American Decades
Leave It to Beaver
"A Gift From the Children"
Newspaper article
By: The New York Times
Date: December 8, 1957
Source: Golbout, Oscar. "A Gift From the Children." The New York Times, December 8, 1957, sec. 2, 14.
"Busy 'Beaver' and His Brother"
Newspaper article
By: The New York Times
Date: October 30, 1960
Source: Shepard, Richard F. "Busy 'Beaver' and His Brother." The New York Times, October 30, 1960, sec. 2, 15.
About the Publication: Founded in 1850 as The Daily Times, The New York Times was originally a relatively obscure local paper. By the early part of the twentieth century, it had grown into a widely known, well-respected news source, and has remained such since.
Introduction
Newspapers were the main form of media in the United States during the nineteenth century....
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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
