When Sen. Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon were railing alleged communists in the State Department in the early 1950s, Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson was one of their favorite targets. Nixon ...

LOS ANGELES — Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was ...

A study co-authored by a CU Boulder economist reveals how young wives played a significant role in financially kick-starting their families during the economic prosperity of the 1950s, also opening ...

Secretary Day was first created by Mary Barrett—the president of the National Secretaries Association. She invented the holiday sometime during the late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1952, U.S. On the ...

LOS ANGELES — Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controverisal photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday.