During a slow day at work, a young marble cutter named Willis O’Brien began sculpting tiny T-Rex figurines.

A look at TV watching as a social activity, from the "water cooler" network shows of yore to today's "second screen" live-tweets.

The rebellious culture of the Beat Generation was coopted into fodder for a marketable lifestyle.

In the 1950s, Walt Kelly's comic strip about a cute opossum named Pogo was syndicated by over 450 newspapers. It was also frequently censored.

What has made this slow, quiet television show about antiques the sleeper hit of PBS? One scholar describes the show as enacting near-religious rituals.

When American kitchens started getting high-tech in the 1950s, the refrigerator seemed to alienate and frustrate many men.

Sex and the City was on television from 1998-2004, and still holds cultural cachet today. But does the actual programming still hold up?

In the 1990s, lesbian characters were repeatedly transformed into "close friends" in film adaptions of LGBTQ-themed books.

Underneath the home and personal makeovers, is "Queer Eye" political?

The idea of a President Oprah has sparked excitement rather than ridicule. Americans value symbolism as much as political experience; while Oprah has little of the latter, she is practically made of the former.