In the 1950s, American luxury cars did more than move people from driveway to downtown, they broadcast status in chrome, tailfins, and acres of steel. The decade’s most opulent machines turned ...

The 1950s marked a time of major change in the United States as families settled into new neighborhoods, new inventions entered the home, and a spirit of confidence shaped daily life. Television ...

The 1950s gave us some of the most recognizable silhouettes in automotive history, yet a surprising number of those cars ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda. And the Cold War was in part a culture war, with the American family at the center ...

Photographers Robert Frank and Todd Webb set out to photograph America in 1955. A new exhibition at the MFAH offers a look at what they found. Two images of the open road introduce “Robert Frank and ...

The lobotomy has taken on mythical qualities in American popular culture. For a time in the postwar period, the procedure — which in its best-known form involved inserting a pick-like instrument ...

America was in a more hopeful place in the 1950s — a period marked by prosperity and growth. The nation had endured Prohibition and the Great Depression, sandwiched between the two World Wars, during ...

As we lean into Tuesday’s election, a thread emerges that binds today to 1950, when Hank Greenspun founded the Las Vegas Sun amid an international and domestic environment that, sadly, feels very much ...

Disney's first trailer for the December 2026 blockbuster — which first leaked online earlier this week — has now been ...

Daisy Edgar-Jones cites admiration as her first draw to the buzzy TIFF film On Swift Horses. “I loved the producers behind the film. I love Call Me by Your Name and Nomadland, so I was so excited ...

If you want to give your baby a classic name that’s also not common enough to be repeated in a classroom, there’s a new report listing several viable options that were moderately popular in the 1950s.