USA Network continues to experiment with drama settings, genres and time frames, giving a pilot order to old Hollywood period drama Paradise Pictures, written/executive produced by Suits scribe Rick ...

We may pledge allegiance to “one nation under God,” but from the start American society has been anything but “indivisible.” The America Revolution split families and pitted neighbor against neighbor ...

A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas 1942 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) There is a photo of federal housing ...

“To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America” will be on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from March 11 through Sept. 5. Alexander Nemerov, the Vincent Scully ...

This colorized and restored footage takes us back to a time when life in America moved at a different pace. From the 1940s into the 1950s, everyday scenes of beaches, city streets, family vacations, ...

In the vein of what Ta-Nehisi Coates referred to as a “convenient suspension of disbelief” in X-Men First Class, Captain America: First Avenger dutifully ignores the civil-rights struggles of the ...

The company staffed 13,000 workers at its peak of operations in the 1940s. Navy vessels and barges no longer depart from ...

When Hitler invaded France in 1940, the conventional wisdom was that the French had the best military in Europe. This was despite Germany's crushing victory over Poland and several other powers ...