November/December 2005

The people who stand ready to trade their lives for ours are part of a tradition that goes back 400 years

Fifty years ago this December, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus she was riding. Because she wouldn’t, the whole country has changed. But what happened to the bus?

It has taken us two and a half centuries to realize just how important this conflict was

An ambitious young magazine editor and a tormented photographer together discovered a Marilyn Monroe nobody knew