Dan Barry

Would a proposed coin featuring the president on both sides commemorate America’s founding, or undercut its founding principles?

Memories Are Still Swirling 20 Years After a Hurricane

The Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan was a virtual city within a city. But in the end, nothing could save it.

The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. But what about the teenager tossing cabbages in upstate New York a year earlier?

A part of Interstate 80 in New Jersey passes near and over abandoned iron mines, remnants of a thriving ore-and-mineral industry that began before the American Revolution.

Trains are idle, the airport is hobbled and large holes have opened on a major highway. The state’s residents have time to reflect, and get mad.

A teenager in Lexington, Mass., has for years been teaching people about the battle that started the war 250 years ago this weekend. Her entertaining website has drawn praise and raised eyebrows.

Brendan Costello’s family was bracing for goodbyes. But he had one last wish.

Time’s passage may have granted the illusion of distance, but we are living in a world that has yet to put the effects of Covid behind it.

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