Family

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.

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.