When you picture the quintessential 1950s family, Leave It to Beaver and I Love Lucy come to mind. The reality of life in the 1950s was shockingly different. Sure, the porcelain veneer of the ...

Nevertheless, “’Red Scare’ resonates because it speaks so directly to our current quandary of far left and far right.” Also, ...

The dress was originally bought from Detroit’s J. L. Hudson Department Store in the early 1950s before being worn by Darlene, as well as her two sisters Patricia and Beverly. "My mom shared with ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when Walt Disney was making plans for a safe and clean family park, amusement parks had a reputation for being dirty, dangerous, and run down. Disney envisioned ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Americans in their childbearing years had weathered the Depression and a devastating war, and they were living under a cloud of possible nuclear war.

In the late 1940s and the early 1950s, academic freedom across the country came increasingly under threat as McCarthyism and anticommunism took hold during what would be known as the second Red Scare.