Photo Essays
LIFE With Horace the Housebroken Hare
Carl Mydans belongs on anyone’s short list of the 20th century’s finest photojournalists. The Boston native chronicled downtrodden migrant farmers in New England...
LIFE at the Vatican: Digging Through History Beneath St. Peter’s
The walled, pint-sized city-state known as the Vatican physically takes up around 100 acres in the center of Rome, but occupies a vast, measureless space in the...
A Brutal Pageantry: The Third Reich’s Myth-Making Machinery, in Color
A powerful insignia alone, Adolf Hitler once noted, “can spark interest in a political movement.” What Hitler did not say, but what is evident to anyone with...
LIFE in the Korean War: Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan
Few people have lived as long, as varied and as complete a life as David Douglas Duncan. And certainly no photographers ever enjoyed a longer, more varied or...
The Queen's Historic Visit to Ireland
There was a bomb scare before her trip even began, but Queen Elizabeth II's four-day visit was marked by symbolic events and protests
LIFE With 11 First Ladies
For a country that likes to think of itself as a land of opportunity and a place where equality reigns, America has long lagged behind an astonishing (one could...
The British Army Withdraws from Ulster
The British army's operation in Northern Ireland has come to an end after 38 years — the Army's longest ever continuous campaign, with more than 300,000...
New Hope for Belfast
It's 10 years after the Good Friday Agreement, when the political factions of Northern Ireland agreed to use "exclusively peaceful and democratic means", to end...
