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# LIFE Magazine

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## LIFE Magazine


* ![George H.W. Bush in 1971](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt042919538659cdd8/698859665f570fdcb9b1c499/150701-george-hw-bush-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 1, 2018  
## [See Inside the Private Family Life of a Young George H.W. Bush](https://time.com/3943912/george-hw-bush-photos/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
* ![Billy Graham with his wife and daughter, 1955.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4643f86e3ea80e4f/6988515635ba6f03c7c0d698/131120-billy-graham-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 21, 2018  
## [Billy Graham at Home: Rare Photos From the LIFE Archives](https://time.com/3893898/billy-graham-photos-unpublished/)  
by Olivia B. Waxman and Liz Ronk
* ![Atomic survival family drills in Houston, Texas in 1954.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte037063929b9564a/6988dba997cdff61ff6b23c6/atomic-survival-family-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 16, 2018  
## [Here’s How One Family Prepared for Nuclear War in 1954](https://time.com/4920216/nuclear-war-prep/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
* ![Troika race at Hippodrome, 1963.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34c184a36cae7e55/6988e40d0a4a2265349d0874/best-life-horses-24.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 13, 2017  
## [The Mane Event: LIFE's 25 Most Memorable Horses](https://time.com/5004313/horse-photographs/)  
by TIME Staff
* ![Seated close to the evening fire, old man Gray Mountain, 91, tells his small grandchildren legends about the early days of the Navajo people.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf7a708124bd0d9b6/698871bff887dc6176e93627/151118-navajos-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 24, 2017  
## ['A Country Within a Country': Inside the Navajo Nation in 1948](https://time.com/4118996/navajo-heritage-photos/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk  
* ![50,000 aliens become U.S. citizens on Veterans Day in 1954.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac9d41f0931e0359/6988e15722fb852d92e23364/veterans-day-citizen-ceremony-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 10, 2017  
## [Thousands of People Became American Citizens on the First Official Veterans Day](https://time.com/4976729/first-veterans-day-immigrants-citizenship/)  
by Olivia B. Waxman
* ![Male first grade teacher, Bill L'Orange as Calumet School in Chicago, 1972.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt017db6245cf31f9e/6988deba7cdbac41dbd5a1e6/world-teacher-day-13.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 5, 2017  
## [Inside a Changing First-Grade Classroom in the 1970s](https://time.com/4951541/world-teachers-day-life-1972/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
* ![Scientists working at the field lab of the National Bureau of Standards taking measurements of Sputnik I signals.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60ccaaac5f56adaa/6988de8ccf40a81125c4974e/sputnik-1957-08.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 4, 2017  
## ['A Dazzling New Sight in the Heavens': Remembering Sputnik's First Days](https://time.com/4949797/sputnik-anniversary-life-magazine-photos/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
* ![POW wife Valerie Kushner from a LIFE photo essay by Leonard McCombe in 1972.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69a91f2fa53b70f0/6988dd3897cdff3b656b2627/valerie-kushner-pow-wife-20.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 28, 2017  
## [Behind the 'Vietnam War' Story of 'P.O.W. Wife' Valerie Kushner](https://time.com/4936126/vietnam-war-kushner-pow-wife/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
* ![Jewish New Year photo essay by Robert Capa from LIFE magazine, Oct. 8, 1945.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f1e3fd2da957636/6988ddc8fb4eac4261893b96/jewish-new-year-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 20, 2017  
## [See Inside a Berlin Synagogue's First Rosh Hashanah After World War II](https://time.com/4941421/rosh-hashanah-berlin-1945/)  
by Olivia B. Waxman  
* ![Air force recruits at the Lackland Air Force base in Texas, 1951.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4fef78ed91fb0073/6988dc68656a3f486bbd18d7/lackland-texas-air-force-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 18, 2017  
## [When the U.S. Air Force Got More Recruits Than It Could Handle](https://time.com/4927718/air-force-anniversary-recruit-photos/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
* ![Boy walking past wall with writing that urges people to flee south from the Communists in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1954.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf562e4c985229bce/6988dc0b8fd2ee1189358ab6/ken-burns-vietnam-hanoi-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 18, 2017  
## ['The Vietnam War' and the Story Behind the Pictures of Hanoi's Communist Takeover](https://time.com/4923701/the-vietnam-war-and-the-story-behind-the-pictures-of-hanois-communist-takeover/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
* ![Vietnam war 1968 Larry Burrows photo essay "This Girl Tron."](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1478c886fdd0ffd/6988db88fb4eac16bf8937b8/tron-vietnam-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 13, 2017  
## [The Tale of Tròn and Vietnam War Photographer Larry Burrows](https://time.com/4918753/larry-burrows-vietnam-war-tron-life/)  
by Gary Jones
* ![School integration and race riots in Clinton, Tennessee, 1956.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e3f0125e208648e/6988db3097cdff39df6b22ee/170825-school-integration-16.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 1, 2017  
## [When Back-to-School Season Became a Fight for Equality](https://time.com/4916312/school-integration-clinton-history/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk
* ![Thurgood Marshall, legal director of the NAACP, during the Trenton Six murder trial, 1949.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta795e6d6f8a02753/6988dad9656a3f3d21bd1672/thurgood-marshall-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 30, 2017  
## [See Thurgood Marshall's Career Before His Supreme Court Days](https://time.com/4913195/thurgood-marshall-supreme-court-photos/)  
by Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk

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