The concept of meaning in life encompasses an individual’s sense of purpose, coherence and significance, and it is increasingly recognised as integral to mental health. Contemporary research ...
Experience LIFE's visual record of the 20th century by exploring the most iconic photographs from one of the most famous private photo collections in the world.
Here’s how LIFE described the social life there in a story in its issue: …At Connecticut College, girls have more boyfriends than in the palmy days when the college derived critical advantage from its strategic location between Harvard and Yale.
It was a bold notion to name a magazine LIFE. The word life, after all, encompasses everything. The major events that define generations, the fleeting moments that comprise the everyday, the feelings we have and the world we inhabit. As a weekly magazine LIFE covered it all, with a breadth and open-mindedness that looks especially astounding today, when publications and websites tailor their ...
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: Photos are proof. We know this from our own lives. Here’s what dad looked like when he was in high school. Look at this cake I baked.
With more than ten million original prints, negatives, slides, and transparency shots, see why LIFE's photo archive will always remain timeless.
See photographs and read stories about global icons - the actors, athletes, politicians, and community members that make our world come to life.
LIFE photographs -- resembling every war-battered panorama from Verdun to Vietnam -- made in September, 1945, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
From pets to wildlife, explore how our relationship with animals has changed - and remained the same - throughout the 20th Century.
The recent earthquake in Afghanistan has laid bare the country’s worsening women’s health crisis and demonstrated how restrictive Taliban laws and collapsed infrastructure left women without access to ...
The following is adapted from the new special issue LIFE’s 100 People Who Changed the World, available at newsstands and online: History never stops moving. It evolves. It is fluid. What history looks like today is different from what it looked like, say, a hundred years ago; and what today’s history-in-the-making looks like now may be seen very differently just 20 years from now. Did ...
LIFE was very much aware of this change as it was happening, and worried that it was bad for the country. The magazine fretted in 1948 that the decline of the family farm might also signal the decline of the American family, as families stopped focussing on joint enterprises and its members pursued their individual interests instead.
See how fashion, family life, sports, holiday celebrations, media, and other elements of pop culture have changed through the decades.
Visit some of the world's most desirable and desolate locations on Planet Earth through LIFE's extensive natural photography collection.