Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

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 ...

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 ...

Republican senator Joseph McCarthy was one such politician. McCarthy grabbed headlines in 1950 with his claim that he held a list of 205 State Department employees who were "known Communists." ...

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy this week picked out John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, for special mention as one of the many authors of "pro-communist" books in the State Department's ...

Good Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer, ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...

A native of Watkins, Minnesota, Eugene Joseph McCarthy graduated from St ... Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, losing to Senator George McGovern. He made a better effort in 1976 ...

Certainly anyone who lived through one of the shabbiest times in recent American history, the insensate hunt for Communists with the late Senator Joseph McCarthy as the leader of the pack ...