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 ...

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 ...

While many couples from the 1970s are long since separated today, considering marriage was an expectation (or rather, an “obligation” for everyone), if you got married in the 1970s, your relationship ...

When most people think of early video games, they likely picture the 1980s, when plenty of popular games were released. Still, games got their start in 1958, and between then and 1979, plenty of ...

There are many ways to earn extra income by tapping into collector markets, and coin enthusiasts are known to shell out big bucks for rare pieces, some of which you may even have lying around in your ...

How hard-boiled language lessons from Adrienne, the motorcycle-riding author of a series of 1970s language books, turned a homebody into an explorer. By Mary Bergman “The whole world comes to ...

The 1970s were anything but boring. The decade brought growth to the Circle City with several major infrastructure projects, suburban expansion and significant changes to the downtown landscape. But ...

It’s always fun to take a look back at the pop charts from different years in the past to see what was happening. You likely wouldn’t be too surprised to see that certain songs hit the top of the ...

There's a reason why Gen Xers, the kids who largely grew up in the 1970s, are coined the "latchkey" generation, they were parentified and expected to navigate life largely on their own. With both ...

In our ongoing series showing everyday life through the decades, we’ve already looked back at the vibrant, rich color photos of the 1950s and 1960s — often remembered through the eye-popping glow of ...