1940s baby names are a throwback to another — dare we say more adorable — time in baby naming. Think Willie and Wayne for baby boys and Betty and Bonnie for baby girls. The tragedies and triumphs of ...

If you're getting ready to welcome a baby, congratulations! One of the more daunting tasks you may have on your plate is choosing a name for your new arrival. Narrowing it down from the wide world of ...

The 1940s are considered to be a prime decade for classic films and a pivotal period for the Golden Age of Hollywood. The decade delivered signature classics, such as Citizen Kane, Casablanca, and The ...

If the 1940s could be characterized by one world event, it would be World War II — and the period of postwar changes that followed it. That includes what's been called a Baby Boom, which means that ...

At the dawn of the 1940s, much of the world was already at war. Less than two years later, the United States would be drawn into the conflict. But by the end of the decade, the U.S. was again at peace ...

The phrase "out with the old and in with the new" certainly doesn't apply to these women who have swapped their modern wardrobe for 1940s fashion. Jamie Seibert, 46, and Gwendolyn Erin Patterson, 25, ...

The history of heating in the 1940s might be divided into two parts. The innovations of the decades before ground to a halt for the most part during the first half of the decade because of World War ...

Somehow, the 1940s are almost a century away. The decade, which saw the world go to war for a second time and the fall of the German Nazis, was also an exhilarating time for music. In some ways, it ...

Evoking the golden age of brewing when beer sales boomed after Prohibition was repealed and Brooklyn-brewed Rheingold was a top-seller is 1940s Brewing Company in Holbrook, which is expanding to meet ...

At the dawn of the 1940s, much of the world was already at war. Less than two years later, the United States would be drawn into the conflict. But by the end of the decade, the U.S. was again at peace ...