Photo Essays

LIFE and Civil Rights: Anatomy of a Protest, Virginia, 1960
Very few non-violent civil disobedience tactics of the late 1950s and early 1960s were as brilliantly simple in conception and as effective in execution as the...

Gateway to a New World: Rare Photos From Ellis Island
For a country constantly patting itself on the back and touting its unique status as a “nation of immigrants,” the United States has an awfully hard time...

Hope, Change and Struggle: An Artist's View of the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Artist Nicola Green, the wife of the black British politician David Lammy, was given special access to Barack Obama's campaign. Her distillation of the...


