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## 1968


* ![Blue marble: The home planet as seen from lunar orbit, Christmas Eve, 1968](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte186b19b0bccc884/69894180457a52dbffd60249/Earthrise-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 24, 2018  
## [Apollo 8’s ‘Earthrise’ Photo Changed Our Understanding of Our Place in the Universe. Here’s the Story Behind the Picture](https://time.com/5479821/earthrise-picture-history-apollo-8/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Jeffrey Kluger
* ![Ressurection City, Poor Peoples Campaign, 1968 by Jill Freedman.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75f35d9b722fbcb0/6988e06722fb85856fe231d3/jill-freedman-resurrection-city-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 26, 2017  
## [How a Photographer Illuminated the Plight of the 'Invisible Poor'](https://time.com/4968076/jill-freedman-resurrection-city-photos/)  
by John Edwin Mason
* ![Color photos of pollution in the Great Lakes in 1968.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt020745cb74dfec33/6988c178656a3fd940bcf6b7/170405-pollution-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 21, 2017  
## [Disturbing Photographs Show Pollution in the Great Lakes Before the Clean Water Act](https://time.com/4726857/photos-great-lakes-pollution/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
* ![Artist Georgia O'Keeffe at her home in New Mexico, 1968.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte91936c1f2727754/6988be7cf887dc1e0fe996f3/170315-georgia-okeeffe-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 31, 2017  
## [Rattlesnakes and Ladders: The Inside Story of a Visit With Georgia O'Keeffe](https://time.com/4702372/georgia-okeeffe-photographs-story/)  
by Olivia B. Waxman and Liz Ronk
* ![The Beatles Mad Day Out photoshoot in 1968.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5389c7d89aa8c85f/6988a190cf40a8e0cfc44633/160808-the-beatles-06.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 12, 2016  
## [Witness to a 'Mad Day Out' With The Beatles](https://time.com/4443632/mad-day-out-the-beatles/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk  
* ![Protests at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, July 1968.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff65809132c25753/69889b9c3c1639133f45dffe/160712-1968-convention-protests-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 21, 2016  
## [See Unpublished Protest Photos From the 1968 Democratic Convention](https://time.com/4403112/unpublished-protest-photos-dnc-1968/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
* ![1968 New Hampshire Primary](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta73597af6232498e/698879f9f887dca005e943ca/160121-new-hampshire-primary-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 8, 2016  
## [The Colorful New Hampshire Primary That Gives This Year a Run for Its Money](https://time.com/4188694/new-hampshire-primary-1968/)  
by Eliza Berman
* ![Beatles And Maharishi](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1650180b33773c0/6988749b0a4a22088a9c7676/gettyimages-73874340.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 9, 2015  
## [Indian Ashram Where the Beatles Stayed Opened to Public](https://time.com/4142308/beatles-ashram-india-rishikesh-1968-open-public/)  
[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/)  
by Rishi Iyengar
* ![Fiesta in Guanajuato.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c61541566fe3b7f/6987ecd3524fc06d30df0682/150424-mexico-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 5, 2015  
## [Celebrate Cinco de Mayo With Vivid Images of Mexico in the 1960s](https://time.com/3835080/cinco-de-mayo/)  
by Eliza Berman
* ![Baltimore Arrest During Riot](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1935f4c1013ef18/6987ed79cd684889da09dc38/baltimore-1968.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 29, 2015  
## [Lessons for Baltimore From 1968](https://time.com/3839984/lessons-baltimore-1968/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Elizabeth M. Nix  
* ![Baltimore riot protest](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf56c1753f68824ec/6987ed733c16398823455c21/baltime-riot-diptych-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 28, 2015  
## [Baltimore Protests, Then and Now](https://time.com/3839059/baltimore-riots-1968-2015-photos/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Marisa Schwartz Taylor
* ![The White House detail taking their monthly qualification tests, May 1968.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17d5b8c2db906869/698785960b72e39d616de63b/150327-secret-service-03.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 14, 2015  
## [See Photos From a Secret Service Fitness Test in the 1960s](https://time.com/3761815/secret-service-1960s/)  
by Eliza Berman
* ![Labor activist Cesar Chavez with grape pickers in support of the United Farm Workers Union, Delano, California, 1968.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eb4acbd6468c90f/698784230b72e3df576de395/150318-cesar-chavez-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 31, 2015  
## [Cesar Chavez's Quiet yet Complicated Approach to Leadership](https://time.com/3749516/cesar-chavez/)  
by Eliza Berman
* ![Tommie Smith \(center\) and John Carlos \(right\) raise black-gloved fists during the American national anthem; Australian silver medalist Peter Norman, who supported their protest, is at left.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt320542ecf9472d14/69884ab78e06010ea645fe7a/219408.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 27, 2014  
## [The Black Power Salute That Rocked the 1968 Olympics](https://time.com/3880999/black-power-salute-tommie-smith-and-john-carlos-at-the-1968-olympics/)  
by Ben Cosgrove
* ![Muhammad Ali in New York City, 1968](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc3bf14b25b44b6f/698847518e0601dddb45f89f/01_929251161.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 15, 2014  
## [Ali in Exile: Rare Photos of the Once and Future Champ in 1968](https://time.com/3880906/muhammad-ali-in-exile-rare-photos-of-the-once-and-future-champ-in-1968/)  
by Liz Ronk

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