America: TV's rise, Cold War tensions, McCarthyism, the Space Race, and the Civil Rights Movement's beginnings, including landmark desegregation rulings.

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s future reportedly may be in jeopardy as multiple crises swirl around him amid the ...

The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.

Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. In his drive to ...

These compelling shows dig into momentous political and cultural moments through the voices of the people who were there.

Erie Civil Defense officials planned the nation's first mass evacuation drill in 1954. It was the Cold War, and the idea was ... including Erie Times-News reporter Miki Mahoney and her poodle ...

The drill was staged during the early years of the Cold War. Civil Defense efforts later focused ... for the dismal failure," the Erie Times-News reported the next day. "Rain and apparent lack ...

But hulking Yedi Kule castle was a prison where Communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece’s 1946–49 Civil War. Tens of thousands died in the early Cold War-era battles ...

In 1944, Norwegian resistance fighters in the town of Kongsberg blew up a factory making cannons for occupying Nazi German forces during World War II. More than 80 years ...

It also distributes government-funded newspapers ... Cold War with China requiring a similarly enduring approach that enlists not just the resources of the United States government but our own ...