Life And Legacy Of Huey Pierce Long Jr: Official Obituary
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. From pets to wildlife, explore how our relationship with animals has changed - and remained the same - throughout the 20th Century. See how fashion, family life, sports, holiday celebrations, media, and other elements of pop culture have changed through the decades. 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 ...
With more than ten million original prints, negatives, slides, and transparency shots, see why LIFE's photo archive will always remain timeless. 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 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
