Family

Considering the treatment of Confederate veterans in light of the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the South today.

The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.

My family’s immigrant journey and James Earl Ray’s path to targeting MLK, Jr., intersected at a corner of East Hollywood.

In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.

The genealogy site fails to understand the fundamental differences between white and black history.

Almost 60 years later, a mother regrets her decision to send her 6-year-old into a hate-filled environment.

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history?

On Ancestry's dangerous move to make it harder to discern which white families owned slaves.

How did enslaved mothers contend with the possibility that their children could be sold away from them?

A virtual tour of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."

The oldest living member of the Mascogos still sings songs in a language she doesn't understand.

Regina Bradley searches for truths about her great-grandfather and his murder.

Many of America’s most notorious feuds have their roots in the Civil War.

I told her we were brought over the Rio Grande on a raft. I never called it a smuggling.

A childhood lesson in the backseat of a 1973 Mustang.

At some point, Jackie began to refer to himself not as “I” but as “we.”

Bridgett M. Davis tracks her mother's journey from Nashville to Detroit.

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?

A new book shows the remarkable contrast between 19th-century women’s views of miscarriage and the loss-focused rhetoric of today.

Doctors who sterilized Carrie Buck said she was a “feeble-minded” woman whose future offspring posed a threat to society. Her life paints a different picture.

He came to this country a refugee, and paid his debt forward.

A historian assesses Donald Trump’s claim that the first president faced his own allegations of sexual assault.

During and after slavery, some whites considered legal marriage too sacred an institution to be offered to black Americans.

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.

In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.

My father was pro-Jewish propaganda when the country had an anti-semitism problem - he even met the man that inspired much of the hate. But is history repeating itself?

When the government executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the welfare of their two boys was a secondary concern.

President Trump's grandfather made the choice to leave his German family for the U.S. all the way back in 1885.

The war brought many couples together. It also drove many apart.

The language that has long been critical to covertly mobilizing activism.