EditorialIndia: Death and Hope flank the memorial to Lieutenant Colonel John Campbell (1753 - 1784), St. Thomas' Cathedral in Fort area, Mumbai. Sculptor, Charles Peart (1759 - 1798)
EditorialJapan: Empress Jingu (c.169 - 269 CE), supposedly setting foot in Korea. Jingu was consort to Emperor Chuai, and she also served as Regent (209-269), scroll painting by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798 - 1861), 1880
EditorialCharles Meynier?s painting cycle ?Apollo and the Muses,? 1798-1800, in the neoclassical gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, Aug. 28, 2021. (Sarah Rice/The New York Times)
EditorialCasks of whiskey at the Highland Park distillery on the outskirts of Kirkwall, Scotland, on April 23, 2021. It is the northernmost distillery in the United Kingdom and has been in operation since 1798. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialAn entry in Alexander Hamilton’s cash book from August 21, 1798, showing receipt of $100 for the “term” of “a Negro boy” — a reference, a new paper argues, to him renting out the labor of a boy he enslaved. (Library of Congress via The New York Times)