Directory of McCarthyism Resources

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Sites dealing with the anti-Communist campaign conducted in the United States during the Cold War, particularly the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Subcategories

• Hiss, Alger
• Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel

Resources in This Category

• "A Damaging Impression of Hollywood Has Spread"

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6443/
  Movie "Czar" Eric Johnston testifies before HUAC.

• "Damage"

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6449/
  Contemporary assessment by Collier's magazine of the Army-McCarthy hearings.

• "Enemies from Within"

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456/
  Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and President Harry S. Truman trade accusations of disloyalty.

• "Have You No Sense of Decency": The Army-McCarthy Hearings

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6444/
  Transcript of the session that led to Senator McCarthy's downfall.

• "I Cannot and Will Not Cut My Conscience to Fit This Year's Fashions"

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6454/
  Text of Lillian Hellman' s letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee refusing to name names.

• "I Have Sung in Hobo Jungles, and I Have Sung for the Rockefellers"

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6457/
  Testimony of Pete Seeger to HUAC.

• "National Suicide"

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6459/
  Text of a statement by Margaret Chase Smith and six Republican Senators against Joseph McCarthy's attack on "individual freedom".

• "Not Only Ridiculous, but Dangerous"

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6453/
  Collier's objects to Joseph McCarthy's attacks on the press.

• "The World Was at Stake": Three "Friendly" HUAC Hollywood Witnesses Assess Pro-Soviet Wartime Films

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6442/
  Jack Warner, Ayn Rand and Louis B. Mayer testify before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.

• "They Want to Muzzle Public Opinion":

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6441/
  Testimony of John Howard Lawson before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

• "We Must Keep the Labor Unions Clean"

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6458/
  Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney testify before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee blaming Hollywood labor conflicts on Communist Infiltration.

• "You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves"

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6440/
  Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

• Ayn Rand's HUAC Testimony

  http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/texts/huac.html
  Libertarian author cooperates with Congressional investigation of Communist propaganda in American films. Includes introduction, background, and notes.

• Communists Are Second to None in Our Devotion to Our People and to Our Country

  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6446/
  Prosecution and defense statements from the 1949 trial of American Communist Party leaders.

• HistoryCentral.com: McCarran Internal Security Act

  http://www.historycentral.com/documents/McCarran.html
  Text of a law intended "to protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations."

• Hollywood Blacklist

  http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html
  Article by Dan Georgakas from the Encyclopedia of the American Left documenting the persecution of suspected Communists in the entertainment industry.

• HUAC and Censorship Changes

  http://www.moderntimes.com/huac/
  Article documenting HUAC's role in the blacklisting of suspected Communists in Hollywood and its attempts to influence the content of films produced in the late 1940s and 1950s.

• HUAC, McCarthy, and the Reds - McCarthyism and the Blacklist

  http://huac.tripod.com/
  A brief, illustrated timeline of Joe McCarthy's life and the House Un-American Activities Committee.

• Joseph R. McCarthy - Cold War

  http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/joseph-mccarthy
  History of Joseph R. McCarthy, including videos and speeches. From History.com.

• McCarthyism

  https://www.britannica.com/topic/McCarthyism
  From Britannica.com, an encyclopedic explanation with links to related articles.

• McCarthyism and the Movies

  http://www.jacknilan.com/senatorjoe/
  A listing and description by theme, biographical and documentary with a forum.

• McCarthyism: Forty Questions and Answers about Senator Joseph McCarthy

  http://www.realnews247.com/mccarthyism%20_forty_questions_and_answers_about_mcmarthy.htm
  An article originally published in The New American by James J. Drummey on May 11, 1987.

• Red Channels - The Blacklist

  http://www.authentichistory.com/1946-1960/4-cwhomefront/1-mccarthyism/Red_Channels/index.html
  Excerpts from Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television (1950).

• The Hollywood Ten

  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html
  Short biographies of the individuals who refused to testify in HUAC's hearings, thereby earning a place on the blacklist.

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