The 1950s are often remembered as America's golden age - a time of booming prosperity, growing suburbs, technological ...

After some 20 years of financial hardship and world war, the 1950s finally ushered in an era of peace and prosperity for the majority of Americans. Life in suburbia, with its cookie-cutter family ...

In the 1950s, American luxury cars did more than move people from driveway to downtown, they broadcast status in chrome, tailfins, and acres of steel. The decade’s most opulent machines turned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. H. Armstrong Roberts / Retrofile RF via Getty Images When you picture the quintessential 1950s family, Leave It to Beaver and I ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda. And the Cold War was in part a culture war, with the American family at the center ...

As we lean into Tuesday’s election, a thread emerges that binds today to 1950, when Hank Greenspun founded the Las Vegas Sun amid an international and domestic environment that, sadly, feels very much ...

Orlando, Florida-based Mike Schneider, AP’s primary census reporter, saw the routine release of 72-year-old census data as an opportunity to deliver a textured portrait of 1950s America, reminding ...

The National Book Awards will celebrate its 75th anniversary at this year’s ceremony, on Nov. 20. To mark the occasion, The Washington Post has collaborated with the administrator and presenter of the ...

The lobotomy has taken on mythical qualities in American popular culture. For a time in the postwar period, the procedure — which in its best-known form involved inserting a pick-like instrument ...

The 1950s was a decade filled with glamour, postwar optimism, and significant social change that influenced various aspects of society, including the entertainment industry. With its profound impact ...