Posts Tagged ‘Red Scare’
From the History in the Margins Archives: McCarthyism and the Red Scare, Part 2. Attacking “Communists”, and Anyone Else Who Got In His Way
If it seems to you that I’ve run a lot of posts from the archives lately, you would be right. At the moment, I am overwhelmed by life stuff and simply don’t have the bandwidth to write new posts on a consistent basis. Instead of letting the blog go dark, when I don’t have something…
Read More
From the History in the Margins Archives: McCarthyism and the Red Scare. Part 1, Dirty Tactics
If it seems to you that I’ve run a lot of posts from the archives lately, you would be right. At the moment, I am overwhelmed by life stuff and simply don’t have the bandwidth to write new posts on a consistent basis. Instead of letting the blog go dark, when I don’t have something…
Read More
From the Archives: Shin Kickers From History: Margaret Chase Smith
My Own True Love recently reminded me about this post, which originally ran in 2018. It seems like a good time to run it again, for reasons that I think need no explanation. A blog post about Senator Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) could easily consist of nothing more than a collection of the trenchant…
Read More