How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion ...

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company marks its 150th anniversary this year. Known for brands like Camel, its lesser-known history ...

A survey of art and design from the 1940s at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals how creativity flourished out of hardship ...

"Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California," opening on June 8 with a free admission day and running through Nov. 30, celebrates Black women and their descendants ...

Many of the traditions we know today began in postwar America — including the very color of many modern wedding dresses.

In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on. But at a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, curators aim to ...

With stellar performances by Theron, Sissy Spacek, Frances McDormand and Woody Harrelson, “North Country” is based on a groundbreaking lawsuit brought by women miners at Minnesota’s Eveleth Mines in ...

Community groups and Terminal Islanders — descendants of the Japanese American community that once thrived there — say ICE is ...

The identity of the “Woman of the High Plains” was revealed in 1979—but five years later, Nettie Featherston was forgotten ...

From architectural precision to a sense of ease and luxury, our comprehensive guide to the world’s best swimwear brands – for ...

Nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, researchers have ...