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 ...

Americans are divided on whether U.S. culture and way of life was better in the 1950s, with white Christians more likely to say it was, a new survey finds. Why it matters: Despite the segregation ...

In the 1950s, images of the future were tightly interwoven ... the United States and the Soviet Union debated the merits of their ways of life -- and raced to launch the first space probes.

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family ... Although women had other aspirations in life, the dominant theme promoted in the culture and media at the time was that a husband ...

After World War Two finished in 1945 life got better for children in Britain during the 1950s. The destruction of the war and evacuation had shown people how poor many children were. It was agreed ...

There were several reasons for this: Martin Luther King began to doubt whether non-violent protests were worth the risk of human life. Efforts to end discrimination in the southern states had been ...

Architect Henry Y. Shaub's 1950s rendering of a Midcentury Modern-style Groff Funeral Home, left, features less " literal," more stylized figures. His rendering of a more traditional design ...