In the new issue of Harper’s magazine, a small article appears that claims Alger Hiss was innocent. Hiss, who died in 1996, was a high-ranking State Department official in the 1930s and ’40s. Hiss was ...

White (Oliver Wendell Holmes: Sage of the Supreme Court) is the son-in-law of John F. Davis, who served as Alger Hiss's counsel during a 1948 appearance before the House Committee on Un-American ...

As the congressional investigations of Communism went into their third week, one fact stood out in everyone’s mind: someone was lying in his teeth. The someone was either handsome, 43-year-old Alger ...

Alger Hiss was a prominent New Dealer who accompanied Franklin Roosevelt to Yalta and was later revealed to be a Soviet agent. He advised FDR to trust Stalin’s assurances that he would be a ...

From Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss, which was published in April by the University Press of Kansas. In 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a Time magazine editor ...

In the closing days of the campaign, the long-simmering “softness to Communists” issue finally came to full boil. Two weeks before, the Republicans had opened an all-out attack with a nationwide TV ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Alger Hiss was an Official for the Department of State with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1948 House Committee. Communist Party Member ...

On this episode of Start Making Sense, historian Beverly Gage compares Trump’s attacks on universities with those of the McCarthy Era, and Jeff Kisseloff argues that Whittaker Chambers lied about a ...

NEW YORK — Scholars probing anew into the Cold War's most famous espionage case suggested Thursday that another U.S. diplomat, not Alger Hiss, was the Soviet agent code-named Ales. Meanwhile, a ...

President Bush’s surprise nomination of Allen Weinstein to be the next archivist of the United States has rankled many historians and archivists, who say the White House failed to consult them before ...