A controversial author of her times whose work was largely ignored at the time of publication, Anais Nin gained wide spread acceptance and acclaim in the 1960s when she garnered acceptance as one of the most prolific female writers who had dared to dabble in the elusive genre of female eroticism. Nin's work primarily included her diaries that bespeak of a woman's journey of self discovery through the various stages of her life. She penned down her experiences of over 30 years, from 1931 to 1974 in her memoirs which today serve as an inspiration for women across the...

Fashion has a way of coming full circle. As this Fall's Fashion Week in New York City showed, fashions this year are harking back to decades gone by. Now, it's hot to be seen in a prim and proper 1950s housewife dress, thanks to the popularity of AMC's Mad Men, and it seems that short vintage style dresses and across-the-body handbags inspired by the 1960s are what every hipster is sporting right now.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was a t.v. show in the 1960s of the American fiction genre. The show was based off of the 1961 movie starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Fontaine. Irwin Allen created the television show, as well as wrote and directed the film, a fact that made it possible to use the movie's costumes, sets, special effects models, props, and even footage in the television series' production...

When I look back at my love of reading it can be traced to my grandparents in the early 1960s and my grandmomma's love of books. Do you remember the bookmobile and the summer reading programs? Let's go back and relive a part of our 60s childhood.

Growing up in a small rural eastern North Carolina town was fun and exciting. It offered some of the best life had to offer and some of the worst. Up to the late 1960s segregation was a way of life. Here are a few memories of the segregated south and the transition to integration.