Betty Friedan

The girl sleuth, now the star of a TV show, has been eased into the canon. In the process, she’s shed the politics that motivated her creation.

Annie Berke reviews Elana Levine's book on a pivotal genre and its diverse fandom.

In ‘The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,’ Louis Menand explores the poetry, music, painting, dance and film that emerged during the Cold War.

The cultural contradictions of Call of Duty.

On Cold War men's adventure magazines and the antifeminist tradition in American popular culture.

Before presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, before Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, there was Congresswoman and firebrand Bella Abzug.

A history of how Peoria became a stand-in for the country surrounding it.

From today's vantage, the remarkable achievements of the writer and social justice activist are finally coming into focus.

The elusive meaning of privacy in America.

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.

On the 50th anniversary of that extraordinary year, historians consider 1968’s meaning and global context.

A review of "Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics."

For decades, only female names were used.

Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.

Why midcentury Americans believed the suburbs were making them sick.