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LIFE Shared This Remarkable Parkinson's Disease Story in 1959. A Lot Has Changed Since Then
By Lily Rothman , Liz Ronk and Julia Lull
Behind the Picture: The First Woman to Fly with a U.S. Combat Crew Over Enemy Soil
By Liz Ronk and Olivia B. Waxman
LIFE Women's History Month Print Sale: Own a LIFE Photograph
By TIME Staff
A New Way of Seeing Indian Independence and the Brutal 'Great Migration'
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See the Classic Cameras Used by LIFE's First Female Staff Photographer
"Different cameras fill different needs," said the photographer, born June 14, 1904
By Liz Ronk and Olivia B. Waxman
June 14, 2016
How a Photographer Captured the USSR's Dramatic Rise as the U.S. Economy Tanked
On August 29, 1991, the Soviet Parliament suspended the activities of the Communist Party. But when LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White visited the country in 1930, she found an empire on the rise.
By Yana Skorobogatov
August 28, 2015
How the G.I. Bill Changed the Face of Higher Education in America
On the anniversary of the momentous legislation's signing, a look at a group of veterans who benefited from the bill
By Eliza Berman
June 22, 2015
See How Ramadan Was Observed in the 1940s
As many Muslims prepare to observe Ramadan, a look back at the holiday during a time of great violence in India
By Eliza Berman
June 17, 2015
The Nazi Suicides: Beyond Hitler and Braun, a Regime in Defeat
With Allied forces closing in, top Nazi officials chose death over defeat
By Eliza Berman
April 30, 2015
The Photos That Gave Americans Their First Glimpse of Apartheid in 1950
On the 25th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from prison, a historian examines the LIFE photo essay that introduced Americans to South Africa's devastating system of segregation
By John Edwin Mason
February 11, 2015
Prohibition's Last Call: Inside the Speakeasies of New York in 1933
Photos shot by the great Margaret Bourke-White for FORTUNE magazine in 1933, capturing the pre-repeal atmosphere in New York's speakeasies
By Ben Cosgrove
December 1, 2014
World War II in Color: American Bombers and Their Crews, 1942
Color photographs from England in 1942 by the indomitable Margaret Bourke-White, chronicling American B-24 and B-17 crews gearing up for war in the skies above Nazi-controlled Europe.
By Ben Cosgrove
November 11, 2014
Edwin Hubble: Portrait of a Genius at Work, 1937
Revisiting a 1937 photograph of the astronomer Edwin Hubble -- arguably the single greatest photo ever made of a scientist at work
By Ben Cosgrove
November 6, 2014
Gandhi and His Spinning Wheel: The Story Behind an Iconic Photo
On Gandhi's 145th birthday, LIFE shares the story behind the most famous photo ever made of the pioneer of non-violent civil disobedience.
By Ben Cosgrove
September 10, 2014
Women of Steel: LIFE With Female Factory Workers in World War II
Pictures of female workers in Indiana steel mills in 1943, in the midst of the Second World War.
By Ben Cosgrove
July 15, 2014
House of Suds: Portrait of the Busch Beer Dynasty at Play
Pictures by Margaret Bourke-White featuring what LIFE magazine called "the liveliest, lustiest family dynasty" in America: the Busch brewery clan.
By Liz Ronk
July 14, 2014
'Vultures of Calcutta': The Gruesome Aftermath of India's 1946 Hindu-Muslim Riots
One the 20th century's most horrifying religious riots took place over several days in August 1946 -- in British-ruled India -- when Hindus and Muslims attacked one another with a ferocity that remains shocking even today.
By Ben Cosgrove
May 26, 2014
'The Battered Face of Germany': Ruins of the Reich, Pictured From the Air
Masterful aerial photos from 1945 'show the devastation of Germany at its worst and reveal the overall pattern of Allied air strategy.'
By Ben Cosgrove
May 9, 2014
'The World of Tomorrow': Scenes From the 1939 New York World's Fair
Seventy-five years ago, on April 30, 1939, the colossal New York World's Fair opened in what is now Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, in the borough of Queens.
By Ben Cosgrove
April 29, 2014
Air America: Picturing the United States From Above
Sixty years after Margaret Bourke-White climbed aboard various "whirlibirds" -- a.k.a., helicopters -- to make a series of singular, vertiginous photos of America as seen from above, her pictures can still startle and delight.
By Liz Ronk
April 20, 2014
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