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The Way We Were: 1948 London Olympians Look Back

By Sonia van Gilder Cooke

Tank Man Revisited: More Details Emerge About the Iconic Image

By Patrick Witty

The Haunted Desert: Aftermath of a Nevada A-Bomb Test

By Ben Cosgrove

Behind the Cover: The Unseen Photos of Lenore and Mitt Romney

By Elizabeth Dias
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New York, Cocteau and a Parabolic Mirror: 'Berenice Abbott: Photographs'

The work of Berenice Abbott, who photographed Depression-era New York, is featured in a new exhibition at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario and an accompanying book.

By Feifei Sun

Brooklyn Bridge: Historic Photo of a New York Landmark

The Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public on May 24, 1883. Photographs of the work-in-progress bridge are now available to the public through the New York City Municipal Archives.

By Feifei Sun

'Lakes, Trees and Honeybees': Matthew Brandt at Yossi Milo Gallery

Matthew Brandt, whose work is featured in a show at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York City, makes photographs that are of his subjects in two senses of the word.

By Lily Rothman

Dust to Dust: The Mythical Graves of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Photographer Nick Ballon captures the intersection of fact and fiction in the Bolivian town where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are said to have died.

By Lily Rothman

20 Years Later: The Bosnian Conflict in Photographs

If the last lines of the 20th century were written in Moscow in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the prelude to the 21st century was written months later—and 20 years ago this month—in Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo.

By Massimo Calabresi

Wallis and Edward: Anti-Romance of the Century?

On the 75th anniversary of their wedding, LIFE.com reconsiders the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and their 'Romance of the Century.'

By Liz Ronk

Photographer Spotlight: Peter Stackpole

A celebration of the extraordinary career of one of LIFE magazine's "original four" — the quartet of masterful photographers on the masthead when LIFE launched in November 1936. (Above: Allied troops on Saipan during WWII.)

By Liz Ronk

Titanic: One Hundred Years Later

One hundred years after Titanic left Southampton on its ill-fated voyage, LIFE Books presents pictures that remind us of both the harrowing scope of the disaster, and its elemental, human cost.

By Liz Ronk

One Shot Teenie: A Retrospective of Charles Harris

An exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh pays tribute to the photographer nicknamed “One Shot" for his ability to capture his subjects on the first take.

By Marie Tobias

A Brief History of Special Guests at the State of the Union Address

Named for Lenny Skutnik, the savior of a drowning jetliner passenger whose aircraft crashed into the Potomac River in 1982, these (mostly) heroic folks have been mainstays of the annual State of the Union address...

By TIME Photo

The Fateful Vote to Impeach

Read TIME's Aug. 5, 1974, cover story about the Nixon impeachment

By TIME Staff

The Congress: The Covenant

50 years after the the Civil Rights Act of 1964, read TIME's chronicle of the bill's passage.

By TIME Staff

World War: Grey Friday

TIME's Sept. 11, 1939, report on the beginning of World War II

By TIME Staff
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