Like his daughter, Abraham hailed from South Texas, and he himself began his showbiz career as a singer in a trio called Los Dinos beginning in the 1950s.

The post‑war decades of the 1950s and 1960s brought a distinctive holiday warmth. Families embraced suburban living, a ...

Oregon has reported 1,475 pertussis cases this year, breaking the 1950 record. Health officials urge pregnant people to get ...

A new online history project shows how anxious Americans in the 1940s and ‘50s blamed comics for juvenile delinquency and ...

The Bermuda National Trust, in its Hamilton Town and City book, states that “in March 1813, the Corporation of Hamilton began ...

Nativity plays became popular in the 1950s and have become a rite of passage for primary school children ever since. Now that ...

Everyone knows Santa’s elves make the best toys, but if you don’t have time to pop to the North Pole, then Belfast’s own expert in the field, Raymond Kirkpatrick, is the man to talk to. Raymond, owner ...

In 1954, Theodor Geisel, under the penname of “Dr. Seuss,” released Horton Hears a Who, a story about an elephant, Horton, who sees and hears things others in his jungle cannot (or refuse to) ...

The 1950s were a golden age of convenience foods, creative packaging, and quirky marketing campaigns. Post-war optimism shaped American diets, and many brands introduced new items that became ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Beverly Cleary, the celebrated children’s author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with millions through the likes of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, has ...

James Stewart looks through his camera in a scene form the film 'Rear Window', 1954. ( The 1950s were the last full decade of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Hollywood filmmakers weren’t the only ones ...