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The Myth of the 1950s (2008) excerpt and text search; Marling, Karal Ann. As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s (Harvard University Press, 1996) 328 pp. Miller, Douglas T. and Marion Nowak. The fifties: the way we really were (1977) Stoner, John C., and Alice L. George. Social History of the United States: The 1950s (2008)
The 1950s were the true birth of the rock and roll music genre, led by figures such as Elvis Presley (pictured), Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and others. (from 1950s ) Image 22 Liz Taylor in the 1950s, a fashion icon of the era (from 1950s )
1950 in the United States; 1950s American automobile culture; 1950s House; 1950s–1960s North American drought; 1951 in the United States; 1952 in the United States; 1953 in the United States; 1954 in the United States; 1955 in the United States; 1956 in the United States; 1957 in the United States; 1958 in the United States; 1959 in the ...
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Karen Pence, American educator, and teacher, 48th Second Lady of the United States; January 4 – Patty Loveless, American country music singer; January 6. Freddie Glenn, American spree killer and rapist, convicted of murdering the younger sister of actor Kelsey Grammer; Nancy Lopez, American golfer; January 7. Nicholson Baker, American novelist
At the advanced level, American science, engineering, and medicine was world-famous. By the mid-1960s, the majority of American workers enjoyed the highest wage levels in the world, [51] and by the late-1960s, the great majority of Americans were richer than people in other countries, except Sweden, Switzerland, and Canada. Educational outlays ...
From 1950 to 1960, life expectancy grew 1.5 years, compared with a jump of more than five years from 1940 to 1950, more than three years from 1930 to 1940, and more than five years from 1920 to ...