(WAVY) — It was a jolt to 1950s America, a nation projecting confidence abroad while confronting deep tensions at home. On Oct. 4, 1957, the world changed. And in Darmstadt, Germany, a 23-year-old U.S ...

Levittown in Long Island, New York, was built in 1947 as a suburban community for America's growing families. Here's what it was like in the '50s.

American automakers in the 1950s treated the showroom like a laboratory, using chrome, fins, and ever-larger engines to test how far buyers would follow them into the future. The most ambitious ...

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 ...