The reality of life in the 1950s was shockingly different. Sure, the porcelain veneer of the traditional American family with a white picket fence, a string of pearls, and a multi-course meal on ...

68% of Republicans, 48% of independents and 31% of Democrats surveyed say American culture and way of life have mostly changed for the worse since the 1950s. Zoom in: White Christian groups and ...

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 ...

One of his former classmates was living in a tenement in Chicago, as shown in this untitled photograph from 1950. “He really paved the way,” Peter Kunhardt, Jr., a family friend and executive ...

Even when things began to improve as the 1950s progressed, life was still difficult for many working class people. This was something Shelagh Delaney was keen to portray in her play. She also ...

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 ...

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 ...