It was a Saturday night in Albion, a small city just east of Battle Creek, Michigan, and teenagers lined up for a dance at the school gym. The price of admission? A bared arm. The year was 1958, and ...

They may not have worked out in the gym, competed with men in the office or followed the Atkins Diet. But 50 years ago women still managed to burn up many more calories than their counterparts today.

Jean Farrell looks back on the incredible mental agility of Irish children at school in the 1950s from arithmetic to the Irish language. In Ireland of the 1950s, many people left school at fourteen ...

Many people consider the 50s the golden era of boxing. When you look at the sheer number of top fighters from the period, it makes sense. The fact that this was a time when all the top guys fought ...

Much of the United States in the 1950s was brimming with optimism. World War II was over, the economy was growing, and the Baby Boom was on. Interstate highways rolled out across the landscape, and ...

Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo (Gregory Peck) has reformed and is on his way to a sleepy town in the hope of a reunion with his estranged sweetheart (Helen Westcott) and their young son (B.G. Morgan ...