Time.com Photo Essays

Strangers to Reason: LIFE Inside a Psychiatric Hospital, 1938
For all of the lighthearted and often downright frivolous material that appeared in LIFE through the years — and there was, thank goodness, a lot of...

Marian Anderson and the Concert That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
“A voice like yours is heard only once in a hundred years.” — Arturo Toscanini to the American contralto Marian Anderson Born in Philadelphia in 1897, Marian...


















