Charged with being "un-American" during the Cold War, activists appealed to American ideals in their quest for full citizenship.

In the 1950s and 1960s, families planning for the apocalypse often took a homespun approach.

A lighthearted look at Americans' nicknames of yore, from master humorist H. L. Mencken.

SPAM was introduced 80 years, but it was a military-style corps of singing women that helped the canned meat skyrocket in the years after World War II.

Today's diners would surprise a 1940s patron. These restaurants were once vulgar boy’s clubs before becoming today's family-friendly establishments.

The Main Street of Disneyland and Disney World were Walt Disney's first attempts at creating the utopian city he could never quite manage.

While Norman Rockwell's paintings struck a chord with the mass American public, that was not always not the case with art critics.