Family

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.

The Lincolns had four sons. Mary buried three of them. A new exhibit at President Lincoln's Cottage sheds light on bereaved parents, then and now.

Instead of caring for Black children, child welfare systems subject them to abuse and harsh conditions.

Having more than one wife was an established part of life for some Native peoples before Europeans tried to end the practice.

Trying to learn more about a woman named Ann led her descendants to confront a painful past; ‘I just wanted to know the truth.’

My ancestors were enslaved—but their freedom came at a price for others.

The decline of South Carolina's apple industry, interwoven with personal memories of family orchards.

Joe Biden is just the latest in a long line of US presidents to trace their ancestry back to the Emerald Isle.

In the 1970s, social workers in several states placed queer teenagers with queer foster parents, in discrete acts of quiet radicalism.

Since the 19th century, men have served as gatekeepers in the entertainment industry, controlling women’s careers.

Early in the Cuban Revolution, my mother made a consequential decision.

Meditations on when you think you found the people who owned your people via DNA test.

Since we have new presidential pets, Champ and Major, we take a quick look back at one of the nation’s most famous four-legged White House inhabitants.

A genealogist takes a closer look at Joe Biden's family history.

David O. Stewart discusses the relationship between William Costin and the Washington bloodline.

The daughter and granddaughter of a former internee return to the notorious WWI-era detention site for Japanese-Americans.

Many of us are unaware of the special circumstances that eased our entry into American life—and of the bonds we share with other nonwhite groups.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on how her mother overcame voter suppression and became an activist in her community.

At 91, Harrison Ruffin Tyler demonstrates that "long ago" wasn't so long ago.

Gustavus Stadler on Nora Belle Guthrie's battle with Huntington's Disease.

The intersecting lives of robber barons and floundering French aristocrats.

White women were as married to the war as their Confederate menfolk.

A review of "Descent" – a family story that blends the real world and the imagination.

Born 14 years after the nation's founding, the tenth commander-in-chief still has one living grandson.