Fifty years ago, the George Lucas film “American Graffiti,” an homage to his high school days of cruising hot rods and ’50s rock music, revved up the age of nostalgia. People had already been pining ...

Think back to a fond time and place in your childhood — perhaps a stroll with a parent along a waved-washed beach. The memory is a happy (and likely idealized) one, but still tinged with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We are/ DigitalVision via Getty Images There's just something about the good old days that tugs at our heartstrings. Whether ...

The trick to long-lasting friendships, it turns out, may be nostalgia. According to a new study in Cognition and Emotion, people who think more about the past tend to have more friends, and it may be ...

Not long after Ronald Reagan first became president, the poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron recorded a single called “‘B’ Movie” that attributed the Gipper’s appeal to various factors, but most of all ...

Nostalgia seems harmless enough, and then someone starts earnestly — absurdly — glamorizing the Stone Age. “Damn can you imagine being a human during the paleolithic age,” tweeted a self-described ...

When you look around and realize how dangerous, complicated, and exhausting the world has gotten, you can’t help but yearn for the good old days. Life seemed much simpler and far less messy in the ...

Nostalgia is a powerful political tool. Wielding nostalgia for a bygone era — one that is invariably mischaracterized — is a favorite weapon for fascist movements (Make America Great Again), harking ...

As Concord’s preeminent sign maker, he’s worked with countless businesses to create iconic imagery that’s hung outside of shops for decades. But with rebranding, business transactions and exposure to ...

When you look around and realize how dangerous, complicated, and exhausting the world has gotten, you can’t help but yearn for the good old days. Life seemed much simpler and far less messy in the ...