In the Cold War years, the U.S. government and political dissent run a dangerous collision course. The HUAC is typical of several government institutions (e.g., COINTELPRO) aiming to investigate and ...

The men who named names and derailed dozens of Hollywood careers. By David L. Dunbar THR founder Billy Wilkerson devoted many a front page to lambasting alleged communists. When the House Un-American ...

When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey met Jackie Robinson in 1945 to recruit him as Major League Baseball’s first black player, he tested Robinson’s resolve. He unleashed a barrage of ...

Jackie Robinson testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee on July 18, 1949 By the end of the 1948 season, his second with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson was an American hero, ...

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How the Screen Writers Guild was preserved through some savvy testimony from its president to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. By Thomas Doherty Seventy-five years ago, the House ...

The House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed eight members of Berkeley's radical Left, last Thursday, to give testimony about their Vietnam protest activities. At Harvard, members of SDS, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Day after day a plainly dressed witness, an Imperial Dragon, or Grand Nighthawk, a Kludd, or some other officer of the Ku Klux Klan sits quietly on the witness stand, across the ...

Last summer the House Un-American Activities Committee treated the public to a rare political extravaganza. During its investigation of anti-war organizations a defense lawyer was hauled, screaming, ...

As the saying goes, past is indeed prologue — and that can be either daunting or inspiring. Sepinwall says the research shows that HUAC seemed less concerned about communism than it was with Hollywood ...