family

Patti Davis has spent a lifetime chronicling her life with parents Ronald and Nancy Reagan. In a new book, 'Dear Mom and Dad,' she reckons with them as people.

The murders of her Osage relatives for their oil wealth still reverberate in the life of Margie Burkhart, granddaughter of a central character in the new movie.

In a white supremacist society, where Black people are still fighting for freedom, the Black family offers protection and, at times, a space for resistance.

Likely the child of Martha's son from her first marriage, William Costin used his position to advocate for D.C.'s free Black community.

The role of family in Huey P. Newton's educational journey.

One war, in one city, Philadelphia, and the fate of the men, women, and children left behind as collateral damage in the wake of conflict.

An excerpt from a new book on the so-called "Jewish Kennedys."

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

On dying and heaven in the time of Longfellow.

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

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

Zora Neale Hurston’s long-lost oral history with one of the last survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

Although she’s often overshadowed by her husband, Anna made his work possible.

In researching his family's past, the author learns of his ancestors' efforts to thrive despite the confines of racial oppression.

The tale of the long forgotten Joseph Jefferson, who revolutionized character acting in 19th century American theater.

As the first Native American Cabinet member, the Secretary of the Interior has made it part of her job to address the travesties of the past.

Luis Valdez on his friendship with Cesar Chavez, his works in the National Film Registry, and a lifetime of activism.

At the prodding of John and Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren took on a massive project: writing a comprehensive history of the Revolutionary War.

A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.

A new television miniseries depicts the pursuit of Lincoln’s killer. But the public appetite for tales about the chase began even as it was happening.