Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights. These are just three of the over seventy features released in 1939, commonly cited as "the greatest year in the history of Hollywood." Almost ...

Dodge unveiled a new family of commercial trucks beginning in the 1939 model year. Popularly referred to as the Dodge "Job-Rated" trucks, the lineup was internally known as the T Series in 1939, the V ...

A chill of remembrance has come over me during this August month. It feels as if the 2017 summer breeze is being scattered by the winds of war blowing from across our world towards Britain, just like ...

And it's not hard to see why — it's the year that gave us The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Women, Stagecoach, Dark Victory, and so many more. Just one of those ...

The 1939 World’s Fair sat on the precipice of disaster. Sandwiched between the Great Depression and the U.S. entry into World War II, the timing was audacious — but the attractions were delightful.

We do not usually give so much space to the work of men we admire so little. So began a remarkable editor’s note to LIFE’s readers in an April 1970 issue of the magazine, introducing a photographer ...

The Oldsmobile emblems on the center caps don't care how fast the wheels are turning. Since they ride on floater bearings they always point right-side upstanding still or moving down the highway. It's ...

On the year’s shortest day, 60 years ago, in Gori, near Tiflis, a son was born to a poor, hard-working Georgian cobbler named Vissarion Djugashvili. The boy’s pious mother christened him Joseph, after ...