2012

In 1782 an expatriate French aristocrat named J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur who lived in New York’s Hudson Valley published a book in London called Letters from an American Farmer. The third letter was titled “What Is an …

From the euphoria of election night to the agony of the recent shootings in Connecticut, photographer Pete Souza has been capturing the ups and downs of Barack Obama’s time in office. As the president is officially named TIME’s …