fatherhood

Steven Spielberg’s early films conjure all of his moviemaking magic to repair a world of lost dads.

In the late 1800s, advice writers targeting white, middle-class Americans began encouraging men to become more engaged in the emotional lives of their households.

From MLK to Obama, advancers for civil rights were driven by their fatherhood and dreams of better life for their own children.

Find out how one woman asked to recognize the fathers in her town and inspired others.

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.

"I think the key change for the invention of the modern father is in the 1920s," says historian Robert L. Griswold.

Ralph LaRossa explains the problems with mythologizing modern dads and the stereotypes present within views of fatherhood of the past.

How a best-selling series gave young readers a new sense of agency.

Why Barnum Brown could not stop collecting.

Benjamin Franklin's writing about losing his son to smallpox is a must-read for parents weighing COVID-19 vaccines today.

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

The righteous rage of John Brown.

Ben Marks on all that came of one interview in 1994.

On the mournful threads connecting his half-century in politics.

Lee’s beloved father figure was a talking point during the Kavanaugh hearings and is now coming to Broadway. Is he still a hero?

Poet Joshua Rivkin’s new book about Cy Twombly is “stranger and more personal than a biography.”

In his later years, the famous writer surrounded himself with a bevy of adoring adolescents.

Stephanie Hall provides examples of folklore and storytelling within a fathers' relationship to music.

The fate of Aaron Burr's daughter remains a topic of contention.

The mighty but divided soul of C.L. Franklin.