For a society accustomed to the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, the images of the women from the polygamist compound in Texas are almost shocking in their understatement: Ankle-length dresses ...

Coming after World War II, the 1950s finally allowed people to take a sigh of relief as they began recovering from years of economic decline, conflicts, and battles. It was a period characterized by ...

Vintage photos of the 1950s in N.J. Back in the 1990s, I used to be fascinated that one of my living aunts had been alive before the Wright brothers flew. Similarly, I would imagine that for those ...

In a period drama set in a couture fashion house during the 1950s, clothes can make the movie. And the man who made many of those clothes is Mark Bridges. In "Phantom Thread," Daniel Day-Lewis plays ...

As soon as a machine came on the market that did something for you, my mother bought it. The dishwasher was a prime example, although a head-scratcher since my brother and I, or the housekeeper, did ...