Critics warn Florida’s new teaching standards rehabilitate aspects of the anti-communist Red Scare

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter who was imprisoned and blacklisted during the anti-communist ...

What to know about how Florida will teach McCarthyism and the Cold War

Students in Florida’s public schools will soon be learning an interpretation of McCarthyism and the Cold War that is steeped ...
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Letter: Shades of McCarthyism in modern political war

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Anita Chabria: McCarthyism in a MAGA hat? Trump's campus deal sounds familiar to her

Bettina Aptheker was a 20-year-old sophomore at UC Berkeley when she climbed on top of a police car, barefoot so she wouldn't damage it, and helped start the Free Speech Movement. "Power concedes ...
Cleveland.com

Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, who bravely spoke against McCarthyism: Kathleen Dean

The lessons of history are numerous and enlightening; much can be learned by both the good and the bad. Currently, we are experiencing a time of turmoil, fueled by fear and intolerance. The pervasive ...
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Nearly 80 years after McCarthyism, Jane Fonda relaunches Committee for the First Amendment: ‘The stakes are too high’

(CNN) — Eight decades after Hollywood legends like Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland launched the Committee for the First Amendment to stand up to McCarthyism, ...
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McCarthyism’s shadow looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Laura Gail Miller, Seattle University (THE CONVERSATION) Texas A&M University ...