The House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, came to Milwaukee in March 1955 to investigate Communist influence in the city. The four-member subcommittee called 16 witnesses, two of whom ...

The book “Policing Show Business” shows how Trump’s attacks on “radical leftists” are like a sequel to the Red Scare.

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage.

The HUAC is typical of several government institutions (e.g., COINTELPRO) aiming to investigate and neutralize "subversive" groups and individuals. As the 1960s open, this definition includes free ...

Fortunately, in recent years HUAC has reared its ugly head only sporadically and has become a source of amusement for a good part of the nation. For the most part, HUAC has confined its recent ...

The government's first witness was Frank E. Tavener, Jr. who, as counsel for the HUAC, had questioned Seeger during the hearings. He testified before Judge Murphy that the purpose of the hearings ...

was the $64,000 question asked by the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the U.S. House of ...

During the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in their hunt to weed out communist sympathizers, set their sights ...

He refused to work with any suspected communist. He also gave the HUAC the names of former employees that he thought had links to communism.