Fears of higher prices and slower economic growth have unsettled markets over the past week following a spike in the oil price. Investors fear the specter of stagflation and what it could mean for ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Although gasoline was cheap and abundant in the United States after World War II, the country had major wake-up calls in the 1970s when two major crises would suddenly reveal how ...

Clyde A. Coppage, 35, had never been reported missing when his body was discovered along a road in Andover, N.Y., police said Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE since ...

From crispy pancakes to frozen oven chips, the 1970s were a time when there were exciting new food products launched all the time, thanks in part to rising numbers of people owning their own freezer ...

When you think of the 1970s, what comes to mind first and foremost? That’s right, rock music! When you think of the decade, from a musical perspective at least, you likely think of big-haired rock ...

New York State Police have identified human remains discovered more than five decades ago, bringing closure to one of Upstate New York’s longest-running unidentified persons cases. The body of Clyde A ...

The 1970s were horrible years for the American automotive industry. A gas crisis hit, just as it was transitioning from fantastic beasts like the Plymouth Road Runners, Ford Mustangs, and Pontiac GTOs ...

On October 6 1973, the Yom Kippur War – mainly involving Egypt, Syria and Israel –triggered one of the biggest energy crises of the 20th century. Eleven days later, several Arab members of the ...

Governments have stockpiled oil, and cars are more efficient but the supply shock is global, and there’s no sense of when it’ll end. By Emmett Lindner In October 1973, oil-producing countries in the ...

Before forensic labs, digital tracking, and streaming mega-franchises like CSI or True Detective, television’s sleuths solved crimes with sharp instincts, trench coats, and charm. The 1970s and ’80s ...

Stagflation—it’s a term that strikes fear into the hearts of those who lived through the 1970s.