Advertisements can tell us a lot about an era. The 1950s were a golden age in advertising, and incorporated catchy slogans, long paragraphs of copy, and idealized representations of an American ...

The 1950s could be called the advertiser's dream decade. World War II was over. The postwar economy had rebounded. Prosperity seemed like a sure thing. Americans were ready to buy homes, cars, clothes ...

WHAT: Smithsonian Channel’s The Real Mad Men of Advertising, a four-part documentary series premiering on January 8 at 9 p.m. EST. WHY WE CARE: This documentary series provides an illuminating tour ...

In the mid-1950s, Chevrolet began to market its cars using a word that it, as far as we know, came up with all by itself: motoramic. According to Chevrolet, motoramic meant "more than a new car, a new ...