In February 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia. He claimed that over 200 communists held jobs at the State Department.

Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, when he roused public alarm about alleged communists in the US federal government, particularly the State Department and the US Army. Lippmann warned about a malady of ...

Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the ...

Joseph R. McCarthy, a program that has been called ... an otherwise obscure Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin, had unsettled 1950s America with thinly documented charges of communists ...

Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who had purportedly come here to speak in behalf of Sen. George W. Malone, now seeking re-election. Instead of speaking for Malone the Wisconsin senator leveled his ...

Kate Quinn’s fast-paced novel “The Briar Club” serves up murder, homey recipes, a talking house with attitude, 1950s-era feminists in Washington, D.C., and the specter of Sen. Joe McCarthy ...

Launching with three powerful narratives: Joseph McCarthy, whose anti-communist crusade terrorized 1950s America; media titan William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper mogul whose empire shaped ...