EditorialIn the 1530s, debate raged about the efficacy of prayers for the dead and the very existence of purgatory. Around 1537 the reformist Bishop of Worcester, Hugh Latimer (c. 1485-1555), prepared for the King a paper in opposition to purgatory. Henry VIII...
EditorialHeavy smoke form fires burning in the region brought a cloud of darkness to San Francisco skyline on Wednesday morning, Sept. 9, 2020, as seen from Oakland. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialAn employee of Regenron self-administers a coronavirus test at the drugmaker's campus in Tarrytown, N.Y., June 269, 2020. (Melissa Bunni Elian/The New York Times)
EditorialDemonstrators protest against the death of George Floyd and police brutality, outside the Minneapolis Police Department's 5th Precinct in Minneapolis, Minn., on Friday, May 29, 2020. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialLaw enforcement officers mark a permitter around the destruction on Lake Street in Minneapolis, on Friday, May 29, 2020. (Tim Gruber/The New York Times)
EditorialA demonstrator sits before a police line outside the home of Derek Chauvin, the since-fired Minneapolis officer who pinned George Floyd by his neck, in the suburb of Oakdale, Minn., May 28, 2020. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times)
EditorialIain Riggs, chief winemaker at Brokenwood Wines, taste tests a red wine for taint of smoke, in Pokolbin, Australia, March 4, 2020. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)
EditorialBurned-out house on the Herengracht, 1683, A house on the Herengracht in Amsterdam where a fire raged during the night of 25 to 26 April 1683, but which was preserved by timely extinguishing with hose fire sprayers. On the left is the bridge for Harten...
EditorialA photo provided by Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office shows debris from Friday nights severe weather in Bossier Parish, La., on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. (Bill Davis/Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office via The New York Times)
EditorialBurnt out house on Herengracht, 1683 Image of a rank of houses, on the Heere graft: in the middle one, between the 25th and 26th of April 1683, during the midnight, a heavy fire arose / Representation d'une rang? de maisons, au environment de la quelle...
EditorialDown by the Tummel and the Banks o' the Garry, Top of the Pass of Killiecrankie, at Which The Battle Raged Fiercest., James Valentine (Scottish, 1815 - 1879), 1870s, Albumen silver print.
EditorialIn the 1530s, debate raged about the efficacy of prayers for the dead and the very existence of purgatory. Around 1537 the reformist Bishop of Worcester, Hugh Latimer (c. 1485-1555), prepared for the King a paper in opposition to purgatory. Henry VIII...
EditorialSouth Africa's most loved lion Sylvester who twice cheated execution after escaping from a game park has become the proud father to these adorable cubs.
EditorialGettysburg Wheat Field, 1863, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Photographs, This atypical Civil War panorama shows the artist looking over a split-rail fence at the Gettysburg battlefield where one of America's greatest armed conflicts raged f...