The 1950s Park Forest House Museum’s latest exhibit offers a glimpse into how a village townhome might have been decorated for the holidays more than 70 years ago. The annual Step Back into a 1950s ...

A picture of an 11-year-old girl in a holiday dress posing with her sister clutching a porcelain doll, hangs from a wall at the entrance of an exhibit at the Southampton Historical Museum. That girl ...

Holiday decorating trends come and go with the same quick pace of the season. Bows were trending last year. This year we all can’t get enough of paper chain garlands. And yes, yes, we know—everyone ...

With the holidays approaching, what better time to share some of my favorite Christmas memories from my childhood in the early 1950s? My sister and I (although living 3,000 miles apart for all of our ...

The Beinecke Library at Yale University is exhibiting Hughes's typewritten 1950 Christmas postcards, along with holiday cards he received from friends. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at ...

Merry Christmas? You bet! Happy New Year? Of course! How could it not be a happy new year — at Christmastime, at the Lustron House, in 1950, when the world just keeps getting better and better? It's ...

Sure, you can try impressing the neighbors this Christmas by decorating your house so over-the-top it would make Clark Griswold jealous. But for something truly Pinterest-worthy, consider throwing ...

Recently I stumbled across an absolutely terrifying picture of a Christmas tree. Specifically, it was a snapshot from a 1958 Christmas party tweeted by actress Mitzi Gaynor. In the foreground are ...

He might point out, while laughing, that this Christmas, 1950, was the last time he received a gift from Santa Claus or his parents. According to his mother, his father went overboard, giving him more ...