By Time Period
- 1022
- Intelligence Resource Program - U-2 Documents
- In May 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and its pilot captured. This site provides American and Soviet telegrams, memorandums, and other documents related to the U-2 Incident. Includes background notes.
- 1023
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School : The Cold War
- Includes transcripts of important and landmarking documents that "legalized" major events of the Cold War. Part of the Avalon Project at Yale.
- 1024
- The U-2 Incident 1960
- Papers relating to the shooting down of an unarmed American civilian aircraft over the Soviet Union.
- 1025
- "A Damaging Impression of Hollywood Has Spread"
- Movie "Czar" Eric Johnston testifies before HUAC.
- 1027
- "Enemies from Within"
- Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and President Harry S. Truman trade accusations of disloyalty.
- 1028
- "Have You No Sense of Decency": The Army-McCarthy Hearings
- Transcript of the session that led to Senator McCarthy's downfall.
- 1029
- "I Cannot and Will Not Cut My Conscience to Fit This Year's Fashions"
- Text of Lillian Hellman' s letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee refusing to name names.
- 1030
- "I Have Sung in Hobo Jungles, and I Have Sung for the Rockefellers"
- Testimony of Pete Seeger to HUAC.
- 1031
- "National Suicide"
- Text of a statement by Margaret Chase Smith and six Republican Senators against Joseph McCarthy's attack on "individual freedom".
- 1032
- "Not Only Ridiculous, but Dangerous"
- Collier's objects to Joseph McCarthy's attacks on the press.
- 1033
- "The World Was at Stake": Three "Friendly" HUAC Hollywood Witnesses Assess Pro-Soviet Wartime Films
- Jack Warner, Ayn Rand and Louis B. Mayer testify before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.
- 1034
- "They Want to Muzzle Public Opinion":
- Testimony of John Howard Lawson before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- 1035
- "We Must Keep the Labor Unions Clean"
- Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney testify before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee blaming Hollywood labor conflicts on Communist Infiltration.
- 1036
- "You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves"
- Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- 1037
- Communists Are Second to None in Our Devotion to Our People and to Our Country
- Prosecution and defense statements from the 1949 trial of American Communist Party leaders.
- 1038
- HUAC and Censorship Changes
- Article documenting HUAC's role in the blacklisting of suspected Communists in Hollywood and its attempts to influence the content of films produced in the late 1940s and 1950s.