Amid New McCarthyism, the Alliance for Texas History Embraces Diverse Scholarship

Amid New McCarthyism, the Alliance for Texas History Embraces Diverse Scholarship

Historian Nancy Baker Jones was a child when her father, who was serving in the U.S. Army in Europe, was called home in 1953 to testify at U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s hearings on an alleged communist spy ring at an army laboratory in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.  During McCarthy’s four-year reactionary crusade to root out “card carrying Communists,” hundreds of government, Hollywood, and university employees were imprisoned, and thousands more …