By the middle of the 1950s, a handful of cars were already proving that comfort and speed did not have to live in separate ...

A selection of sandwiches on sale at a deli - G.MARTYSHEVA/Shutterstock Since the first invention of the sandwich at a card table in the 18th century, people have ...

If these ring a bell—black-and-white TV test patterns, party lines, drive-in theaters, sock hops, milk deliveries, metal ...

(CNN) — At least 24 Black deaf students who attended a segregated school on the grounds of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, in the early 1950s never received their high school diplomas. Seventy ...

MSU Libraries' has access to nearly 300 reels of WKAR-TV films from the 1950s and 1960s available to digitize. If you tuned into WKAR-TV in the 1950s, you might have caught programs explaining how to ...

Disneyland could have had a Robin Hood Castle, Pleasure Island, archery range, ghost town and little church if initial plans dreamed up in the early 1950s by Walt Disney and his artists for the ...

It's true that more than 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the U.S. in the late 1940s and early 1950s by inserting a medical instrument resembling an ice pick through patients' eye sockets and into ...