January 11 Surgeon General Luther L. Terry
releases his report on cigarette smoking.
January 16 Hello, Dolly! opens at the St. James Theater in New York City. Read more >>
Viewing a transformation that still affects all of us—through the prism of a single year
It has been called the “burned-over decade,” a “dream and a nightmare,” the “definitive end of the Dark Ages, and the beginning of a more hopeful and democratic period” in American history. Read more >>