Photo Essays

Dogs Rescued from Oklahoma Tornado Find Shelter in Boca Raton
Volunteers brought 65 dogs and 15 cats from the disaster zone in Oklahoma City to a Florida shelter on Wednesday. The animals will receive veterinary care before...

The War Within: Training Survivalists in North Florida
Americans have been exercising their “right to keep and bear arms” — pistols, shotguns, rifles and other firearms — since before the Second Amendment was...

LIFE With the Astrochimps: Early Stars of the Space Race
On the morning of January 31, 1961, in south Florida, a 5-year-old chimpanzee — dubbed “Ham” by his handlers — ate a breakfast of baby cereal, condensed milk,...

LIFE With Dem Bums: Spring Training at Dodgertown, 1948
With the exception of that team from the Bronx and, perhaps, the Red Sox, no baseball franchise in history is as storied as the Dodgers — especially the...

LIFE Behind the Picture: Marines Blasting a Cave, Iwo Jima, 1945
In April 1945, LIFE magazine published one of the most memorable cover images of its four-decade run as a major photographic weekly. The picture, made in March...

Marco Rubio, Republican Savior
TIME’s photo editors take you to freshman Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s most memorable moments. Rubio is the subject of TIME’s cover story this week, “The...

Remnants of Florida's 2000 Recount
Many of the items relating to the controversial election between George W. Bush and Al Gore have been preserved at the State Archives and the Old Capitol Museum...

Gunning for White-Winged Doves, 1961
For millions of Americans, fall means one thing: hunting season. Sure, there are school openings and pumpkins to be carved and, for much of the nation,...

Joe Kittinger: The Man Who Fell to Earth
On August 16, 1960, 32-year-old U.S. Air Force Capt. Joe Kittinger ascended in a helium-balloon-tethered gondola to 102,800 feet (roughly 19 miles) above the...

LIFE’s Best Convention Photos: The Democrats
[NOTE: With a few small but critical differences, this introduction resembles that written for another, very similar gallery on LIFE.com — namely, "LIFE's Best...

Tough Mudder Love: Inside the Demanding Yet Rewarding Obstacle Course
In this week’s issue of TIME, we explore the cult of Tough Mudder, the obstacle-course racing event held across the country. Tough Mudder was launched in 2010...

John 3:16 in Pop Culture
Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow wears the famous verse on his eye black during the 2009 NCAA championship game, tapping into a long history of Biblical...


