Family

The poet’s memoir Generations is both a chronicle of her ancestral lineage and lesson in the centrality of Black women to the story of American history.

The memoirs of Korean adoptees, once full of confession and confusion, are now marked by confidence and rage.

A new volume of Robert Frost’s letters finds him at the height of his artistic powers while suffering an almost unimaginable series of losses.

Thomas Jefferson imagines an unequal gender utopia.

In Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball’s white supremacist great-great-grandfather becomes a case study in the enduring legacy of slavery.

In “The Loneliest Americans,” Jay Caspian Kang asks whether Asian American identity can be rescued from people like him.

While our perceptions of grandparents have remained static, we've asked them to do a lot more.

At three plantations in Charleston, S.C., Black descendants are connecting with their family’s history and helping reshape the narrative.

Law and culture forced LGBTQ people into marriages, but that didn't prevent them from exploring their sexuality.

For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?

The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.

After decades of keeping her identity a secret, Jane Roe’s child has chosen to talk about her life.

The little-known story of Robert Carter III.

"My job as your mother is to tell you these stories differently, and to tell you other stories that don’t get told at school.”

DNA testing kits have shifted the way both researchers and the public think about race and identity. This shift is evident in the 2020 U.S. Census data.

The murderous hysteria over white patrimony is inseparable from the private capture of both economic opportunity and political authority.

The newly recovered 1787 Hungerford Deed, detailing a contentious squabble over property and prestige, can now be viewed in a new virtual exhibition.

Hollywood has long abused conservatorships. I spent the past decade studying one of the darkest cases.

Records tell the story of the decline of the patriarchy, marrying young, and pandemic fallout. Digitizing the data could reveal even richer tales.

The more sons a Founding Father had, the more supportive he was of a strong centralized government.

Revisiting America's first witch hunt — and discovering how much of it was a family affair. My family, that is.

After inheriting a box of documents from her grandfather, Marta Olmos learns more about her family's history.

He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?

The Rosenbergs were executed for being Soviet spies, but their sons have spent decades trying to clear their mother’s name. Are they close to a breakthrough?

How African American women represented Black motherhood in the early nineteenth century.

Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.

Who made sure Henry David Thoreau's works came out after his death? His sister.

Grieving family members were instrumental in the creation of a federal program to rebury and repatriate the remains of fallen soldiers after World War II.

Martha Saxton dives into the life of the mother of George Washington and how historians have misrepresented her in the past.

A photo archive shows college coeds vacuuming, preparing baby bottles, diapering babies, and generally practicing at motherhood.