4 days ago · Frank Scherschel/Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock Charles de Gaulle arrived in Isigny as he re-established the French government in the days following the D-Day invasion, June 14, 1944. …

Explore 1960s 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 …

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: …

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

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.

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

The following is from LIFE’s new special issue on Pope Leo XIV, available at newsstands and online: JESUS AND the early Christian evangelists did not necessarily have something called a papacy in …

George Silk/Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock Five-year-old Jim Mahood ran in the tall grass around his father’s ranch in the Australian Outback, 1966. George Silk/Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock …