At the height of the Red Scare, Margaret Chase Smith was willing to pay the price of taking on Joseph McCarthy.

Donald Trump is playing the role of Joseph McCarthy. The very institutions he is assaulting must challenge him.

In 1950, U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." The State Department denied the allegation the ...

WASHINGTON, April 22, 1954 (UP) - Spectators cheered as Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his wife, Jean, who was using crutches, entered the gaudy Senate caucus room for the opening of the Army-McCarthy ...

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 communist sympathies in the ...

These vitriolic attacks, along with similar ones against universities, have been compared to McCarthyism, when the late Wisconsin senator engendered ... turn in the Army-McCarthy hearings of ...

Joseph McCarthy, manager of the new J.C. Penney's store in ShoppingTown Mall, checks over the Italian glass chandelier with ...

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. Larry Tye, a former Globe reporter, is the author of “Demagogue ...

Murrow’s 1954 takedown of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Late in the action of Good Night, and Good Luck, Clark Gregg — in a moving performance as CBS newscaster Don ...