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Digital History: The Strange Case of Alger Hiss [Pdf]

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This site is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at the case of Alger Hiss who was accused in 1948 of belonging to the Communist Party, imprisoned, and who denied the association his entire life. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).

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Concepts
mccarthyism, richard nixon
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Additional Tags
"pumpkin papers", alger hiss, digital history, huac, house un-american activities committee, joe mccarthy, whittaker chambers, beginning of mccarthy era
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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