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How Do We Know You’re Not a Communist? The Red Scare that Ripped America Apart | Timeless
Timeless Stories from the Library of Congress ISSN 2836-9459 U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy in 1954. Photo: United Press International. Prints and Photographs Division. How Do We Know You’re Not a Communist? The Red Scare that Ripped America Apart August 19, 2025, Posted by: Neely Tucker Clay Risen spent six years working on “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism…
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‘Tradwives’ promote a lifestyle that evokes the 1950s. But their nostalgia is not without controversy | CNN
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN, Published 11:38 AM EST, Tue December 27, 2022 Editor’s Note: The past year was filled with uncertainty over politics, the economy and the ongoing pandemic. In the face of big changes, people found themselves longing for a different time. CNN’s series “The Past Is Now” examines how nostalgia manifested in our…
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First atomic blast in 1951 shook, shaped Vegas and Nevada
There were more than 1,000 atomic tests in Nevada’s desert between 1951 and 1992, including about 100 above ground. “VEGANS ‘ATOM-IZED,’” a Las Vegas Review-Journal headline read the next day, Jan. 28, 1951, in big, bold, all-capital letters across the front page. Coverage featured reports from people awakened by the shockwave, or who witnessed a…
