Home life in the 1950s followed routines that feel almost unfamiliar today—from formal dinners to strict Sunday quiet hours. We asked readers to share the household rules they remember from that era, ...

While some baby names of the 1950s are just as popular today as they were then, others have fallen out of fashion, like poodle skirts. The latter is especially true of baby girl names of the 1950s.

In the 1950s the American public accepted above-ground nuclear bomb blasts just 65 miles from an American city as part of the ongoing Cold War effort. The tests became a tourist attraction for ...