EditorialBeadwork, which may have been made by people enslaved by the Lefferts family, on the underside of a ceiling joist revealed during the $2.5 million restoration, at the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, June 9, 2023. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)
EditorialBeadwork, which may have been made by people enslaved by the Lefferts family, on the underside of a ceiling joist revealed during the $2.5 million restoration, at the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, June 9, 2023. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)
EditorialBeadwork, which may have been made by people enslaved by the Lefferts family, on the underside of a ceiling joist revealed during the $2.5 million restoration, at the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, June 9, 2023. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)
EditorialIngrid Backstrom, a professional skier, atatches climbing skins to the underside of her skis for traction when skiing uphill at Stevens Pass in Skykomish, Wash., on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021.?(Chona Kasinger/The New York Times)
EditorialNASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis approaches the International Space Station for docking on mission STS-132, Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 17 May 2010
EditorialThe underside of a 20-ton wooden bridge outside Ettrick, Wis., that cannot handle heavy farm equipment, Ettrick, Wis. on June 18, 2019. (Tim Gruber/The New York Times)
EditorialIn an undated photo via NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CalTech, the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, or BRUIE, being tested in Antarctica. (NASA/JPL-CalTech via The New York Times)