Jennifer Wilson

Through genetic testing, millions of Americans have discovered family secrets. The news has upended relationships and created a community looking for answers.

A new book on Claude McKay is part of an effort to place the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance within the Black radical tradition.

Uncovering the resort where rich women sought the elusive right to divorce

An elaborate secret life was a necessity for children’s author Louise Fitzhugh.

How did the genre of self-help go from one focused on collective empowerment to one serving the class hierarchy as it stands?

Delivering the mail used to be sexy and thrilling. It can be once more.

How Louisa May Alcott found a niche in observing the world around her.

In the 1930s, Soviet leaders decided that black American authors could teach Russians “to write social poetry.”