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...
Were You, or Was Someone You Know, at the 1963 March on Washington?
Were you, or was someone you know, at the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963? If you have any photos or stories from the event that...
LIFE Behind the Picture: Larry Burrows’ ‘Reaching Out,’ 1966
In October 1966, on a mud-splattered hill just south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Vietnam, LIFE magazine’s Larry Burrows made a photograph that, for...
Hard Knocks, High Kicks: LIFE With the Rockettes, 1964
In America, holiday traditions vary from family to family, town to town, state to state and region to region. When it comes to Christmas, in particular, the...
Bitter Harvest: LIFE With America’s Migrant Workers, 1959
America has transformed its economic landscape (and has seen that landscape transformed by outside forces) so thoroughly in the past half-century that, to a...
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...
Women of Steel: LIFE With Female Factory Workers in World War II
The character of “Rosie the Riveter” — as feminist symbol, World War II icon and mid-century heroine — is so ingrained in the American psyche that it’s sometimes...
Austin's Way: New Jobs for a New Economy
Companies in Austin are on the hunt for talented workers to help them build their businesses Photographs by Jeff Wilson for TIME
De Beers' Hidden Gem, Botswana
The famous diamond empire improves its business and brings jobs to Africa
LIFE Behind the Picture: Skull on a Tank, Guadalcanal, 1942
In February 1943, LIFE magazine published a series of photographs from Guadalcanal — the largest of the Solomon Islands and the site of the Allies’ first,...
After Pearl Harbor: LIFE in the Pacific and on the Homefront
President Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7, 1941 — when Japan launched more than 350 fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes against the U.S. naval base at...
LIFE in Appalachia: Photos From a ‘Valley of Poverty,’ 1964
The staggering range and sheer excellence of John Dominis’ pictures — his Korean War coverage; his portraits of pop-culture icons like Sinatra, Redford and...
The March on Washington, August 1963: Power to the People
So many scenes from the August 28, 1963, March on Washington are now familiar to so many of us — and the cadence of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”...
LIFE With Charles and Ray Eames: The Simple Art of Beauty
Some things designed and built by our fellow humans are so much a part of our visual landscape that, even if they haven’t been around forever, it takes an effort...
Detroit Is Burning: Photos From the 1967 Riots
Forty-five years ago, during the long, hot summer of 1967, the city of Detroit erupted in one of the deadliest and costliest riots in the history of the United...
