1950s: the Way We Lived
The 1950s are sometimes thought of as America's bland decade, a decade when family life was stable and America's cities were safe. The economy was booming and mos...
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The Fifties
The 1950s were a time of rapid change and lock step conformity, of new forms emerging out of old, and technical innovations proceeding at a breakneck pace. For all the talk of traditional ...
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Giant Steps.
Great strides were made in American science during the 1950s. Major inventions and discoveries were almost daily events, and previously ignored technology improved upon and made commerci...
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The Decade of Television.
The stereotype that labels the 1950s as a sleepy, conformist decade is at no time less true than when discussing the media. The 1950s were revolutionary years in the media. ...
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Baby Boom.
The 1950s was a decade of unprecedented economic and population growth for the United States. The baby boom that had begun in the years immediately following World War II continued well in...
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1950s Politics Sentimentalized.
Current baby-boomer nostalgia has, for the most part, washed over — and sanitized — the political history of the 1950s. When compared to the turbulent deca...
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Overview
Women's Factory: Femininity is the Key
Hair Imitates Art
Dior and the Full-Figured Gal-Bosom Buddies No More?
Men's Fashions: Gray Flannel Suits
Who Cares?
A Call to Bare Arms
American Desig...
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Even if some Americans in the 1950s still believed that "a little learnin' goes a long way," they became concerned during the decade that it took more than a little learning to face the chal...
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Importance of the Economy.
By 1950 people generally recognized that the nation's economy — the financial performance of its businesses — affects every American personally. The security of...
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During the 1950s, many people suspect that this decade was occupied by conservatism and conformity but they are incorrect. This period was filled with rebellious groups and classes and the struggl...
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Although the fifties are looked back on as the days of prosperity, many will tell you another story entirely. There was another side to the fifties, a side that goes without mention too often.
In t...
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Gain insight into the Fifties by looking at the decade's many struggles and successes. This intriguing book examines the political, economic, social, cultural, scientific, and technological advance...
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The NHL's greatest dynasty has reunited, though the surviving members of the select group of Montreal Canadiens that won five straight Stanley Cups from 1956-60 will let their record speak for itse...
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Hamburg (dpa) - In 1950, the East and West Cold War escalated into
a military conflict in Korea. Between 2.5 and 3.5 million people lost
their lives during the war, which en...
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Dan Klores still remembers his first case of heartbreak.`I was obsessed, during the relationship and after," says the 57-year-old documentary filmmaker. "I did some things that I was absolutely not...
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Riga (dpa) - The Latvian port town of Liepaja commemorated Monday
the crew of a US aircraft shot down by Soviet forces in 1950 in an
incident which sparked a bloody new phas...
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Prague (dpa) - A Czech court was expected Thursday to issue a
verdict on an 86-year-old former prosecutor for her involvement in a
judicial crime committed 57 years ago.
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Gordon Scott, a handsome, muscular actor who portrayed an "intelligent and nice" Tarzan in 1950s movies, has died. He was 80. Scott, who had been living in a working class section of south Baltimor...
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The text of a declassified letter sent by American Ambassador John J. Muccio to Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk in 1950 advising that the U.S. military in South Korea had adopted a policy of...
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Singer Teresa Brewer, who topped the charts in the 1950s with such hits as "Till I Waltz Again with You" and performed with jazz legends Count Basie and Duke Ellington, died Wednesday. She was 76.B...
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David Lancashire, a Canadian hired by The Associated Press in 1956 to become the first North American reporter to cover Mao Zedong's China and defy a U.S. travel ban, has died. He was 76.Lancashire...
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At the time, it was the nation's deadliest commercial airliner crash.All 58 people on board Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 died when the DC-4 plummeted into Lake Michigan on June 23, 1950, en route...
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