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 ...

Iowa native Joseph Welch said, "Have you no decency, sir?" and we need people with his courage today, writes Thomas Doughty.

Plus, former WXPN host to emcee Hedgerow concert; composers and TV shows; and Clooney, Murrow, ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ ...

It’s a straight play about the history of television news. Granted, it happens to star George Clooney, and there are a few ...

Nonviolent protest has been among the most successful and enduring strategies. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s is a landmark example, with figures like Martin Luther King Jr. leading ...

The play transports viewers back to the 1950s but feels equally relevant ... some of it stoked by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s trumped-up claims about communist infiltration of the government ...

For the first time ever, CNN will broadcast a Broadway performance live. History will be made on Friday, June 6, as the five-time Tony-nominated production of “Good Night, and Good Luck” takes to the ...

Anyone looking to drench themselves in the 1950s nostalgia currently favored by the religious right in America should consider watching “Leave It to Beaver” stoned. Which is what I did with an ...