Finding a long-lost uncle’s name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It’s the stuff genealogists and history hunters live for. It also creates the kind ...

Emerson's Patriot Radio, model FC-400, made in 1940 Philadelphia Museum of Art In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on.

WEATHERLY — Visitors to Eckley Miners’ Village on Saturday could be forgiven for forgetting what decade they were in for a few moments. Re-enactors dressed as soldiers from World War II meandered ...

Although the Portuguese immigrant population declined in the 1920s, the number of Portuguese owning their homes increased. At the beginning of the decade 87 Portuguese born overseas owned their ...

Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart in a scene from the movie: "The Philadelphia Story." By the 1940s, Hollywood was solidly in its Golden Age. And the 1940s weren’t just a boon for ...