Country singer Stonewall Jackson was a Navy veteran who spent five weeks at #1 on the Billboard country music charts in 1959 with "Waterloo." The song crossed over to the pop charts and hit #4 on the ...

If you were to compare the popular music today to that of 1959, it might feel like you were not only going back in time but that you’d stepped foot on another planet. Indeed, forget comparing it to ...

This week in 1959: The Labor Reform Act passed the U.S. Congress, restricting the power of unions to curb racketeering; Civil Rights Commission asked President Dwight Eisenhower for registrars to ...