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 and ...

In the mythological version of the 1950s that lives on in the popular imagination, everything was bright and clean, and everyone was charmingly naive. In the real 1950s, American life was quite a bit ...

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 ...

"This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, begins in the 1950s and covers a period of four decades during which American culture profound transformation. Each of the artists featured here - ...