McCarthyism & Red Scare Websites
Truman Library
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The Truman Library provides an excellent collection of primary sources from the Truman Presidency.
International Cold War history
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CNN has built a very interesting, if a bit navigationally fussy, website on the Cold War Experience, which provides excellent insight into the cultural ramifications of the Cold War.
Birth of McCarthyism
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History Matters provides the full text of Senator Joseph McCarthy's career-making 1950 speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, which propelled him to national fame as the most bombastic practitioner of the anticommunist tactics which came to bear his name.