A new word was entering America’s vocabulary 90 years ago: teenagers. True, adolescents had been around since the dawn of time. But surprisingly, they weren’t called “teenagers” until the 1930s, when researchers first noticed the demographic was emerging as a source of spending power. Tinseltown pounced on the prospect, targeting its movies — and the […]
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Holy Cow! History is written by former TV journalist and diehard history buff J. Mark Powell. His upcoming book "WITNESS TO WAR: The Story of the Civil War Told By Those Living Through It" is available for preorder online. Have a historic mystery that needs solving? A forgotten moment worth remembering? Please send it to HolyCow@insidesources.com
