The 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is a week from tomorrow, and for the next few days I'll be featuring posts ...

O ne of the things I've noticed in looking through TV Guides of the 1960s is that there used to be a lot of travel shows on TV.  In oth...

L ast week we dabbled in food , sharing a TV Guide recipe for minestrone. This week we go even farther, as Richard Gehman tells us how ...

R ecently I got a very nice email from Marc Ryan, in the course of which he mentioned his e-book Three Shots Were Fired , a look at the co...

O ne of my goals with this blog has been to use the television lens to trace changes in American culture, and one of the most significant, ...