Photo Essays
‘Take off the Silk, Put on the Khaki’: America’s First Women Soldiers, 1942
In light of recent reports of rampant sexual violence against women in America’s armed forces — with an estimated 26,000 cases of unwanted sexual contact last...
The Brink of Oblivion: Inside Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1940
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a German photographer and ardent Nazi named Hugo Jaeger enjoyed unprecedented access to the Third Reich’s upper echelon,...
Car Bomb Discovered in Times Square
A 'smoking' SUV loaded with propane, gasoline and fireworks is discovered in New York City's most famous tourist destination
LIFE Rides With the Hells Angels, 1965
From Jesse James and Butch Cassidy to Scarface and Tony Soprano, outlaws have always held a singularly ambiguous place in America’s popular imagination: we fear...
New Hybrid Cars for 2011
Facing stiffer fuel-economy requirements and finicky consumers, carmakers roll out a wave of new models that combine the advantages of electric and gasoline...
‘I’m Gonna Live by the Gun and Roam’: Portrait of a Spree Killer, 1951
The story of the American mass murderer Billy “Cockeyed” Cook — who killed six people, including an entire family of five, during a terrifying three-week spree...
Bikes Of May
As temperatures — and gas prices — continue to rise, more commuters are hopping onto bicycles, especially in the U.S., where May is celebrated as National Bike...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Photos From the Ruins
NOTE: This story and some of the images in the gallery originally appeared, in substantially different form, on an earlier incarnation of LIFE.com. One scene...
LIFE at the 1948 London Olympics
As the 2012 London Olympics get underway, LIFE.com looks back in photos — many of which never ran in LIFE magazine — at another summer Olympiad in the great...
