“Easier said than done, the thinking for oneself,” said no less an eminent columnist than the late Harper’s magazine editor Lewis H. Lapham. “I was never very good at it, and an opinion I always found ...

Explore 1940s houses and discover how home life changed during the Second World War and after. From bomb shelters and ...

Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck were suspected of killing multiple women whom they lured through personal ads in the 1940s.

Twentieth century newspaper trend reports show that oranges won't be coming back in vogue as Christmas stocking stuffers ...

At Home and Abroad Police in America need a great deal of reform, a project that translates to freeing them from the racist nature of U.S. culture while ...

The United States was once the greatest country in the world, but now we have become one of the most self-destructive ...

The origins of the decoration lie in Vienna’s 17th district, where the inventor’s descendants are still making them for ...

A look at 1940s cars from Jeep, Ford, Chrysler, Cadillac, and Volkswagen that helped shape the automotive industry.

The Bishop’s Wife (Henry Koster, 1947) You might assume that It’s a Wonderful Life is the only film from the 1940s that could ...

All Creatures Great and Small has fast become one of Channel 5's most-loved dramas, and it's not hard to see why. The ...

Lane is a magazine writer who pretends to live on a flawlessly maintained ... It goes about as well as you’d expect if you’ve ever seen a movie of the 1940s. It’s one of our favorite noirs of the era.