Recent years have seen increases in both interracial adolescent romances and portrayals of young interracial relationships. What's the connection?

The squeaky-clean Brady Bunch family symbolized the avoidance of the sexual revolution, feminism, and other social forces that were coming to the fore.

In 1968 violent events at home and aboard were broadcast in color on the television news, creating impacts that may have swayed the presidential election.

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.

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 1997, Ellen DeGeneres publicly came out on her show, Ellen. It was a cultural turning point for many.

Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone stood out in the "vast wasteland" of television in the early 1960s and still resonates today.

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

Fred Rogers argued by example and in his quiet, firm way that television’s power could be harnessed to shape future generations for good.

Murphy Brown represented a threat to “family values”—a position that inherently placed her on the side of the families of color whose single family structures supposedly threatened the white, middle-class status quo of the 1990s.