are among the many factors making the American Dream increasingly out of reach for the middle class. GOBankingRates asked financial experts how to reclaim the middle-class dreams of the 1950s.

A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United ...

Throughout U.S. history, the American Dream has meant the ability to build ... That need inspired the prosperity of the 1940s and 1950s and allowed the next generation to aspire to goals beyond ...

The 1950s promised an easier existence for Americans ... Fifties society did not offer the American Dream -- a secure job, a car, a home of one's own and a lifestyle with room for leisure ...

Ford Library But all was not well for African Americans in the 1950s. Millions had returned home from World War II to find themselves excluded from the American dream. In an age of rising ...