Senator Joseph McCarthy “comes along really chronologically halfway through the story [in the early 1950s], and there’s a lot that happened before he was even on the scene,” says author Clay Risen.

In March 1954, Edward R. Murrow and a team of CBS News journalists sat in a dark screening room. The mood was tense. They watched an almost-final cut of an upcoming episode of their show, "See It Now, ...

That vivid imprecation, one of the most telling in American history, was uttered by a crusty Boston lawyer named Joe Welch to Joseph McCarthy, the inflammatory Republican senator from Wisconsin. Many ...

GREG KELLY (HOST): So today there was a hearing, and the Republican chair is a guy named Self — S, E, L, F. Do we have a picture of him? There he is. He just wouldn't go with this nonsense. And let's ...