Bettmann

Bettmann/Corbis Nat King Cole at the keyboard in Birmingham, Ala., in 1956.

Unforgettable in More Than One Way Terry Teachout 2010

Image by Bettmann/CORBIS Living My Life By Emma Goldman (1931) Emma Goldman (1869-1940) is best known today as a feminist forebear, an advocate of free love and birth control — just a couple of the controversial stands that made her America 's most notorious anarchist a century ago.

Terror in America From Another Era 2010

Let's look at The Historic Lincoln Theatre, Bettmann's focus, first.

Eli Lehrer: Don't Save the Lincoln Theater Eli Lehrer 2011

Bettmann/Corbis A bus used by Freedom Riders was set ablaze by a white mob May 14, 1961, in Anniston, Ala.

Remembering the Divide Michael Judge 2011

Bettmann/Corbis The site of a certain cabin near Concord, Mass.

Dispatches From the Natural World 2011

Let's look at The Historic Lincoln Theatre, Bettmann's focus, first.

Eli Lehrer: Don't Save the Lincoln Theater Eli Lehrer 2011

Robert Bettmann falls into a trap far too common among people who enjoy the arts: a belief that government funding will somehow make things better.

Eli Lehrer: Don't Save the Lincoln Theater Eli Lehrer 2011

Bettmann/CORBIS Queen Victoria center, with her children and grandchildren, visited Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Germany in 1894.

Sovereignty and the Pitiless Passage of Time Henrik Bering 2012

Robert Bettmann falls into a trap far too common among people who enjoy the arts: a belief that government funding will somehow make things better.

Eli Lehrer: Don't Save the Lincoln Theater Eli Lehrer 2011

Bettmann/CORBIS 1973: Filling sandbags in St. Louis An even greater problem has been that, even in cities, the federal government builds levees to protect only against a "100-year flood," meaning a flood with a 1% chance of striking in any given year.

Battling Nature on the River John M. Barry 2011