Miss America 1970, Pamela Eldred-Robbins, has died. The pageant queen, who competed for the national title as a 21-year-old Miss Michigan, was crowned in September 1969 at Atlantic City‘s Jim ...

A look back at memorable moments from the Miss America pageant.

Women have come a long way since the first Miss America competition was held nearly a century ago.

Katherine Baumann, 1970 Miss America Pageant runner up came back to her hometown during the recent Independence Home Days celebration. She brought her crown and gown and some of her new creations ...

Miss America tracks the contest from its inception in 1921 as an exuberant local seaside pageant to its heyday as one of the most popular and anticipated events in the country's cultural calendar ...

Yolande Betbeze, Miss America, 1951. A vocal critic of the pageant’s white-bread homogeneity, she advised Philip Roth on his portrayal of an ex-Miss New Jersey in “American Pastoral ...