Who was the man behind the controversy?  Check these out:

Joseph McCarthy-Scholastic Go

Learn about the controversy...check these out:

The McCarthy Hearings, 1950- Discovering U.S. History

McCarthyism. -Issues and Controversies in American History 
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Joseph McCarthy -Discovering Biography

Decade of Fear:  New York Times Upfront -Biography in Context

"McCarthyism and Literature." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

How does Arthur Miller fit in with the Red Scare?

American Masters:  Arthur Miller
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Are You Now or Were You Ever?---Arthur Miller on McCarthy

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          Arthur Miller & the Crucible
          Salem & the Witch Trials.

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