Photo Essays
LIFE and Civil Rights: Segregation in 1956 South Carolina
In late 1956, over the course of several months, LIFE published what the magazine itself described as “a series of major articles on the background of the crisis...
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...
LIFE With the Astrochimps: Early Stars of the Space Race
On the morning of January 31, 1961, in south Florida, a 5-year-old chimpanzee — dubbed “Ham” by his handlers — ate a breakfast of baby cereal, condensed milk,...
Behind the Scenes with Obama
TIME photographer Callie Shell trails the candidate through the final hours of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries
Marilyn: The LIFE Covers, 1952-1962
While the legend of Marilyn Monroe will always be closely associated with LIFE — her first cover shoot for the magazine, in April 1952, made by the great...
