Amisha Padnani

Dec 29, 2024 | nytimes.com | Hannah Wulkan |Amisha Padnani

Dec 19, 2024 | nytimes.com | Amisha Padnani

Courtroom sketching is a time-honored craft - a practice that may be older than the American legal system itself. Some of the earliest known courtroom sketches in the United States reportedly date to the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts in the 1600s, according to the Library of Congress. The advent of photography in the 19th century reduced the need for courtroom artists for a while.

Sep 18, 2023 | nytimes.com | Amisha Padnani

The creator of Overlooked, which writes the obituaries for remarkable people in history, shares the inspiration behind a new limited series. For more than five decades, whenever a new bridge, tunnel or highway opened in New York City, Omero C. Catan made it his business to be the first person onto, into or along it.

Sep 13, 2023 | nytimes.com | Amisha Padnani

Ida B. Wells was a pioneering investigative journalist who took on racism in the Deep South with powerful reporting on lynchings, but when she died she did not get an obituary in The New York Times. Her story is one of many we're telling in Overlooked, our project recalling the lives of extraordinary people in history who never received a Times obit since the newspaper began publishing in 1851.