In the spring of 1927, photographer Ansel Adams hiked with his friends through the snow at Yosemite National Park in California. The 25-year-old brought along his camera, as he always did, stopping to ...

“Once it was a rich, sleepy school with rich, sleepy students; now it aims to be the ‘Harvard of the West.’” That was how Time magazine described Stanford University in the fall of 1962. The ...

In “Stony the Road,” the photographer Dawoud Bey offers a captive’s-eye view of the Richmond Slave Trail. By Blake Gopnik New York City’s sprawling public health care system contains one of the ...