PsychGuides.com found that the only decades when the average U.S. woman and the Miss America winners fell in the same range were in the 1940s and ‘50s. The graph shows that over the years ...

Miss America Kaye Lani Rae Rafko devotes her year to advocacy of care for the terminally ill, becoming the first winner to dedicate her reign to a social issue. The social issue platform ...

The Miss America beauty pageant looks ... the original in another fascinating way - the winners' body types have gotten much thinner over the years, according to educational website PsychGuides ...

There was even a “Rule 7,” abandoned in 1940, that stated that Miss America contestants had to be “of good health and of the white race.” The winner spent the year doing community service ...

But what’s it really like to hear your name called as the winner and ... crowning moment as Miss America during an interview with AL.com. Although it happened about 30 years ago, Whitestone ...

A photo of the first Miss America winner, Margaret Gorman ... (Fewer than ten million viewers tuned in last year.) But happily for those still warmed by that old queen-for-a-year magic, the ...

"Miss America is someone who needs to educate," said the 24-year-old PharmD student Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the brand since ...

North Dakota has never had a Miss America winner, or a contestant reach the ... Mund will tour the country with the title for one year before starting law school at the University of Notre Dame.

In 1984 Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America, beginning the year as one of the best Miss ... fascinating and we would pick out the winners, but I was not allowed to even entertain ...