In the fall of 1951, the first CBS-manufactured color televisions rolled off the assembly line. Those were the pre-remote control days when childre...
Posted 11.24.2011
They maintain cabin safety. They handle irate, inebriated, or just belligerent passengers and their overstuffed carry-ons. They balance family with wo...
Posted 11.01.2011
On Labor Day it's interesting to think about the work you might have been doing had you lived fifty or eighty years ago. If you were working class or ...
Posted 05.25.2011
With the 2010 World Series set to begin on Wednesday, it's time to look back at one of the most memorable championship series in the history of the ga...
LIFE.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Text and photos from LIFE.COM, which you can visit for much, much more. In the spring of 1963, Steve McQueen was on the brink of superstardom, alre...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, the annual Presidential Pardon takes place for one turkey in a ceremony planned for the Rose Garden. Check out t...
Posted 05.25.2011
Four hundred years ago this month, the English explorer Henry Hudson and his crew sailed into New York Bay, forever changing their lives, and the worl...
Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011
Have you ever seen Hitler in color? Probably not. For the first time ever LIFE.com is publishing a color gallery taken by the fuhrer's personal photo...
Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 05.25.2011
Life went through several incarnations as a print magazine, most recently, and least iconically, as a weekend newspaper supplement that lasted three y...
Posted 12.04.2011