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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 creator of the immensely popular new Western discusses what makes it truly new.

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 twenty-five this year, and it has packed a whole lot of history into a mere quarter-century

 

THE IMPERIUM OF modern television advertising was born in desperate improvisation

It was 1945, and everybody needed everything. If you knew how to build a car, a house, or a washing machine, you could sell it faster than you could make it.

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.

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