In 1973, George Lucas joined forces with sound designer Walter Murch to celebrate a bygone era. They ended up revolutionizing the role music plays in film.

Proposition 6, better known as the Briggs Initiative, was the first attempt to restrict the rights of lesbian and gay Americans by popular referendum.

A wave of academic periodicals devoted to theory started appearing in the 1970s. Criticism wasn't far behind.

Defender of the poor tenants and evictor of the voracious landlords, a masked lucha libre wrestler rose from the ruins of Mexico City’s 1985 earthquake.

Megahit "We are the world" turns 30 this year.

Where did the notion of teaching people how to spend their free time come from, and why did it disappear?