New hopes and opportunities were created by economic recovery after World War Two. Around the same time, the struggle for civil rights put activism at the forefront of American political life.

American Families in the Cold War Era that the rise in the number of births went far beyond what was expected from a return to peace. Previous periods of post-war prosperity, notably the period ...

Borgatta Photography A historic Federal-style home, built by an American Revolutionary War soldier, is on the market for $5.49 million. It’s at 142 Main St. in a part of Fairfield, Conn.

If you were going to sum up the post-war American Jewish experience, who would you pick as the age’s great exemplars? The choices would clearly be dizzying. In film there’s everyone from Woody ...