Family

What the story of the Grimke family tells us about race in the United States.

The author of a book about William Still unearths new details about the leading Black abolitionist—and reflects on his lost legacy.

Meet the duo who helped achieve the most important labor and civil rights victories of their age.

How Black landowners in eastern North Carolina are recovering generational wealth lost to industry encroachment.

An excerpt from a new book on the so-called "Jewish Kennedys."

The complex story of wet nurses and their children in the time before the advent of baby formula.

The problem no longer has no name, and yet we refuse to solve it.

I wish I’d asked my grandfather more questions.

When my father moved to Taiwan, a fax machine and a shared love of music bridged an ocean.

A researcher delves into the past to tell the story of a relative—falsely accused as a boy of a crime in Jim Crow–era South Carolina.

Enslaved women's use of birth control, abortifacients, and even infanticide showed that they resisted by exerting control over their reproductive lives.

Her death was listed as ‘manic depressive psychosis,’ and it sent five of her six children to orphanages.

Craig McNamara’s family did not talk about the Vietnam War. He spent his life asking questions about it.

Military experts seeking to identify partial skeleton in an anonymous grave.

The baby boy who would one day become the renowned and feared leader of the Lakotas was the second child of Returns Again and Her Holy Door.

Parental rights stem from the same liberty that the Supreme Court just began rolling back.

The holiday’s lack of history allowed activists to give it meaning after America’s divorce laws changed.

When James G. Blaine went to war with his son's ex-wife in the national press, he had no idea that two could play that game.

"A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is always a longing to know who you are and where you come from.”

From MLK to Obama, advancers for civil rights were driven by their fatherhood and dreams of better life for their own children.

Even if her husband was a murderer, a woman in a bad marriage once had few options. Unless she fled to South Dakota.

The shortage is a calamity—not a victory for breastfeeding.

Claims that mothers lacking formula should just breastfeed repeats a centuries-old mistake.

The cruelty of enslavers when it came to reproduction and families shaped the 13th and 14th Amendments.

From origin stories to blood-purity statutes, we have long enlisted genealogy to serve our own purposes.

He held multiple allegiances during the Revolution, all of which were connected or stemmed from the importance he placed on familial self-preservation.

My mother’s desk connected me with our shared heritage.

Find out how one woman asked to recognize the fathers in her town and inspired others.

In "A Nation of Descendants," Francesca Morgan traces the American use and abuse of genealogy from the Daughters of the American Revolution to Roots.

At the heart of my family tree are only questions and mysteries.