In the early 1950s, manufacturers and home builders came together to create the Air Conditioned Village in Austin, Texas.

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 years ...

Back in the early 1950s, motorcycles weren’t a mere mode of transportation; they were these impressive, rugged machines built for performance, durability, and iconic styles. This collection of vintage ...

The 5:30 PM dinner hour was the natural result of factory shift schedules, school dismissal times, and commuter timetables all converging at the same moment. A hot meal on the table by 5:30 required ...

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 ...

A new book unearths never-before-seen maps of Disneyland from the early 1950s. Readers who look closely can spot ideas that were ultimately discarded, including Recreation Land and Mother Goose. There ...

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 ...