Two important U.S. popular magazines have been known as Life. The first, a sophisticated humor magazine published from 1883 to 1936, was noted for the "Gibson Girl" (see entry under 1900s—Print Culture in volume 1) illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944). The more famous of the two, part of the Time-Life empire of Henry Luce (1898–1967), was published weekly from 1936 to 1972 and at less frequent intervals to this day. With a peak circulation of 8.5 million readers, it was one of the largest of the mass-circulation magazines. By bringing high-quality photojournalism to millions of readers each week, Life helped shape public opinion through the Great Depression (1929–41; see entry under 1930s—The Way We Lived in volume 2) and World War II (1939–45) years, and into the Cold War (1945–91; see entry under 1940s—The Way We Lived in volume 3) period that followed. Some of the most familiar photographs of the twentieth century appeared in the...