Photo Essays
Springtime in the Midwest Means a Foot of Snow
Though the calendar has ticked over into May, more than six weeks removed from the end of winter, in some parts of the Midwest and Rockies the shovels haven’t...
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...
‘I’m Gonna Live by the Gun and Roam’: Portrait of a Spree Killer, 1951
The story of the American mass murderer Billy “Cockeyed” Cook — who killed six people, including an entire family of five, during a terrifying three-week spree...
The Oklahoma City Bombing: A Look Back
Fifteen years ago, on April 19, 168 people were killed when a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
‘Game of the Century’: Notre Dame vs. Michigan State, 1966
One of the most storied programs in college football history, Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish have won 11 national titles over the past nine decades — four of them...
True Grit: Dust Bowl Survivors
For some, the phrase “Dust Bowl” conjures a place: the Great Plains, but a Great Plains of abandoned homes, ruined lives, dead and dying crops and sand, sand,...
Woody Guthrie: Photos of an American Treasure
On Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday, LIFE.com presents photos of the Oklahoma native's musical rambles through wartime New York City in 1943.
In Memoriam
Just days before the scheduled execution of Timothy McVeigh, photographer David Leeson visits the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial for TIME.com
