Starting in the 1950s sex was viewed as a key component of a healthy and loving marriage. Without an effective female-controlled contraceptive, young wives faced three decades of childbearing ...

Exercise and diet are not the only things to radically change over the last half-century. In the 1950s, a new home cost £2,000 but an office worker's average wage was just £ 14 a week.

During the last two years, a lot has been written—and said—about the dangers of cigarette smoking, especially ... slightly over two male deaths to one female death from this disease.

There were plenty of very successful female recording artists in the 1950s. Some came out of the latter days of the big band ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Americans in their childbearing ... How could a woman reconcile the ideal of female domesticity and the desire to earn? Home-Centered and Lucrative Tupperware ...

The league disbanded, the demure 1950s took hold, and Jochum was a forgotten ... Be More Popular,” mandated chaperoned dating, no smoking in public and no slacks. “The smart looking teams ...