USA Network continues to experiment with drama settings, genres and time frames, giving a pilot order to old Hollywood period drama Paradise Pictures, written/executive produced by Suits scribe Rick ...

A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas 1942 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) There is a photo of federal housing ...

We may pledge allegiance to “one nation under God,” but from the start American society has been anything but “indivisible.” The America Revolution split families and pitted neighbor against neighbor ...

“To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America” will be on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from March 11 through Sept. 5. Alexander Nemerov, the Vincent Scully ...

The company staffed 13,000 workers at its peak of operations in the 1940s. Navy vessels and barges no longer depart from ...

Images of various households taken during the 1940 Census, assembled by the National Archives and the United States Census Bureau. With clipboards in hand, almost 120,000 census takers traveled to all ...

When Hitler invaded France in 1940, the conventional wisdom was that the French had the best military in Europe. This was despite Germany's crushing victory over Poland and several other powers ...

Newark went back in time on Monday to the 1940s, the setting for Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America.” Filming is underway in the city for the HBO adaptation of Roth’s 2004 novel, which presents ...