The cultural influences from music, movies, theater, and design that have helped shaped the world we live in today.

Carter became such a fixture in public life, it was hard to believe he’d burst onto the national scene seemingly out of nowhere in 1976 to wrest the presidency from Gerald Ford. A …

Explore 1947 within the LIFE photography vault, one of the most prestigious & privately held archives from the US & around the World.

The following is adapted from the introduction to LIFE’s newcspecial issue 100 Photographs: The Most Important Pictures of All Time and the Stories Behind Them, available at newsstands …

When LIFE magazine visited Big Sur in 1959, the Esalen Institute was three years from opening, but the coastal community had long been attracting free-thinking types.

America has a lot going for it, and the ability to feed itself would be at the top of the list. The country is rich in arable farmland. This important truth is one that suffuses this collection of …

The breadth of the GE operations underlines the great variety of activity that legendary LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt documented when he gained access to the General Electric …

Explore Magazine Cover within the LIFE photography vault, one of the most prestigious & privately held archives from the US & around the World.

In 1967 LIFE photographer Co Rentmeester connected with a unit of American paratroopers as they made the first combat jumps of the Vietnam war. The use of paratroopers was part of the …

LIFE recalls the Orient Express of the last century through photographs made in 1950 -- evocative, atmospheric pictures from another time.