The 1968 Oldsmobile 442 marked the moment when Oldsmobile stopped flirting with performance and fully embraced brute-force ...

Fifty years ago Friday, on Dec. 21, 1968, Apollo 8 lifted off, marking the first time humans left low Earth orbit and flew to the moon. This was the second manned spaceflight of the Apollo program, ...

The cultural shifts of 1967 resonated straight into the next decade, but no year felt them more than 1968. It was a pivotal 12 months for rock 'n' roll, a period that rivaled 1967 as one of popular ...

January 2, 2019 • Last year, NPR went back 50 years to look at the tremendous political and social events that changed our world forever. We found many of those stories resonate with challenges we ...

Almost fifty years ago, on March 31, 1968, Lyndon Johnson stunned everyone by announcing that he would not run for a second term as President. Johnson had gone on television at nine o’clock that ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Democratic National Committee announced Tuesday that Chicago will be the host for the 2024 Democratic National Convention. The 2024 convention will mark 28 years since Chicago ...

Two political issues that recurred during Robert Kennedy's life — the fight against Communism, and the struggle for racial equality — exploded in 1968. A growing number of Americans despaired over ...

The most traumatic year in modern American history was 1968. But what is now the second-most traumatic year, 2020, still has seven months to run. The comparison provides little comfort, and several ...

The art of the singer-songwriter will never die, and these three songs from 1968 will continue to inspire artists for decades to come.

With the 2016 national party conventions underway, with fear of unrest rattling politicians on both sides of the aisle, one refrain has come up again and again: things may be bad this year, but let’s ...

The 1968 presidential campaign was so traumatic that a mere timeline can’t come close to recapturing the feel of it. The drama unfolded in several acts of staggering succession: The Tet Offensive, a ...