family

What's in a name? According to the "Dictionary of American Family Names," it depends.

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.

What a little-known family reveals about the nation’s untamed spirit.

At the Habsburg Convention in Plano.

Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, "American Gothic," was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell.

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.