• Summer Daze

    Idyllic, nostalgic—rural Texan teenagers enjoy the summer of 1973.

  • E-U-O-N-Y-M

    It’s the final round of the 1997 Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee Invitational. 

  • Bathing Buds

    Sweetest swimsuits you ever saw! Photographer Harry Mellon Rhoads set up a beachside photo studio to capture bathers in their expressive costumes.

  • Two Spirits

    Fred Martinez was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at 16.

  • Confederate Cap

    It was the early 1950s and young people sported a new look—the look of a Confederate solider.

  • TeenAngster Presents: AOL Youth

    It was the summer of 1997. I was a thick, telephone pole of a 14-year-old in jorts and an oversize Far Side t-shirt, sitting on a clammy folding chair.