Nightmare in RedThe McCarthy Era in Perspective

Polyphonic internationalism: The Lucie Zimmern School of International studies

“…147 She later joined the U.S. State Department and represented her country at the UNESCO preparatory commission, moving in the same circles as the Zimmerns, though her career was cut short by McCarthyism. 148 The African American international relations scholar Merze Tate was another notable alumna of the Zimmern School. Tate only attended its 1931 session because she happened to meet the African American musician Grace Walker in London on her way to Geneva to lecture on Black music and art.…”

Anxieties of Empire and the Truman Administration

“…Historians have attributed the hysteria and witch-hunts of the last Truman years ("McCarthyism," named for Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy) to the support for empire that came from the White House and other centers of power. Repression of dissent was, according to this argument, a domestic reverberation of America's foreign aggressiveness in the early Cold War (Schrecker, 1998;Fried, 1990).…”

The Forgotten Attempts to End the Forgotten War: Congress, Korea, and McCarthyism

“…98 As one historian noted, this likely was an attempt by the senator to recapture the spotlight. 99 Moreover, McCarthy made no immediate public comment on the Malik speech. A few days later, he referred to the peace rumors as the "planned betrayal of 1951," accusing the State Department of signing the "death warrant of every American boy who has died in Korea."…”