Family

Kushner was a top official in a Trump administration that sharply restricted immigration and refugee admissions. His grandparents were Holocaust refugees.

Anti-Asian immigration restrictions led male Punjabi farm workers in California to marry Mexican and Mexican American women, creating new cultural bonds.

The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.

During Japanese-American incarceration, what happened to mixed-race families and individuals?

Camps once sold a story about social improvement. Now we just can’t conceive of an unscheduled moment.

Betty Ford and the public eye.

Tracing the family history of some of today's most popular celebrities.

Paul Cuffe was the first Black American to formally meet with a sitting president at the White House.

How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration.

What a little-known family reveals about the nation’s untamed spirit.

Amrita Myers paints freedom as a process in which Black women used the tools available to them to secure rights and privileges within a slave society.

A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths.

Steven Spielberg’s early films conjure all of his moviemaking magic to repair a world of lost dads.

Common in colonial New England, bundling allowed a suitor to spend a night in bed with his sweetheart—while her parents slept in the next room.

Remembering the river helps me forget, at least for a moment, the challenges, fears, and feelings of inadequacy I experienced in my childhood.

On the inseparable histories of matrimony and disunion in the United States.

The reflections of Emerson, Thoreau, and William James one finds a characteristically nineteenth-century American sense of resilience and regeneration.

Patti Davis has spent a lifetime chronicling her life with parents Ronald and Nancy Reagan. In a new book, 'Dear Mom and Dad,' she reckons with them as people.

I lived on Indian Creek with my grandparents after my mother suffered a nervous breakdown.

Knowing I come from people who lived hard lives and endured terrible things is difficult. Knowing that I come from someone who ruined lives haunts me.

Some of my ancestors had money, and some held awful beliefs. I set out to investigate what I once stood to inherit.

A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion.

The Union general directly benefited from the brutal institution before and during the Civil War.

Women’s work is often hidden or marginal within historical records that were meant to show men’s economic and political lives.

The university’s Peabody Museum exploited loopholes to prevent repatriation to the Wabanaki people while still staying in compliance with NAGPRA.

Lacking a sufficient support system, Meriwether Lewis did not have anyone close enough to help him.

A photographer excavates personal history through reconstruction of Adams's World War II photographs of Japanese Americans.

“I’d assumed this practice was a manifestation of military decorum.”

In the history of sexual dissent, the relationship between politics and sexual freedom defies simplistic categorization.

No one should fear a history that asks a country to live up to its highest ideals.