The Victorian-era parenting practices that make the 1950s look enlightened While 1950s parenting practices seem shocking ...

Dining out in the 1950s was pretty different from what it's like today, though there are some similarities. From table ...

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

Country music in the 1950s was a pivotal era, yet many fans today might struggle to name the female artists who shaped the genre during this time. These pioneering women not only created unforgettable ...

Music fans often struggle to name the women who shaped 1950s music. Many great female singers from this time don’t get the recognition they deserve. Their voices and songs helped define an era, but ...

James Stewart looks through his camera in a scene form the film 'Rear Window', 1954. ( The 1950s were the last full decade of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Hollywood filmmakers weren’t the only ones ...

It has become fashionable to portray outdated societal behaviors and attitudes — ones we now consider desperately wrongheaded — to be worse than they really were as a way of making a point about how ...

When we think about the Golden Age of Flying–the glory years of Pan Am and the Concorde in the 1950s and 1960s, before flight became cheap with the rise of the jumbo jet–we imagine a colorful, lavish ...

In the 1950s, life got a lot easier for most Canadians, with one exception: the housewife. For them, life was as dreary as ever, and even more complicated. The strong gender roles of the 1940s ...

When the Cincinnati Museum Center celebrates “1950s Day” next month, the city’s biggest TV stars will be showcased in the Scripps-Howard Newsreel Theater in grainy black-and-white. Just as they ...