You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, you might be surprised just how many music genres can trace their roots ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. “Home, I’m Darling,” which runs at Synchronicity Theatre through Oct. 29, opens with a scene familiar to anyone who’s watched 1950s domestic sitcoms ...

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In a special section on 1950s culture, Maria Farland discusses Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and its role in the anti-psychiatry movement. In writing the 1963 novel, “Plath made deliberate use of the ...

Air Force veteran Jeri Dilno realized she was a lesbian at a young age. She still decided to enlist in the military in the late 1950s, even though she knew it was risky. Back then, people who ...

In the 1950s, a group of psychologists, who would later be called humanistic psychologists, tried to address the problems they had with professional and academic psychology. As the leader of this ...

AMORY – Masha Laney's 11th grade U.S. History class at Amory High School recently studied the 1950s, and in doing so, she wanted the students to have a cultural experience of the decade. Students were ...

Completes the history begun with: The American century : art and culture, 1900-1950 / Barbara Haskell. "This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition The American century: art & culture ...

In the mid-1950s, Quincy Jones was part of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band at a time when the U.S. State Department sent them on a goodwill tour around the globe. It was during the Cold War, and ...