St. John’s University’s history professor Susan Schmidt Horning hosted media expert Mary Celeste Kearney of the University of Notre Dame for a lecture titled “Designing the Junior Miss: Some Short ...

Does anyone remember Chris Marrou's "Eyewitness Newsreel"? Here's one from a 1978 newscast. Donald Trump gives update on "Arc de Trump" Ten years before Rob and Michele Reiner were killed in their ...

On Nov. 7, 1940 — 85 years ago Friday — the Tacoma Narrows Bridge twisted and danced in a 40 mph windstorm and then collapsed. The failure of a bridge only four months old was a spectacular lesson for ...

Marred by the harsh realities of war, 1940 was a year filled with turmoil and uncertainty. With WWII now looming over much of the world, men in America braced for the possibility of being shipped off ...

A 30-minute montage of century-old newsreels stands as one of the more emotional film experiences I’ve had this year. Photo: Imperial War Museums, London “When we talk of this as a place of ...

OSWEGO — The Oswego County Historical Society is proudly celebrating the 75th anniversary of the historic landmark Oswego Theatre, which opened it doors in January of 1941. The Oswego County ...

The author of “Marseille 1940” suggests by his title that we focus on a specific place and time. The events that unfold in his book occur mainly from May to July 1940 in Marseille, the second-most ...

Emerson's Patriot Radio, model FC-400, made in 1940 Philadelphia Museum of Art In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on.

Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart in a scene from the movie: "The Philadelphia Story." By the 1940s, Hollywood was solidly in its Golden Age. And the 1940s weren’t just a boon for ...