The Crucible:

McCarthyism and Red Scare Project

Online Research Databases:

Use Encyclopedia Britannica, Biography Resource Center and Gale Virtual Reference Library

 

General Sites

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/mccarthy/mccarthy.htm
Great general site about many topics:  McCarthy, McCarthyism, Blacklisting, fear of Soviet and American Communists

 

http://iws.ccccd.edu/kwilkison/Online1302home/20th%20Century/redscare.html
  a good overview of Red Scare, McCarthy, Hollywood Blacklisting written by a college history professor  

 

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/zinn-chap16.html#anticommfilms

excellent summary from Zinn’s People’s History: scroll or use Control F to find anti-communist feelings and propaganda,

Labor movement, HUAC, Internal Security and Smith Acts, The Rosenbergs and more.

 

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6459

Presents many primary source speeches by and brief overviews about those involved in the Red Scare and the HUAC hearings;

particularly good for those who stood up against accusations – SCROLL to bottom for full list.

 

http://www.coldwar.org/index.html

The Cold War Museum: open timelines for 40s and 50s to find brief summaries about people and events

 

50's Culture and Propaganda

see upenn/Zinn site above

 

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade50.html

provides links to many areas of general culture

 

http://www.conelrad.com/index.php

primary sources on atomic culture

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0802/p25s01-stin.html

this article on conelrad points you to some highlights

 

http://www.authentichistory.com/
 primary sources- predominantly images of 1950s America and anti-communist propaganda

 

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/hollywood_history.cfm#postwar

see sections on Post-war Hollywood and New Directions

 

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/is-this-tomorrow.html

propaganda poster

 

http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/AllPowers/film.html#one

Red Scare: anti-communist films

 

http://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.1/3.1pages/3.1langerdisney.html

Disney film “Our Friend the Atom”

 

 

The Atomic Bomb

Use Conelrad  and authentic history sites above

 

http://www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/atomicage.cfm

National Atomic Museum

 

http://www.journalstar.com/lifestyles/article_99e2012e-bc02-55f8-b12a-5a1ac61f6ea0.html

newspaper article on the bomb in pop culture

 

Joseph McCarthy

Use general sites at top

 

http://www.foxvalleyhistory.org/mccarthy/

choose McCarthy as Senator; use next to see all slides

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/18/newsid_2749000/2749961.stm

BBC summary of McCarthy’s actions

 

http://www.historypoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=1062&column_type=hpfeature

general info on McCarthy, the Red Scare and blacklisting

 

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/mccarthy-bio.html

book excerpt on life of Joseph McCarthy

 

Black List, Hollywood Ten, HUAC Investigations

See General Sites at top

http://www.moderntimes.com/blacklist/

 

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html

HUAC and the Blacklist

 

http://www.moderntimes.com/huac/

 

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6459

Presents many primary source speeches by and brief overviews about those involved in the Red Scare and the HUAC hearings;

particularly good for those who stood up against accusations – SCROLL to bottom for full list.

 

http://www.authentichistory.com/1950s/redchannels/redchannels.html

The Blacklist-primary source

 

J. Edgar Hoover

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhooverE.htm

 

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/mccarthy/schrecker2.htm

use control F to find section on Hoover

 

http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/hoover/9.html 
This is one chapter of a very extensive biography of Hoover.  This section covers the McCarthy years.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/06/documents/hoover/

Hoover’s testimony before HUAC

 

Smith Act / Communist Control Act / Internal Security Act

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/jerome/smithact.htm

 

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2769

 

http://www.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/communist-control-act

 

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROSENB.HTM

 

http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/famous_criminal/68/biography/1/The_Rosenbergs.htm

 

http://www.rfc.org/case.htm
Article about theRosenbergs’ trial and execution, written by their son.

http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/atom/atom.htm

FBI summary of case

 

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/greenglass.html

 

Alger Hiss

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985571,00.html

Time magazine obituary

 

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/home.html

overview of the case, new evidence, Alger Hiss case in history

 

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissaccount.html

 

 

Edward R. Murrow   
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/murrowedwar/murrowedwar.htm

Broadcast Museum—great info on Murrow’s career and the McCarthy hearings

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/murrow_e.html
Murrow’s career


http://www.evesmag.com/murrow.htm 

first person account from colleague about See It Now and McCarthy

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/22/murrow/main1336573.shtml

Overview of Murrow’s influence in helping to stop McCarthy.

 

Impact on Education and Academic Freedom

http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/curwick.htm

Scroll down about halfway for University of Washington case; good summary of Red Scare and anti-communist feelings

 

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/archives_exhibits/loyaltyoath/symposium/schrecker.html

impact on Higher Education

 

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~ucalhist/archives_exhibits/loyaltyoath/

University of California loyalty oath

 

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/loyalty-oath-ditty.html

parody

 

The Red Menace:

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/mccarthy/schreker1.htm

the emergence of the communist threat from many sources

 

see Washington.edu above

 

Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong) and Communist Revolution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/china_50/mao.htm

use menu at left: read especially “Great Leap” “ Iron Rice Bowl” and “Red Guard”

 

http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/article_show/Mao_Zedong/m0018949.html

 

http://www.zitantique.com/woodblock.html

cultural revolution propaganda posters

 

http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mao.html

NOTE: Same source as Library Book

 

Arthur Miller

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/mccarthyism.html

McCarthyism’s impact on Hollywood, including Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan

http://the_english_dept.tripod.com/miller.html

Arthur Miller: Why I wrote The Crucible

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/low/witness/august/7/newsid_2946000/2946420.stm

includes links to 2 BBC audio broadcasts of interviews with Miller

 

Elia Kazan

http://www.americanheritage.com/people/articles/web/20051129-elia-kazan-movie-theater-richard-schickel-arthur-miller-tennessee-williams-academy-award-communism.shtml

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/kazan_e.html

good discussion of friendship and split between Miller and Kazan over HUAC

 

http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/kazan/ 

one man's description of Kazan and his part in HUAC hearings

 

http://movies.nytimes.com/person/907893/Elia-Kazan/biography 

long obituary

 

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/kazan-miller.html

 

Labor Unions

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468301808.html

 

http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/cpproject/grijalva.htm

Labor Unions and the Communist Party in the 30s and 40s