This content is sponsored by Jiffy Lube. The history of bumper stickers actually starts before cars. Horse-drawn carriages had painted fly nets. Early cars had paper window decals. But everything ...

Campaign bumper stickers are part of a hallowed (if sometimes raucous) tradition, as Martha Teichner now tells us: It’s been said that Americans consider their cars extensions of their personalities, ...

Answer: According to Whitney Baker of the University of Kansas libraries and an expert, some of the earliest bumper stickers were produced during the 1940s, but it was the following decade that saw a ...

A STICKY HISTORY: Consider the bumper sticker, that easy-to-apply accessory that gives others a glimpse into the vehicle owner's personality, tastes, hobbies, political affiliation or sense of humor.

You've seen these types of cars driving around everywhere – the low-riding cruisers, the lit-up rides and all the rest – but the real question is whether or not you know where they came from. Or, when ...

Q Hey Gary, this is weird and I’m curious what you and your readers think. I commute on Interstate 280 to East San Jose where I am a public school U.S. History & Government teacher in my 27th teaching ...

There is something quintessentially American about political bumper stickers. They are blunt, dogmatic, occasionally witty and always provocative. If that’s not an apt description of the zeitgeist, I ...

Noam Chomsky has been a very important figure in my political development. As a teenager just being acquainted with Anarchism he supplied an influential public voice that identified with the Anarchist ...