There were some wild and crazy home appliances back in the 1950s. Unless you were alive at the time, there are some you ...

The 1950 U.S. Census has officially been released after 72 years of waiting. What you learn about America back then might surprise you, according to columnist Tracy Briggs. What was life really like ...

Forget iPhones and the existence of the Dallas Cowboys. A recent survey released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that only 29 percent of Republicans say that American culture ...

Life changed a lot during the 1950s, but the year that started the decade was just scratching the surface of what the rest of the 1950s had in store. From soldiers leaving for the Korean War to ...

For many American families in the 1950s, luxury did not mean diamonds or yachts, it meant small comforts that made everyday life feel modern and hopeful. As postwar prosperity spread, you could see it ...

The 1950s turned American cars into rolling monuments, stretching sheet metal, horsepower, and chrome to extravagant new ...

In the 1950s, students at Theodore Roosevelt Junior High on Guy Park Avenue in Amsterdam put out a weekly newspaper, The Broadcaster. Faculty advisers were English teacher Minnie Anderson and John ...

Nielsen has worked on Hallmark movies before. He designed costumes for 2021’s Next Stop Christmas and Sugar Plum Twist. But because A Holiday Spectacular is a period piece (it’s set in 1958), it ...

The 1950s was a very different time in Scotland, and these photos capture what life was like across the country throughout the decade ...

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated when Social Security was passed into law and Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), the name of the organization that did the study. Forget ...