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 polarizing war, racial …

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

The giant billfish were gone, and so were the tourists. LIFE magazine was fortunate enough to visit Cabo Blanco in 1959, when the club was still in its heyday. Staff photographer Frank Schershel …

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.

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 and online: …

In 1947 Jane Greer starred opposite Robert Mitchum in the film noir classic Out of the Past, and the success of that film helped earn her a place on the cover of LIFE. That movie was a crowning …

Written By: Kostya Kennedy The following is excerpted from LIFE’s special issue Bob Dylan: America’s Greatest Songwriter, available at newsstands and on Amazon. The unorthodox selection of Bob …

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

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

Peter Stackpole/Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock Marilyn Monroe with Winthrop Aldrich, a banker who had just completed a four-year term as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, during the April in …