Dan Barry

A Times writer was browsing the gray columns of newsprint when a photograph transported him to the green infield grass of childhood.

Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize what it means to be presidential.

In an upstate New York courtroom, Thomas Rath faced down the man accused of orchestrating his son’s murder.

With the specter of political violence looming, the Department of Homeland Security has advised hundreds of communities on election safety. Luzerne County, Pa., is at the center of the unrest.

Mayor Eric Adams is the first modern-era New York City mayor to be indicted. But A. Oakey Hall, his little-known predecessor, faced criminal charges 150 years earlier.

The funeral of Bishop Eamonn Casey in 2017 seemed to draw a line under his scandalous affair years before. But this summer, disturbing new allegations emerged.

For me, the decision by Boar’s Head to end production is just the latest blow to a somewhat squishy slice of national and personal history.

A proposed “Muslim-friendly” community near Minneapolis was called segregationist. The backlash was called Islamophobic. Who gets to define inclusion?

Hearing echoes of Independence Day a century ago, when Americans were clashing over race, religion, immigration and presidential candidates.

She was just a girl when her mother was stabbed to death in the Bronx. Now, an arrest based on DNA has brought her bittersweet relief.

He was ensnared in Ithaca’s homeless encampment. Then, in a blur of violence, he was gone.

The silent film “The Callahans and the Murphys” was pulled after an uproar over stereotyping. What happened next tantalized one fan of old movies.

In “The Unclaimed,” the sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans tell four stories of dying alone — and living — in America.

Nobody disputed that the defendant had handed over a note demanding money — please — from a Newark bank. The only remaining question: How dangerous had he been, really?

A mile north of where the Hotel Pennsylvania once stood, a shimmering piece of its history can still be seen through a shop window.

For that hard-to-buy-for someone, how about a 40-foot shipping container for $100? Or 100 cans of “Flying Insect Killer” spray? Two “wobbly wooden tables”?

Dan Barry is a longtime reporter and columnist, having written both the “This Land” and “About New York” columns. The author of several books, he writes on myriad topics, including New York City, sports, culture and the nation.

The placards were up in a wealthy town for less than a day. The fight over them lasted years.

When the Minnesota Board of Pardons meets, supplicants have 10 minutes to make the case for mercy.

An indictment in the Georgia election conspiracy case marked perhaps the lowest point in the career of Rudolph W. Giuliani, who had staked his legacy on blind allegiance to the Trump administration.