On a February day in 1960, the air in downtown Spokane carried a sharp chill as John F. Kennedy stood before a crowd of Inland Northwest residents. He was a presidential candidate then, in a city that ...

HAMPTON, Va. — January 29, 1960, was a day of celebration in the City of Hampton. According to reporting at the time from The Daily Press, Mayor George C. Bentley wielded a curved, silver-hilted ...

The papers of Richard Goodwin, a speechwriter to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and his wife Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian, shed light on decision-making at crucial moments in ...

Littering the newspaper’s fine print throughout the 1960s were notices of Trustee’s Sales of property. The decade was bracketed by recessions at its beginning and end. In between, times were still ...

Sunday in the 1960s was legally protected by blue laws that shuttered stores, dealerships, and businesses across most of the country. The Sunday dinner table functioned as the social anchor of the ...

In September 1957 a series of earthquakes shook the tiny Azorean island of Faial followed by numerous eruptions of a volcano centered on Capelinhos, a small cape extending off the island’s western ...