When he was just a 10-year-old Birmingham kid, Jim Auker got a coveted Atomic Bomb Ring for the bargain price of 15 cents and a cereal box top. He eventually lost his toy promoted on the Lone Ranger ...

Dwight Ritter was white and privileged, but most of his friends were black and underprivileged. This, in 1950s Indianapolis, or 1950s anywhere, was unusual. Most schools and most neighborhoods then ...

Americans are divided on whether U.S. culture and way of life was better in the 1950s, with white Christians more likely to say it was, a new survey finds. Why it matters: Despite the segregation and ...

Ted Taylor’s (At Large, 9/13) nostalgia for the 1950s bears no resemblance to today’s employment pool. His conception of minimum wage work as employment for high school and college students, as ...

With the holidays approaching, what better time to share some of my favorite Christmas memories from my childhood in the early 1950s? My sister and I (although living 3,000 miles apart for all of our ...

Growing up in the 1950s, families were large, homes were small, and money was tight. Moms generally didn't work, were busy raising children, and ruled the roost. Dads were counted on to "bring home ...

Making a TV adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s acclaimed science fiction novel Childhood’s End in 2015 is no different than if the miniseries had been made in the 1950s when the book was published, ...