Photo Essays
World War II in Color: American Bombers and Their Crews, 1942
Within weeks of the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s official entry into the Second World War, Allied forces in Europe activated the...
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...
The Child Tobacco Farmers of Kazakhstan
A new Human Rights Watch report shows that young workers have been exposed to high levels of nicotine, as child labor helps harvest from farms that supply a...
A Profile of Cigarette Warnings Around the World
As the U.S. changes its tobacco warning label for the first time in 25 years, TIME presents a selection of cautionary labels from around the globe
Your Doctor Wants You to Smoke
Vintage propaganda is always fun, but old cigarette ads may be the most cringeworthy. The New York Public Library just opened "Not a Cough in the Car," an...
GOP Women Party Hard, 1941
“On the evening of May 20,” begins an article in the June 16, 1941, issue of LIFE magazine, “members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Conn.,...
