If you've been exposed to a Nicki Minaj video, you may have theorized clothing is getting smaller, women are getting larger and singers don't really sing anymore. At least one of those theories is ...

Normal Things in The ’60s That Would Never Be Allowed Today If you lived through the 1960s, you know firsthand that this was ...

Lamb’s Players Theatre’s new musical production pays “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” to the women whose songs and voices defined the sound of the 1960s, from rock ‘n’ roll and R&B to soul and Top 40 pop. By turns ...

Historians are notorious for savaging historical fiction. We’re quick to complain that writers project modern values onto their characters, get the surroundings wrong, cover up the seamy side of an ...

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I've been watching "Mad Men", a new TV show by Matthew Weiner, a writer and producer on "The Sopranos." Mad Men is set in 1960 and America is on the cusp of many changes. One of the most prominent ...

In ITS first season, “Mad Men,” AMC’s glossy series about a group of guys on Madison Avenue, received critical raves for its finely drawn portraits of the employees of Sterling Cooper Advertising ...

When Cecilia Dominguez joined the Los Angeles Police Department in the late 1960s, women wore skirts and their badges designated them as “policewoman.” The badges changed in the early 1970s to the ...

In 1960, women could expect to make 61 cents for every $1 a man made. While the earnings gap has narrowed and women now earn 78 cents for every dollar, the biggest jump since the recession, that is ...