EditorialWilliam Menke, a geologist at Columbia University, with a 1865 map of Morningside Heights in Manhattan on Dec. 15, 2022. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialThailand: King Rama III, Jessadabodindra (31 March 1787 – 2 April 1851), 3rd monarch of the Chakri Dynasty, Nangklao Monument by the Chao Phraya River in Nonthaburi, Bangkok
EditorialIndia: The colonial-style bungalow known as Kipling's House in the grounds of Sir Jeejeebhoy (J.J.) School of Art in Mumbai. Writer Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), well-known for books like 'The Jungle Book' and 'Kim', is commonly said to have been born her
Editorial“Antislavery Medallion,” manufactured by the thousands around 1787 by the enterprising British potter Josiah Wedgwood, in the exhibition “Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 7, 2022. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)
EditorialThe final painting on canvas of “The Death of Socrates” (1787), one of the most famous works of French neoclassicism, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Feb. 15, 2022. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)