American Decades
Charles Schulz's Peanuts
Peanuts
Cartoon
By: Charles M. Schulz
Date: November 16, 1952
Source: Schulz, Charles M. Peanuts comic strip. Syndicated by United Features. November 16, 1952. Reprinted in Charles M. Schulz. Peanuts Revisited: Favorites Old and New. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1955.
About the Artist: Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and attended art school there. His comic strip Li'l Folks first appeared in The St. Paul Pioneer Press in the late 1940s and was later picked up by the United Features Syndicate in 1950 and renamed Peanuts. Shultz wrote and and drew Peanuts for fifty years, and it became the most well-loved comic strip in history. Schulz also developed a musical, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," and numerous books and animated TV specials based on his comic strip...
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1950's Media Primary Sources
- Charles Schulz's Peanuts
- "New York: Nightmare"
- Celebrity Deaths in the 1950s
- News is a Singular Thing
- Alan Freed Popularizes Rock 'n' Roll
- "What Killed Collier's?"
- "Common Sense and Sputnik"
- Leave It to Beaver
- The Huntley-Brinkley Report
- Communists in the Media
- "Ed Sullivan—Ten Years of TV"
- Dick Clark's American Bandstand
- Charles Van Doren and the Quiz Show Scandal
- Love, Alice: My Life As a Honeymooner
- "The Politics of Race: An Interview with Harry Ashmore"
- Love, Lucy
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
