The following essay is an excerpt from Timothy Goeglein's new book, Stumbling Toward Utopia, out now from Fidelis. In the ...

The documentary “Riotsville, USA” is, on the surface, a movie about America in the late 1960s, at a time when nightly news stories about civil unrest provoked citizens and politicians alike to demand ...

More than any other postwar decade, the 1960s are as much a legend as they are an actual decade — and one full of contradictions, meaning different things to different people. It's easy for older ...

The 1960s was a very important time in the growth of the United States. Between rapid workforce growth, the rise of automation, and “Great Society” programs like Food Stamps and Medicare, the U.S. saw ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4286285/4286286" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The ...

WASHINGTON – This nation is awash with heated and ungenerous judgments about its past and about Americans who lived before we ascended to today’s sunny uplands of enlightenment. So, for your final ...

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you ...

Ever wonder what dinner tasted like when your parents or grandparents were kids? The 1960s was an era of culinary transformation, where convenience met tradition on dinner tables across America.

(CNN) — On the cover of Lisa Birnbach’s “The Official Preppy Handbook,” a tongue-in-cheek 1980s guide to looking, acting and thinking like a US prep school elite, a pattern along the border depicts a ...