Photo Essays
Hawaii on the Verge of Statehood: Photos, 1959
The image and legend of Hawaii as a tropical paradise endures for countless reasons. Few places on earth can boast more dramatic or romantic landscapes; the...
The Day Einstein Died: A Photographer’s Story
Albert Einstein, whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the universe works, died on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and...
Let Fury Have the Hour: Early Days in the Fight for Gay Rights
In late 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked the modern gay rights movement in America, and twelve months before LIFE ceased publishing...
Miss America 1945: Rare Photos From the Old-School Jersey Shore
Long before the phrase “Jersey shore” conjured images of heavily made-up young women engaging in booze-fueled casual sex with “gorilla juiceheads” — as Snooki...
Sober St. Patrick’s Day: Photos of a New Way to Celebrate
It all began in 2011 when William Reilly, an Irish-American television producer, attended the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City. As he looked out onto...
The Solemn Scene Outside Houston's Funeral
Fans gather in Newark, N.J., to pay tribute to the late pop singer as she is laid to rest
Einstein’s Office: Genius in the Details
The death of a public figure of Albert Einstein’s stature is the sort of event that, literally and figuratively, stops the presses. No scientist has been more...
Return of the King: When Elvis Left the Army
It’s intriguing, and more than a little amusing, to imagine contemporary American music stars serving in the military. How would Kanye West fare in the Air...
Born to Run: The Life and Times of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
TIME takes a photographic look at the formative years of the Garden State’s larger-than-life governor
Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll
In June 1969, LIFE magazine published a feature that today, incredibly, remains as moving and, in some quarters, as controversial as it was when it sparked...
Menlo Park: The World's First R&D Lab
A small village in New Jersey was the setting for some of Edison's greatest inventions
Alaska: In Praise of Big Country
Like other remote, “exotic” lands, the vast expanse of mountains, forests, tundra, wild streams and endless, rugged shoreline known as Alaska has long fired the...
Cory Booker - Mayor of Newark
The political phenom is trying to give New Jersey's most populous city a shot at redemption Photographs for TIME by Michael Christopher Brown
