Learn more. While in college in the early 1950s, students were mesmerized by the Army-McCarthy trial on the new entertainment media: television. The trial went on for weeks, and for the first time ...

Although Miller wrote this play at the height of the Red Scare and the McCarthy trials, he also revealed several patterns of human behavior to focus on. Miller wrote it 70 years ago about a series ...

To me, that was exactly what McCarthy was doing.” McCarthy is U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin, who used the threat of communist infiltration into American politics, entertainment and ...