Family

Who tells our stories has always mattered.

The unusual union of a renowned artist and the discoverer of the Polio vaccine.

The child of someone once considered a piece of property instead of a human being, Daniel Smith is a flesh-and-blood reminder that slavery wasn't that long ago

Photographer Drew Gardner painstakingly recreates the images with the notable figures' descendants.

Sometimes I learned more Black history in a week at home than I did in a lifetime of Februarys at school.

Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces taking children from families that don't match the American ideal.

How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.

PepsiCo’s move to end the racist brand comes shamefully late.

On dying and heaven in the time of Longfellow.

History shows that men have always been able to handle care work — when they have to.

J. Chester Johnson on the Elaine Race Massacre of 1919.

A scholar of the history of race sets out on an exploration of his own family roots, and despite his better judgement, is moved by what he discovers.

The pandemic doesn’t just threaten our loved ones, but knowledge of our past — so Nelson George went and found his.

During the Great Depression, the daughter of the first Jewish Supreme Court justice and the son of a prominent Christian theologian changed America.

How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre.

My whole life, my mother told me, ‘Always remember — you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president.’

Lisa C. Hickman reconstructs William Faulkner’s tumultuous Hollywood sojourn of 1932–1936.

In the post-WWII era, American lesbians negotiated lives between straight marriages and homosexual affairs.

A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that black names are a recent phenomenon.

New Year's Day used to be widely known as "Hiring Day" or "Heartbreak Day"

Strengthening family ties has been key to overcoming nativism — and in 2020, it can do so again.

In 1903 Mine Westbye moved to North Dakota to live a life "so quiet you almost feel afraid."

The fees could rise nearly 500 percent for files documenting the arrival of millions of immigrants to the U.S. between the late 19th and mid 20th centuries

The righteous rage of John Brown.

A look inside America’s first political dynasty.

America should be ashamed of slavery, but black Americans do not bear the burden of shame.

British occupation brought challenges to the very foundation of the American home.

“The child is made to study far, far beyond his physical strength.”

At a colonial debutante ball in Texas, girls wear 100 pound dresses and pretend to be Martha Washington. What does it mean to find yourself in the in-between?

How video game designers are 'gaminiscing' World War II stories.