The HUAC is typical of several government institutions (e.g., COINTELPRO) aiming to investigate and neutralize "subversive" groups and individuals. As the 1960s open, this definition includes free ...

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage.

The House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, came to Milwaukee in March 1955 to investigate Communist influence in the city. The four-member subcommittee called 16 witnesses, two of whom were ...

was the $64,000 question asked by the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Between the late 1940s and 1950s, the Second Red Scare was an ...

For nearly three decades, the House Un-American Activities Committee has abused free speech in America with its clumsy attempts to pinpoint domestic subversion. Fortunately, in recent years HUAC ...

At Harvard, members of SDS, SNCC, and the Massachusetts Committee to abolish HUAC are making plans to protest the subpoenas and have expressed concern that they "might be next on the list." ...

During the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in their hunt to weed out communist sympathizers, set their sights ...

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) works on the premise that anyone who has been a member of the Communist Party since the end of the war in 1945 is committing high treason ...

The House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, came to Milwaukee in March 1955 to investigate Communist influence in the city. The four-member subcommittee called 16 witnesses, two of whom ...