August 09, 2023
Because they didn’t want to be associated with communism during the height of America’s “Red Scare,” in 1953–59 the Cincinnati Reds baseball team renamed themselves the Redlegs.
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How Did Joseph McCarthy’s Anticommunist Rhetoric Impact the LGBTQ+ Community?
On February 9, 1950, junior Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, that would thrust him into the national spotlight. This scathing tirade is perhaps best known for McCarthy’s claim that he had with him a list of 205 known communists who were presently
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