Time.com Photo Essays

Vintage Vegas: Scenes From a Desert Boomtown
Of all the major destination towns in the U.S., Las Vegas might be the most perfectly, unashamedly transparent. No other city in North America, after all — and...

LIFE and Civil Rights: Segregation in 1956 South Carolina
In late 1956, over the course of several months, LIFE published what the magazine itself described as “a series of major articles on the background of the crisis...




















