EditorialA house long rumored to once belong to a man executed during the Salem witch trials, but that dendrochronology revealed was built in 1726 at the earliest — not nearly old enough to fit the legend — in Peabody, Mass., Sept. 10, 2021. (Matt Cosby/The New York Times)
EditorialA house long rumored to once belong to a man executed during the Salem witch trials, but that dendrochronology revealed was built in 1726 at the earliest ? not nearly old enough to fit the legend ? in Peabody, Mass., Sept. 10, 2021. (Jesika Theos/The New York Times)
EditorialGravestones for Judith Blew and her son Moses at the Stoutsburg Cemetery in Hopewell, N.J., the subject of the book “If These Stones Could Talk,” Nov. 23, 2020. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)
EditorialPhilip Mead, chief historian at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, and Marcella Micucci, a curatorial fellow, examine an 1801 poll list from Somerset County, N.J., held by the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton, on Jan. 10, 2020. (Michelle Gustafson/The New York Times)
EditorialIn a composite of two images, Kehinde Wiley’s ‘‘Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps’’ (2005), left, and Jacques-Louis David’s ‘‘Bonaparte Crossing the Alps’’ (1801) at the Brooklyn Museum, Jan. 23, 2020. (Emily Andrews/The New York Times)