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The sitcom “All in the Family” debuted 50 years ago this month, and had a lasting effect on television and American culture.
Editor’s Note: Jim Cullen holds masters and PhD degrees in American Studies from Brown and the author of over a dozen books.
On what they still called their “home screens,” Americans got to watch the future.
The Beatles’ appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in February 1964 remains one of the most watched television events in history. Those who saw it remember it almost as clearly as they remember the near-continuous coverage of the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath the previous November.
The creator of the immensely popular new Western discusses what makes it truly new.
Beyond the myth of ever-faster high-tech change and radical new breaks from the past ...
“We have reached the epoch of the nanosecond.
In the Navy, we found parts to make a color television in 1946. Anything to watch the heavyweight championship.
In 1946, I was in the U.S. Navy, stationed at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
The video game turns 25 this year, and it has packed a whole lot of history in that time.
What you don’t remember about the day JFK was shot
It was a series of sounds and images that had monumental impact and will always remain in the minds of those who watched: the bloodstained suit, the child saluting the coffin, the funeral procession to the muffled drums, the riderless horse.
The imperium of modern television advertising was born in desperate improvisation.
What is the connection between India and the Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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