If dining at Canlis was on your bucket list, but the prices held it out of reach, Dec. 11 would have been your time to go. Diners arriving for dinner that night expected the regular fine dining prices ...

Scotland in the 1950s was, without a doubt, a vastly different place compared to today. The 1950s witnessed numerous significant events in Scotland that are still commemorated today, from the launch ...

MSU Libraries' has access to nearly 300 reels of WKAR-TV films from the 1950s and 1960s available to digitize. If you tuned into WKAR-TV in the 1950s, you might have caught programs explaining how to ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki each had an Atomic bomb dropped on them, forcing the formal Japanese surrender on 15th August announced by Emperor Hirohito, and two weeks later, on September 2nd, the war was ...

From 1948 to 1952, the White House underwent a complete gut renovation. The building had numerous structural issues that made it unsafe for the Trumans to live in. Archived photos show the massive ...

In 1950, Michigan was basking in its reputation as an industrial powerhouse. Detroit factories – retooled to mass-produce aircraft, tanks and other war materials during World War II – helped defeat ...

The American ranch house has for decades been dismissed as the real estate equivalent of the TV dinner—mass-produced, bland and outmoded. Recently, though, home buyers are warming to the humble legacy ...

Semi trucks, though they get little recognition, or even respect, for that matter, are holding America together. These rigs, often called 18-wheelers, can last millions of miles, and are concentrated ...

Coming after World War II, the 1950s finally allowed people to take a sigh of relief as they began recovering from years of economic decline, conflicts, and battles. It was a period characterized by ...

In spite of its cancellation, SLAM left an imprint in the minds of America’s defense planners and military scientists—and pushed the boundaries of nuclear propulsion technology. The 1950s were a ...