McCarthyism: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Digital History - McCarthy and McCarthyism (PDF). Jul 18, 2026
Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - More Than Just a Man. Apr 09, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - One man’s escape from McCarthyism. Jan 01, 2026
Add new Web site: Cato Institute - McCarthyism, Past—and Present? Oct 02, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - Revisiting McCarthyism in the Patriot Act Era. Jul 28, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 11, 2025
Add new Web site: Western Michigan University Libraries - ScholarWorks - The Legacy of McCarthyism on Social Group Work: An Historical Analysis (PDF). Feb 10, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - The Philippine Revolution. Oct 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - McCarthyism - Introduction. Sep 10, 2024
Add new Web site: National Archives - Prelude to McCarthyism: The Making of a Blacklist. Jul 30, 2024
Add new Web site: Alpha History - McCarthyism. May 07, 2024
Add new Web site: Digital History - McCarthy and McCarthyism (PDF). Nov 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - McCarthyism. Sep 06, 2022
Replaced photograph. May 27, 2021
Add new Web site: Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University - McCarthyism. Apr 30, 2021
Corrected display issue. Jan 13, 2021
Added an excerpt from Joseph McCarthy's speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1950. Jan 27, 2020
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Mother Teresa. May 08, 2019
Add new Web site: Miller Center - McCarthyism and the Red Scare. Apr 09, 2019
Add new Web site: United States History for Kids - McCarthyism. Apr 09, 2019
Corrected display issue. Dec 18, 2017
Add new Web site: UShistory.org - McCarthyism. Feb 21, 2017
Add new Web site: Investigating Power - Timelines: McCarthyism. Feb 21, 2017
Add new Web site: UC Berkeley, Moffitt Library - Edward R. Murrow: A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Aug 23, 2016
Add new Web site: Museum of Broadcast Communications - See It Now. Aug 23, 2016
Add new Web site: Museum of Broadcast Communications - See It Now. Aug 23, 2016
Add new Web site: UC Berkeley, Moffitt Library - Edward R. Murrow: A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Aug 23, 2016
New article added. Aug 18, 2016
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