The Miss America Pageant and its sponsor, the Miss America Organization, has evolved from a beach-side showcase for frolicking bathing beauties to a competition that still includes bathing suits ...

Bay City’s Jenae Lodewyk, the current Miss Michigan, competed in the Miss America contest last weekend, and did not make it as a semifinalist. “It’s definitely a fast-paced week ...

The popularity of the Miss America pageant led to a variety of beauty contests — many during the 1950s, a golden age for pageants. Some events were more important, politically and socially ...

The Miss America pageant has never been a progressive event, but in 1968, it sparked a feminist revolution. As women organized the first protest against Miss America, they were responding not only ...

The venerable Miss America contest is up against it when young women in bikinis are ready to eat bugs and grubs for fame and TV ratings. Things have gotten so glum that as of this writing ...

The Miss Teen Volunteer America pageant returned to the Carl Perkins Civic Center on Thursday evening, where 51 young women are competing for the coveted crown. The preliminary night kicked off ...

According to PBS, pageants started as a "contest of physique" at festivals and photographic competitions. Since the first Miss America pageant in 1921, those early iterations have transformed into ...

Next week, women from all over the Last Frontier will be competing for the titles of Miss and Mrs. Alaska for America.But before the crowning, you can vote for your ...