If youth is wasted on the young (and it is!), it's also a constant source of desire and anxiety in American society. Here's a quick tour of a century's worth of mesmerizing, terrifying, ...

Fashion is a constantly shifting landscape, but some trends veer so far into the bizarre, the wild, and the downright strange ...

Carefree, reckless, flappers seemed to enjoy living on the edge, like these atop Chicago’s Sherman Hotel. George Rinhart / Corbis via Getty Images She was the sexy ingénue, spending evenings in jazz ...

BREA — She remembers World War I and the Great Depression, flappers and when swing music was new. She has been a cook, a baker, a restaurant owner, a fashion model and a homemaker. Fern Smith, 99, ...

If you are a bedtime reader, you may, like me, be questing for the perfect bedside book. Here are my requirements: It must be easily divisible into 15- to 20-minute chunks; it must be interesting but ...