Second Red Scare (1947–57) — Bunk History

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No Twang of Conscience Whatever

Patsy Sims reflects on her interview with the man who was instrumental in the death of three black men in Mississippi.

by Patsy Simms via Oxford American on November 6, 2014

Engraving of the 1886 Haymarket protest

When Labor Day Meant Something

Remembering the radical past of a day now devoted to picnics and back-to-school sales.

by Chad Broughton via The Atlantic on September 1, 2014

Young boy holding the Communist sickle and hammer, in black and white

Revisions in Red

A scholar wrestles with the legacy of her grandfather, onetime leader of America’s Communist Party.

by Laura Browder via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 19, 2012

Pete Seeger.

American Dreamers

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.

by William Hogeland via Boston Review on May 1, 2008

Stokely Carmichael talking to members of the press at the House Rules Committee (1966).

Watching the Watchers

Confessions of an FBI special agent.

by Robert Wall via New York Review of Books on January 27, 1972

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