Gary Cooper was a rampant lothario – and just what 1950s America needed

Gary Cooper was strong, silent – and anybody’s. Long before he became America’s principled sheriff in High Noon (1952) – a ...
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The luxury cars that ruled America in the 1950s

In the 1950s, American luxury cars did more than move people from driveway to downtown, they broadcast status in chrome, ...
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The most ambitious American cars of the 1950s

American automakers in the 1950s treated the showroom like a laboratory, using chrome, fins, and ever-larger engines to test ...
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Mrs. America: Women's Roles in the 1950s

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda. And the Cold War was in part a culture war, with the American family at the center ...