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 ...

April 1 (UPI) --On Friday, the National Archives released detailed results from one of the most anticipated government head counts in history -- which it says provides a "window into history" and a ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need To Know: In the 1950s, the United States was already hard at work experimenting with the idea of launching large missiles from submarines, in the early stages of what would become ...

To herald the opening of his unprecedented new theme park in 1955, Walt Disney broadcast a series of popular television shows. In March, the segment "Man in Space" touted one of Disneyland's most ...

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 ...

CBS News analyst Leonard Steinhorn claimed the "fundamental flaw" in the phrase "Make America Great Again" is that it harkens back to the America of the 1950s in a piece for the Washington Post on ...

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 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 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 1950s were where it all started for rock music. While some proto-rock origins can be found in the 40s, the 50s were where rock music really started to develop. And even though decades have passed ...