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

Cohn served as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when the Wisconsin senator was riding roughshod over the ...

Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular history, has now tackled the familiar story ...

An American Story — explores the Red Scare era of American history through posters, newspaper clippings, political pamphlets and video clips from the time. While Joseph McCarthy eventually lent his ...

In the 1950s, Edward R. Murrow, on his TV show “See it Now,” cried out, in effect, that, “The Emperor has no clothes,” and the fall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy began. We need someone like that ...

Donald Trump, a disciple of Roy Cohn, and the MAGA movement are the modern-day embodiment of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn and the Red Scare hearings of the early 1950s.

Joseph McCarthy, Republican senator from Wisconsin, stands before a map charting alleged communist activity in the United States on June 9, 1954. Getty Images/Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

The live broadcast of Broadway’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ explores truth, journalism and Edward R. Murrow’s legacy. It’s free to watch Saturday night on CNN.

CNN's airing of "Good Night, and Good Luck" will be the first TV broadcast of a live Broadway play. The play is based on the 2005 film of the same name about the 1950s showdown between broadcast ...

The author of a new biography talks about the conservative journalist’s life and legacy.

Drew Pearson rebuked Sen. Joseph McCarthy early and often. ... From the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, his coverage routinely fixated on the Wisconsin senator. Advertisement.