EditorialView of Torah finials, Iraq, 1741-42, gilt silver, formerly in the Sassoon Family Collection, at the Jewish Museum in New York, March 1, 2023. (Karsten Moran/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)