The 1980s in America were a time of big movies, big tunes and equally big hair. The election of President Ronald Reagan brought renewed optimism but also huge challenges as he confronted the ...

Jimmy Carter’s insistence on putting principle over politics may have doomed him to the ranks of one-term presidents in the U ...

It was Carter who called for that boycott — a Cold War power play intended to express America’s disdain for the Soviet ...

The early and mid-1980s were a time when prison populations ... provide a vivid look into an experience that has become all too common in America. "Americans very much ignore prisons and prison ...

The photos are a stark contrast to the photos we see today of empty and dying shopping malls in middle America. As an emerging photographer in the 1980s, Stephen DiRado began exploring malls in ...