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

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.

Today, Americans are witnessing a resurgence of such concerns. History shows that they may lead to censorship and curtail ...

John le Carré’s iconic spy George Smiley will be brought back to life by Hampstead author Nick Harkaway - le Carré’s son - and will be on ...

Donald Trump once said, “I Run the Country and the World” and his critics quickly pounced on America’s imperial president, and the man who would be king. Like many things POTUS says, this needs to be ...

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 ...

The recent welcoming of Afrikaner refugees is the latest chapter in a history of U.S. support for white South Africans.

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 ...