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"Red Scare:  A Counter-History," lecture by Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Professor of English, in the fall lecture series "A New Insurgency."    This talk inaugurates the seven background lectures preparatory to the Oct. 31-Nov. 2 international conference, "A New Insurgency:  The Port Huron Statement in Its time and Ours," co-sponsored by the Department of English.  It will be combined with a book-signing for Wald's "American Night:  The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War"  (University of North carolina Press, 2012).