In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

The ongoing struggle in America for racial equality has its roots in the trade of enslaved people, the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was ...

Key Takeaways Black children are more than twice as likely to die as white kidsThis gap extends back to the 1950sA total ...

It was most famously known as “The New Look”, and was to become a style that dominated 1950s fashion . Teenagers, first in America and then elsewhere, began to break away from their mother’s stiff ...

These vehicle style cues define American cars from the 1950s, and are used as common cultural reference points whenever this part of history is portrayed. Today, 1950s cars from Cadillac, Ford, Buick, ...

A new survey found that Americans are divided on if life was better in the 1950s. Nutrition is one of the areas where there's been a lot of development in the last 70 years. Getty Images “Happy ...

The decade of the '50s conjures up images of sock hops and hula hoops — and some 1950s names that, like poodle skirts, have fallen out of fashion. This is especially true of baby girl names ...