These fascinating hip-hop origins photos show how the music and the culture that sprang up around it were first born.

The flesh and blood behind a war remembered only in documentaries and textbooks.

With hundreds dead and tens of thousands of properties destroyed, this was one of Britain's worst natural disasters of the 20th century.

When African-Americans fought back against police brutality and a city went up in flames.

What it's like to thwart assassinations and protect the most powerful figure on Earth.

Vibrant images of the "sonic campfire" in action.

Revisit the show that defined a generation.

Flapper fashion meant embracing your freedom from constrictive corsetry and flaunting the luxurious designs of the Jazz Age.

Design's worst decade in all its garish glory.

When California's beaches were the most happening place in America.

These examples of "persuasive cartography" are as eye-catching as they are manipulative.