Under President Eisenhower, the investigation, interrogation and removal of gay men and lesbians from the federal government ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The rollback of LGBTQ rights and inclusion echoes an often overlooked, but deeply consequential, chapter of American history: the ...

The Red Scare is a period in U.S. history during which the fear of communism was the most pervasive influence on politics, culture, and everyday life. While there were two major Red Scares, the first ...

Fascism wasn’t always a bad word in the U.S. In the 1940s and 1950s, one of the charges levied by the House Un-American Activities Committee was “premature antifascism.” Largely directed at people who ...

The so-called "unmentionables" always return, courtesy of a sinister conservative movement. Three-quarters of a century after the Red Scare and the coinciding Lavender Scare, the Trump administration ...