African American women were largely excluded from the idealized image of 1950s domesticity portrayed in popular culture. Most women who fantasize about going back to this decade are white ...

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 ...

Elsewhere, Poland’s 1950s also resounded with nostalgically-aged radio orchestras, and the country’s earliest rock and roll. In the 1950s, the devastation of World War II was still very much visible ...