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.

5 days ago · LIFE reported, “After a series of exhaustive and exhausting medical tests, 75 in all, during which she complained less than the Mercury men had, Jerrie Cobb easily passed the rigid …

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 …

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: …

As LIFE put it to the magazine’s readers in September 1947: On August 6, two years to the day and the minute after the first atomic bomb devastated their city, the people of Hiroshima, Japan, gathered to …

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

Explore the world one picture at a time with these beautiful and inspiring pictures from across the globe - near and far, popular and unknown.

From pets to wildlife, explore how our relationship with animals has changed - and remained the same - throughout the 20th Century.

The fo l lowin g is from LIFE ‘s new special issue on Bob Marley, a vailable at newsstands and online: Resting on a stool, acoustic guitar in hand, Bob Marley introduced what he called “this little song” to …