In honor of the new year, take a look at how life has changed in 50 years. From 1974 to 2024, here are some ways that America is different — from movies, songs, gas prices and more.

Forty-eight years later, Democrat Barack Obama is elected the first African-American president of the United States of America. Where America Stood, 50 Years Ago Eyewitness: Remember 1960.

The apocalypse of 1969: 50 years ago, modern America was born In a single year, we saw the peaks and valleys of an entire decade—the death of the old and the birth of the new ...

Despite the legitimate anger and frustration of the electorate, life in America is much better today than 50 years ago in the 1960s. Was life better in the '60s? Not if you were a draft-age male… ...

Wetzel invented America’s very first ATM, which debuted 50 years ago on Sept. 2, 1969, at the former Chemical Bank (now a Chase location) in Rockville Center, Long Island.

The Immigration Act, also known as the Hart-Celler Act, was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson 50 years ago on Oct. 3 and took full effect three years later. It ended a long-standing quota ...

Book Party 50 years ago, a presidential commission called out America’s ‘white racism.’ It didn’t go over well. Three books look back on the landmark Kerner Report: "Separate and Unequal ...

"“America had no better than you,” Al Dewlen wrote. “And you were ours.” Delfino Santistevan knows that much. He saw it from beyond a Howitzer on a hill near Khe Sanh 50 years ago.