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.

On November 4th, 1979, Iranian militants took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. They seized 63 Americans, a number later ...

What makes Star Trek essential for any contemporary tech user is its role in helping us understand our relationship to technology.

Ironically, it was movies that helped accustom American viewers to television in the first place, writes Richard Koszarski.

Little people have been used for entertainment purposes in royal courts from ancient Egypt to medieval Europe. But can this be more than exploitative?