As a historian, you sometimes need luck. A colleague at the Science Park emailed me that she had saved a folder with completed questionnaires from 88 students from 1956 and 1957 from a paper dumpster.

Back when hashtags were called pound signs, and before anyone was “doin’ it for the ’gram” (do they even say that anymore?), everyday life was already being captured in color. That may come as a ...

A pair of new peer-reviewed scientific papers claim to have detected the presence of UFOs in photographs taken in the 1950s. Astronomer Beatriz Villarroel from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical ...

The American ranch house has for decades been dismissed as the real estate equivalent of the TV dinner—mass-produced, bland and outmoded. Recently, though, home buyers are warming to the humble legacy ...

Coming after World War II, the 1950s finally allowed people to take a sigh of relief as they began recovering from years of economic decline, conflicts, and battles. It was a period characterized by ...

James Stewart looks through his camera in a scene form the film 'Rear Window', 1954. ( The 1950s were the last full decade of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Hollywood filmmakers weren’t the only ones ...

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 ...

Anyone looking to drench themselves in the 1950s nostalgia currently favored by the religious right in America should consider watching “Leave It to Beaver” stoned. Which is what I did with an old ...

Music assistant is rolling out to users with access to the Creator Music beta. Music assistant is rolling out to users with access to the Creator Music beta. YouTube is giving creators a new AI tool ...