Joseph McCarthy

The Rosenbergs were executed for being Soviet spies, but their sons have spent decades trying to clear their mother’s name. Are they close to a breakthrough?

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.

The first volume of Frederik Logevall’s biography of JFK reveals the scope of his ambition and the weakness of his political commitments.

Such women have long pushed American politics to the right, and their ideas have become mainstream.

Sixty years ago, many GOP leaders resisted radicals in their ranks. Now they’re not even trying.

The answer can change over time.

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

In the 1950s, residents of Mosinee, Wisconsin, staged a coup to warn of the red menace. The lessons of that historical footnote have never been more relevant.

Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?

In a recent speech, Trump looks to America's past for answers. However, the history he recounts is glaringly limited.

At one time this magazine tangled with the FBI, the Atomic Energy Commission and Joseph McCarthy.

The late historian and author of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” misdiagnosed the fate of modern conservatism.

Even knowing every awful thing Richard Nixon would go on to do, you had to respect, as the phrase goes, his hustle.

In 1950, the U.S. State Department fired 91 employees because they were homosexual or suspected of being homosexual.

The long history of politicians claiming to be victims of lynching and racial violence.

A documentary about his life and circle is a study in complicity.

Despite a thriving queer community in Washington, the 1950s State Department fired gay and lesbian workers en masse.

The self-congratulatory legacies of ‘A Face in the Crowd.’

On the 50th anniversary of RFK's death, a glimpse inside one of his closest relationships.