As the Cold War reached its climax, Pizza Hut got tangled up in geopoliticsand made a lot of dough.

In 1992, the company behind The Oregon Trail tried to simulate Black history. It did not go well.

The Rules became a controversial bestseller and sparked instant debate. But was the advice any good?

We answer your questions about the ubiquitous musical instrument, 80s automotive luxury, and more.

In the mid-1990s, an artist collective smuggled its provocative work onto the set of the hit TV show.

The rise and fall of an awkward rite of passage.

A decade after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb, 25 Japanese women put their lives in the hands of American surgeons.

In 1955, the polio vaccine was rightly heralded as a miracle. A medical mystery threatened to derail it.

The Communist-hunting housewives who spawned a far-right conspiracy theory about an American gulag.

In the 1950s, women weathercasters were idolized and lusted over. They were also seen as a major threat.