struggled in terms of teaching history and civics. Even when I was too young ...

Never before has a government repressed its citizens’ free speech and academic freedom so brutally in order to protect an ...

There isn’t much difference between the story itself or the telling of it in the film and the subsequent play.

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Harvard President Alan Garber stated Monday that he would not comply with the Trump administration’s outrageous list of ...

He had no sense of decency, and in 1954, the U.S. Senate censured McCarthy for unbecoming conduct. Like McCarthy, Trump is ...

Human nature doesn’t change. The only that’s new is the history we don’t know. “High Noon” can be viewed for free on the Internet. The 1952 movie was among the first to be preserved by the Library of ...

Actor and major Democratic donor George Clooney told CNN there should have been a primary election last summer after ...

There were a lot of people who saw Trump, who still see Trump, essentially, as a strong figure. As someone who is going to ...