A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas 1942 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) There is a photo of federal housing ...

These historical color photos offer a vivid perspective on the past.

These are the kinds of black-and-white images we usually associate with past celebrities like Louis Armstrong, Orson Welles and Lucille Ball. Because it was such a complicated process, color ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of ...

The air raids by German Luftwaffe planes on English cities and towns in 1940 and 1941—attacks known collectively and famously as the Blitz—were terrifying, but they failed in their key aim: namely, to ...