The reality of life in the 1950s was shockingly different ... Revolutionary Road is a highly-acclaimed 2008 film based on the 1961 book of the same name which peeks beneath this porcelain veneer ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family ... Although women had other aspirations in life, the dominant theme promoted in the culture and media at the time was that a husband ...

Even when things began to improve as the 1950s progressed, life was still difficult for many working class people. This was something Shelagh Delaney was keen to portray in her play. She also ...

In the 1950s, images of the future were tightly interwoven ... the United States and the Soviet Union debated the merits of their ways of life -- and raced to launch the first space probes.

Welcome to the 1950s, a decade of prosperity and Pontiacs, drive-ins and tail fins, bobby socks and poodle skirts. The decade ...

Even when things began to improve as the 1950s progressed, life was still difficult for many working class people. This was something Shelagh Delaney was keen to portray in her play. She also ...